The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-07-04
Guy VOTES For RICE.

GUY VOTES FOR RICE.
Santa Cruz. Cal.-psar I!aphammer: We
lave subject fos our contest THIS time,
Iups, TINT can b. widely discussed have
We mott just think OF the many differ
ont kinds of vegetables ana plants that
arc useful to mankind! There is the
cork tree OF Spain. India rubber OF Brazil,
quinine of Peru the camrhor ree, rice,
dates tmaybe you think that dates are
oil very useful. hut If you should take "A
trip 10 Northern Africa Won would change
your opinion. dates are the principal food
OF great many p,opl9. potatoes. wheat,
corn, oats ana cotton. l VIII not ATTEMPT
to name ANY more.
Nov, the question fee us TO decide Is
which one of these or any oiher YOU may
hiDpen 10 choose. is tho most useful to
mankind. Ihat will be a pretty nard
question 10 settle, and there ought to be
some pretty lively times alter we get
started
As We all Know. the corr, tree crows
most extensively In Spain: there YOU Will
ma whole forests ~ 10. II Is ueclcd from
tn ire, SomethirE in the manner that
impoS'a,t as luia rubber. which eruWs
a.ons The Amazon river that great rlVT
OF South America. 1t - almost entirely
shipped from Para. at the mouth OF the
river ana there made mo The sorm W.
see H.. /, was originally II juice whom
shipped.
49,. 40 nor kHo" inHSh apoul the camphor
1' VI " re - yin %hl'h ,9e,hle Is
tell MS OF tkem
-, ~ ~ We al IhoW' Rows whero the
- ~ Wy mos y. forms me piihc'phl
35DpoV HO1 PEOPLE. just tklnls Of the ueop,e
OF China and Japan who Nv" upon II! The
I,i'''ip''t,''e9 o. Ni'Iss cat ~ tiIee llmes q
day and N Japat, IT Is used, very extern.
s!Ncly What would chic, do without
ricel why. she would just s,arve to
1.a'h' AL or her people eat rice. aud
rec only, think rice has very good
chance OF coming out near the l"ad in
the coming contest, and Right here, MI
s "a ,.I,la a'io" me 10 cast my vote
10, rye.
Dates grow on a sort of palm tree called
date palm. and are used as a food all
over the northern part OF AFRICA. OF
course they do not snpport as many PEG
PIE as rice hges' 9ut !hey support sreat
many. thlhk dhtes ought 10 come IN
thiri anyway, IN the contest. bun | don
mink II WI we cant comprehend now
many people use them rs food. as We
very seldo hear anything OF them: but
rice We near OF every d1y. bni II me
date has or or NO sooi writers Ike l.ca
STUART OF C"iNehus oInbs 10 back IT, IL Is
liable to come In ahead.
The potato Is native or Ch'll ana Peru,
but ~ a UNIVERSAL fooi: II mas gooG
chance of coming ONT near the iop also
Tor VINO IS there thtt coesh IKE nott,
toes I'm sur" | can est az many frled
pot1toeS as any one Ana VINO is there
who don't Ike 70 have a potato roast
There is nothing like better lhan TO bu'id
n iire on the sand Just before gong IN
swimming and bury potatoes IN the sand
Gha"r the hre ana men wheh come oll'
@. but they do taste good then! And they
smell 80 goofl My appetite III always
slioh then that IL seems as though could
cat q. bear.
Many nee pie would feel aS - thourh thry
hia lost theiF neSt irlvnI II thgN Shouln
have 10 DO without potatoes l know
would
] think We al know how wheat. corn
and oats ''e mAIe mo bread etc. hhd
how cotton j. made INTO clothing 70 cover
OF them.
As ] voteh Tor rice ! han hetter wrltc
a little IN favor of IT, VIII MOI "'id"lvor
10 tell YOU ms time now ~ u raised e'c.
but viii lust talk as MIR. l1aphtmmcr
says often AZ the heaf!ns Of our letters,
In favor OF rice ltiee Wa know. IS used
more .NteNs,Ne'y VI NM t'i5h my other
Of YOU will say; 20, rice' IT'S nothing;
Cinnamon are the only people who cat u
10 any extent ana WhH' : u, thlninHh
We'll, let me tell You something China
men are Just as much human beings as
YOU, ana hey nave 10 I'VE on something.
aud so thoy I'VE on rice more Cinnamon
who live an wheat. bananas, etc We must
think of tho unclviliHed who live on rice-
etc. ny well as we civilized; we must not
thank only OF ourselves We could 'fSlN
have for our motto during this contest:
"Nut for ourselves alone" which means
not for the civilized alone bu, for the UNI
civilized also
What would Chinaa counties lnhabit.
bcfore. lfterally sterve Rice Is the only
thing they have sown there now alsd can,
ais are run an over the country and used