The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1891-02-13
bowls of such pipes are usually of red

bowls OF such pipes are usually Of red
| clay and ornamented.
| Tho narghile is said to be favorite
| with Syrian ladies, who inhale the
smoke through a Globular glass vessel
! filed with scented water. In Egypt, too,
| these kinds of pipes are more in fashion
| than tho chiboque. Splendid pipes with
| their attendant ceremonies of filling,
cleaning and presenting by special
servants, form one OF tho 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 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 a joint. forms handy smoking ar
rangement for 4 Chinaman of the poor
classes: but his richer neighbors use i
handsome little water-pipc made OF
brass or silver. The bowl il filed with
little pinch OF tobacco which only pro-
yides one or TWO whifs. so, OF course.
this pipe has to DO reflled again and
again. This is not the sort OF smoke
that could be INDUCED in during work.
Nor is tho German pipe much better
in this respect, for its long gaudily-pict-
ured china bowl requires 10 be supported
by the hand like 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 a large circular table, of
such gigantic dimensions as 10 be capa-
bic of containing a pound Of tobacco,
and supplied with sufficient number
OF tubes to accom- modat thirty persons
at one time. The novelty is said TO
have succeeded, and tho coffee-house
was constantly crowded.
In spite OF all rivals, clay pipes have
held their own They have been manu-
factured in great numbers by the Dutch,
who were very jealous Of rivalry. They
once took curious method to ruin a
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 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 consideration Of the
less civilized races, the famous
with its feather and quill
,ntation, first claims our atten-
This, rs Catlin tells US, vas a
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 pea ce 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-
ent to the signing of a treaty.
In the country of the Sioux is the
pipe stone quarry fro which the In
dians take their pipe bowls, under tho
belief that they themselves were madc
from this red stone, and it must be used
for no other purpose. The redskin also
smokes through his tomahawk handle,
u
Whit through pipes of iron. The rough
pipes OF the Zulus are often lined with
this m aterial. Tho Kaffr is a great
lover of the weed, and will improvise a
pipe out of almost any thing.
1t IS curious to mark the repeated at
tempts there have been to invent pipe
that will keep tobacco juice out of the
smokers mouth. Numerous have been
the patents all claiming to haye at
tanned this end. but all seem more or
less failures. They are too numerous
10 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
from pipes of every description, to say
nothing of cigars and cigarettes, do
lovers of tobacco offer up-lilze Byron's
sailor-to 4Eolus a constant sacrifice.
Britons arc 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, ''tha our language
has no sound that can adequately repre-
sent the lulling, bubbling voice of q
hookah- Perchsnee in some fair isle
Ear away in the Pacific, that low cooling
uttersnce may DO the most beautiful
and endearing utterance possible, tho
very perfection Of love whispers Sad
that English can only represent it by
Purra-wurra-pObble bobble-bob-A Ahi
me. my pipe is out-type Of Life-vapor,
smoke We have come to the bottom of
the bowl-sshes to ashes
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