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American Sunday Monthly Magazine Section
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How/ COFFEE Was Invented
S TRANGELY enough, the late un
lamented Turk, who has just been
kicked out of Europe, was the man
who introduced coffee to it.
Few habits have spread throughout the
world as rapidly and universally as drinking
coffee and so prevalent is its use among all
nations that it seems incredible that coffee
has been known for only a comparatively
short period.
But Arabic authorities tell us that its use
originated in Abyssinia, and that about the
year 1500 one Gemaledie, a Mufti of Aden,
recommended that it be used by the der
vishes to enable them to keep awake during
their devotional exercises. The example of
these holy men popularized it, and the use
of coffee spread until it reached Mecca ten
years after.
From there it reached Cairo, where in
1511 a council of theologians condemned its
use, not because they were afraid it would
keep the dervishes properly awake, but be
cause they deemed it intoxicating, and con
trary to the laws of Mahomet.
The Sultan of Egypt chanced to be fond
of coffee and called together another assem
blage of wise men who were presumably
tipped off beforehand as to what they had
best decide. That convocation not only
“white-washed” coffee but declared that
far from being intoxicating it was really
healthful and should be used in every
family. Its use then spread to Syria and
Constantinople where the first coffee house
in the world was opened in 1554.
Even then coffee using was much re
stricted, for the coffee houses became such
attractive places that the priests likened
them to the red light districts of that day,
and declared that they were ungodly places,
causing the people to neglect the mosques.
They based their fulminations upon the
Koran’s statement that coal was not one of
the things created by God for the good of
man, and the Mufti accordingly ordered the
immediate closing of the coffee houses.
That Mufti apparently did not have his
party behind him in this, for he was suc
ceeded by another who declared that coffee
beans were not coal unless over-roasted, and
that the beverage could be partaken of with
out sin so long as the beans were properly
prepared. The coffee houses accordingly
reopened and have remained o|x?n ever since,
and the pious Mussulman drinks his favorite
beverage without fear of the consequences
to his soul.
The first coffee house in England is said
to have opened at Oxford in 1650, and the
The American drinks over twice as much coffee
as any other man
The Sultan ordered the wise men to decide in
favor of coffee, being wise they did
first one in London in 1652. The vicissi
tudes were not yet over, for Charles II
suppressed all the coffee houses in England
in 1675 and the proprietors of the establish
ments were temporarily imprisoned.
It was, therefore, only about two hundred
and fifty years ago that the Anglo-Saxon
became acquainted with the beverage and
it began on its real journey to all parts of
the civilized world.
The plant was at that time cultivated only
in Yemen, and the supply was small and
exceedingly expensive. One Wieser, a burgo
master of Amsterdam, is said to have
carried plants to the Botanical Garden of
that city, and from there plants were taken
to the Botanical Garden in Paris. The
first plants brought to this part of the world
are said to have been taken from Paris to
Martinique in 1720.
If the Mufti who claimed that coffee beans
were coal had lived in our day he would have
had better grounds for his contention, for in
1908 substitutes of dandelion roots, parsnips,
carrots, various cereals, beets, beans, lupins,
and rice were roasted and marketed as coffee
to the extent of eighteen million pounds.
Although the Viennese pride themselves
on their coffee they really know very little
about the beverage compared with other
nations. In all of Austria-Hungary there
were consumed in 1906 only 113,000,000
pounds, the smallest consumption of any
large nation.
Belgium drank ten million more pounds
than the Austrians, and the French were not
so devoted to vin ordinaire but that they
found capacity for 216,000,000 pounds. The
German had room enough left after his beer
to stow away 412,000,000 pounds, and Uncle
Sam’s children led the entire world by drink
ing a total of 985,(XX),000 pounds; over twice
as much as Germany, four times as much as
France, and over nine times as much as
Austria-Hungary.
The total imports into the United States
for the latest year for which figures are avail
able were 890,ooo,<xx). When we consider
that the bulk of this is sold as “Java and
Mocha” it is amusing to note that seven
hundred million pounds came from Brazil
and another hundred million from other
South American countries. Seventy million
more came from Mexico and Central Amer
ica, and ten million from the West Indies.
There was, to be sure, a little item of im
ports from Dutch colonies, two million
pounds in all. There might have been some
Java coffee in that lot, about a five-hun
dredth part of the whole.
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