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and heathen. Still, I mean no offence when I put tea in the 

 same category with Tobacco. Now, who thinks of lecturing 

 us on the costliness of tea? And yet it is a mere superfluity. 

 The habit of taking it as we do is unknown across the 

 Channel, and was quite unknown amongst ourselves a very 

 little time ago, when English people were no less proud of 

 themselves and their customs than they are now, and perhaps 

 with equally good reason. A friend of mine tells me that 

 he smokes every day, at a cost of about sixpence a- week. 

 !Now, I would like to know in what other way so much 

 enjoyment is to be bought for sixpence. Fancy the satisfac- 

 tion of spending sixpence a-week in wine! It is well 

 enough to preach about the selfishness of this expenditure; 

 but we all spend more selfishly, and we all love pleasure, and 

 I should very much like to see that cynic whose pleasures 

 cost less than sixpence a-week." 



The Egyptian pipes, especially those of modern date are 



EGYPTIAN PIPES. 



exceedingly fanciful in shape and resemble somewhat the pipes 

 used by the Persians. Many of them are made of clay and 

 are sold very cheap.* The Chinese use a variety of pipes 

 but all of them have small bowls for the tobacco. Some of 

 their pipes are made of brass and attached to the pipe is a 

 receptacle for water, so as to cool the smoke before it parses 

 into the mouth. The Japanese use both copper and silver 

 pipes, most of them similar in shape and size to those used 

 by the Chinese. 



A writer says of smoking among tho Japanese : 



Watlin says of smoking in Egypt: Tobacco is tolerated, and seems to become more 

 Common again, though a smoker in generally disliked ami not allowed to perform the part 

 of Imam or rehearse, of the prayers, before a Congregation. The greater part of the people, 

 however, detest and condemn still the use of tobace.o, and I remember a Shaumar Bedawry 

 who assured me that he would not carry that abominable herb on his Camel, even if a load 

 of gold were given him." 



