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Show Hard to Picture) Orient 4 ; Without the Date Tree For unlold Rges the data has been a staple article of diet In the Orient. ' It Is aald thut a half-pound of dales and a half pint of milk make a sum-' sum-' dent meal fo a person of sedentary liublts. The date needs milk to round out Its food b;il ii nee, Au Intensely hot climate and plenty of water are necessary neces-sary for the production of dales. As an old Arabian saying goes: "A date palm must have Ita head In Are and tta feet In water." 8ome believe that when Adnm and Eve lived In the Gar den of Eden, tlier subsisted verr large- ly upon the date. In fact, that part of Mesopotamia which produces to this dny the best dntes Is regarded as the probable site of the Garden of Eden. Archeologlst. In making excavations in this region, have uncovered ruins thousands of years old, smong which have been found broken sculptures of the date palm, together with references refer-ences to the use of its fruit as a food. Accnrdln. to an old. old Arabian story, after flod had created Adnm. some of the soil clung to Ills bands and He molded It Into a date palm. The leaves were set In a feathery crown at the top the same as He crested man. Bo It Is only natural that the pnlm should te ss nearly perfect a tree as Adam was a human being. I |