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The most divine tobacco that I ever drunk. In the Oriental tobacco- 

 pipe known as narghileh (Arab, nargilah or arkilah) the smoke 

 passes through water before it is inhaled through a long flexible tube. 

 The receptacle for the water, which is often scented, was originally 

 a cocoanut shell. In Persian the cocoanut is called ndrgil. In India 

 a similar pipe is known as hubble-bubble (or hobble-bobble) . Other 

 names of this water-pipe for smoking are hookah (Arab, hilqqah) 

 and kalian (Pers. qalian).^ In Egypt it is called slsah or gdusah. 

 The Arabic name for cocoanut is gos Hindi. The Arabic word for 

 to drink appears in our sherbet and syrup. Some men in Waukegan, 

 111., smoke their hootch now by taking a liberal pinch of snuff, soak- 

 ing it in moonshine until it is thoroughly saturated, then cramming it 

 into a pipe, and pressing a little loose tobacco on top (The Baltimore 

 News, April 27, 1922, p. 16, col. 6). 



In a poem The Cigarette, by Joseph Mills Hanson (published in 

 The American Legion Weekly, April 28, 1922, p. 4, col. 2), we find 

 the stanza : 



But how I longed to smoke — and not a snipe ! ^ 



When comes this long-Iegg'd bird that saved my tripe i" 



Back in the boyau ^^ — volunteer, may be, 



Or one of our supports — and handed me 



A Lucky! ^2 Boy, just listen while I state 



I'm here to tell' the world this one thing straight, 



No Mount Olympus god could ever quafif 



A cup of nectar sweet as that, by half ! 



I am indebted for this reference to Dr. O. R. Sellers, of the Johns 

 Hopkins University. 



In Homer, ambrosia is used as a perfume : in the Odyssey (4, 445) 



we read that when Menelaus wanted to consult the old man of the 



sea, Proteus, who knew all things, past, present, and future, and who 



took siesta, surrounded by his seals, in an ocean-cave near the mouth 



of the Nile, the daughter of the god covered the hero and three of 



his companions with hides of seals, and in order to make the odor of 



the hides less intolerable, she put ambrosia under their noses. The 



ancients had no scents dissolved in alcohol, but perfumed greases, 



s See cuts in CD 2878 'i. 2908^1; cf. EBu 13,670''; 19,240 *. 



^ Stub of a cigar or cigarette. 1° Cf. to save one's bacon. 



11 Passage between two trenches. ^^ A Lucky Strike cigarette. 



PROC. AMER. PHIL. SOC, VOL. 1 XI, Q, NOV. 20, I922. 



