The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-19


 which reaches us after circulating through red or green morocco tubes whose arms surround one; you smoke, in a work of art a tobacco metamorphosed into perfume"
 From time to time the Oriental inter- rupts his fumigations to drink from diminutive cup few drops of coffee. thus neutralizing the slow intoxication which can otherwise be produced by pro- longed use of the strong and bitter to- bacco known as tombeku, which IS em- ployed in the narghileh.
 The Persian version of this intricately devised instrument was made of cocoa- nuts. and was filled with aromatic wa ters. across which the tobacco had to mass. and in this way was divested of the larger part of the bitter, volatile, and injurious substances Later came the rich designed ghalian, the first rough draft of that which still later evolved into the handsome narghileh proper Of the far east.
 Thanks to these devices In constant use all through the Orient. Dr. Nalpasse af- firms. the noxious action or the tobacco is almost entirely annihilated, so that were the narghileh or ghalian In use in the Occident, together with the Oriental tobaccos. smoking never would be debased into hurtful praeuee.
 w nat dIl bacco isl" cried an Oriental prince of the pipe And, besides, you westerners do not know how to smoke!
 All the world knows the prodig.ous va riety of Oriental tobaccos, ranging rom the simplest leaves to the most varied and complex mixtures, often supplement- ed with perfumes or exposed to the va DOTS of burning pines, and thus prooueins the different kinds of latakieh These are the fragrant tobaccos, gentle and sweet. which are blended with more or less of the strong and acrid tembeku Tor use In the narghileh.
 Oriental Tobacco Mild.
 Every sort of tobacco, according to Dr. Nalpasse. acts on the organism according to its quota of nicotine. Analysis has shown that the tobaccos of the Orient contain but a minute portion Of this noX- ious element On the contrary, the prod ucts of other countries show a much larger proportion beginning with that or Hungary, which has about per cent or nicotine, thence to that of Brazil, HaV- ana, Maryland and Virginia, which varies from 21b to nearly ' per cent Of nicotine. The tobacco from the Garonne region IS the strongest of all, with proportion or nicotine reaching almost per cent. The Oriental who decried the Occidental manner of smoking was right, in the opin- ion of the doctor who thinks the young man of the west should never smoke save for special therapeutic purposes un- der the direction of the physician, that he should never exceed three or TOUT cigars a day, or their equivalent Tn pipe or cigarette smoking; that he must not so to speak, drain his pipe to the dregs, nor ever use a pipe that has become dis colored-that Is to say, impregnated with nicotine-as does the voluptuous student of the Latin quarter, and that he must discard his cigar or cigarette when tnree- fourths of 1t has been consumed. rms caution is based upon the principle that the nicotine not being volatilized under A temperature of 250 degrees, Is with drawn with the smoke to the end of the bowl of the pipe. the cigar or the cigar cite. thus running the risk of being drawn into the mouth of the smoker If he per sists in smoking all his tobacco.
 Nor Is 1t necessary to relight the to- bacco once it is extinguished, thus pre- venting the unexhausted smoke rom De- ing absorbed. Experienced smokers know perfectly how agreeable are their first puffs and how acrid and noxious the last, ordinarily producing cough and irritat- ing the larynx.
 Smoking in Japan.
 The Japanese alone. thinks Dr. Nal passe, have profted by the last observa- ton and have adopted fashion in smok- ing which is as curious as 1t Is hygienic There are fifteen rings on their weapon of warfare Their tobacco. formed of long fibers with the flneness of hair, compara- ble to the stigma of maize, Is buried in a pipe of microscopic proportions, from which the Japanese sailors inhale the fumes but two or three times. This sys- tenn is followed by the Nipponese solely to give the nicotine no time to pass into the mouth of the smoker. The pipe must be refiled instantly and frelighted, not with matches as do the westerners. but by the aid of burning wicks, which arc suspended in every corner of the ship An excellent hygienic measure remarks Dr. Nalpasse, which well testifies to the caution exercised by the Japanese in all xbasr ,t,dartalkipgc and in this instance