Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-04
IDOLS ARE SHATTERED
LAND FAMED FOR CERTAIN
THINGS DO NOT KNOW THEM.
Poor Tobacco in Egypt - Turkeys
Coffee Bad and CASTLE Soap
Not Made There.
From the Argonaut.

From the Argonaut.
What traveller has not dreamed of drink
Ing genuine curacao in the little island
where grow the orange groves of Curacao?
OF slipping the real Turkish coffee in Tur
key? OF smoking the authentic Egyptian
cigarettes in Egypt? OF eating rich, melt
ing, luscious Smyrna figs in Smyrna? Of
washing ones hands with the only original
CASTLE soap in fair Castle?
How do these travellers dreams material
ize? Alas and alack! They are but clouds
and shadows. They don't come true.
For in the beautiful islet in the Leeward
Island group where grew the groves of
Curacao orange trees in the aforetime
there are now none. But the world, being
used to the flavor of the Curacao oranges
In its curacao, will tolerate other. SO
the world has its way. The liqueur curacao
is still made in large quantities but it is
not a Curacao liqueur.T 1t is made out of
everything-aS 1t is an orange lqueur, even
of oranges sometimes; but the Amsterdam
house that handles it largely is said TO
make it mostly out of potato alcohol and
prune juice.
Egyptian Tobacco Bad.
How about the delicious Egyptian ciga-
rettes? The delicate Egyptian tobacco?
Alas again! The native Egyptian tobacco
is SO bad that nobody smokes 1t but the ma
tives, and not even they when they can get
anything else. In Egypt, as in so many
places, the tobacco comes from Somewhere
Else. The highest grade tobacco there
apparently is imported from Europe
comea fra@ The next best
known grade of this tobacco being
known to Europeans as "Latakhia %" al
though not so called in Egypt. Persian to-
bacco is also imported. In short, EGYPT
INN tnh fhn
boxes and the smokers, and then you have
the Egyptian cigarette.
But STILL" contends the enthusiast
there can be no coffee like the genuine
Turkish coffee. All, think of the Arabian
Nights! And Scheherezade! And Lady
What -Her-Name the English peeress who
wore the Turkish trousers lived N Turkey
for years, and slipped Turkish coffee with
Turkish pashas. And of the bearded sheiks
in the desert-with bubble bubble pipes
and harems of beautiful black-eyed houris-
all sitting on divans-and all slipping cof-
fee-with all the comfort of a home-Out in
the desert! Come, now! You must give in
on the Turkish Coffee
Poor Coffee in Turkey.
To this I can only reply that they may
have had good coffee in Turkey in the time
when Sultan Enthusiastically walked his
city's streets incognito, but they have not
now. You can get better Turkish coffee
NSO III NEW IOih IMAM IN turkey,
you can get much better Turkish coffee in
the Hoffman House than you can in SIAM
boul. Pera, scutari Smyrna. Beirut, Jeru-
salem or Cairo.
How about the luscious figs of Smyrna /?
Well, my experience was that the nearer we
got to Smyrna the poorer grew the figs
When we reached Beirut they were pretty
bad; when we were off Smyrna the peddlers
brought some aboard that We're very bad :;
when we got ashore at Smyrna we were Of
fered some on the quay that were worse; in
the hotel they We're wormy, and when we
got into the heart of Smyrna the figs were
able to walk around the dealers counter
1 used to be very fond of Smyrna figs be-
fore l went to Smyrna.
. / have not eaten any since
I shall never eat any again.
Never mind why
In CASTLE | found no CASTLE soap. They
did not know what 1 meant; they had never
heard of CASTLE soap. This irritated me, so
1 began investigating the CASTLE soap prob
lem.
/ learned-or was told-that CASTLE SOAP
is not made In CASTLE; is not sold in Cas-
tile; is not used in CASTLE; that it is made
in Marselles out of olive oil imported from
Palestine. Thus we note this strange anom-
aly-the name given to a soap comes from
a country which knows naught of this par
ticuar SOAP it is manufactured in a city
using little or soap, out of materials
coming from country which uses no soap
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