162 VARIETY OF PIPES. 



a few whiffs to produce the opium-smoker's dreary delirium. 

 The Tunisians use reeds for pipes. Stone pipes are found 

 among the natives of Vancouver; while Strong Bow, the 

 North American Indian chief, has his long wooden pipe of 

 peace, decked out with tassels and fringes, but with an 

 ominous-looking sharp steel cutting instrument near the end 

 most remote from the bowl. 



Chinese, Japanese, Phillipine Islanders, Madagascans, Cen- 

 tral Africans, Algerine Arabs, Mexicans, Paraguayans, 

 Siamese, Tahitians, South American Indians, Mongols, 

 Malays, Tartars, Turcomans, as well as the nations of Europe 

 and the chief nations of Southern Asia, all have their smok- 

 ing-pipes, plain or ornate, as the case may be, and made of 

 wood, reeds, bamboo, bone, ivory, stone, earthenware, glass, 

 porcelain, amber, agate, jade, precious metals and common 

 metals, according to the civilization of the country and the 

 pecuniary means of the smoker. 



" The French clay pipes have quite a special character ; 



they are well made, and 

 great ingenuity is shown, 

 in the preparation of the 

 moulds in which they are 

 pressed ; but being mostly 

 intended for a class of 

 purchasers who prefer 

 grotesque ideas to refined 



taste, the bowls are often ornamented with queer shaped 

 heads, having bead-like eyes; sometimes imaginary beings, 

 sometimes caricature portraits of eminent persons. Where 

 more than the head is represented, license is given to a 

 certain grossness of idea ; but this is not a general charac- 

 teristic. The clay of which these French pipes are made is 

 admitted to be superior to that of England, due to the careful 

 mixture of different kinds, and to skilful manipulation. 



"We need not say much about Dutch pipes as distinct 

 articles of manufacture, because the process adopted in their 

 production are pretty much like those in use elsewhere. 

 The Dutch are famous clay-pipe smokers, not countenancing 

 the cigar so much as their neighbors the Belgians, nor the 

 meerschaum so largely as their German neighbors on the 

 "Rhine frontier. A notable bit of sharp practice is on record 





