New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-30

hrt nothing of the kind can be done, or ousn'
10 be IL it could, without Tree anu ia''
BIZ the press and people
.ho earliest settlement Of this continent
Tho American citizen has on gala occasions con'
smmed large quantities OF peanuts. 1nis ha'
hecomc such fixed habit with nm thas We
nrcsume Il NAV be rightly considered
thing more than second natuSe. IL VIII 70 ".
sorvod that the Fair managers 90 hot 'e"'"'o
% cut of the peanut entirely from the AMER,
con citizen. That special occasions ana cohui-
,,ons produce special demands for certain iesn''
~ food ore well known to scientinc meN
hans the best example OF this Is the cohsuni"s
bungcr for pecans felt By nearly every horu'a'
,o,sou on a railway Journey. Nobody eats pc
nars =, any other time, but IL has been clearly
~.o.,;sh,d bv rcneated and exhaustive expert
monte that the pecan nut Is an esseh'iai ~
human health and happiness in tins country
while travelling on the railroad. An'e''0",
galway travellers cut of from pecans droop anu
- ;r,o a ranid decline Professor Rooter, Oh
c.mhridc, the well-knOwn anthropologlst, hhds
.ho. on tho fourth day Of continuous rah"ay
.r,x., tho American citizen deprived OK pecahS
dos Tho discovery Of shin bone in sliurian
s.,ot,m some six months ago has 20 taken up
.he Professors attention that he has not had
tho leisure to carry his investigations lnto the
fold Of the peanut but IL Is undoubtedly d iao'
that this nut Is as necessary for our eNis'ehcI
IN HOLIDAYS as is the pecan during railway 'ra'e'
We do not know if, at the World fair' n'a"
NAV buy the unshellcd and natural peanut wv
side of the grounds take IL ihsoe anu .".
Ior,do and cat il. leaving the shucks for visiting
crowned heads from Europe to crush uhoer .i'i
laval feet. but we presume that he may not 40
hat <1a
sale of unshelled peanuts will be prohibited. Inc
u,ost that q man can do will be to smugglc IN
q few ueanuts in his pocket, get around pehina
cow. ohscurc State building or other place and
shell them on the sly. But the time when the
.,rnrcon citizen will want peanuts will be while
ho 90 looking nc the exhibits. The reflex ACTON
=, tho evc on the stomach when the former Is
directed TO anything OF novel and interesting
nature seems TO be tine true cause or the dtsire
foJt for peanuts Now, II sheled peahuts VIII
fully satisfy this natural craving, then well anu
good But may not the act Of she!llng' VIII"
ia ncculiar scrunching sound, be also demanded Dy
tho American system? The reflex action TO whlch
wo have referred may as easily oct on the ear
ne on the stomach. No doubt scrunching ma
chimes could be devised and set up hero
and there in the buildings and the ear salts
fled. perhaps, though we doubt il the exact noise
could he counterfeited. Another point to be con-
sidcred is the great rapdty with which shelled
pcanuts can be eaten. We suppose that person
who could shell and eat one quart OF peanuts
while passing down one side Of the Machinery
Bnildng, or making the rounds OF the Fine Arts
Building could eat four quarts OF shellcd pea
nuts while making one of these same excursions.
Friendly as we feel toward the peanut, we 40
not know but that it can be overdone. sun
one other point occurs to us-the chance which
the shclled form will offer for fraud and adultcr-
alton. The great scandal which has hung over
Connecticut all these years about those wooden
nutmegs must not be repeated In the case OF
Illinois I'm regard TO wooden peanuts.
There must be a full and free discussion OF
this sheled peanut innovation, or otherwise many
worthy American citizens will fight very Shy OF
ia ornot Fair