The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-10-27

| of Burmah put their cigarettes or cigars
when they move from one place to another.
Cigars are more used than anything else,
| and the Burmese cigar is the biggest of its
kind in general use. 1t is from eight to ten
inches long, and is often more than an inch
| in diameter. The Burmese women are
very beautiful, and even these big cigars
cannot take away the beauty of their juicy
red lips. They make the mouth look a little
large while they are in them, but it re-
sumes its natural size when the young lady,
holding the cigar between her two first
fingers, blows the smoke out in stream.
1t is not unusual for Burmese maiden to
make her lover bundle of cigars as
PRESENT DURING THEIR CoURTsHIP,
and some of the best of the Burmese ex-
ported cigars are made by women. They
have their cigar booths in the bazaars, and
and they know how to sell at profit The
Burmese always smoke after meals, and
they chew the betel nut at the same time
that they smoke, though many of them
only chew in the intervals between the
smokes. The Buddhist priests of Siam
and Burmah are inveterate smokers, and
common sight is a crowd of bare-headed,
| shaved pated men in yellow gowns, trot-
ting along with cigars or cigarettes in their
mouths, and with bowls in their hands, go
ing around to collect the offerings of rice
which the people give them for their sus-
tenance.
The Burmese are very social in their
smoking, and | saw cigars passed from one
sweet maiden to another in the baZaars,
and 1 saw young man accent with a smile
the cigar of belle and smoke it while she
waited upon me and tried to sell me some
silk at an extravagant rate. Smoking is
common during cOurtship, and doubt not
that these big Burmese cigars undergo the
same method of exchange as does the wad
of succuleut gum among the lovers in the
mountains of Tennessee.
IT IS DIFFERENT IN INDIA
Love making there is matter of bargain
and sale, and such smoking as is done dur
ing the making of matches is beuweL the
match makers and the fathers who wish to
sell or bind their girls to infant MARI ages.
The women of India smoke, but they DO not
do it during courtship. and they practically
have no courtship. In somes parts of the
country tobacco, like opium, is used to
certain extent to lessen the pangs of
hunger and to decrease the appetite. 1t is
| raised in every province in India, and very
nearly three-quarters of million dollars
worth are exported yearly The Indian
| pipes are of all kinds and descriptions. A
very common one stands about as high as
baseball club. At it's bottom is a bowl as
big around as a cocoanut, and often, in
fact, made of a cocoanut. This contains
water 1t has hole inside of it. and at its
top there is a pipe about an inch or an inch
and half in diameter, which runs up for
two feet, and at the top of which there is
| bowl in which the tobacco is placed.
THE SMOKER SUCKS HOLE
at the side of the cocoanut, and he some
times has flexible tube with a mouth
piece, the end of which is inserted in this
| hN1n and tha nine thnO CtnnAc ba
ground. The hookah, or water-pipe, is in
use to some extent among the Mohamme-
dams of India, and cigars and cigarettes are
common. They are very cheap, and are
not very good
Some of the best tobacco in the world is
| found along the Mediterranean sea, and
great part of the revenue of the Sultan
and khediYe comes from tobacco. The
weed is monopoly in both Turkey aud
Egypt, and the khedive, in order TO collect
y big import duty on tobacco, has prohibited
its raising in the country by tax of nearly
one hundred and sixty dollars an acre.
The result is that American tobacco is now
imported into Egypt 1t comes in the shape
o. tobacco for Cigarettes, and it is sent first
10 France or England, and thence shipped
to Egypt The Turkish tobaccoS are very
light and sweet, and they are popular ali
over Europe.
TUkhlSl ClGAkEIIES AND EG1iIlAN ClGAh-
ETTEs
are known everywhere, and there is
scarcely man, woman or child in Egypt
who does not smoke. You see Turkish
merchants in the bazaars, with long hook
abs before them, pulling away while they
mediate upon Allah or drone over the
pages Of the Koran. You see smart young
Egyptians in the high-cut broadcloth coats
! of official rank putting cigarettes, and | am
told that the dear, little ladies of the harem
smoke their scores of cigarettes every day.
Prominent among all the rulers of the east,
the khedive of Egypt has set a good ex-
ample to his people by neither smoking nor
drinking. He offered me cigarette during
the interview l had with him, and he told
me he did not smoke because he believed it
was not good for him. He abStains from
liquor on the ground of personal health,
and of the prohibition against drinking con
tanned in the Koran, and he is the greatest
prohibtionist of the east
Yo can buy good cigarettes in Egypt for
Il cents thousand, and, notwithstanding
the heavy taxation the cigarettes of Con
5tantiuople are not overly dear
FOUND AMERICAN CIGARETTES
for sale in nearly every country of the east,
and the best of our brands go everywhere.
American tobacco is always expensive
abroad, and the whole world Acknowledges
that we make as good an article as any
other country.
1 saw no chewing whatever save that of
the betel nut. which is common in various
parts of India, and in Siam, Burmah and
Malacca. l found the Manila cigars for
sale all along the Pacific coast, and / am
told that these are made largely by women,
who roll the cigars on their bare knees, and
who fasten the leaves by licking them with
their lips.
There is a tariff tax on tobacco nearly
everywhere over the world. The manu-
facture is monopoly in France and Italy,
aud one of the first things that is searched
for IL the baggage of the traveller is boxes
of ciga's. / shall not soon forget curious
experience had with an ostrich egg. 1t
was covered with Arabic carving, and was
very pretty work of Egyptian art. l
carried it in a square cigar box, in which it
just fitted when well packed with cotton
The moment my trunks were opened at
station after station on the frontiers of
various countries, the officers would pounce
upon this. Their faces would brighten,
and they would almost smack their lips at
the thought of the coniscation of some
good cigars. When the box was opened
their smiles became frowns, and their
bright eyes were shaded with sadness.
FRANK G.. CARPENTER.
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