216 UNIVERSAL USE. 
an attractive orator is a pipe that draws well; a communist is 
a foul pipe; a well-educated woman whose conversation is, 
attractive is a pipe with a nice mouthpiece; a girl of the 
period is a fancy pipe, the ornament of which is liable to 
chip ; 2 female orator on woman’s rights is invariably a plain 
pipe; an old toper is a well-seasoned pipe; an escaped thief 
is a cutty pipe, and the policeman in pursuit is a shilling 
pipe, for is he not a Bob?” 
’ From these ingenious “ conceits ” we turn to a few thoughts 
on the present condition and history of the plant. 
The calumet or pipe of peace, decorated with all the splen- 
dor of savage taste, is smoked by the red man to ratify good 
feeling or confirm’ some treaty of peace. The energetic. 
Yankee bent upon the accomplishment of his ends, pufis 
: vigorously at his cigar 
and with scarcely a 
passing notice, strides 
over obstacles that lie 
in his path of whatever 
2 nature they may be. 
-The dancing Spaniard, 
t¢ with his eternal casta- 
nets whispers but a 
word to his dark-eyed. 
senorita as he hands her 
A another perfumed 
<= cigarette. The loung- 
ing Italian hissing 
intrigues under the 
shadow of an ancient 
THE YANKEE SMOKER. portico, smokes on as 
he stalks over the 
proud place where the blood of Cesar dyed.the stones of 
the Capitol, or where the knife of Virginius flashed in. 
the summer sun. The Turk comes forth from the Mosque 
only to smoke. The priest of Nicaragua with solemn mien 
strides up the aisle and lights the altar candles with the fire 
struck from his cigar. The hardy Laplander invites the 
stranger to his hut and offers him his pipe while he inquires, 
