The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-12-28


 Grand's ''Yie Prives des Francois that the celebrated Thevenot, in 165S gave coffee after dinner. but it was consid-
 cred as the whim of a traveller; neither the thing itself nor it's appearance was
 inviting. But ten years afterward
 Turkish ambassador at Paris made the
 beverage highly fashionable. The ele- gance of the equipage recommended 1t
 to the eye, and charmed the women;
 the brilliant porcelain cups, in which it
 was poured, the napkins fringed with
 gold, and the Turkish slaves on their
 knees presenting it to the ladies, seated
 on the ground on cushions. turned the
 heads of the Parisian danes. This ele- gant introduction made the exotic bev-
 craze a subject of conversation. and in 1872 an Armenian at Paris at the fair time opened coffee house. But the
 custom still prevailed to sell beer and
 wines and to smoke and mix with in different company in their first imper- fleet coffee houses. A Florentine, one Procope, celebrated in his day as the
 arbiter of taste in this department, in structed by the error of the Armenian,
 opened superior establishment and in troduced ices. Le Grand says that this establishment holds distinguished
 place in the literary history of the < times. It was at the coffee house of Du Laurent that Saurin, La Motte, 1Danchet, Boindin, Rousseau and others
 met. England claims to have had the i use of the berry before even the time of l Thevnot. An English Turkish mer-
 chant brought a Greek servant to Eng
 land in 1852, who, knowing how to roast
 and make coffee. opened house to sell lit publicly. He announced the fact by lissuing handbills of the following con. I tents: "The virtue of the coffee drink, first publicly made and sold in England by Pasqua Rosee. in St. Michaels All
 ley, Cornhill, at the sign of his own
 head" For about twenty years after
 the introduction of coffee in England
 there was a continued series of inyec. tiyes against it's adoption, both in med- icinal and domestic views. Even in it's
 native country the government discov-
 cred that the history of coffee houses
 was often that of the manner, the nor
 als and the politics of a people. and the use of the Arabian berry was more
 than once forbidden where it grew.
 The same fate happened on it's intror lduction into England. In "The Wo-
 mems Petition Against Coffee" 1864,
 they complained that ''it made men as unfruitful as the deserts whence that
 unhappy berry is said to be brought;
 that the offspring of our mighty ances
 tors would dwindle into succession of
 apes and pygmies; and on q domestic
 message, a husband would stop by the
 way to drink a couple of cups of cof
 fee" In the reign of Charles II, 1875, a
 proclamation for some time shut then
 all up, they having become the rendez
 vous of the politicians of that day
 Roger North has given in his "Exa
 mem a full account of this move. II
 discussing 1t Disraeli says: Tt was
 not done without some apparent respect for the British Constitution. the court . laffecting not to act aganst law, for thu
 judges were summoned to consul ta tion, when, 1t seems, the five who me did not agree in opinion. But a deci
 sion was contrived that the retailing 0, : coffee and tea might be an innocen
 trade; but as it was said to nourish SC
 dition, spread lies and scandalize grea
 men, 1t might also be a common hui i, sanee.'. A general discontent, in con sequence, as North acknowledges, tool , place, and emboldened the merchant i and retailers of coffee and tea to peti ton. and permission was soon granted 1 to open the houses for 8 certain period , judges were summoned to q consulta' A masters should prevent all scandalou s under a severe adtnonition that tht lin them and hinder every person iron spreading scandalous reports agains a the government. Anderson says tha 7 coffee was brought into England b, Nathaniel Canopus, a Cretan, wh , made it his common beverage at Bal , liol collge, Oxford, in 1641 Another au 1 thor claims that the first coffee hous in England was kept by a Jew name, , Jacobs in Oxford in 1850, and that coi s fee trees were conveyed from Mocha t 5 Holland 1916, and were carried to tn l West Indies in 1726. Another accoun , has it that coffee was introduced int 5 the West Indies in 1723 by Chirae
 French physician, who gave asNormai 3 gentleman by the name of De Cleux, l Icaptain of infantry. on his way to Maj ' unique, a single plant The sea voyag ,, was a stormy one; the vessel was driy en out of her course and drinking wa g ter became so scarce that it was dis r tributed in rations. DeClieux, with al { affectation for his coffee plant, divide : his portion of water with it, and sue ceeded in bringing it to Martinique, a ] though weak, not II a hopeless condi a ton. There he planted it in his garder ' protected it with fence of thorns an 5 watched it daily until the end of tn 7 Iyear, when he gathered two pounds ( coffee, which he distributed among tn 5 inhabitants of the island, to be plante by them. From Martinique coffee tree in turn were sent to San Domingt
 Guadaloupe and other neighboring il ! lands. .-Ntw York Tribune.