The Cedar County advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Iowa) 1853-1856, 1855-08-01
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"Vani'la," ," continued the Doctor. "witb
which this pudding is SO delightfully."- fla
Fored, IS the bean of the vine tha, grows
Wild IN the mult!tudinou. forests Of Ven
ezue.a, New Grensda, Guinea, and in
tact, throughout South America. The
long pod, which looks Ike the scabbard
OF a sword, suggested the name to the
opaniards; pdgna meaning scabtard,
IRON which comes the dimunatiye vanilla
or little scabbard-appropria,e enough a.
every one Will allow. The beans, whah
are worth here from SIX 10 twenty dollars
! per pound coaid be as easily cultivated
as hops IN that climate, but the iudocnce
o. the people is 50 great, that not ons
Nenezulean has been found win sutfi.
elent enterprise 10 set out an acre ot
vanilla, which would yield hlm a small
iortunc every year. No, sir TAa poor
poems, or peasants, raise their garahanzas
Tor daily use, but beyond they never look
ihey plant their crops in the footstep Of
their ancestors, and 1t II had not been for
Their ancestors, they would have browsed
on the wild grass of the lauos or plains.
An there are great many such pods
hanging at the tail of some ancestral kite,
even IN this great city my dear, learned
! friends"
True, Doctor you are right there"
wei sir the vanilla is gathered from
the wild vines in the woods. or goes
the hldalgo, proud OF his noble ancestry,
and tolls home under back load Of the
refuse beans from the trees, after the red
monkey has had his pick OF the best
A few reals pay him for the days work,
and then hey for the cock pit. There
sIgnor Oidioge meets the Marquis de
Shlnplaster, or the Padre Coreorochi.
and OF course gets whistled earning with
tue first click oil the gafis. Then back he
goes to his miserable hammock, and so
ends his years labor That, sir. is the
history of the flavorinp and You will
allow stretch across the caribbean, and
twenty-five hundred miles, lof the vanil-
la"
awe are getting pretty well around
Doctor
"Ihen we have sause here wlne sauce
Tenerlife. should say, by the flavor"
| -----''from beneath the lhf
OF sunny-slde Teaerlfie,
| And npenei in the brink
! Of indias suu."
| 1--WE must take lOur thousand ntIes at
least Tor the wine, my learned friend.
and say nothing Of the rest Of the sauce"
Except the nutmeg, Doctor"
Thank You my dear young friend,
thank you The nutmeg To Spice Is
| lands, IN the Indian Ocean, We are IN.
debted ior our nutmegs. Our Old origin
oil knickerhacl,ers, the stub footed Dutch,
| men, nave the monopoly 0, the trade. -.
Every nutmeg has paid toll al the Hague
before it yields It's aroma 10 our gratcra,
The Spice Islands The almost fabulous
| Moiucas, where neither corn nor rice
will grow, where the only quadrupeds
| they have are the musky crocodlles that
bsthe IA the high seasoned waters. The
MoIueas.
"----the Isles
OF TorDats aud TIdofe, whence meaehan'.
bring
Their spicy drugs
There sir Milton sr! From Ter.
nate and TIdore, and the rest Of that
marvellous cluster OF islands, we gct our
n1tm"gs, our mace, and our cloves. Adj
twelve thousand nile, at least to the en-
eamlercncs OF the pudding lor the nut.
meg"
This is getting to be pretty Iargs
pudding Doctor"
"Yes. sir. We have ira, sled areajv
twenty five thousand five hundred mile.
around it, and pow let us re-rlfcunuayl.
gate and come back by the way Of Mex
lco, SO That we can gel silver spoon.
and penetrate into the interior. -- IFtn"
Press.