New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-10-02

otc IN say nothing of the hundred other uses
To which PARTS ~ the tree. its fruit and hDrcs
may be put. The saying goes that cocoa tree
bears a nut for every day IN Tie year. In time
of peace one might bug dozen nuts 'or a u
cent coin anywhere in the rura districts 81
Cuba and he who has never tasted the niik
from ono freshly gathci;d can have no idca
what il meant by - dr.tuGht III for the gods
In their pr,irr state. however the nuts arc h't
brown AMI hard. as you S:c them IN NorthctH
markets: they look like enormous plc-grccn hp-
pies slightly clonC1tr.. for each SIM wears us
Robin Hood jacket. which * removed prtoT"
shiprn, TT. Eting still alive. as they SAY on
the island its shell IL soft ana easily cut WIN
tn, nlachct. or long -bl Id,d knif', which every
cnuuirvnIan carries or your own pockctknfe
MAY ansvv- the purpose. Make Il h"ic III on"
end OF The nut about the size OF hali-doiiar'
and cut gushce the mill: like hFnr 3prlh@
not by any means such sour stun as You nave
SON come out OF cOcCanutS at home white az
chalk and thick as buttcrmilk.
Give one Of those imported things to mon
key pining in captivity FOR its native food. ana
he will refuse it with scorn and indignation
The trouble is that the cocoanuts Of COM
mercc are gathered before they are rip" ara en-
tirely spoiled in transit. TIE iud smut up
within II should have no suggestion ot mix
but be colorless water. with slight yraIhic
Ike that from some clear mountain spring. OK
cept for a slightly sweet ard most delicious
flavor: and II freshly picked in the early morn
ing after the nut has been swinging all niGht
in the cool breeZes. the liquid is almost ice cod
Where COCoanuts grow you never sec inSiu' 81
their shells any or tnat ndTu, NHlbc idSci Nii'h
Northerners CRATE and desccste tone might az
we'll sag dcsecrate). for in its best estate the NUT
has no such substance. only creamy whlte
film inside Of it, hardly thicker than your thumb
nail which is scraped off with a spoon when
eaten Before drinking the juice the tender :
foot generally pOurs it out into another Vessel
than that which Nature intended; but the so
phisticated epicuro tilts the cocOanut at just
the right angle to let the milk trickle gently
down his throat-and. like the old topper we nave
heard Of he wishes his throat were mile long
There Is nothing in the wide world more nour-
ishing or fattcning. more health-reStornT ana
Won, h-p.eserving Emaciated invalids are rec
commended to begin on the juice of half dozen
nuts n day the desc 10 be increased according
TO the patients inclination. And the inVdid IS
vet TO be discovered who does not develop
taste for il so rapidly that in weeks tine halt
a dozen nuts at "A single sitting Will hardly sat
isfy him Each full-grown nut contains nearly
a mint Of this true fountain OF youth the
same perhaps which the Old Conquistadores
sought vainly FAR and wide. expecting 20 ma 1,
gushing out OF the earth in some seGuestere1
spot instead Of hanging, green and beautiful
everywhere overhead
The big nuts grow in lunches I've or SIX on
a STEM away up near the top Of the tall tree
lust under its crown Of piumelike leaves. \
native darky, young or old. thinks nothing OF
shining up the smooth. branchl"ss 'runks
which look like telegraph Do!rS towering
straight and slender from fifty 10 one hundred
feet--whacking off the ruts with his machelr
Carried up in MS teeth ana tossing them down
with he ease and agility OF his ancestors. Inc
monkeys