Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-03
Opium Exclusion isa
Great Act Of Congress

II couches5 as they inhale the fumes from
the opium pipe.
METHODS OF HITTING THE PIPE
1 The smoking OF opium is so different
| from tobacco smoking talthough com
l pAratively few persons know it that it
| may be well to describe the pipe and
other apparatus used. and the manner
| In which the opium is smoked. Tho
opium Layout, as It is called, consists
Of the pipe tor yen tshung'D the
bowl of the pipe Cor 'yen owt) the lamp
| Tor yen dcng'); the round horn box
| for holding opium Cor hop toy'S !; the
Ineedles used for cooking the opium over
the lamp Tor yen hok'0; and tbs
knives for cleaning out the pipe bowl
Tor yen gnow'3, The opium pipe is
about two feet long and is invariably
made of bamboo. hollow, and about an
inch and a half thick One third It's
length there is fastened into the pipe
a bowl fn..de of clay or of stone. This
bowl is covered, save for a very small
hole fthe thickness of pin) in the CEN
ter OF the top.
Opium Is always smoked in a recln-
ing position. The smoker lights the
lamp. and on the point of one OF the
needles they much resemble crochet
needles, tapering at one end and flat
hop toy" little opium tho size of a
pea. He holds this above the flame
OF the lamp, and it slowly Cooks In
cooking, the opium bubbles and sizzles
slightly like burning sealing wax does.
The cooking takes all 1.-The moisture from
the opium. which before it Is cooked
in consistency and color much reseln-
bles treacle. While the smoker Is
cooking his pill every once In a while he
.'clies" it--that is to say. he rolls it over
the bowl of the pipe again and again
with a tWirling motion of the fingers
holding the needle. until finally the pill
assumes the shape Of a little cone. Then
the pipe bowl is slightly heated at tile
orifice, and the point of the needle is
thrust into 1t up to the pellet OF opium.
The pellet sticks to the bowl. and the
needle is withdrawn. Now the pine is
ready to be smoked. This, also, Is a,
curious operation.
The smoker. still reclining. places the
end Of the pipe to his lips, and, holding
the other end with the bowl over the
flame draws in deep breath. The pill
of opium sigzles over the fame and is
drawn into the pipe In smoke, and the
smoke from the pipe to the sinoker's
mouth or lungs. When one pill is con-
slmed as many more are cooked and
consumed as the smoker desires. The
average opium smoker consumes about
eight of these pills at one session.
TWO. KINDS OF SMOKERS.
There are two kinds OF opium sn,ok-
ers, known as '.long- draw" and short
draw smokers. The former merely
take the smoke into their mouths IN
short pllffs and blow 1t ont again with
out the smoke going any further. The
latter take a very long Inhalation of
the smoke, drawing 1t deep into the
lungs md then exhaling it through the
nostrils The latter method is, of
course. the most harmful.
In the opium lamp, which greatly
resembles q. bedroom night lamp. pea
nut oil is used. Sometimes olive oil
is used, but It is said to be a very
inferior substitute. for 1t Is not taste
less as the peanut oil is, The peanut
oil is cheap. too being sold at the Chi
nese shops for about 20 cents a quart
& The opium 'joints" for white person.
in the large cities OF the United States
have a. regular tariff of charges for
their patrons. Here.is the tariff charged