The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-02-25
IDOLS ARE SHATTERED.
Land Famed for Certain Things De
Not Know Them.

What traveller has not dreamed Of
drinking genuine curacao IN the little
island where grows the orange groves
of Curacoa2 OF slipping the real Turk
ish coffee in Turkey? Of smoking the
authentic Egyptian cigarettesi in Egypt?
OF eating rich. melting, luscious
smyrna figs in their native
! Smyrna? OF washing ones hands with
| the only original CASTLE soap in fair
CASTLE?
How do these travellers dreams
materialize2 Alas and aIacki They are
but clouds and shadows. They don't
For in the beautiful islet in the Lee
ward Island group where grew the
groves of Curacao. orange trees in the
af0retime, there are now none. But
the world. being used to the flavor of
tolerate no other. So the world has its
way The Hqueur curacao is still made
in large quantities, but it is not q
Curacao HQueur. 1t is made out of ev
erything-as 1t is an orange liqueur,
even of oranges sometimes; but the
Amsterdam house that handles ttlarge-
/ Iy is said TO make it mostly out OF pc
tato alcohol and prune juice Ef
| How about the delicious Egyptian
cigarettes? The delicate Egyptian to-
bacco? Alas again; The native Egyp-
tan tobacco is so bad that nobody
smokes it but the natives, and not even
! l4SJ W4Su IIlSX can 6CL any l41AiA5 Else
In Egypt, as in so many places, the
tobacco comes from Somewhere Else.
The highest grade tobacco there appar-
emily is imported from Europe-from
northern Syria-the best known grade
Of this tobacco being known to Euro
peans as ''Latakhia," although not so
called in Egypt Persian tobacco is also
imported In short, Egypt imports the
tobacco. the wrappers, the boxes and
the smokers and then have the
Egyptian cigarette
But STILL" contends the enthusiast,
there can be no coffee like the genuine
Turkish coffee. All, think OF the Ara
bian Nightsl And Scheherezadet And
Lady What's-Her-Name, the English
peeress who wore the Turkish trousers,
| lived in 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 bIack-eyed houris-an sit
, ting on divans-and all slipping coffee
with all the comfort of a home-out in
the DESSERT Come. nowi You must
give in on the Turkish coffee"
To this can only reply that they may
have had good coffee in Turkey in the
time when Sultan ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
walked his city's streets incognito, but
they have not now You get better TUr-
kish coffee $50 called in New York than
in Turkey; you can get much better Tur-
kish coffee in the Hoffman house than you
can IN StamboIII Pera Se7Itari SMYRNA
Beirut, Jerusalem 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 of Smyrna the
peddlerS brought some aboard that were
very bad; when We got ashore at Srnyr-
ma we were offered some on the quay
that were worse. in the hotel they were
worrny. and when we got into the heart
of Smyrna the figs were able TO walk
around the dealers counter
I used to be very fond of Smyrna figs
before I went to Smyrna
have not eaten any since
I shall never eat any again.
Never mind why.
In CASTLE 1 found no CASTLE soap. They
did not know what I meant; they had
never heard of CASTLE soap. This irri-
tated me, so I began nvestigating the
CASTLE soap problem
learned-or was told-that CASTLE soap
tile; is not used in CASTLE. that 1t Is made
in MarseilIes out of olive oil imported
from Palestine. Thus we notice this
strange anomaly-the name given to a
soap comes from country which knows
naught of this particular soap, it is man
ufactured in a city using little or no soap.
out Of materials coming from a country
which uses no soap at aH.-From the Ar
gonaut-
Democracy IS the spirit OF the times
the common basis of humanity, no church
which seeks only to save each individual
for another world. can hold it's own for
long Is the democratic church possible2
Certainly, little by little we can
make IL so. We can socialiZe