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LOADING BANANAS In COSTA RIcK

from England-only they happen not to.
Last year some of them came from as
far away as northern China, and, having
made the trip successfully, they We're fol-
lowed by other importations- this year.
Most of the English walnuts come from
southern Spain and France, although
many are now raised in the United
States. The almonds are Il great export
crop of Spain, and most of those on the
American tables come from the countries
Of southern Earope and from the island
of Sicily, which is a great contributor
also. of filberts..
Brazil Costa RIGA, Mexico, Cuba and
other southern lands have been shipping
coffee to the United States for so long
that we hardly realize what d great i'm
port business it is to SUPPLY the daily
breakfast table. The raising of coffee
is one of the great industries of tropical
and subtropical countries. So we'll has
the Brazilian republic organized its han
ding of the trade that ii is able today to
control the coffee market of the world
by holding its crop i'm storage and mar
keting it in definite quantities each
month.
The abundance of bananas in the shops
of the United States is a development of
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can fig buildings and fig cookies have
been pouring in from Asia Minor for
many weeks. The crop was ripe about
August 10. Night and morning the peas
ants and orchard owners worked under
the trees, picking up the figs that had
dropped, and carrying them to the
"serghi,' or drying ground, where they
lay exposed to the heat of the sun for
five or six days
The figs journeyed from the orchards
in goats hair bags woven willow
baskets, strapped on the backs of camels,
to the nearby villages, where they We're
dumped into the little "depots.' Here
they We're graded and mixed. put into the
goats hair bags again, and loaded into
the little freight cars railroad
wagons as they are known, to be trans
ported to Smyrna.
AT Smyrna these same figs that we are
now eating with such relish We're thrown
into bazaar. Turkish commission men
bid for them. and carried them away in
the goats hair bags to the khan" or
packing house, where they were dumped
and sorted. cleaned, steamed, scalded and
packed for the American market
Some of the Turkish khans are models
Of scientific development. The fig growers
and shippers have had to fight the dread
fig moth which has ruined a great part
or the crop in years past. Many of the
packing houses have elaborate steaming
plants and scalding rooms, where the
packed figs are treated before they are
ottpPNu' 81 tiI"t al OdHScE Oh SpOl1l1S
will be removed. One enterprising Tur-
kish experimental tried the vacuum
methoPon the figs to get rid of some of
the larvae of the fig moth. He put a
package of figs into the vacuum chamber
September -. but October 8 the larvae
according to official report, Cooked very
sick, but were all living and October 81
they were still alive. So the vacuum
method was officially abandoned in Tur-
key.
English walnuts must assuredly come
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sacramental sllrines of pacifism. ITALY
has forty peace associations, all with re-
sounding names, such as the Pale mo
''Pia Mobile Compagnie della Pace,
the Milan "Lega della F'ratellanza, Pace.
q Liberia" and many others And
Observation-Disclosures is the ark OF
the covenant of pacitist internatiOnalsm.
At Berne are the International Copyright
Bureau. the international INDUSTRIAL
Property Bureau, the World .'ustal
Union and more. Geneva first saw mod
fied-on paper-the horrors of war. and
finally Berne's greatest glory is the pos
session of the Permanent international
Bureau of Peace" This bureau of y
is the greatest, thing OF lis kind on eartl.
but when a cynic remarked that the
bureau was permanent, while the peace
was not. he hit the truth.
The bureau organizes for united action
no less than 1S4 head peace associations,
with 600 affiliations. Nobody would ever
think there We're so many peace aSSocia-
tons, did not constant wars draw atten-
ton to the fact. The total incomes and
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recent years. The growth of the banana
trade here has been followed by a rapid
development of the growing business in
Costa Rica and other Central American
and West Indian lands. When the ba-
mana had to be rushed to market after
it ripened. and before it spoiled, the trade
was virtually a lottery, and the grower
and shipper were more than likely to
lose, but the refrigerator steamship lines
that now run an almost daily fruit service
from Central America to the United
States have completely reformed this
trade and made bananas one OF the
cheapest foods in the market.
The pineapple comes from Jamaica,
Cuba, Hawaii or some other warm shore
The vanilla, or other essence that fla
vors many dishes, is likewise a product
of the tropics. California fights with
Sicily for the lemon trade of the eastern
part of the United States and Sicily usu-
ally wins.
Do you start your Christmas dinner
with caviar? If it is imported it comes
from the sturgeon that swarm the waters
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Of western Russia, and has been care
fully packed in brine, brought to the
United States and boxed after it gets
here. On the other hand, it is not un-
likely that it comes from the sturgeon Of
the northern waters of the United States,
along the Rainy river and the Lake of
the Woods.
The olives are from sunny Italy, or
Spain, Greece, Palestine or some other
Mediterranean land They are picked
green for the American tables and packed
in brine. In many sections of the olive
growing lands almost no olives are ham
died in this way. The crop is allowed
to ripen, and used exclusively for olive
oil. AS the fruit drops to the ground it,
is permitted to remain in piles until
somewhat softened. then it is taken to
the mills, where the pits are removed
and the pulp pressed for the better
grades of edible oil.
There is another quality of olive oil,
known as commercial oil. used for soaps
and grease, but there is no danger of
getting it into the salad dressing. 1t is
made from olives that have been allowed
to partially rot, and the olive pits are
ground with the pulp. The oil has
rancid taste and can under no circum-
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Penuri0uS Policies.
COMMISSIONER EDWARDS OF

COMMISSIONER EDWARDS of New
~ York, discussing the penurious policy
OF a western city, said to a reporter:
lit reminds me OF Grimes. Grimes, you
know. was a rich Pike county farmer.
One dreadful winter day he was discov-
cred on a lonely mountain path digging
away like mad I'm the frozen snowdrifts.
Though IL was zero weather. Grimes was
stripped TO his undershirt, and amid the
white snow clouds flying from his shovel
he could be seen all red with effort and
dripping with perspiration.
What in the world is he DOING a
traveller asked, as he looked with awe al
the great holes and tunnels cut by Grimes
in the snow.
Fish said bystandsr. he's lost .
nickel
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peace apostle; Emile Arnaut chief of the
French peace society; Moneta, the peace
Savonarola of Milan: Baron Descamps,
the st. Paul of peace; Frederick Passy,
Edwin D. Mead. homme de 1ettres. Bos-
ton, Mass; his bighness Prince Ria
Mira Khan. and even IA Prussian lieu
tenant colonel
To it are affiliated the American Peace
Society, the "Mohonk arbitration confer
ence'' and all Italy's forty peace So
cieties. from imperial Rome's down to
Bargas and Todi's, for happily Italy's
peace movement is particularly strong.
In short, the permanent international
bureau of peace at Berne is most praise
worthy. 1t has only one defect. 1t can
not keep the peace. In this there is MOTH
ing new. and the cause is always the
same. All Europe's peace societies are
fanatically sincere against war in gen.
eral, but when a particular war breaks
out their action depends upon whether
their country is the warrior or not.
The British peace society condemned
every war for twenty years. but when the
Boer war broke out it approved of its
governments attitude. And that is what
has led to trouble between the Italian
q
The bureau and it's non-Italian members,
even down to his highness Prince RIA
Mira Khan, agree that the Italian war
against Turkey is wicked and that Italy
is sinner. But the Societa Italiana del
la Pace of Milan. the Associations per
rArbtrato per la Pace Internazionale,
the Cora Fratres, and all other Italian
societies agree that though wars in gen.
eral are vicious and aboninable, this par
ticular war against Turkey is righteous,
admi BILE and glorious.
And on this basis began a wordy
slaughter compared with which the mu-
tual ferocities of Caneva and Fetni Bey
are salon courtesies. The Italian peace
societies find themselves arrayed against
all Europe. Ii is the permanent bureau
and its secretary, NJ. Gobat, which rep
resent Europe. The Italians have two
II. Moneta, who is president of the Fed
Grafton OF Italian Peace Societies." lives
at Milan and issues a frenetic pacifist
organ known as La Vita InternaZion-
ale. Next comes Signor the Count An
gelo de Gubernatis. president of the I'm
ternational Union of Rome He is IL
brilliant orientalist and has a particular
horror of bioodshed when any one ex-
cept Italy sheds it.
Until about the first of October Signor
MOneta and Count Gubernatis agreed
with tho Berne bureau (of which they are
members) that all wars were wrong and
reprobate But when their own country
rushed into war Signor Moneta and the
count and all the peace societies Of
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The OYSTER FLEET
In FROM THE BED

lean markets. So We're chickens eggs.
cheese and a score of other truly Amer
lean things
The oranges that roll around the house
come, of course. from Florida or Califor-
mia. But do they? Jamaica sends thou
sands OF crates of del cious oranges to the
United States every year. Even Mexico
has through freight service occasionally
to Chicago, and sends sometimes over
sixty carloads of its oranges into the
northern city. Perhaps your oranges were
sorted over by Americans, in Florida
or California orange grove. but it is not
at all unlikely they We're the product of
a foreign soil and paid a tariff duty into
Uncle Sans strong chest before they
were admitted at Americas outer door.
= x
Glance around the table today or any
day of the week. The salt probably comes
from Michigan or New York but We got
thousands of tons last year from Europe.
Where did the pepper begin is career?
II it is red pepper. cayenne, it may have
come from South America or some of the
West Indies, Perhaps even from some of
our own southern states. But for the
black pepper that We use freely every
day, with scarce a thought of it's history,
We must go to the other side of the
world: to those fascinating lands of Cey-
lon, Java and the Straits Settlements;
Singapore and S am.
Java alone sends the United States more
than 3,W0,ND pounds of BLACK pepper
each year, 800 tons-enough to fill 2JO
ordinary freight cars. From Singapore
comes some of the finest black pepper in
tEs world. 1t is far above the United
States standard for pepper.
When the kitchen cabinets begin to dis
gorge spices for the plum pudding and
other holiday dainties it is a wonderfully
travelled aggregation that gathers on the
kitchen table There are cloves that may
have come from as far away as Zanzibar
the United States imports great quanti-
ties from there. The cinnamon halls from
Ceylon or the Pacific Islands, or Java or
perhaps from Hongkong. All of these
lands, together with scores of other ports
throughout the orient and the tropical
States with spices. Jamaica sent out over
q million and half pounds of allspice
to the world this year, and great portion
of it came to the United States.
The oysters that stuff the turkey or
goose. or that fill out some other part of
the Christmas feast. probably came from
along the Atlantic shore of the United
States. The oyster boats have been out
for several months now, extra busy as the
holiday season was drawing near. From
the principal oyster ports of the Atlantic
the shipments 60 to every part of the
1t is one truly American food
Of which there is little importation.
X !;
OF the fruits that grace the ia ble, and
that furnish filters in between meals,
there are few that are not imported In
out of this class. for no country attempts
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clared that though they still hated war
as much as ever, this war must be re-
garded as a genuine service to peace.
Naturally the permanent bureau was
somewhat shocked by this reasoning.
The peace societies. before they knew
that war was coming, had appropriately
chosen Rome for great demonstrative
congress, and intended to begin this con-
gress September p last. Naturally the
congress, had to be abandoned lowing to
the sanitary condition of Rome. The
secretary of the permanent bureau at
Berne, NJ Cobalt smelled in this piece
of Italian treason. and addressed to
Count de GubernatiS an indignant pro-
test. accusing him of knowing all the
time about Italian plans for war; and
calling the action of Italy IAN odious at
tempt" Count Gubernatis retorted in
kind
Thereupon Senator Lafontaine marched
forward and sent Count Gubernatis pro-
test that I'VE cannot listen to ItalyS
claim to civilize Tripoli when she has not
civilized Calabrfa, and has left Sicily and
Sardinia to rot in misery"
Dear colleague and friend" replied
Count Gubernatis, The ancient Romans
owned TripOli-"
They also owned Gaul." retored Lafon-
tame. Are you. therefore, going to re-
conquer France?"
Meantime, other pacifists joined in. and
insult worthy of the Berne bureau,
which is friendly with Turkish butchers"
was the fetOrI made 10 Ld1Ontalne re-
marks about Calabria.
Industrious friend" wrote Gubernatis,
Gin Italy every one applauds the war ex-
cept the anarchists
Your letter desolates me-" replied La
fontaine.
And the pacifist press printed the cor
respOndence with little notes about lingo
fever" 'ferocious Turk" 'Mussulman
fanatic and paid scribe of a hyper
critical pacifism.'' And finally out came
another issue of La Vita InternaZionale,
in which Signor Moneta explained that
he was a stronger pacifist than ever;
but that in this particular war he was
for war to the knife:
why not be frank? Although friend
of peace. my old soldiers heart throbs
with ineffable rapture at the vision of
monious animation of my native country
in its g.or Gus struggle. A spectacle VERT
tably comforting! For although the peace
feeling as L have explained elsewhere.
daily becomes more and more general, We
live nevertheless in an age in which
moral and political prestige depends en-
tlrely on force s' And a few
pages farther on he printed paragraph:
THE peace movement in South America
makes comforting progress. In Uru-
.-tay = 80
And the permanent International bureau
Of peace at Berne was much distressed
at all this. It explained that the only
nation whose pacifists could disinterest-
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Italy discovered that, though all wars
arc wrong and reprobate, there are eX-
ceptions; and that the war which Italy
has entered upon is striking eXcep-
ton. And the pacifst organ La
Vita Internazionale suddenly became IL
mouthpiece of the Roman war office; and
published inspiring articles which began
''Secondo lie REGGIE elementari della
stragegia" to the elementary
rules of strategy'-explaining that Gen.
Caneva should attack the Turks without
delay and wipe them out of existence.
But, as the permanent bureau at Berne
was preparing an angry protest against
Italy'S conduct, while the Italian pacifiSt
members were all thirsting for Turkeys
blood, naturally an autumn campaign was
inevitable. 1t is going on today On one
side are the pacifist Italian generals
Moneta and Gubernatis; on the other
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Concerning
Well-knOWn PEOPLE.
The Birds Christmas Tree.

THE old Swedish custom of dressing a
1 tiny tree for the birds is obtaining
more and more in this country, and moth
ing is more charming in significance or
will give greater pleasure to shut-ins or
the Youngsters. The branch of green need
not be especially symmetrical. but it
should be well laden with tiny red apples,
bits of suet, little open baskets with
grain. tiny bones and nubbins or ears OF
corn. all of which viii find abundant ap-
probation from our little feathered
friends. even if no more valuable to the
country at large than sparrows.
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pacifist pashas Cobalt of Berne and Sen
ator Lafontane of Brussels.
I4afontaine is one of the ablest mem
berS of the Berne bureau Moneta fired
the first gun with a dithyramb on the
war in the pacifist Vita Internazionale
and hymned in the style of Homer the
glories of this particular war. He eX-
planned that it was a peaceful war as the
Turks would not fight; and that. even if
they did fight, the fi2hting of the Italians
was really peace fighting, and only SEEM
ed like war: and when contributor
complained that Italy did not first appeal
to The Hague he published footnote
about the contributors Intelligence, and
proved conclusivcly that appealing to
The Hague is really the worst kind of
war, and that going to war is much more
pacific. And all the other Italian peace
societies initiated Signor Moneta, and de-
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The japanese found out years ago that
they could take the pucker out of their
big persimmons by allowing them to stay
a few days in barrels from which sake"
the native rice wine. had been emptied.
While the American persmmon does not
lose its pucker until il is dead ripe and
soft, the Japanese method took out the
pucker while the persimmons remained
firm, and would keep for some time.
American agricultural experts tried in
vain to discover the secret of the sake
barrel The Japanese did not know what
quality it was of the empty wine barrel
that did the work. It was manifestly
impossible for this country to import
enough sake barrels to make CONNER
cial growing of puckerless persimmons a
success: the Agricultural Department
set about solving the problem, and sue
ceeded. Instead of the fumes of the rice
wine, carbonic acid gas is now used, with
a coating of starch over the persimmons
to keep the skins from cracking. Big
perS mmonS crown in the southern states
have been SO treated and can now be
kept for weeks. Commercial growing of
perSimmonS is expected to develop rap
idly.
The roll of the nations is only half
called. The orient. Europe. Africa. South
and Central America, the Pacific islands
and the lands of the arctic have all con-
tributed their part to the American
Christmas feast. RomanceS are wrapped
up in the sugar. the cocoa, the tea. the
fruit, nuts, salads and dainties of almost
every American home. So well has COM
merce been organized, so thoroughly do
the commercial agents of the various ma
tions cover other lands and provide for
the exchange of commodities, that the
average American crossroads store ham
dies the product OF a dozen lands.
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he Barefoot Girls of Paris

formed little object. Toes which should be
as tapered and rosy as the slimnest fin
gers. have been made knobby bloodless
or apoplectic, overlapp ng. underwriting
this toe atrophied, that toe sprawling un-
symmetrically The nails have been
neglected, overgrowing, with the skin
broken, distorted, insrowing, undercurv-
ing, backgrowing, to the horror of the
pedicure-himseif a poor relation of the
bright and beauteous manicuriSt.
For ten years the mothers of Paris have
been correcting these faults in secret.
Their growing daughters feet have not
been Cinderellas. they have had all the
care of the hands. Never has a tight
shoe compressed them. Massage and ma
nipuiation by profound ANTAGONISTS have
developed each toe as Shapely as a finger.
Stockings with separate toes have pre-
vented the little rosy nlarvels from press
ing together and inJuring ca other The
muscles, nerves and skin have been de-
veloped, so that these beautiful little feet
have much mobility and sensitiveness.
You know how that slight pressure of
the hand may say mitch. Well, so with
these feet.
X x
The barefoot girl of Paris wears jew
els on her toes. and sometime even lit
tie golden bells to make music wherever
she goes; this, of course only in the Sc
cret privacy of her own boudoir and the
society of other young girls like herself
Barefoot parties have become frequent,
where the young debutantes can laugh
and lark among themselves. And as the
foot is. after ALL quite as honorable a
member as the hand. certain 5 o'clock
teas. pink-lit with fairy lamps, have
shown white and rosy glimpses of the
BAREFOOT girl to the dazzled men of their
world The barefoot girl may not have
come to stay. but she Is at least in Paris
On a. visit. STERLING UEILIG
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cd FACE" Going Strong
L in the international
Organizations so Long as
There Wasn't Any War
But When Italy Invaded
Tripoli, Bombs Burst in
Berne Also-Italian Members
Are in Battle Array-Italy's
Peace Folk Say Their War Is
a Triumph for Peace-But
the Other Pacihsts Can't
See 1t.
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organization of their own. Probably it
will be on the more reasonable, elastic
arrangement that henceforth the peace
societies will propaganda for peace only
until war breaks out, and that then They
will not go worrying and spelling the
warmakers' Joy.
Eternal peace-Nhen no one is on the
warpath.' will be the motto OF the peace
societies of the future.
Copyright, 1911. by Curtis Brown,
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special Correspondence of The Star.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
PARIS, December IA, 1911.
T7HE style is said to have come by way
of the daughter of a semi-oriental
ambassador Others give credit to the
Persian fetes inaugurated last summer by
Paul Poiret tne great dressmaker, and
the Persian tendency in fashions that fol-
lowed thereon. Neither is exact.
The barefoot girl has been growing up
in Paris these ten or fifteen years past.
She has been growing UP silently. mod
estly, unperceived like violet in q lit
tie nook. Nobody knew her except her
mamma. That Is to say, for ten or fifteen
years past mothers in Partisan society
have been giving immense care to the
feet OF their growing daughters. Having
watered the plant with their tears and
warmed 1t with their smiles. the flower
now at last bursts forth, to the surprise
and delight of all.
1 refer to their feet, their beautiful lit
tie feet, as beautiful as any other girl $
hand, like a rosy little shell, nails ike
pearls, round and shapely. whose hghtest
touch is a careSS.
* 4
Not every one can be a barefoot girl
Our feet, Partisan artists have never
ceased to complain, have been the most
abused poor relations, so to speak, of our
pampered hands. The hand has been
manicured, aired. gloved. summed, brought
up in freedom and honor, decorated with
rings. admired, praised, kissed and shaken
The foot. poor little Cinderella, has been
relegated to the dark chimney corner SO
to speak, of the shoe. 1t has been pinched
6eformed and neglected. 1t has grown up
often pathetic monstrosity. always Il de-
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edl3- and effectively condemn the war
was Italy, and that all the Italian paci-
fists had become Sanguinary mil tarlsts
But it went on steadily issuing protests
against the war, and NJ. Gobat repeated,
provocativeIy, his ''Italys od!ous at
tempt BY this time the war spirit of
the Italion pacifists had heated to boil
ing point and now it is announced that
ali the Italian members of the permanent
international bureau of peace of Berne
threaten to secede, and will form a peace