The Potato
THE STORY OF ITS DISOOVERY
AND ITS USEFULNESS
Though it Has Many Eyes, They Have
reign the
his
rank
potato was
by French-
men generally. friend was
the Parmentier, who culti-
vated difficulties till Louis
XVI became its worth
and granted lands and
protection for his potato plants.
once the despised vegetable leaped
to glory along the path of its royal
patron. The potato flower was worn
in the button hole of the monarch
and the all-potato banquet became
the climax of the French chef's art
and an event in the history of this
most eventful period.
It was the day of the great Lavois-
fer, whose achievements in the world
of science and interest in agricultur-
al chemistry gave him more than
national fame and authority. To
win him to his cause Parmentier
gave in his honor a great feast in
Paris, where every dish was made of
potatoes and even the brandy and
liquors were produced from them.
Many of the distinquished men of
the day gathered at this banquet,
which was deemed one of the most
remarkable in history, and the glory
of the potato reached its climax.
But alas for the vanity of earthly
honors from potato fields to thrones,
The king lost his head and the po-
tato its valuable eyes,
no longer planted two in a row as
enterprisingly as the horticulturists
recommended in the high noon of its
favor. Nevertheless, a vegetable
with eyes was not to be despised, es-
pecially when capable of repeating
itself in some 600 or more species
through the use of them.
out from its eclipse in
ginning of
deemed a poison
Its one
famous
it under
convinced of
Parmentier
France, as
gan to recommend itself
horticulture societies and men of
science and learning of all lands.
Even before its fluctuating fortunes
in France it figured in the history
of nations and was borne across seas
and continents by scholars and
plorers who gave it an honorable
place in classic literature as well as
foreign soil.
In various books of the
sixteenth century the introduction of
potatoes to the Spaniards by voyag-
Spanish
from Peru receives elaborate no-
e. Humboldt their
place in the New World at its earliest
discovery. Sir Walter Raleigh hon-
ored the North Carolina and Virginia
ers
.
tic describes
| potato tubers not only by historic
{ notes, but by cultivation on his es-|
[ tate near Cork. Gerard, in the first |
| edition of the ‘‘Gerard,” not only|
gave the potato plant and flower the
distinction of a frontispiece, but of |
glowing paragraphs wherein he de-|
scribed it as “a food, as also a meat |
for pleasure, equal in goodness and
wholesomeness unto the same, being
either roasted in the embers or boil-
ed and eaten with oil, vinegar and |
pepper, or dressed any other way by |
the hand of some cunning cookerie.” |
[ In Johnson's day it figured in the |
“Paradisus,” which one of his closest!
| friends and associates put forth, and
{ the suggestive names, “Triumph,”
“Pxeelsior,” “Climax,” “Bountiful,” |
“Beauty of Hebron,” which it achiev- |
ed in the vegetable world in its |
different varieties, show the bright |
| side of its history, which no French
scorn of its early American character- |
istics can long cloud.
The patriotic defender of home
products is quite right when he as-
serts that “the American potato per-
mits of no comparison, whether boil-
ed, baked, fried, scalloped, chipped,
mashed or served with its jacket on.”
Parmetier’s secret of converting it
nto brandy and liquor is all that is
heeded to make it grander in the
and than the sheaf of Joseph, to
vhich all the others did obedience.
There are indications, too, that in
some of those dry regions where or-
ange rinds serve as whiskey jugs and
bulldogs eat reporters, a great neces-
sity, which is the mother of inven-
tion, will wrest the liquor juice from
the bosom of the potato, and no
ench chef surpass the ingenuity of
the thirsty American in securing the
“gifts the gods provide,” No offense
| need be taken from this suggestion
bither, by the temperance societies,
since there must be some sparkling
pnd stimulating cup that cheers but
not inebriates, hidden in the bosom
pf nature somewhere, to meet that
ife principle, impulse, or whatever
t is, that raises a thirst for it in hu-
0; breasts.
$ Old World scientists tell us that
ey are already at work upon a
hiskey which will exhilarate, but
intoxieate, and it may be that
rmentiere’s secret will soon be out
d the potato crown the discovery
significant that with all the gay
using gver the potato brandy and
e the ‘greatest feast of
At
which were
It came |
elsewhere, and by good breeding be- |
to royal |
ex- |
{
the nation Lavolsier, the prime
guest, was not found under the table
nor were any of his distinguished
(friends helped home by the gents d’
To drink with an alr that
Lamb's furious and incessant
the
would certainly
| armes
lke
(smoking, could “command re
spect of his friends”
Never Been Opened Far Enough
for Their Owner to See its Own|Pe a consummation devoutly to be
| Worth wished by any well-devoted drinker, |
| land Ingersoll’'s famous whiskey let
| It is not alone in the human world ter to his friend Walston H Brown
that the tragedies and comedies of [shows what poetic possibilities lurk
life are enacted The ecret deci- |in the brain of the wise drinker, It]
sion of the wise men of France to let | may be that it would not be so easy
the wood honest American potato in- [to find “the breath of June and the
to their banquet halls after nearly |shadow chasing each other over bil
forty years of exclusion shows vicig- [lowy fields” in the potato beverage,
situdes in the vegetable kingdom that [but if it did its appointed work some
are not to be outdone on any stage | glorification out of the dews of night
of the human, It is a curious co-in- land the teeming bosom of earth
cidence in the history of this apple would no doubt attend it.
of the earth, as the Frenchman call- It would certainly be well for the
ed it, that it figured on the same |potato to have its own eyes opened
great stage that Louis XVI made to all the virtues within it, even if
famous and in a measure shared its|unvirtuous mortals were inclined to
rise and fall with him In the be-|abuse its rich gifts as they have the
liquid joy in the staves of oak or the
juice in the heart of the
grape. Over both of these, however,
the potato holds the Parmentier rec-
ord of “a merry, drinking, laughing,
quaffing time,” which showed no
|death in the cup nor a single drop
of poison to ‘steal away man's
[brains.” Whatever the new develop
[ments in name or fame that may
(await this modest vegetable of the
| garden, it is more than probable that |
such effort as Cassius made at no-
| menclature, when he cried out in an- |
guish at his overthrow: “O thou in-|
visible spirit of wine, if thou hast no |
name to be known by let us call thee |
devil!”
One of the most circumspect news- |
papers of the land declares that what- |
ever may have been the matter with
the American potato in 1875, when
{ France rejected it, there is nothing
(the matter with it now. That certain
figures which show the increase in
the production and the demand made
upon it for home consumption by
people not given to feeding on poison
when they know themselves. Put-
ting all things together it might be
well for Americans to keep their pe
tatoes on their own soil; at any rate
until they are well assured that there
is not a hungry child left in their
borders to pray in vain “Give us this
| day our daily tatoes,”” for that truly
is the kind of vegetable tragedy no
country can afford.
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TO EXTEND TERMS
Legislature Will be Asked to Do So
After It Convenes
| Harrisburg, Pa., Dec. 6—A bill
[ will be prepared for presentation to
{the Legislature soon after it convenes
[to earry in effect the constitutional |
amendment respecting terms of city |
officials, Councilmen, school directors |
and justices of the peace.
{ “This bill will not only the]
| extension of the term of those now
|in office whose tenure would have ex- |
pired in April or May next, but also
authorized the beginning of terms of |
their successors on the first Monday |
of December, as stipulated by the|
amendments.
| It is stated at the Capitol that this |
will probably be the only bill needed |
to enforce amendments, everything |
else being cared for in the schedule |
which was ratified by popular vote.
It is stated at the Capitol that the
new legislative reference bureau has
all of the data necessary to show
what laws have been passed relative
to counties having more than a mil-
lion population and will probably be|
able to assist in the drafting of what
measures conditions in Philadelphia
and Allegheny counties. This will
be one of the first tests of the new
bureau which was established im-
mediately after the last session.
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