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American Sunday Monthly Magazine Section 17 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. The Tangled Telegram (Continued from page 7) Mary was all that Cousin Jimmy had ever breathing room she turned to him and asked said of her. She was pretty and she was pointedly: genial. When these attributes arc combined “When is it to be?” in a cousin they invite confidences. “When is what to be?” The two were standing on a corner, wait- “The wedding.” ing for a swirl of foot passengers, carriages “Whose wedding?” Jimmy’s tone was and street cars to be untangled, when Mary utterly innocent. heard Jimmy make some remark about “Whose? Yours and Lucy’s, to be sure.” “ Miss Putnam. “So, she’s the one, is she, Jimmy?” “Well—er—I—I don’t know. You see ” “Certainly I see. Who wouldn’t? Is she pretty, Jimmy?’ “Mine and Lucy’s? Why? Mary, I’ve never asked her yet.” “You’ve never asked her? Do you mean to tell me that when you can talk about her for seven or eight blocks, as you have, you have not even asked her to marry you? 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