Arizona republican., 1919-12-22
The Roosevelt Coffee House

He believes what Americans have sometimes suspected themselves - namely. that they do not know how to make coffee.
 The charm of coffee," says MT. Sal agar, "iS in its aroma, or essential oil, which is fully developed only by thorough roasting. The longer coffee is roasted the less caffeine and coffee tannic acid it contains Dark coffee is not necessarily strong coffee, but II has stronger aroma. To drink light-roast- ed coffee it like eating a plate of beans not sufficiently cooked.
 'So much for the roasting. Now to boil coffee, percolate coffee or to let it stand longer than thirty minutes is to make tannic acid soup instead of coffee. It is coffee so treated which causes indigestion.
 Milk and cream also have an injuri- ous effect upon coffee. They react up- on the tannic acid and thus cause in digestion. Noltaire was able to drink fifty cups of coffee a day only because he drank black coffee. I serve milk with my coffee for those who want it, because l am not running a coffee propaganda establishment. but a cof- fee house, where each patron does as he pleases. I only advise"
 Unfortunately for the public. alarm ed concerning it's digestion, however,
  and their advice is always to take milk in your coffee. They bring the coffee in one shining nickel-plated perco- lator and a supply of hot milk in an other. and deXterouSly mix the two Tn your cup before you have chance to protest that you intend to drink the beverage the way MT. SalaZar says It should be drunk. Then, if you manage to protest anyway. they look surprised and explain that the coffee is so strong that a dilution of milk is necessary. But they are New York walters, ac- customed to serving New York coffee, and know naught of the Brazilian methods.
 Resides coffee and sandwiches and nastrv the house also serves Brazilian Datties which are made Of different kinds of meat. Mir. Salazar is plan ming also to serve as a separate course an unabridged edition Of the consu- tuition of the United States. lie claims that after two or three cups of Brazil ian coffee. taken in it's most stimulat- ing forn, patrons would be able to read the Constitution with great m terest.
 This idea is also probably responsi- bIe for a pile of volumes or the En- cvclopedia Brittanica which grace the central coffee counter. When asked what they were for. the proprietor shrugged his shoulders in the Brazilian fashion and said. Well, you know coffee house is for the intellectuals-
 q see.' nodded the author of a we'll known American novel. who had asked the question T suppose we Ahheri- cans should be flattered."
 This New York coffee house is not to be the end of the new coffee era started by the Roosevelts. If 1t IS sue cessful. which it certainly promises to be. a whole chain of coffee houses VIII be established by them throughoue the country. Kermit Roosevelt has de- narted for South America with his mother, where he will arrange for di- rect shipments of coffee from Brazil to tbe warehouse of their coffee house company. and Archie Roosevelt IS II, Chicago trying to locate co1lee-house site, after which he expects to see wnal Boston and Philadelphia have to o1fer'
 The Roosevelts are not the 1irst IT. ,,,str;ous family to engage in the cof fee house business William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister Of Great Britain, was once the vice president oi a coffee-house company, and ms grace the Duke of Westminster Earls cow per and Derby, Viscount Portman ana Sir Harcourt Johnstone. M. F.. shared this distinction with him. But even these names could not add to the dig nity of England's coffee house history in which Joseph Addison. Pope, Dry den. Dr. Johnson, Boswell. David Gar rick. Sir Joshua Reynolds and Ol1ver Goldsmith all played brilliant parts
 America's early coffee houses aiso sheltered great men, but their nlstors has not been so carefully recorded There is an old building standing al Broad and Water streets here in New York which was famous coffee house ;,, 17lS but it is now in the hands oi