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ly fashionable. The elegance of the
equipage recommended it to the eye, and
charmed the women; the brilliant porce-
lain cups in which ii was poured. the
napkins fringed with gold. and the Turk
iSh slaves on their knees presenting il to
the ladies' seated on the ground on cush-
ions. turned the heads of the Partisan
DANES. This elegant introduction made
the exotic beverage a subject of converse
ton. and in 1872 an Armenian at Paris at
the fair time opened a coffee house. But
the custom still prevailed to sell beer
and wines and to smoke and mix with In
different company in their first imperfect
coffee houses. A Florentine one Procope
celebrated in his day as the arbiter OF
taste in this department, instructed by
the error OF the Armenian, opened a Supe-
rior establishment and introduced ices.
lie Grand says that this establishment
holds a distinguished place in the literary
history of the times. 1t was at the coffee
house OF Du Laurent that Saurin. La
Motto. Dauchet. Boindin. Rosseau and
others met. England claims to have had
the use of the berry before even the time
of Thevenot An English Turkish mer-
chant brought a Greek servant to England
in 1852. who. knowing how to roast and
make coffee. opened a house to sell 1t
publicly. He announced the fact by is
suing hand bills OF the following con-
tents: The vertue Of the coffee drink,
first publicly made and sold in England.
by Pasqua Rosee, in st. Michaers Alley.
Cornhill. at the sign OF his own head"
For about twenty years after the intro
duction OF coffee in England there was a
continued series OF invectives against its
adoption, both in medicinal and domestic
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United States have tried similar plans
with decided success. And from the
Armour Institute, Chicago, is conduct
ed the American School OF Household
Economics that is doing fine work
along similar lines.
Mrs. Ellen NJ. Henrotin. honorary
president of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs: Mrs. Frederick w.
Schoff, president of the National Con-
gress Of Mothers; Mrs. Arthur Cour-
tenay Neville, chairman of the house,
hold economics committee of the Gen.
eral Federation of Women's Clubs:
Mrs. Linda Hull Larned, Mrs. Walter
McNab Miller and Mrs. Mary Hinman
Abel are on the advisory council OF the
correspondence institution. Among the
instructors are Alice p. Norton, Marion
Foster Washburne, Isabel d. Billiard,
Frances Norton Allen, Kate A. CHM
and Abby L. Ross. William A. COL
ledge is president, Maurice LIE Bosquet
director and Ray Barton Manbert sec
rotary of the organization.
Wide Range in Teaching
President Harper, of the University
of Chicago, has openly expressed his
high opinion of correspondence instruc-
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fact, however, that some of the adopts
possess secret methods which they will
not disclose, as, for instance, the famous
Egyptian coffee maker of the king OF
England.
A History of Coffee
Like everything else coffee has a his
tory. and if the accounts concerning IL
which originate from the Orient are
trustworthy, it has an ancient as well as
interesting, though somewhat checkered
career. The legend runs that coffee was
found growing wild in Arabia by Hadji
Omar, a dervish, 617 years ago. He was
dying Of hunger In the desert, when, find
ing some small, round berries he tried to
eat them, but they We're bitter After
roasting them he finally STEPPED them in
some water held in the hollow of his hand,
finding the decoction as refreshing as IL
he had partaken of solid food. He hur-
ried back to Mocha, whence he had been
banished, and, inviting the wise men to
partake of his discovery, they Were so
well pleased with ii that they proclaimed
him a saint. In the Bibliotheque. Nation
ale, Paris. there is a manuscript (near the
end of the sixteenth century, written by
an Arab, Abdelcader. who declares that
coffee was drunk for the first time in
Arabia in the middle of the fifteenth GEN.
fury. Others think that certain remarks
in Persian writings imply that coffee was
used in Persia as early as the ninth CEN
tury, but most authors dispute these
texts 1t is commonly supposed that the
use of coffee in its earliest home, Abys-
sinia, and in its second home, Arabia, is
only five to six centuries old.
A legend says that angel Gabriel once.
when Mahomet was i'll. brought him cup
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inal. She succeeded, and they were
married
Startling Resemblance in Novel
They actually lived out the plot not
only of Foul Play" but of THE Moon
stone" The incidents in their lives and
the misfortunes were startlingly like
the incidents of the two novels named.
Charles Reade might have written
Foul Play and Wilkie Collins THE
Moonstone" and found the plots in
their story. Or the two great novels
might have been combined. But
Charles Reade and wilkie Collins were
at rest in their graves long before Har-
old Doane and Margaret Barnston even
left England, only to be shipwrecked in
mid-Pacific.
Harold Doane is the second son Of
Sir John Wilkes Doane, of Efingham-
shire, England. He was educated at
Eton and was finishing his college
career at Oxford when the incidents
occurred which compelled him to leave
England. Margaret Barnston was the
daughter Of the Rev. George Barnston,
rector of st. Andrews Episcopal church
III
Three years ago Harold Doane met
Margaret Barnston while at home for
his summer vacation. She was a tall.
athletic girl, fond of tennis, golf, and
boating. Harold was an adept at all
these sports, and their mornings and
afternoons usually were spent together,
either on the golf course or on the river.
One week they were both the guests
at a house party given at the country
home of Andrew Noteworthy, a Lon
don merchant who had made fortune
in horseradish, or something like that.
Noteworthy had Travelled in the East
and had a collection of oriental wares,
jewels, carvings. weapons and embroi-
deries of which he was inordinately
proud. His most priceless treasures
were two large fire opals which, he
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that coffee drinking made persons neglect
religious duties. they pointed to the fact
that while coffee houses were multiplying,
the mosques were empty. Chair Bey
called a council OF physicians, priests and
lawyers and, on their advice, forbade alb
solutely the use of coffee. The police
gathered all coffee that could be found
and burned il in the market place. After
ward he reported TO the sultan what he
had done, and received the following note
in reply: 'Your physicians are asses.
Our lawyers and physicians in Cairo are
better informed. They recommend the
use of coffee, and declare that no faith
full will lose heaven because he drinks
coffee" Since then coffee drinking has
been unmolested and it has become IA
vored drink everywhere.
While the honor of introducing tea may
be disputed between the English and the
Dutch. that of coffee seems to remain be-
tween the English and the French. Yet an
italian intended to have occupied the
place OF honor. That distinguished trav-
eler. Pietro della Vale. writing from Con-
stantinople in 1915 to a Roman. says that
he would teach Europe in what manner
the Turks took what he calls "cahue."
or, as the word is written in an Arabic
and English pamphlet. printed at Oxford
I'm 1869. on the nature OF the drink
''kauhi. or Coffee 1t appears by lie
Grand's "Vie Prives des Francois" that
the celebrated Thevenot. in 1858. gave
coffee after dinner. but it was considered
as the within of a traveller; neither the
thing itself nor its appearance was in
wiling.
But ten years afterward Turkish am
bassador at Paris made the beverage high
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was soon granted to open the houses for
certain period. under a severe admonition
that the masters should prevent all scan
dalous papers. books. and libels from being
read in them, and hinder every person
from spreading scandalous reports against
the government. Anderson says that cof-
fee was brought into England by Nathan
lei Campus. Cretan. who made Il
his common beverage at Balliol college.
Oxford, in 1s41. Another author clainis
that the first coffee house in England was
kept by a Jew named Jacobs in Oxford in
1850. and that coffee trees were conveyed
from Mocha to Holland in 1915, and wera
carried to the West Indies in 1926
Another account has 1t that coffee was
introduced into the West Indies In 1923 by
Chirac, a French physician, who gave
Norman gentleman by the name of De
Clieux, a captain of infantry, on his way
to Martinique, single plant. The sea
voyage was stormy one; the vessel was
driven out OF her course, and drinking
water became so scarce that it was dis
tributed in rations. De Clieux, with an
affection for his coffee plant divided his
portion of water with it. and succeeded
in bringing it TO Martinique. although
weak not in a hopeless condition. There
he planted it in his garden, protected II
with fence of thorns and watched IL
daily until the end OF the year, when he
gathered two pounds OF coffee, which he
distributed among the inhabitants OF the
island. to be planted by them. From
Martinique coffee trees in turn were sent
to Santo Domingo, Guadalupe, and Other
neighboring Islands.
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not yet promised to believe him inno-
cent, for she still remembered that sine
saw him steal the opals.
Arriving in England, Margaret Barns
ton went to her old home in Effing-
hamshire. while Doane took up his resi-
dence with his uncle at 80 Maiden Court
lane Naturally Margaret visited the
Makeworthys, for she was engaged to
marry young Noteworthy. She told
the story to Andrew Makeworthy-how
she had seen Harold Doane steal the
opals.
Old Makeworthy was surprised at her
silence so long. He consulted his near
est friend. DR.. Herbert Boynton-and
Boynton looked troubled. Finally ha
said:
DO you remember that on the night
the opals were stolen that my house
burned, and that in trying to save my
library L was so severely hurt by a
falling ladder that I was unconscious
for many hours?''
Old Noteworthy remembered the in
cident well, and SO did Margaret Barns
ton.
Don't you remember, too, that when
1 came from the hospital 1 went to the
south OF France for recuperation?"
Yes, perfectly"
We'll. if my house hadn't burned and
l had not been hurt by the fall of the
ladder would not have left England,
and so forgetting all about the theft OF
the opalS. But Harold Doane stole the
opalS at my express commands"
How? Why?' asked Margaret
Barnston and old Makeworthy in the
same breath.
BY hypnotism." replied DR.. Boynton.
He boosted that could not control his
Will by hypnotisIn-an art l use in my
practice in rare occasions. / tried and
/ succeeded. Seeking an unusual test,
/ bade him go to your drawing room,
steal the opals, and hide them in that
little stone jar fashioned in the shape
of Hindoo god. And while he was in
the drawing room on his mission came
the alarm of fire."
The rest of the story is quickly told.
The opals were found just where DIR.
Boynton said they would be. and Harold
Doane, free of all suspicion, is going to
marry Margaret Barnston.
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NM ASHINGTON, D. c. = Realiz-
M ing that coffee is the beverage
of the great majority or people.
both rich and poor. and that its quality
and its influence upon the human system
depend to great extent upon it's mode
of preparation, the agricultural depart
-ment has decided to devote much time in
the coming winter to ascertaining the
best method to produce an ideal cup of
coffee A chemical expert who has made
the subject of coffee growing and making
a special study will be employed for the
purpose.
1t is the contention of the department
that the production of a cup of good
coffee depends more upon the way it is
made than upon the grade Of coffee bean
employed. Not only will all the known
methods of coffee making be employed 'in
the experiments, but scientific measures
will be used to determine with the utmost
exactness the effects produced upon the
coffee bean from the time it leaves the
plantation, through the process of roast
ing and grinding, and lastly in the brew
ing of the beverage. What promises to
be a most interesting feature of the ex-
periments will be the testing of the
method employed in the western part Of
Sumatra of using the leaves of the coffee
plant instead OF the berries. The method
in vogue in Cuba Of making coffee by cold
water infusion, though supposed to elm
mate the undesirable fannie element has
been found by the department expert to
contribute in reality little OF nothing to
that effect. The process employed by the
celebrated coffee makers of Paris, Vienna
and Constantinople will be used. in so far
as they are known. 1t is recognized
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many dramatic events, according to the
narrative to which have referred
Shortly after, on a warm summers
day, De Montespan and De Maintenon
were walking in the park at Versailles
with Louis XIV. To fasten a gauze
scarf Montespan asked the loan of a
pin, and catching sight of the one given
by Ninon, in the fichu Of her destined
successor, she took 1t. but seized with
jealousy of De Maintenon, she threw
the pin away in anger. The king picked
Ii up and placed ii carefully in his jew
el box. There it remained until James
H.. the dethroned King OF England.
with his queen and the Princess of
Wales, came as fugitives to st. Ger
main.
When Louis XIV. was about to set
out to greet the exiles and make them
welcome, De Maintenon, who looked
upon this as the most interesting cpl
sode in the life of her unacknowledged
husband, desired to add to the clasp of
diamonds ornamenting his hat a bunch
of white plumes tied with ribbon upon
which she had embroidered a device.
To fasten this pin was needed, where
upon the king ordered his valet de
chambre to go to his jewel box and
bring the one which recalled the Incl
dent in the garden of Versailles. At the
conclusion of the ceremonies attending
the reception of James II. and his fam
lily, the pin was returned to the cabinet
OF Louis XIV. where it remained I'M
disturbed until near the close of the
reign of Louis XIV. who had inherited it
along with all else belonging to his
grandfather.
One day after dinner, weary of mo-
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ca HE successful novelist seldom finds
his plot in real life. Charles
Reade had only basis of fancy
for his famous story, Foul Play"
while Wilkie Collins drew the material
for that best of all English detective
stories, 'The Moonstone," from his own
fertile imagination and not from incl
dents in real life that came within his
own personal notice.
If Charles Reade and wilkie Collins
were alive today they might collaborate
upon a story in real life that would
combine the plots of Foul Play and
"The Moonstone." They would find the
characters right in London, for Harold
Doane,. of 80 Maiden Court lane, is
about to marry Miss Margaret Barn
ston, and both have actually lived the
plots of both Foul Play" and 1.-The
Moonstone." They were lovers and be-
came separated by a crime of which
Harold Doane was suspected. Doane
fled to New Zealand to begin life anew,
while Margaret Barnston accompanied
her parents to Melbourne Australia
By the merest chance they found them
selves on board the same vessel re-
turning to England. The vessel was
shipwrecked and Harold Doane, with
Margaret Barnes, a stewardess, and
three sailors, was saved in an open
boat and ultimately landed upon a
small island in the Pacific, but not un-
til two of the sailors, crazed by thirst,
had leaped overheard and drowned.
The third sailor died just after they
were landed, and the stewardess, too.
became insane, wandered away, and
was dead when found HAVING Harold
Doane and Margaret Barnston alone on
the island. 1t was by Doane's resource
fulness that he was enabled TO COM
municate with passing ship and I'LL
timately bring about their rescue. Mar
garet Barnston returned to London
and went to work Oh theory of her
own to clear away the evidence which
made Harold Doane a suspected GRIM
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provided for this purpose. Then the
paper goes back to the instructor who
compiled It and is duly marked with
red Ink before being returned to the
student. Personal letters are written
whenever necessary. and by means of
an effective card system careful account
is kept of the work of each student. All
letters from students are kept separate
and confidential. for the sake Of those
who find the work less easy than their
fellows or whose early educational ad-
vantages have been few.
Two lessons are always sent ahead to
each student, so that no time is lost
while waiting for the return Of any
paper. Difficulties of any sort are
quickly and effectively met and an
swered by means of thorough. careful
additional correspondence. 1t is the aim
and purpose of the teachers TO come
into close personal touch with their
pupils whenever possible. and to see
that each step of the course is under
stood as taken
Due credit is given for each COM
pleted course of study, but no entrance
examinations are required except the
desire tn learn" Students are encour-
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from the interrupted interview with De
Choiseul when the king returned from
hunting. She met him with more than
accustomed demonstrations of affec-
ton, and the king took advantage OF
her amiable mood to ask the return of
the pin. : 1t was gladly surrendered.
With other heirlooms of his predeces-
sors ii passed to Louis XVI, in whose
possession il remained until chance
subverted it to another use.
Mile. de Contat. a charming actress
of the French theater, had turned the
head of the Count de Narbonne, the
spoiled child OF the royal family. She
craved possession OF the famous pin
locked in the jewel box of the king. for
fasten the letter to Susanna in the
Marriage de Figaro" which was to
have a first presentation in few
days. De Narbonne was at his wits
end to discover some way of securing
the treasure before the first perform
ance of the play. only four days dis
tant. Chance offered a solution of the
difficulty. Quadrilles were then the
fashion, and of those who took part IN
them special costume was required.
The count, by adroit questioning of NJ.
la Borde, the custodian OF the kings
cabinet, gained a fair knowledge of its
contents. and then pretended to need
diamonds with which to decorate his
coat for the quadrille at the approach
ing court ball. Louis XVI, who could
refuse nothing to De Narbonne, gave
him permission to draw upon the re-
sources of hts jewel box. After a brief
search he discovered the pin.
The count was just in time; the per-
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coat, he caught sight of the fated pin.
which was still on the flag. With it he
affixed his badge and hurried to the
Hotel de Vile.
Fate was now speeding the pin to it's
last and predestined end. At the, mo-
ment when as mayor Bailli presented
the national cocarde to Louis XVI.
there was no other way to fasten it to
the kings hat except with the historic
pin. once his property, but now des-
tined to hold In place the symbol of a
revolution that was to deprive him of
his throne and of his life.
Again the pin was lost for a long
time, when. an undertaker's assistant,
preparing for burial the body of Mira
beau, the great orator of the Reyolu-
ton, in search of something to faSten
his winding sheet found 1t I'M the
sweepings of a room at the Louvre.
Its chronology is remarkable. First
serving on the toilet of Ninon de l,Een-
clos, then to close the fichu of De Main
tenon, now In the jewel box of Louis
XVI; then to hold the plume in his hat
at his last meeting with James III. OF
England; in the wig Of the chancellor
OF France; to fasten the bouquet of
Nine. du Barry; in the Jewel box of
Louis XIV. and Louis XVI; purloined
by the Count de Narbonne; given to
Mile. Cantat; lost by her and found by
dancer and used to attach a lock OF
her hair to her lovers breast; to mend
torn flag, then hidden In the closet
of M. Bailli; then to pin the revolu-
tionary cocarde to the hat of Louis
XVI. and finally to disappear forever
in the grave OF Mirabeau
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leather case and leave the room with
them. Then fearing he would see her
she ran upstairs, leaving Doane in the
drawing room.
Doane was astounded and he protest.
ed his innocence in bitter words: but
he could not shake Margaret Barnston's
belief in his guilt
Il must have been in trance or you
must have been dreaming" he declared.
The two never referred to the subject
again. Here the story leaves THE
MoonStone" and returns to the plot OF
Foul Play"
The morning that Harold Doane
shared a pair of seagulls he first
thought Of communicating with the
outside world. Writing a note on a
piece of oiled paper with ink he had
made from black SCOT scraped from the
rocks with which he had built his fire.
place for cooking. he Enclosed the little
message in a quill and fastened 1t Sc
curely to the leg of one of the seagulls
and set 1t free. He did the same with
the other gull. Then he told Margaret
Barnston what he had done.
The seaguil carried the message
through calm winds and storm Until
one day, two weeks later, in a hurri-
cane it was blown against the mast of
the second-class cruiser Charybdis of
the British navy. The bird fiuttered to
the deck with broken wing, and a
sailor, picking it up. found Harold
Doane's note in its quill envelope.
Doane had figured out the latitude
and longitude of the island just as his
counterpart of Foul Play" had done.
and the captain of the Charybdis had
no difficulty in finding it. The Charyb-
dis carried Doane and Margaret Barns
ton to Colombo, on the island of Cey-
lon, where they finally took a P. and o.
liner for England.
Explain the Mysterious Theft
According to Foul Play" Doane
should have remained on the island
while Margaret Barnston went home
either to find evidence TO prove his in
nocence, or, failing, TO marry Make
worthy's son. as she had promised to
do. But Doane was hardly so quixotiC
as Charles Seton. He left the island
with Margaret Barnston-and she had
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do so as long as the two were on the
island together. Doane provided q
shelter for the girl and another for
himself in different part of the island.
He caught fish. shared turtles. and such
edible birds as he could find on the
island. He devised many things for her
comfort.
At first Margaret Barnston tried to
treat her former lover coldly: but by
degrees his thoughtfulness and his un-
firing energy in working to make her
comfortable, and his constant good ma
ture made their impression, and she
talked to him more freely.
The day came when she could speak
OF their former friendship in Effing-
hamShire, of the days they had spent
together, and finally of the house party
where the opals were so mysteriously
stolen from Andrew Makeworthy's cab
met of oriental curios.
Why did you treat me so coldly the
next day." demanded Harold Doane OF
her.
Il had the best of reasons" she re-
piled.
WAS it the act of friendship to turn
away from me after unjust suspicion
had began to point toward me-" he
fore you had told me you loved me and
would marry me when I had finished
college?"
1T wasn't suspicion on my part" the
girl answered sharply. If it had only
been suspicion I would have stood by
you: but I saw you steal the opalsl''
Accused Him of Mysterious Visit
Right here is where the plot of .sThe
Moonstone" enters into the story: and
from this time forward the fancies OF
Charles Reade and Wilkie Collins run
together in this modern day romance OF
real life.
Margaret Barnston insisted that or
the night of the theft of the opals she
saw Harold Doane pass her door with q
candle in his hand-followed him down
the stairway-saw him enter the draw
ing room-saw him open the door o.
Andrew Makeworthy's cabinet - saw
him take the opais from the green