Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1891-01-08

bowls OF Sucn pipes are usually VI Ee0
clay and ornamented.
The narghile is said to be faVorite
with Syrian ladies, who inhale the
SMOKE through globular glass vessel
filled witt 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 a'handy smoking ar
rangement for a Chinaman of the poor
classes; but his richer neighbors use
handsome little water-pipe made OF
brass or silver. The bowl is filed with
a little pinch of tobacco which only pro-
yides one or two whiffs, so, Of course,
this pipe has to be rehlled 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-plct-
ured china bowl requires to be supported
by the hand like long clay. As these
large bowls hold many ounces OF tobac-
co, they suggested an idea to cof1ee-
house keeper of Vienna Of attracting
customers He had a china bowl sus-
pended over a large circular table, OF
such gigantic dimensions as to be capa-
BILE of containing a 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 cofee-house
was constantly crowded.
In spite of all rivals, clay pipes have
held their own. They have been manu-
featured in great numbers by the Dutch,
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 large ship with
pipes, and purposely 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 defed 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. 1t is public prop
erty, and always kept in the posses
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 notches, 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 a treaty.
In the country of the Sioux is the
pipe stone quarry from 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 alsC
smokes through his tomahawk handle
and his duskier African brother takes
Whit through pipes of iron. The rough
pipes of the Zulus are often lined will
this m ateriaL The Kaff1r is a grea
lover of the weed, and will improvise
pipe out of almost any thing.
1t Is curious to mark the repeated at
tempts there have been to invent pip
that will keep tobacco juice out Of th'
smokers mouth. Numerous have beer
the patents all claiming to have at
tanned this end, but all seem more o
less failures. They are too numerou
to describe, but are usually rather com
plicated contrivances that come T.
pieces; but mono succeed in supersedinl
the simple old-fashioned pipe.
Thus we see that all over the worlt
from pipes of every description, to sa,
nothing OF cigars ana cigarettes, u
lovers Of tobacco offer up-like Byron
sailor-to Eolus a 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 Celestis
his minute one; the Hindoo his hubble
bubble, and the Turk his hookah.
ALAS" said Hood, that our languag
has no sound that can adequately repre-
sent the lulling, bubbling voice Of
hookah. Perchance in some fair isl
far away in the Pacific, that low cooin
utterance may be the most beautiful
and endsaring utterance possible, tn
very perfection of love whispers Sa
that English can only represent it b
Purra-wurrs-pobble bobble-bob- Al
me, my pipe is out-type of Life-vspo
smoke. We have come to the bottom {
the bowl-ashes to ashes. "-Chamber
Journal
Thacksray's Unpublished Poem.