The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-10
- ORIENTAL SMOKERS.
Pretty Women Who Consume Hun
dred Cigarettes a Day.

/
Frank @. Carpenter an Pittsbur0 Dispatch
Virtue travels on foot; vice runs over the
world at telegraphic speed. Tobacco was
unknown until America was discovered. A
half century later it had been introduced
| into China, and within few generations
the whole world was using it. You will
hardly find place on this big round earth
| where the people do not now smoke and
the Orient has become the home of tobacco.
| The Acknowledged Japanese swallow more
smoke than they do rice; the pig-tail China
man gloTies in his cheap pig-tail plug, and
some Of the biggest and best cigars
in the world are made by the women Of
Burmah. The queen of benighted Korea
smokes American cigarettes by the thous-
and, and the harem Of the Sultan is filed
with fair ladies who delight in the hookah.
In Japan men, women and children are
fond OF smoking, and one of the most neces-
sary articles of household furniture is the
little tobacco hibachi, or box, about eight
inches square, which, containing bowl of
charcoal and round bamboo tube, is placed
before the visitor with a cup Of delicious
tea at the beginning of his call Seated on his
bare feet, croSs-legged on the floor, he picks
| up coal with a pair of iron chopsticks and
drops 1t into his little pipe, and smokes dur
ing his sips while he chats. His pipe has q
metal bowl, less than the size of thimble,
and Its bamboo stem is about a foot long
He carries his tobacco in a pouch at his
waist, and you note that it is cut fine, like
the tobacco of Egypt. He rolls pinch of
1t up into ball before he puts it into his
pipe; and the pipe is so small that two
| whiffs viii exhaust its contents.
he SWALLOWS THE SMOKE
and expels it through his nostrils, and then
| cleans out the pipe by knocking it against
the brass bowl Of the hibachi. He takes
from ten to fifty such smokes every day,
and as he goes from place to place he carries
his pipe stuck in at the belt Of his gown,
Some of the most beautiful art works of
Japan are pips-holders aud balls of ivory
made in the shape of figures, which hang at
one end OF the draw string of the tobacco
pouch. These last are known as netsukes,
and they hang over the top of the belt,
thus fastening the pouch of tobacco to it.
Since the revolution cigarette smoking
has become very common in Japan, and
had the pleasure Of smoking cigarettes with
the supreme court and the officers of the
| government Tea and tobacco was offered
me at the entrance of every department.
and / did not make a single call in the
whole country where did not find tobacco
| on the floor.
The Koreans are the LATEST smokers
have ever seen, and they have the right to
call tobacco by one of its Japanese names,
which Is ''the FOOLS herb, or the poverty
weed" Outside of the most squaIid of
Korean mud huts you seldom fail to find a
big hated man, dressed in a long dazzling
| gown OF delicate blue or red smoking a pipe
as long as walking cane. In the village
| you Will see groups OF such men, or of boys
| ike them squatted on their heels In q ring
| each with a pipe showing out under his 10
hat The bowls Of these pipes are about as
| big as a small chestnut, and they rest on
the ground, while the other end of tho pipe
| is between a pair OF Korean lips, or
In case the owner is talking, is resting
lazily against his lower teeth. The higher
the rank of the Korean the longeg his pipe
stem. A Vaughan, or noble, considers a
long pipe badge of aristocracy, as 1t re-
| quires slave at hand to light 1t for him.
| The Korean smokes these long pipes as he
walks along the street, and every man and
boy carries his tobacco pouch tied to has
waist. His other personal belongings he car
ries in big sleeve in his gown. but his to-
bacco pouch is work of art. 1t is leather
or cloth, beautifully embroidered, and it
hangs down from his belt just over his
| belly. Babies wear these pouches, but
understand the children do not
| SMOKE BEFORE THEY CAN WALK.
| Both the emperor and his son are cira-
| rette smokers, and the women of Korea
smoke the pipes Of the country. Their ONLY
smoking is done in the company of their
husbands and of their few lady friends. They
are never seen on the streets, and such to-
bacco as they have is bought by their hus-
bands. There are few pipe stores in Korea.
but you find tobacco and pipe stores in
every Japanese village, and some of the
pipes of Japan are costly and are works of
high art. The Korean merchant removes
neither hat nor his pipe when he waits upon
you; and, during such shopping as did in
the Korean capital, l was not given a single
invitation to smoke.
The Chinese smoke early and often, and
it is as good as play to watch one of the
mobiles of China using tabacco He prefers
the water pipe, and he has q servant who
puts the pipe stem in his mouth and waits
till he has taken half dozen whiffs before
he carries it away again. The smoke comes
bubbling through the liquid, and the
almond-eyes OF the celestial sparkle with
enjoyment as the nicotine enters his blood.
Ii Hung Chang smokes in this way. and
during the interview which had with him
at Tien Tsin his servant held pipe with a
stem at least four feet long TO his lips. and
lighted it for him at intervals of ten minutes.
The great viceroy took about ten whfffs at a
time, and then the servant took the pins
away pulled out its metal bowl, refilled 1t
with tobacco, bringing 1t back little later
Ou W PtliShbAy ~ w us eAcelIoOCV'S llU6
while he smoked.
The Chinese do not use cigars nor chew
They have tobacco much like the American
pigtail twist, which they cut up for smok-
ing, and they are largely addicted 60 snuff
You will find snuff stores in the larger
cities, and the article used is coarser than
the Scotch snuff The women smoke. and
not a few of the men and boys are addicted
to the use of cigarettes. The average
Chinese cigarette Is the poorest and cheap-
est in the world. You can get three of
them for one tenth of a cent, and they are
dear at that.
BABY SMOKERS.
The baby smokers Of the world are
found in Siam and Burmah. / saw little
tots of 4, as naked as the day they were
born, trotting about Bangkok with cigar
cites in their mouths. and the babies of
Rangoon and Mandalay are taught to chew
the betel nut, mixed with tobacco, as soon
as they are weaned. The Siamese children.
like their fathers, use their ears as cigarette
and cigar holders, aud the lack of clothing
or pockets on the part of the little ones
necessitats their carrying these articles
over their ears, as the American clerk car.
ries his pencil or pen. | saw one noble