Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1890-12-30


pipes in magniloquent fashion. One
he called Bosporous and another Sui.
tan. The stems of some of them were
many feet long, made of wood covered
with futed silk. It is considered the
cherry tree and jasmine make the best
pipe stems; the longer and straighter
the stem the greater is the value. The
bowls OF such pipes are usually of red
clay and ornamented.
The narghile is said to be favorite
with Syrian ladies, who inha1e the
smoke through globular glass vessel
nlled with scented water. In Egypt, too,
these kinds of pipes are more in fashion
than the chiboque. Splendid pipes with
their attendant ceremonies of filling,
cleaning and presenting by special
servants, form one of the most ostenta-
tious of Oriental extravaganza.
The influence of European habits is,
we believe, causing the hookah, with
all Its pomp and display, to disappear
In India. The pipes used in Morocco
are very fanciful and profusely deco
rated. The Celestials' pipes have long,
delicate tubes with tiny bowls. Opium
Is smoked from pipes having a sort of
bowl in the center, instead of at the
end of the stem. A slender bamboo,
with hole bored near the closed end
OF joint, forms handy smoking ar
rangement for a Chinaman of the Door
classes; but his richer neighbors use a
handsome little water-pipe made of
brass or silver. The bowl is filled with
little pinch of tobacco which only pro-
vides one or two whiffs, so, Of course,
this pipe has to be refilled again and
again. This is not the sort of smoke
that could be INDUCED in during work.
Nor Is the German pipe much better
in this respect, for its long gaudily -pict-
ured china bowl requires to be supported
by the hand like q long clay. AS these
large bowls hold many ounces of tobac-
CO, they suggested an idea to a coffee
house keeper of Vienna of attracting
customers. He had a china bowl sus-
pended over q large circular table, Of
such gigantic dimensions as to be capa-
BILE of containing pound of tobacco,
and supplied with sufficient number
of tubes to accommodate thirty persons
at one time. The novelty is said to
have succeeded, and the ooffee-house
was constantly crowded.
In spite Of all rivals. clay pipes have
held their own. They have been manu-
AoSSAAOA ALA BAOSsV AuA1O 0C6 ny b00 OuUCuS
who were very Jealous of rivalry. They
once took a curious method to ruin q
mandatory Of pipes which had been
set up in Flanders. AS the high duty
rendered a large importation too ex-
pensive, they loaded a large ship with
pipes, and purposeiy wrecked her near
Ostend. The pipes were landed from
the wreck, in accordance with the mari
time laws Of that city, and sold at such
low prices as defied competition; con-
sequently, the new mandatory was
ruined.
Some Swiss pipes are formed Of many
pieces, ornamented with carvings. and
the bowls protected from rough weather
with metal caps.
To turn to- a consideration Of the
pipes of less civilized races, the famous
calumet, with its feather and quill
ornamentation, first claims our atten-
ton. This, as Catlin tells us, was q
sacred pipe, differing in appearance and
uses from all others. It is public prop
erty, and always kept in the possess
sion of the chief, and only used on par
ticular occasions. In the center Of the
circle of warriors the pipe of peace rests
on two little notohes, charged with
tobacco, when each chief and warrior
draws in turn one Whit Of smoke through
the sacred stem, which is the equival-
emit to the signing of treaty.
In the country of the Sioux is the
pipe stone quarry fr ON which the In
dams take their pipe bowls, under the
belief that they themselves were made
from this red stone, and it must be used
for no other purpose. The redskin also
smokes through his tomahawk handle,
and his duskier African brother takes q
Whit through pipes of iron. The rough
pipes of the Zulus are often lined with
this m ateria1. The Kaf1r is a great
lover of the weed, and will improvise q
pipe out of almost any thing.
1t Is curious to mark the repeated at
tempts there have been to invent a pipe
that will keep tobacco juice out of the
smokers mouth. Numerous have been
the patents all claiming to have at
tanned this end, but all seem more or
less failures. They are too numerous
to describe, but are usually rather COM
plicated contrivances that come to
pieces; but none succeed in superseding
the simple old-fashioned pipe.
Thus we see that all over the world
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nothing Of cigars and cigarettes, do
lovers of tobacco offer up-like Byron's
sailor-to Aolus constant sacrifice.
Britons are partial to the briar and clay.
Carlyle. Kingsley, and Tennyson pre-
ferred the "churchwarden." The Ger
man likes his china bowl, the Celestial
his minute one; the Hindoo his hubble
bubble, and the Turk his hookah.
"Alas, said Hood, ''that our language
has no sound that can adequately repre-
sent the lulling, bubbling voice Of q
hookah. Perchance in some fair isle
far away in the Pacific, that low cooling
utterance may be the most beautiful
and endearing utteranoe possible, the
very perfection of love whispers Sad
that English can only represent it by
Purra-wurra-pobble bobble-bob- Ali
me, my pipe is out-type of Life--vapor,
smoke. We have come to the bottom Of
the bowl-ashes to ashes."-Chambers'
Journal
Thackeray's Unpublished Poem.