PINK 



16s 1 



PIPEFISH 



foot in length of the table. The balls and i 

 are miniature copies of those in outside use. 

 With a few exceptions, the rules of the game 

 are the same. Volleying is not allowed, the 

 stroke is underhand and but one ball is served. 

 PINK, a flower whose very name suggests a 



. h of spicy fragrance and a vision of sv. 

 old-fashioned gardens, its favorite dwell- 

 ing place. The name, probably taken iron 

 original color, is but one of several, the broad- 

 leaved blossoms 

 having once been 



call.. I MM 



liam, and those 

 with narrow pet- 

 als, sweet John. 

 Nowadays the 

 finely-fringed, 

 vd pinks 

 with their grass- 

 lil$e leaves are 

 quite liable to be 

 white, purple, red And j wlll pu - tne pinkf the 



or a combination _. emblem of my dear, 



For she s the pink o woman- 



of colors, but the kind, and blooms wjthout 



pleasant clove a peer ' -BURNS. 



odor is always (Above, a clove pink.) 

 characteristic of them. The modest little flow- 

 ers in all their varieties, Scotch, China, pheas- 

 ant's eye, grass and feathered, are natives of 

 Mi i rope and of Asia from China to Russia and 

 as far south as the Pyrenees Mountains. Their 

 popular cousin, the carnation, grows wild in 

 Mediterranean eomr 



PINKERTON, ALLAN (1819-1884), a notable 

 American detective, was born in Scotland, but 

 spent most of his life in the United States. He 

 emigrated in 1852, and in that same year set- 

 tled in Chicau'o. where he became deputy sin r- 

 itT and later head of a detective agency, winch 

 .-till e\i-ts. His work was mutually MICC >-i'ul. 

 and MOOD after the outbreak of the War of Se- 

 cession he was given the task of organizing a 

 Secret Service, of which he was made 

 the chief. He never gave up his work in Chi- 

 cago. ;. and established branch aj;. 

 in New York and Philadelphia. Pink, i 

 \\ntmi:- inch. Molly Maguircx and th< 



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PIPE, TOBACCO, a small bowl, fitted with a 



hollow, nedlike ..'. : to- 



1'ipes of a very simple kind had j 

 ably been used in F.ngland fir the -inokiim of 

 me I :l>8 before 



lar, but it wa< the introduction of tobacco that 



gave the pipe maker his trade. The American 

 Indians, who have smoked tobacco from the 

 most ancient time, carved the pipe bowls out 

 of stone or shaped them of clay, and often deco- 

 rated them quite gayly with figures of men 

 and beasts. The pipe of the Indian was more 

 than a relaxation: it had a ceremonial use as 

 well, and the smoking of the peace pipe was a 

 important event (see CALUMET). 



When the Europeans acquired the habit of 

 smoking, they used first either a pipe of silver 

 or a walnut shell with a straw thrust into it, 

 but better devices were soon discovered. As 

 both clay and brier root take up much of the 

 unhealthful nicotine liquor before it reaches the 

 mouth, pipes came to be made of these sub- 

 stances. For finer pipes, meerschaum was first 

 used in Germany, but the custom soon spread 

 to other countries (see MEERSCHAUM). Some- 

 times the bowls alone are made of meerschaum, 

 sometimes the entire pipe. The comnK 

 mouthpieces are of amber, silver or ivory. Hol- 

 land early took the lead in pipe making, and 

 still produces porcelain pipes with huge bowl-. 

 often painted in brilliant colors. 



Orientals smoke the most curious of pipes 

 the hookah. The bowl is fitted into an air- 

 tight, vase partly filled with water, and a tube 

 passes downward into the water. A flexible 

 tube with a mouthpiece is fitted into the side 

 of the vase, and the smoke passes through the 

 water before it enters the mouth. It is thus 

 cooled and is rendered lex harmful to the sys- 

 tem. 



PIPE 'FISH, the name applied to a group of 

 fishes which have a characteristic tubelike snout, 

 ending in a small, narrow, toothless mouth, 

 opening upward. A remarkable feature of the 



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TIII: PXPBFUH 

 family is a pouch in the male, in which t! 



d by the f. male; there t!i- y BUI kept 

 young also remain there 



to care for themselvet The body of 



the pip, :i~h is lonu. >lim and snnkelike. is COV- 



