TOBACCO LEAVES 



into cigarettes for the husband, while a 

 slave girl does the same for the guest. In 

 India the nautch girl and bazar girl, in 

 China the flower-boat girl and sing-song 

 girl, in Japan the geisha and tea musme 

 perform the same function. 



While the Orient has learned smoking 

 from the Occident, it has already paid back 

 part of its debt in the practice of serving 

 cigarettes with the sorbet at dinner-parties. 

 This comes from Southern China, where 

 state dinners are broken at intervals by 

 recesses, during which the attendants hand 

 around cigarettes and perfumed water- 

 pipes to the guests. 



Around the plebeian pipe comparatively 

 little etiquette has developed, at least, so 

 far as the Occident is concerned. Among 

 the natives of Yucatan and Central Amer- 

 ica is the practice of using what are known 

 as " loving-pipes " and " family-pipes." 

 In these the stems are from four to seven 



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