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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 satisfae- 
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 passes 
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 the J. apanese: 
* Watlin says of smoking in E ypt: Tobacco is tolerated, and seema to become more 
common again, though a smoker f eneraily disliked and not allowed to perform the part 
: ‘mam or rehearse, of the prayers, Detore a congregation, The grenter part of the people, 
soweNe Hined re teat eo pall fue use Of tobacco, and I remember a Shaumar Beaary: 
Sf gol wees eee: uld not carry that abominable herb on hia Camel, even if a loa 
