Pipes 



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into a hollow ball, which acts as a reservoir for the 

 juices, the stem entering it at an acute angle. Where 

 the mouthpiece, forming another angle, joins the stem 

 there is carved a grotesque horse's head. The pipe 

 is made entirely of black horn, mounted with German 

 silver fittings. The carved apple-wood pipes of Berne 

 smoke splendidly, being very sweet and cool. 



Many and strange are the forms the pipe assumes 

 in different lands. In the far north very small metal 

 pipes, holding a minute quantity of tobacco, are 

 favoured. The Laps very frequently form the bowl 

 of a pipe by hollowing out the tooth of a walrus. 

 The Danes of Amager Isle smoke a pipe made up 

 of a 6-inch bowl and a 12-inch stem; as it comfort- 

 ably holds a day's allowance of tobacco, it saves time, 

 for the Dane is incessantly smoking. 



The Chinese pipe consists of a tiny white metal 

 bowl, with a stem from 3 feet to 5 feet long, made 

 up of as many joints. The rich Chinaman smokes 

 a handsome little water-pipe made of brass or 

 silver. In opium pipes, it may be noted, the bowl 

 is in the centre, not at the end of the stem, 

 ' and opium is burnt in a flame, not smoked like 

 tobacco. Corean pipes are also of brass, but with 

 longer and flatter bowls. The small pipes with reed 

 stems of Japan are similar, but scalloped and orna- 

 mented round the bowl. 



Only the poetic and luxurious Orient could have 

 invented the hookah and narghile. The former is the 

 Turkish and the latter the Persian form of the water- 

 pipe, the musical hubble-bubble, the smoking of 

 which is as lotus-eating. The hookah and narghile 



