Turkey offers a great variety of pipes, from the humble red clay to the lordly hookah or hubble-bubble—a device of Persian origin for allowing the smoke to be drawn through water in order to purify it before reaching the mouth. Another pipe, with which the hookah is often mistakenly identified, is the "Narghile." This word is a native Indian one for a cocoa-nut, and the pipes are either made of an actual nut, as shown in our illustration, or have a receptacle for the nicotine of similar shape and character. A gourd pipe, with a gourd twelve inches in diameter, is not unknown.
INDIAN COCOA-NUT PIPE.
THE FACE AT THE DOOR.
THE DRAMA OF A GHASTLY DELUSION.
By Walter D. Dobell.
Illustrated by S. H. Vedder.