Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-12-28
ORIGIN OF COFFEE HABIT
CONSTANTINOPLE USED
IT 365 YEARS AGO
Liked IL 80 Well That Meccn and Cairo
Were Induced To Try
Ii Ont,

Three hundred and Sixty-tSc wears
ago the mrs; coffee house i'll the world
was opened at conStantinopIc. and o75
years ago tho HRS; English coffee house
sent forth its aroma ut oxford. Aud in
he brief space. Of thre centuries. how
IN" coffee drinking habi, has spread,
tn" whole world drinks it cnor-
NOUS quantities OF IL. says writer in
American Cookery
The Year before the great war Ger
many drank $4,000, 900 pounds OF cot
zee. while France consumed in the coal
hlaCk form Tn hat Frenchman loves.
states surpassed them all as usual. by
i-u'pinG down. IN true American fash
ion nearly "ao.ooo.Oo0 ponds.
For Il, least a hslt century. however.
The habit Of coifc" drinhinG had a
StruIEi. inr existence /; seems that
he custom OF using the beverage had
its origin in Ahyssinia About 1900
q Mutt, II Adcn. named Gcnalctiic.
requested those fanatic churchncn OF
me i"St. III" derv'Shes. 10 dtmk !; in
order that ihcH isht not relax ia the
,ohS and weird ceremonies az their
The derry she's took TO i; like , cat to
lion so hcartily AMI widsiy tm w!t%,n
q decade, the habit had spread TO Nee
"a and Cairo. In f!ct, il grow 50 dan
S"mhly OF Mohammcdan thcologians
led - 'ntoNiratiou. and Was. therefore
tvu' rJrE 10 the Koran.
sultan becomes Fiend.
l:G. .ncSc wise guardians OF the .aiLn
n.a occorn" !, coffee .icnd.'' and Wien
h" called together srothcr council OF
thcologiauS. THESE gentlemen knew ex-
actly wl.t I" do They reconrmc1,.-
ed coffee as a gift from Allah. And
rvcryhody wanted cup Thus i hap
pcned that some entcrfr!sinS TURK,
opened ne worlds first cofiec houss N
Gons;anl!nopi. in the fan o: 1854
Evidently. however. these resorts be
came entirely too popular for til. riff
RAD az the town as We'll Tho -Four
loud was tho cry ~ the Mohammcdan
churehm"n against The places. Late in
the sixteenth century the thColOEiif.S
once more demanded ia" sNtcrminit!on
OF tho beverage because the Koran con
d.nn"d tue use Of 'coat THIS proyes
that the Turks took their black. The
MTtti OF Constantiuup." Saw tn, logic
o: TIC ;heoinSians argument, and
closed every shop and hotel dispe n ing
uhs, happened The Nuts prompt
" lost ms ioh. and his successor de-
Glazed mat Gohrc- j; MOI roasted black.
Mas certainly not "o"i. and therefore
the drinking o: coffee made from good
hro"n berries MAS not contrary to
jhc Koran.
~ the voas; or Europe the rfch
oGor of the coffee pot crcpt, aud the
English shifted ii rom afar and with
relish !, WAS bcin. served in London
.aI$ in Shakcspcare's time not in cups.
but in shallow bowls so that one long
asked for :, dish OF coffee. Evidently
the students NJ Oxford University
needed something 10 stimulate them in
;hrir studies, for il was in that old
town. n l5io trat the first genuine
English coffee house WAS established
what q world OF romance and liter
AIRY History centerS about those Eng
iiSh coffee houses. They spread All
Over ia" ISLAND. London alone IS said
to have had 1000 in Dryden's tirnr
Some. such as WHIPS Coffee House will
go down in The annals OF letters as
the gathering places OF the most bril-
liari wits and drama;ists and poets
Ia" British einpir" ever produced.
in these cafes. with their open fronts
ia summe: and their huge log fires
u winter. one might have found Dry