By Charles Sughroe
Fifty-Five Million Stems De-
livered in 1931.
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Washington.—*If the bananas Im-
ported into the United States In 1031
were evenly distributed, every man,
woman and child would have received
several dozen, for more than 55,000,000
stems of bananas were delivered at
our ports,” says a bulletin from the
National Geographic soclety.
“While the banana is one of the
most popular fruits In the fruit bowls
of the United States, it is an allen,
Banana plants demand a hot climate
with plenty of rainfall. That Is why
former Central American jungles have
become the world's most prolific
banana plantations. Central American
republics supply more than half of our
bananas; Jamalea, about one-fourth,
and most of the others come from
southern Mexico, Cuba and Colombia.
“The banana started its Journey
around the Tropics of the world from
India and the Malay peninsula. When
it reached the West Indies and Cen-
tral America Is as debatable as the
origin of the American Indian, It was
a stranger in the United States until
the latter part of the last century. In
1870, a scheoner captain, returning to
Boston from Jamalca, brought a stem
of bananas as a curiosity. Fifteen
years later a company was organized
to appease the growing American ap-
petite for bananas,
“Today hundreds of ships, armies
of men—skilled and unskilled—miles
of railroads, thousands of freight and
flat cars, mules, horses and oxen, many
square miles of modern warehouses
and many millions of dollars are em-
ployed annually to handle the banana
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revers faced In white and almost hid-
den by the huge boutonniere in red
and white,
has turned vast
jungles into food
and built modern,
vith hospitals and
former fever-infected re-
traffic. The banana
acres of tropleal
producing regions,
sanitary villages
schools In
glons,
Grow From “Eyes.”
“The farmer of the United Staes
who purchases acreage for a farm
or plantation clears the land before
planting. Not so with the banana
plantation owner, He clears away
weeds and vines, and plants bits of
roots of healthy, producing banana
plants among native trees. Each bit
of root planted must have an ‘eye’,
really a bud, from which a young
banana plant sprouts. Later the na-
tive trees are felled and many of them
are left to protect the young plants
from the hot tropical sun,
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A sticious salad can be made by
chilled tomatoes with
crab or shrimp salad.
.
A little added a little at
a time mashing potatoes
make them light and fluffy. Heat,
do not boil the milk
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stuffing peeled,
hot milk
while will
but
To stone or seed raising without
having them stick to the fingers soak
them in hot water for two minutes,
then plunge them in cold water and
drain,
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Adding hot milk instead of cold to
mashed potatoes makes them lighter.
Mash well, add salt, butter and hot
milk last. Beat for a minute with a
spoon,
amily,
i
the twelfth month, a banana
plant begins to produce fruit, The
plant, though it grows from 18 to 40
feet high, 18 an berb, not a tree, Its
‘trunk’ Is a compact mass of leaves,
the new leaves growing Inside the old.
A huge blossom thrusts itself out of
the top of the ‘trunk’ after several
months’ growth, The blossom devel-
ops rapidly, becomes topheavy and
slowly droops over the side of the
‘trunk. Shortly the bracts or blos-
som leaves fall and for the first time
bananas are visible—clusters of tiny
green fingers that stick straight out
from the stem.
One Stem Per Tree.
“Each stem of bananas delivered at
the ports of the United States repre
sents a plant, Thergfore, it took more
than 53,000,000 plants to supply banana
consumers of the United States last
year. The old plant succumbs to the
blade of plantation workmen but,
meanwhile, several sprouts are shoot.
ing from in the old tree roots,
w“ 3y
‘eyes’
“At every stage of thelr journey to
the fruit bowl, bananas are carefully
handled to avold bruising. Tempera
tures to which they are subjected also
are as carefully watched as the tem-
perature of an infant's milk, Too slow
or too rapid ripening may mean the
loss of whole cargoes of fruit,
“When the plantation manager Is
advised, perhaps by radio, that a fruit
ship is due to arrive at his port and
a certain number of stems are ex-
pected from his plantation, he dis-
patches workmen to bring In the re.
quired quantity. It takes an expert to
select the stems of proper grade for
shipment,
“To clip a stem of bananas from its
lofty perch might mean destruction of
the bananas and much loss of time,
g0 the cutters, equipped with long
poles topped with sharp knives, par.
tially cut the plant just below the
fruit so that the plant top and stem
droop toward the ground. Then a
‘hacker’ or banana carrier steps un-
der the stem; It is clipped by another
workman, and carried to a mule,
horse, ox, tram or whatever transport
is av le to start
aw
long haul to the ship's hold,
allabl the fruit on the
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many. —The announce.
American explorer, Wil
liam Beebe, that he expected to reach
a depth of 1.800 meters with a new
diving bell has brought to light the
work of a young German engineer,
who claims to have perfected a div-
apparatus capable of reaching a
depth of 3,000 meters and of propel
Ung itself electrically along the sea
floor, fastening lines mechanically to
su merged wreckage and greatly sim
plifyl diving ations as they
have De on practiced to date,
Hans Philipps of Koeln-Muel
has worked for five years on a small
egg-shaped diving bell with a rud
der and propellor and with an elec
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By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Emeritus Dean of Men,
University of Illinois.
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down among build
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tentiousness, There
is no front en
trance to the store,
however. One goes
in from a side
street where there
is more privacy
and quiet. It Is
rather an English
trait, this tend.
ency to vell the
front entrance,
Within the doorway a most elegant
lady is in waiting, gray-haired, alert,
beautifully gowned, smiling, and gra-
cious as a princess if princesses are
really gracious as they should be. Her
business Is to find out yours and to
make suggestions or give directions
and so to conserve your time. She
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than as a cold, haughty and mechan-
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one into a pleasant receptive frame of
mind at once, which I am sure is con-
ducive to trade. In the little shops
with which the great store Is filled
there is the same sort of friendly
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that other shrewd business men might
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1 had some way slighted an old friend.
I always want to go back to see if
the gracious lady is still standing to
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most
courage trade should place something
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Whatever business one Is going to
transact, social or financial, one al-
ways likes to find a friendly hand or
a cheerful office boy within the door.
The reception committee at church at
a social function can put one into a
very pleasant frame of mind, There
was a time when Nancy and I went to
parties given by young people that we
were met at the door and greeted as
if our coming gave some one pleasure,
It ls seldom so today, One finds his
way about as he can, There Is no
gracious host or hostess within the
door.
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John Stewart Bryan, himself a Vip
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said Mrs, Minnie Gillingham of 1155
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Religion is often the only consola-
tion of the poor man. Money pro-
vides other soiaces for some others
Men never object to being over
rated except by the assessor.
Mothers! 8
BEWARE OF
WORMS:
Be on the look-out for the common
enemy of children. Watch for such
symploms as picking at
of teeth, poor appetite
ghtening dreams. Expel these
Intestinal parasites with Camtack
Dead Shot Worm Pellets. Easy for
the most sensitive child to take.
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W.N U, BALTIMORE, NO. 16-1982