XVI.] ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF SMOKING. 641 



" 3. It is a companion in solitude. 



" 4. It affords an excuse for resting now and then from 

 work, as if in order to take breath. 



" 5. It is a storehouse of reflection, and gives time for the 

 fumes of wrath to disperse. 



" i?.— Disadvantages. 



"1. There is a natural tendency to hit people over the head 

 with one's pipe in a fit of anger.^ 



" 2. The pipe comes sometimes to be used for arranging the 

 burning charcoal in the brazier. 



" 8. An inveterate smoker has been known to walk about 

 among the dishes with his pipe in his mouth. 



"4. People knock the ashes out of their pipes while still 

 alight and forget to extinguish the fire. 



" 5. Hence clothing and mats are frequently scorched by 

 burning tobacco ash. 



" 6. Smokers spit indiscriminately in braziers, foot- warmers 

 and kitchen fires. 



" 7. Also in the crevices between the floor-mats. 



" 8. They rap the pipe violently on the edge of the brazier. 



" 9. They forget to have the ash-pot emptied till it is fidl 

 to overflowing. 



" 10. They use the ash-pot as nose-paper (i.e. they blow their 

 nose into the ash-pot)." 



As during our stay at Enoshima as the governor's guests we were 

 constantly attended by two officials from his court, I considered 

 it my duty to show myself worthy of the honour by a liberal 

 distribution of drink-money. This is not given to the attendants, 

 but is handed, wrapped up in paper, and accompanied by some 

 choice courteous expressions, to the host himself. He on his 

 part makes a polite speech with apologies that all had not 

 been so well arranged as his honoured guest had a right to 

 expect. He accompanies the traveller on his departure a shorter 

 or longer distance in proportion to the amount of drink-money 

 and the way in which his guest has behaved. 



It is a specially praiseworthy custom among the Japanese to 

 allow the trees in the neighbourhood of the temples to stand 

 untouched. Nearly every temple, even the most inconsiderable, 

 is therefore surrounded by a little grove, formed of the most 

 splendid pines, particularly Cryptomeria and Ginko, which often 



1 The Japanese ]>ipes are now so small that no serious results from thio 

 disaclvania;j,-e are to he dreaded. In former times the pipes used were long 

 and probably hoavy. The Dyaks of Borneo still use pipes so heavy that 

 they may be used as weapons. 



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