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pean capital in which coffee was
drunk was Paris, where it was
brought from the orient in 1863 by
Soliman Aga. the Turkish ambas-
sador, who brewed it in the presence
Of Louix XIV. That princely monarch,
willing to try almost anything once,
tasted and found it good. Having thus
won royal favor. coffee became very
popular in the French capital and
within a few years there were hun
dreds Of places where it was served
to the public. One of these was the
Procopio Cafe where Voltaire and his
cronies were won't to foregather.
Louis XIV developed so strong
liking for the new beverage. which
stimulated and cheered him without
making him drunk" that the Burgo-
master of Amsterdam. seeking to win
his favor, presented him with coffee
tree, which was placed in the Jardin
des Plantes of Paris and treated with
the utmost care. From this tree. ac-
cording to Julio Rossignon. are de-
rived all the coffee trees now culti-
waited in America
Coffee crossed the English channel
into London very soon after its intro
duction in France-some authorities
say before. By 1875 there were more
than 5000 public places where it was
served. Charles II closed them all,
and the check which coffee received
in his reign was SO severe that even
to this day 1t Is poor second IA
popular favor among the English to
tea.
The coffee tree originated in Abys-
sinia sand derives It's name from the
city ;of Kana. From there IT was
transp1anted to Yemen or Arabia
Felix, where 1t took root firmly and
spread to many sections of the globe.
In 1873 1t was estimated that tho cof-
fee exports from Mocha exceeded five
million pounds annually.
X y y i
THE plant called by botanists
1 "coffee arabica' is generally
classified among the rubiaceas. In its
natural state. when left to grow at
will, the coffee tree reaches q height
Of from fourteen to eighteen feet.
Under cultivation itsis not ordinarily
allowed to grow to such . height .be-
cause Of the dimculty OF cultivating
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ton. was about as follows:
United States ................ S.tO0.0OO bags
Rest Of world. ld................. s.SOO,0OO hags
Total. IL, 500, 600 bags
The per capita consumption by
Americans in 1919 was 8.S pounds.
In 1920 it was 1877 pounds.
Three -fourths of all coffee grown
in the world comes from Brazil. and
two thirds from the state of Sac
Paulo alone. By far the greater part
Of the Brazilian crop finds. Its way
into the United States. and that nee
essarily makes for closer CONNER
cial relationship with Brazil than
with any other Latin American re-
public.
This relationship has been both in
innate and pleasant, and once the
United States decided it no longer
was possible to remain out OF the late
war, Brazil unhesitatingly aligned
herself with US. enhancing the pres
tige Of the United States throughout
Latin America.
The near monopoly which Brazil
ians have had of the worlds coffee
supply never has tempted them to
demand extortionate prices for their
product. They have been satisfied
with reasonable profits year in and
year out. Conditions usually have
been such that they have had no din
Guilty in getting that reasonable
profit. Exceptional circumstances,
however, in three instances have
threatened the Brazilian coffee indus
try with serious injury. II not total
ruin. The first crisis came in the
season Of -1so6-1so7. when Brazilian
production alone totaied 20.00o.000
bags Of coffee, while the worid's con-
sumption at that time was but H.
o0o, 900 bags. Other countries also
harvested. bountifuI coffee crops that
season, and the trade was confronted
! with such an immense surplusage
stored in the warehouses. of every
country that black ruin seemed. to
face all.
To throw these great stores of cof-
fee upon the markets of the United
States and Europe at price far be-
low the cost Of production would
have wrecked Brasirs greatest In
dustry. So. thet best minds: Of the
country busied themselves with ways
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State in Brazil of Coffee for American Tables

and means to remedy the situation:
The vaiorization plan was the re-
suit. This plan has been widely
criticised yet universally admired
even by those who assailed it. The
"Taubate agreement" which formed
the base of the plan, obliged the con-
tracing states: to sell their coffee at
not less than a. given price. to pre-
vent expectation Of grades below type
seven; to commence propaganda work
abroad to increase coffee consump-
ton: to collects surtaX OF three
francs a bag on all exports. and to
limit the planting Of new fields to
coffee. A clause which was added
later provided that the surtax pro-
ceeds should be held by the federal
government and used for the amor
tization of the loans to be negotiated.
THE original agreement was not
placed into operation by the fed
eral government. owing to Difficult
ties which arose. The state Of Sac
Paulo faced the situation alone.
adopted the valorization plan, bor-
rowed money at home and abroad
wherewith to finance it. and her cof-
fee fazendas were saved.
The success of this operation was
SO striking that when. a little less
than a year ago. Rrazilians found
themselsef Aga::. getting much less
for their coffee than IL re<t them to
grow it, they once more resorted 20
valorization. This time American
importers were less hostile to the
plan than when 1t first was tried.
Experience had shown them that they
had nothing to fear fromavalorization.
Some opposition developed, however.
and the Bra1ilian commercial attache,
Sebastiao Sampaio. set himself the
task Of dissipating all objections by
outlining the critical situation OF the
industry in, Brazil and the absolute
necessity for a profit, even though
that profit should be small. He sought
TO demonstrate anew that under the
workings OF the valorization plan
American commercial interests could
not be damaged: indeed, they would
be protected. In both attempts he
was successful.
The coffee situation, not only in
Brasil but in the entire world. was
very Thoroughly gone into by 1S.
90 sCobtIpued on lIsighfhktage,, ssz
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are being revived. and Uncle Sam is
going before the peoples Of the world
with motion picture films and say.
Here you can see the real truth
about American manufacturing plants
and the way the operatives in those
plants. in the factories and mills and
mines and shops spend their days.
Personally, as a nation, l guarantee
that these are true pictures OF how
American goods are produced"
This greatest trade promotion drive
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BY JOHN DUNCAN PAGE.

BY JOHN DUNCAN PAGE.
|Ew Of US who drink our morn
L. ing coffee with such relish re-
alize that once coffee was
a looked upon as device OF
the devil.''s .t..
A good many centuries ago there
was a governor of Mecca, Kair-Bey
by name, who also was high dig
nitary in the Mohammedan church.
On entering the mosque one evening
he observed groups of worshipers
near the entrance drinking cachua
(coffee), and upon inquiry learned
they might be stimulated for an
all-night session Of prayer.
The good Kair-Bey was horrified
by this. He found it hard to believe
that those of the true faith should
require any stimulant for the per-
formance Of so simple a duty All
Moslems. he thought, who set out to
pray through the night should be
in such q state Of spiritual exaltation
that the very thought of artificial
stimulation should be. abhorrent to
them. Surely, this must be device
of the evil one,' he said, ito beguile
the faithful into the dependence
upon the berry from the coffee tree
for wakefulness.. rather than their
religious fervor.'' He gave strict
orders that no more coffee drinking
should be INDUCED in near the tenn
DE, and would have forbidden Its
use anywhere in Mecca, but was
overruled by the sultan.
4 4 ~
DAIR-BEY was not alone in his op-
- position to coffee. The Moham-
medan priests Of the city Of Con-
stantinople regarded the steadily In
creasing number Of coffee shops with
marked disfavor. They pronounced
the roasted coffee bean to be a spe-
cfes Of charcoal, and caused all pub
lie places in the city which sold IT
TO be closed. So effective were the
arguments OF the priests that their
followers. but lately willing patrons
Of the coffee inns, turned to and
attacked the places where It had
been sold. wrecking them and de-
stroying tha coifes-brewing apns-
tatuS. -, -,
After censtantinopls, the hrst Euro
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and harvesting the crop from the
taller plants. In India the plants are
restricted to five feet: in Brazil the
limit varies from-six to ten feet. The
roots are thin and numerous and grow
deep in tho earth;, one central root
grows straight down.. .:.l e5,:.s,s
I From twelve to sixteen buds apDsar
lathe axilla Of each leaf. Of ashealthy
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Mines Bureau Domestic Commerce
w Showing Nations How the United States Its Products
An Important of the World Mke-Drummers Sch Now
Movie Reel Tin Canes Coal Mining and Asbestos Products In Films
How the Pictures Are Made and Who Pays for 1heUce Sam Attends
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the trees. This occurs two or three
times before the buds ripen. Heavy
rainfall will injure the crop during
the early growth Of the buds but
after, they have, become we'll formed
and are on the road to maturity the.
water, washes the petals; and Dis
closes numerous .pistils, o. fruit
germs on which all depends- hens
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the pistfls. look fresh and have whit
ish tips the fazendeiro looks forward
to bountiful harvest, but when
black spot is noticed he knows the
crop will be a failure.
{ Il 4
IA MERiCANS are the greatest coffee
: =. = drinkers In. tho world. The
worlds coffee consumption. for. 1921;
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coffee tree. These buds come In the
spring, bloom quickly and exude an
exquisite perfume The Brazilian
fasendeirn tplantation owner) who
awakens one morning to find his cof-'
fec trees In full bloom, two or thrse
morning iatsr win see the, ground
covered with 1.-the, beautiful snow;
winter snowers.w which havssfalien from:
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can be distributed, each film carries
the o. K. Of the United States govern
ment-an assurance to the world that
it is true picture Of that particular
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according to statistics furnished by
the Brazilian embassy in Washing
ton, was about as follows:
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TEw Of US who drink our morn
IL ing coffee with such relish re-
alize that once coffee was
- looked upon as a device OF
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l sSEA2TsoH HOrfE pROBLEfGS

Dear MEs- Thompson: I am a girl IS years of age. | live in d small town with my folks. In this town they give dances and I go to them and dance well, but none of the fel- lows seem to want to take me to them, but they all want to bring me home. Do you think it proper for me to let them do h
 They call me up and want me to go for azItOmotdle rides, but they never take me to any public place of amusement. I am a good entertainer when I am out with them. but they never take me out the second time.
 I have no steady friend I could go out with, it seems hard for me to get a nice feHoEN BROWN EYES.
 Do the girls who consider them selves to be of the best families in the town attend the dances unescort- ed In some towns everyone turns out to such affairs and it is consid cred all right for girls to go together, but in other towns the girls who are care full of their regulations do not go. : You will have to consider the place in which you live.
 I would not advise you to go to dances uneScorted. It makes it easy for boys to go with you and they do not want to go to the trouble of call ing for you. I would also not advise you to accept their invita- tions to go automobile riding. unless you go with the boys a long time and know them well and your parents know-them well. By accepting such an invitation from a mere acquaintance you give the impression that you don't care what you do. The next time a boy asks to take you riding. tell him that you would like to have him cali at your home. but you may not go rid
  ance-
 When q girl gets the reputation of being promiscuOus spooner and when she permits familia rites the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-14
THE SHRINKING STOMACH

Now you are off on the big adven- lure.
 If you are overweight. your stom- aach has long been used to too large an amount of food for your needs, so it is over-sized and distended. When You have really eaten enough for your Requirements, it is still habby and Sease, with cayernous spaces yawning g eer more.
 .. is an affectionate sort of or 1-h, the stomach. It likes to em- brace its food closely and cuddIe it on alT sides, and when the proper amount comes it sends up a message, --enoug1l." If you are wise, you heed its word and desist.
 But you have not been wise many, many times, and many times said stomach has had to streach itself to accomm odate your unwiseness. At times it has been so over-crowdled that it hasn't had enough room and it pressed up on the chest region to see if you snad a heart and your heart has whansed back pretty quick 1y a protest against being crowde ed like that Not infrequently heart gets so peeved that it stops work, and somebody begins harp lessons prema- turely.
 So, you see, the stomach has grad 1IaIly become distended, and the more you eat, the more you want.
 The stomach grows by what you feed on, and your appetite grows for what it feeds on. Remember those words, I sha3I refer to them again.
 Now what 10 do? This. Let over worked, industrious stomach know that you have seen the error of your ways and give ii a chance to get back to normal. In other words, shrink it.
 The best way that I know of aside from fast, is to go on a liquid diet for s1 least three days The stomach has a, chance in that time to get set in its ways. In fact, one could go on q liquid diet for a much longer period than that with benefit, but tt is not necessary.
 Now what happens? For three days stomach has been hunting some thing to cuddle: il has contracted and contra ct ed to find som ething to wra D
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young souls. could ever <strain" away the tear that sprang to the eye? Or
 by any method known to man, force
 a. girl to keep back her laughter or
 anger at certain moments.
 "Its no use at all, Mss Stephanie,
 I simply never could be sure of my
 self no matter how hard you try to
 make me realize that ladies do not
 'romp,' nor cross their legs nor shout
 with laughter and above all expre
 their secret thoughts, particularly the
 un1attering ones to a roomfun of
 people. Pm liable to break all of
 your commandments at any time. I'm
 just born that way, I reckon. Or
 maybe like Topsy T 1es' growed that
 way!''' This came out after a trying
 lesson with the punctfl1ous Miss Stephanie, who had helped polish off so many of tour incest girls in We'll ington- Poor Ilona had taken an aversion to this super cultivated little woman from the start She dis1iked her affected manners and ceased to wonder about the girls f1l Wel1ing- ton when she realized that this had been their teacher.
 '"There,' with a thuuderous Sneeze.
 What could you possibly recommend for that. I wonder ?'' Another, and Stephanie's disgust. This new pupil of hers was anything but 1ikeaible without doubt. She was all that was most coarse and noisy.
 I'm feeling wretched and so must go to my room I think said the ire pressible I1ona with a. weary look in her eyes, and she had bowed herself out.
 Gro Be Continued)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-14
HONA SEEKS FREEDOM

For the rest of the day, after her conversation with Madame. Wilbur. I1ona, was very quiet and thoughtful. She said but little at dinner that eve- ming and made an excuse to retire to her own room as soon as possible.
 The past week had been @ feverish whirI of shopping tours and lessons, and finding a teacher for French, one for music. another for gymnastics and one for dancing. In fact it seemed to the bewildered girl that there was no end to the amount of knowledge and social graces a girl was supposed to acquire. They surely did eat into ones day. Never before. she realized.
 what a free day to oneself really meant.
 Once safely in her own room she and dream unmolested, throw off the heavy blanket of "composure'' in
 which she was wrapped all day long, for the first great lesson taught her had been boise and composure, com posture of features, hands. limbs and state of mind. No really welIborn girl ever permitted herself to show her true; state of emotions, no matter of what nature they were, in either her face of her manner. It simply wasn't done.
 uona vaguely argued with herself that it was utterly preposterous to imagine that any outside forces or coaxing could be successful in bring ing about a. complete composure with 1 in. ImpoSsiblei What teacher, no matter how adept she might be about l things concerning the training of
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-14
PLEASANT BATH WATERS

Bathing only becomes a luxury when the bath can be taken in a large tub well filled with water that is soothingly warm or refreshingly cold, or when there are allsorts of patent devices in the way of showers or nee de sprays. Then to make the bath most truly luxurious it should be fol- lowed by cold rinse, preferably with salt water, which is stimulating to the skin and excellent for the nervous system and the general health. This should be followed by vigorous rub ping down with a coarse towel.
 I wash everyone would realize that the best bath towel in the world is a medium sized unbleached Turkish towel. This is almost too stiff and rough the first few times, but after a couple of launderings it will be per feet. Incidentally. these unbleached towels cost less than the white ones which have gone through acid baths to attain their snowy color; and incl dentalIy. these unbleached towels wear just three or four times as long. If you use one of these with mod crate vigor you will rub your skin into rosy glow which will make you feel you had never been i'll a day in your life.
 A salt water bath is one of the cheapest, easiest and most beneficial to take. Sea salt can be purchased for a few cents a pound and 8 couple of handful dissolved in the tub are all that are needed. A half pound of oatmeal in a bag put in the bath water and sqeezed a, bit so it's milky essence becomes part of the water will make the bath softening and bleaching the skin. Toilet water or
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-14

itself around and there has been pre- cious little. Now you offer 1t a small sized meal and stomach seizes 1t so gratefully and sends up word so soon that 1t has enough, that you are thrill ed. You realize that your stomach is shrunk and you arc going to be able to control your appetite because of that fact.
 (Our thin friends we have to ad- wise to do just the reverse of this. I am coming to them a little Iater.) The shrinking of the stomach has other fine results besides that of help ing you to control your appetite Among the most important are the following: the liquid diet gives the system chance to get rid of a lot of the pofsons which have accumulated from an excess of food for your needs, and you will immediately feel much better; and joy, oh boy, you will lose from five to ten, pounds of weight, Amt it a grand and glorious feelin' :? The loss is not all fat of course, and the scale may run up a trtfle even regime afterwards. but at least two thirds of the weight will stay off, and you gradually lose more. l do not want you to lose more than two pounds a week, after the first week. More about this later. Tomorrow, continue as I directed you to do yesterday Keep on your liquid diet-some liquids not totaling more than 800 to 600 calories a day If you cannot get fresh milk or but terInilk, you can get the powdered milk and make it up as you need it. A little fresh orange juice will supply the vitamines lost.
 Take a glass every three hours. One ounce of whole milk is 20 calories and skim and buttermilk free from cream is half that amount. or 10 cal ories. Of if you do not like milk in any form, drink orange juice: one ounce is approximately 15 ca1ories.
 If you cannot get oranges you may If you chew so thoroughly that it is reduced to a liquid before you swal- low--you may eat two moderate sized apples instead. One moderate sized apple is 30 calories
 CARRY ON
 TomorroW-rTwo-th Shrunk
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-14
Keeping Warm In Spring

\ suburban reader says; You have doubtless read of the manner in which ships furniture and cabin woodwork hae been burned to keep the fires in desperate weather. That's nothing compared to what has been going on around our place.
 The coke gave out last Wednes- day Thursday we sacrificed two step- ladders, three washtubS and flour bin and the lawn mower handle The stormhouSe which we had taken down kept us going Friday, and Friday was a cheerful day. Saturday saw the last of the carpet sweeper, three brooms five suit cases and three old fashioned trunks. while We kept warm Sunday the kitchen table, Web sters Unabridged Dictionary. Kip ling's Plain Tales from the Hills and the ice box We went visiting Monday. and Tuesday we bade a last adieU to the snow shovel, the old hall clock, one folding bed and a com plete set of Dickens works
 Help, We have nothing left but !. Eha dining room f,nnits..a a.->a sA.A
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-14

first time she is out with a young man, he considers her too "easy'' to bother about and once is enough Probably you realize this about spoon ing; I merely thought 1 would eau ton you.
 Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a young man IS years old and have been going with girl for about a month. When ] go with her she seems very nice and attentive until we get some place and then she does not act as though she cared for me Recently another boy took her home She told him she liked him better than she does me and then told me the same thing about him.
 Should I go with her or not? I love her very much and am perpIexed what to do. TRUTHFIT.
 The girl is a trifler. If I were you I would give her up and wait until you find girl who is more sincere Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am trou- bled with indigestion I think, because have a coated tongue and a bad breath What can I do to remedy this |? N F R
 Indigestion. constipation. and the ance in the body are indicated by bad taste in the mouth This is cas- ily overcome through proper diet and daily exercises.
 Coated tongue is the surest indica- ton of bad health and improper working of the internal organs Fresh vegetable and fruit diet, wa ter drinking and grains and nuts in stead of heavy, greasy foods, sweets and meats, will soon remedy this condition.
 It would be well to consult loc- tor if your condition does not improve in three or four weeks time. because it may be that your system requires something you are not giving it. or that acids are bad for you
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-14
TOWNS

Jt-seems the time is always due To poke a joke at Kalamazoo But one town gives me greater glee And that's the town of SkiliSlee. They say that Walia Waila, Wash. Is quite a funny name gosh But | get laughter by the chunk Whene'er l think of kennebunk. Some joiers claim that they can see "A lot of fun in kankakee.
 But gloom and sorrow walk the plank Whenever I think of Walkashank. Some writers will Inform you that. There is a scream in Medicine Hat. But I can snicker any day
 At Oskaioosa, IowaY