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N K W B R H 4 I O K A P H IO
W HEN TO E A T T H E BANANA.
with its mouthpiece. Then it meant
the character represented by the
One ef the Many Pranks
Tropical Nativa« Navar Lat the Fruit player— “ dramatis personae.” Then
by Theodore Hook.
Ripan an th# Trac.
it came to mean the part or charac
In the early part of the nine
According to Frederick Uphare ter one sustains in real life, and so
teenth century great preparutio
Adams in his book, “ T h e Conquest the “ persona ecclesiae,” the man
were made in England to reeeite
,of the Tropics,” there is a popular who represented the church, be
Spanish ambassador who Was
misunderstanding concerning when came known as a “ person.” in a spe
pected to arrive at Southampton. A’ tbiMMnana ia ripe. Mr. Adams as- cial sense and was eventually spell
mischievous idea cetne into
ed as “ parson.” On the other hand,
o f Theodore Hook (born 1
Phe banana will never enjóy the “ person” faded away to mean just
1841), novelist and jo u rn a iifi
»pularity it deserves until the anybody. _________________
above all contriver o f that diversion people o f the temperate zones learn
known as the hoax. The English to know when it is ripe and learn
fleet was lying off Southampton. not to eat it in its raw state.. .There
M O T H E R S A N O M A R R IA G E
Hook, then a young man, knew is popular delusion that the banana
many o f the younger officers. H e has ripened when it turns from its P ea s the Parana W a n t Mar D au gh ter
W aff and H a r San S in g la l
formed his scheme, and one morn original green to a golden yellow,
Women
haze the marrying habit;
ing a launch set out from the fleet and those thus deluded decline to
men
do
not.
T b i* ia not strsngC*
and drew up at the quav.
touch this fruit when dark spots
for
generations
o f girls have been
In this launch was be who pur appear in the yellow skin o f the
taught
that
every
woman should be
ported to be the Snaniah ambassa banana.
married and that to remain unwed
dor in almost royal robes, arrived
T h e banana is not fully ripe
ia a disgrajpe. Being a “ married wo
two days before the expected time. when it ia yellow.
This change
man”
has been a sort o f boeflt o f
T h e mayor o f Southampton, who from green to yellow ia the first
superiority
on the part o f wives.
was to receive the Spanish envoy, outward appearance o f a chemical
Naturally,
because
their mothers
was greatly flustered. It was all so process incidental to the ripening
and
almost
every
other
person o f
sudden. H e did the best he could. process. N ot until a considerable
Several companies o f soldiers, some portion o f the skin has turned to a their own sex puts a g n a t deal o f
on foot, some mounted, were called deep brown has this ripening proc emphasis on the desirability o f be
out.
The bells were rung. T h e ess sufficiently developed to give ing married and none at all on the
ambassador, accompanied by a num the fru it its greatest value as a de dfsirability^ which sometimes ex
ists, o f remaining unmarried, girls
ber o f young officers o f the fleet, licious and healthful food. .
looked on marriage as the goal o f
whs escorted with much pomp to
T h e natives o f the tropics do not
'ambition and bent their whole en
the mayor's palace. There was a permit a banana to ripen on its
ergies to getting husbands.
banquet and speechmaking, one o f stem for the good and sufficient
Rather than endure the unjust
the young officers acting as inter reaeon that such a banana is hardly
stigma o f being “ old maids” they
fit to eat. A chemical process sets
preter fo r the ambassador.
took the first man who gave them a
A fte r it was over and the Span in which partially disintegrates the
chance. T h eir object was not love,
ish envoy was supposed to be on his pulp, destroys the fine flavor and
not a husband, but simply to ac
way to London the true ambassador renders it insipid and almost taste
quire the status, privilege! and d ef
More than that, the rind
arrived. There was but a sorry re less.
erence which they had been taught
ception fo r him. T h e other am cracks when the banana starts to
were denied to all o f their sex ex
bassador, who was Theodore Hook, ripen on the plant, and insects pur-
cept the “ married woman.”
?
haring perpetrated the greatest row in the pulp and thus mar or
Can you imagine anything more
hoax ever known on a mayor and a spoi il the f r u it T h e natives pluck disastrous ?
city, had exhausted the hospitality the e bunches from the stem at about
Yet this is only half the story.
o f the town. T h e scandal was so the same period o f their develop
Th e other half consists in the fact
great, the mayor and the people o f ment that the leading importers do, that the very same mothers who
Southampton had been so out and there ia so little difference be fhirly drive their daughters te
rageously sold, that to make any tween an exported banana and one marry are singularly reluctant to
stir about the dffair would only sold, in the native markets that see* their sons wed. T h e mother
cause them to be laughed at all the even an expert could not be sure who is employing all the arts and
more. W ith the exception o f the which is which.
craft o f the chase to entrap some
The same thing ia true o f moat
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dismissal o f some o f the naval offi
As a m ie T ?
1J " _? ? _ he/
cers who had taken part in it little other tropical fniita.
tar’s husband will weep at the an'
was done, and the affair was allowed they are picked green by the na nouncement that the other wo
tives and allowed to ripen artificial
to blow over.
man’s daughter has shackled her
ly. T h e fecundity o f the tropical
son.— Mothers’ Magazine.
soil and ttie forcing powers o f the
"The Old Beast."
v
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'A n old story concerning Lord humidity and the sun are eo great
Snakoa In tho South Boa Islands.
that
most
tropical
frnita
are
likely
Beaconsfield is worth repeating.
In many off the south sea islands
One day, while walking about his to break their envelopes under the the snake is often held to be sa
country place in the easy coat and pressure q f an accelerated ripening cred, aa it is thought to be connect-
general careless attire he liked to process.
de with a spirit. A t Valuwa there
T h erefore do not think yon are
adopt when among his farmers, be
are snakes which strangers are not
encountered two women, strong gettin g the worst o f it because the allowed to see lest some misfortune
partisans o f Mr. Gladstone. Suppos bananas which you eat at home should follow. Those that are held
Nature knows
ing him to be the keeper or garden come here green.
are not fed or worshiped, but such
er or something o f that sort, they how to grow bananas. Man had to as are th e fa m ilia rs o f individual»
inquired if he would show them learn how to ripen them.
who know them receive sacrifices.
over the place.
While they were
In the New Hebrides snakes are
Origin a f Quarantine.
walking about they overwhelmed
highly regarded. A native o f Pen
In the fourteenth century one-
him with questions as to the habits
tecost (aland if. he aees one in a
o f the master o f the m anor.' “ Do fourth o f the population o f Europe sacred place or in a boose will think
you think you could manage to get are computed to have died o f the that there is some reason fo r its ap
us a sight o f the old beast him bubonic plague, introduced from pearing to him. He will poor over
The first measures to
self?” asked one o f them. “ Mad the east.
himself the juice o f a young cocoa-
am,” replied Lord Beaconsfield. heck its spread were adopted by nut and ever afterward expect to
“ the old beast has the honor to the city o f Venice, which appointed find the world go well with him
wait _ upon you now!” — London in 1348 three guardians o f the pnb-1 through the influence o f the sp irit
lie health. In 1403 Venice estab
Graphic.
lished a lazaret, or contagions dis
O f Couraa Sha Would.
ease hospital, on a small island ad
W o rth o f a P ra iris O w l.
When the train made it* first stop
The prairie owl searches fo r food joining the city. This waa the be after leavin g home. Mr SimpkinA,
in the afternoon. By making these ginning o f quarantine. T h e word who had been in a brown study fo r
afternoon journeys he is easily dis itself means “ fo rty '’ and implies several _ minutes, raised his eyes,
tinguished from the other members forty days, the period o f detention which had a troubled look in them,
o f the owl family as they seldom imposed on vessels at this first V e and remarked, “ My dear, are yon
go out until night. T h e prairie owl*., netian quarantine.,
sure we haven’t forgotten any-
known sometimes as the marsh owl,
; fl.ing?”
Evolution o f a W ord.
I
eats 'insects, rabbits, mice, brown
“ O f course we haven’t.” respond
T h e word “ person” haa had a n !
squirrels, gophers and now and then
ed the good lady cheerfully.
“I
by
qnail, grouse or water birds. More interesting histor
would have thought o f it the m in
a
than 95 per cent o f his food con etymology «omet
óte the train started.”
sound
through,
the
Latin
“
persona”
sists o f destructive quadrupeds and
insect pests.
In appraising the homo h» manning- h n actor's mask
yearly value o f a single owl to a
farmer it would not be amiss to
make it $30.— Farm and Fireside
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while young.” Another boy wrote,
“ I f I didn’t go I would not be jo y
— N ext Dot» to Postoffi ce *
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school “ to help to enlighten other
people's burdens,” a fourth “ to learn
how to get the right change fo r a
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