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Show MUCH TROUBLE? LITTLE SMOKE. Chinaman Has His Own Way of Enjoying En-joying Tobacco. Of all smokers tho Chinaman goes to tho greatest troublo and obtains tho least result. "Ho carries," says an observer, "a llttlo box almost twice Iho slzo of an ordinary silver clgaretto case. This Is half-Illled with water. In ono end Is a roniovnblo tiny tube to servo as a pipe, at tho other end is tho pipe stem. First of all ho takes out tho tuba and blows through it to romovo all blockage. Then ho fumbles fum-bles through his awkward clothes, searching for tobacco, and produces a bit of rag In, which It Is wrapped. Carefully ho extracts a wad of tobacco, tobac-co, puts away his rag and slowly plugs the tube, which holds, perhaps, tho tenth part of an ordinary cigarette. But ho never has any matches. So ho has to borrow or hunt out a brown paper stem and light It It glows for a long tlmo and can bo puffed into llamo again. Ho gives a 16ng draw, slowly enjoying it to Its full extent for tho moment or two, then back again through tho old routlno to find his tobacco, to-bacco, fill his plpo and get It lighted." |