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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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through water with a gentle in-haling, depositing the oil in its passagethrough the water. When several per-sons of equal rank are being served, it isthe proper tbing to bring an equal num-ber of lighted pipes; but if one presentoutranks all the others, only one pipe isbrought in, which is handed to him. Be- DOMESTIC AND COURT CUSTOMS OF PERSIA. 225 fore smoking, he makes a feint of offeringit in turn to all present, but woe be to himwho incautiously accepts it before he ofhigher rank has first smoked, for he willbe made to feel the withering scorn ofwhich a Persian gentleman is capable,I knew of such an instance. The pipewas offered by the host in this perfuncto- After the first kalian, tea is servedagain, followed by a second pipe. Aftera proper interval, whose length is regu-lated by the acceptability of the visit, cof-fee is served in tiny cups, followed in turnby the loipe. This is the signal that thelimit of the entertainment has been reach-ed, and the guest in honeyed words ex-
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ITINERANT BEGGAR. ry manner to one of lower rank, and itwas accepted; but when he of lower rankhad smoked and returned it to the other,the host ordered the servant to take outthe pipe, wash it thoroughly, and prepareit afresh. The Mestofi - Mamolek, thehighest man in Persia after the king,has not smoked for forty years. He tooka solemn resolution against tobacco, be-cause, when a young man, the kalian wason one occasion given in his presence toa man whom he considered of lower rankbefore it was offered to him. He dashedaside the pipe, and swore never to smokeagain, in order to avoid the possibility ofbeing again subjected to such an affront. presses his acknowledgments for the court-esy of the host, and requests permissionto depart. When the Persian new yearbegins, with the spring equinox, the seasonis indicated by the substitution of a coolsherbet for the first cup of tea, and some-times of an ice in the place of the coffee;but after the September equinoctial thetea and coffee are re

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