The century illustrated monthly magazine . — it must be so ! —My gentle and patient friend, you go; How can another, both strange and new, Speak with my words, as you seem to do ?How can I turn to its dull, white faceWith thoughts of my souls most secret place ? Dirty, but dear you are. Well, good-by ! Once we were strange — my blotter and I. Cora Stuart Wheeler. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK. 160 THE CENTURY ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT. THE CHOCOLATE-PLANT AND SOME OF ITS PRODUCTS. OF the beverages which we infuse, two arederived from plants native to of these, namely, Mate, or Paraguay
The century illustrated monthly magazine . — it must be so ! —My gentle and patient friend, you go; How can another, both strange and new, Speak with my words, as you seem to do ?How can I turn to its dull, white faceWith thoughts of my souls most secret place ? Dirty, but dear you are. Well, good-by ! Once we were strange — my blotter and I. Cora Stuart Wheeler. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK. 160 THE CENTURY ADVERTISING SUPPLEMENT. THE CHOCOLATE-PLANT AND SOME OF ITS PRODUCTS. OF the beverages which we infuse, two arederived from plants native to of these, namely, Mate, or Paraguayan Tea,is very local in its distribution and employment,and probably will always remain so. The other,the Chocolate-plant, has become more and morewidely distributed in cultivation and use, andcommands year by year a more extensive appli-cation. After its introduction into Europe from Amer-ica, it was used at first only as a luxury, but ithas steadily advanced in popular esteem, until itis now recognized as one of the necessaries of. they have all been used from time immemorial,and that all three are welcome gifts from a rudestate of civilization to the highest which existsto-day. By the savages and the Aztecs of Amer-ica, by the roving tribes of Arabia, and by thedwellers in the farther East, the virtues of thesethree plants were recognized long before any oneof them was introduced into Europe. Chocolatewas the first of these to attract the attention ofEuropeans. This beverage rapidly made itsway throughout Europe, beginning from Spainand Portugal, whither its discoverers had broughtit. The other beverages, Tea and Coffee, soon TRACTATVS HJ> VIDE POTV CAPHE. D E CHINENS1VM THE;DE CHOCOLATE,
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