I once heard Mr. W. W. Rockhill say that Coreans were the greatest smokers in the world. If measured by the time the pipe is in the mouth they certainly are; but if it is a question of tobacco con-Sumed, the Corean may very easily fall behind the foreigner. He is a deliberate, comfortable, unconscious smoker, so apathetic in the enjoyment of his long pipe, that you hardly know whether he has the Smoke, or the smoke has him. Cares and ansioties are whiffed away, and the fumes gurl through his soul softly, benignly, Steepily. The foreigner. on the other hand, pulls fiercely, chews the end of his cigar, Prallows the fumes, or belches them through mouth and nose and seems only cory that he cannot use eyes and ears likewise, the result being, that in one half hour he has consumed more than the Corean will ina day. To even matters, however, Corean smoking means a united pull, men, women, and children, vall at it from fist cock-crow of the morning till the cur-
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