| Show Brazil Well Well Described as World in Itself Brazil has features s of ot distinctive Interest both In the universe In gen gen- general general en- en eral ral and to ourselves In particular KIpling once said sald that the region over o which the benevolent and bc be- be bewhiskered whiskered Dom Pedro II H ruled Is n a world In Itself Nor did he ha over over- overshoot overshoot overshoot shoot the mark With nn an urea area of square miles Brazil Is greater In extent than the United States excludIng Alaska and the Insular possessions Some of ot the states are larger than the largest European countrIes I Isaac F writes In tile the Saturday Evening Post Amazonas for tor example Is five times the size of Great Britain while Matto Grosso could conid cover er nil all France twice Putting It In nn another ther wn way D is 18 bigger than the whole European continent not counting a part ot of Russia Russin and Is the fifth country any any- anywhere anywhere anywhere where In geographical scope The average n man thinks think of ot Brazil In terms of Rio mo de Janeiro loveliest of nil all harbors It harbors It lives up to the sd- sd d and and his cup of ot break break- breakfast breakfast fast coffee corree The republic accounts account for nearly 70 per cent of ot the total co coffee tree supply But Dut Brazil I Is much more To no land has nature been noro generous In the bestowal ot of other her rich gifts girts of ot raw material An observer has stated that It if a deluge should again Inundate this World sparing only Brazil and the United States the two countries could still carryon carry on their lives and Industries with one supplementing the other Brazil could supply rubber sugar coffee rice rlee bananas meat cacao Iron ore manganese and timber es especially es- es especially mahogany while we could contribute wheat corn copper cot cot- cotton cotton cot cotton ton fruit manufactured articles ot of aU all kinds and capital Practically the only essentials lacking would be betin betin betin tin and platinum |
