Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-17
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THE LAND OF YERBA MATE.
-. paraguay Tea is Cultivated and Prepared "A 6ev-
craze Truly gift for the Gods
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,..,nl correspondence
SF"' srNroN. Paraguay AUG L.
A r,is mr-avay country ought to
a h. ,bruencd "fhe Land oil
\ Verb, Mate" because its native
,o,,,r by that name Is II"
N' ,.orlrsnt popularity more
no., ,,,ou. here than pIpes In the Le-
a,l,po I'M Mexico, coffee IN Brazil
van" ',.,ogl,.oor in our own mining
s There Is no part Of the world
"' ,,,,,so tea Is consumed by ils
,.,,,sms I'm as great proportion as
~, ,bo south Americans and es'
I ,r,y IN Paraguay the original home
n. pl,nl ltisa species NJ holly
.. ,,mmolv uoHs from 10 to ~
Thigh. along the banks Of rivers ana
h,rders of the wilderness although
.. forests oO H. 3corcs of miles IN
,c, are sometimes fouud In Par''
,y l Bmzl and Bolivia il is oc'
,,,uy found in deep gorges Of me
'w,,irs In iho GuIunl language IT
O1..n'J ,l1. ihu illusthous Geoffroy
uiI,Ir. Named u Hex Paaguulen'
p. 'rJ Dos most familiar Spanish H.
u. 40 pronounced as II spelled erD-ah
ysb.th both words accented ON inc
MET syllable
UNIVERSAL BEVERAGE.
u.r,,b,nt. everybody drinks incrcd-
~, ,p,ptltIe, of IL, from the infant In
, .,s M MS grundslra lettering ON the
XXX NJ the grave from the president
!. bis p,lace 10 the heggar from
g, ncttod daughter OF the arisloctacy'
whose waking hours are divided be-
,teen mass and mandolin hammock
i,nlng and mild Irritation, to the barre
,.gsd females who an the fields ana
.l,,o al beasts NJ burden Mate IS
Zion the first thing In the morning
,nJ the last thing on retiring for the
,sbt, Al meals and between meals; at
olI hours of day and night. and between
those hours. Whenever you call upon
ap1uguayan. whether ON a mission OF
business or friendship, and whether
,ou have ever met him before or arc
itely 10 again. mate Is Immediately
s.red and ike the Arabs salt and the
i.tt.Uashng Of the desert n is thus
made the local mark Of politoness and
evidence Of kindly feeling, The true
p,nmlyan would no moro refuse q
eourd of mate at any time or ON any
occasion than am lrlshmdu would his
d0dean. cuban his cigarette, a Ger
man his glass Of bccr or Brazilian
ma cum OF black coffee. When going ON
olmcy outside his own country he
Invariably takes along generous
supply VI the dried leaves, because
unable 10 cope with life without II and
Il cannot be obtained I'm the markets
On Europe and North America,
Ppierfng It TO any alcoholic beyer-
fge. the average Paraguayan imblbes
nOm I? % 20 cups Tor rather. gourds)
Of IL per diem, and Il is one OF those
extremely rare instances wherein the
mt0Bal habit OF excessive drinking
tends 10 the mental and physical Inn
V0yoment Of the people. Instead OF
lh' chIcharias and pulQuereas OF other
parts Of Spanish America the wine-
rons beer-gardeus, saloons and grog-
wlfs Of more prosperous lands, the
Npla Of Paraguay women as uni.
Wly as meu-are continually seen
gNng mate THROUGH a tube, In all
public places as well as In private, In
htr doorv5ys and parlors and patlos,
I'd lns pazas and markets and leafy
lc0ih by the waysIde, at the theater,
On De ball roonl--whereyer two or
hrtt are gathered together there the
loate cup is sure TO be I'm the midst OF
them
And truly Il is the cup which cheers
bot does not iuuebriate, being a gentle
HImuant whose tonic celebrating cf-
isU Is felt for several hours, but is
10 mo way harmful like the supplying
cocoa Of Bolivia from which cocaine is
made. neryc.shakng Chinese tea, or
ne best coffee Of Brazil, which a local