The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-09

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ted, it is said,'' remarked the grocery
salesman one day last week. l guess it is
true, and 1 know of communities which
now deeply regret having become addicted
to olives. Once formed, the olive habit is
almost as hard to shake off as the cocaine
or mArphine habit, though the conse-
quences are not hurtful to the system, the
injury being confined to the pocket. II
costs considerable to satisfy the appettte
for olives as a general thing. In the IN
stance which 1 rave in mind it did MOI
cost much TO acquire the appetite, put II
has been a burden upon the victims eve
since. The territory is an extensive one
reaching from Squan River to cape Ma
and some distance up Delaware Bas
Some years ago a vessel from the MEG
terranean broke up off the capes OF y
Delaware, and her cargo, which SCENE
to consist chiefly of olives, was scattered
along the coast of New Jersey. There
were olives in cases of bottles and olives
in kegs and barrels. Farmers, fishermen
and beachcombers had olives to burn, but
they would not burn, and they con-
cIuded to eat what they could not SELL
Many of the rustics who tasted the fruit
at once concluded that it was spoiled by
sea water. In no other way could they
account for the salty taste. One old tar
said on tasting a big Spanish Queen olive;
That's no good. It's been soaked IN pllge
water" Boarding house and hotel Keep
ers bought up all they could get OF the
fruit. and there was still enough LETT on
the hands of the finders to put them to
the necessity of eating them, and thus
they acquired the olive habit. 1t was all
very well while the stock lasted. but that
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then came the necessity of buying olives
by the bottle, and the poor victims of the
appetite found this extremely expensive.
OF course some succeeded in breaking
themselves of the habit, but with others
it was a hopeless case, and having to buy
a ffty-cent bottle of the fruit every week
for each member of a. family is a great
hardship to many poor farmers and
fishermen.
"a condition of affairs somewhat SIM
liar exists all over this country just now
continued the drummer for the wholesale
house. THE consumption of olives in this
country has increased enormously within
eighteen months or two years. About
three years ago there was al enormous
olive crop. and the fruit was so cheap that
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became addicted to the habit of eating
olives. They came within the means of
people who could never afford to indulge
in them before. They were to be found
by the gallons on the lunch bars of sa-
looms and became a prominent feature of
the little luncheons at progressive euchre
parties, which were Their at their height.
The increasing demand for olives natural
lu Souf <ba nriop lin and then q short
crop sent it still higher, but folk had to
have them If they did come high, and, as
a consequence, We ne getting nearly all
the olives grown in Spain. I read the
other day that the new crop amounted to
IS, 900 hogsheads, of which 5000 would come
TO New York. The finest olives come from
Seville, where they are cured and packed
in brine in the wood. In recent years the
bottling has nearly all been done in this
country by the picklers and manufacture
ing grocers. While the Spanish olive is
the favorite with Americans, there is a
large quantity of French olives, known to
the trade as Crescent olives, which find a
good market. The curing of the fruit has
a great deal to do with its quality. AS
is we'll known. olive growing has been
taken up in California, and some day it
will result in a product capable of COM
peting with the foreigner; but that point
has not yet been reached, in spite of the
fact that Spanish curers have been
brought to this country to handle the cur
ing.
1T is a common thing to hear grocers
say that California olives are no good and
never will be, but 1 have hopes of seeing
them improved so as to take their place
in the market. They are big and fine
looking, butdon't seem to taste right. They
are bitter, and the packers don't seem to
know how to extract the bitterness. All
olives are more or less bitter.
but the foreigners know how to extract
the Objectionable property. The fellows
who are trying it in California don't seem
to succeed very well. 1 doubt if anybody
would become hopelessly addicted to Cali
fornia olives as they are today"
In the debt that is due the body it
should be borne in mind that there are
four periods in which it is to be paid;
this varies greatly with each period, and
if the payment is neglected at one time
it can never be paid in the next period,
says "Harper's Bazaar" Parents should
also remember this, and see to it that
their children should not neglect the first
and most important instalment, that
which is due in infancy and childhood.
This is a period of great activity. The
tissues are watery. and the exchanges be-
tween them are carried on with ceaseless
activity. The triple process, as it is
called of nutrition, function and growth
has to go on. Simple and nourishing
food, freedom of action and of mind, and
sunshiny happiness are nominated in the
bond.
The next period, hat of youth, demands
also to have it's charges paid. These are
the proper training for the life work,
whatever II is to be. The bright, buoyant
nature should nave its Indulgence. Moth
ing is more saddening than to see youth
too cold and calculating and worldly wise.
AT this time of life society is enjoyed ito
the full. It is time to dance and to sing.
I have often seen those who were deprived
Of the dancing and the social round at
the time when they would have most en-
ioyed it-that is, from eighteen to TWEEN
ty-hve-and they were always dissatisfied
and felt that they had been deprived of
something which they should have had,
or in some instances they have developed
o fondness for these things at a time
when they were less appropriate.
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