Show nother mother of the cocoa 1 I was never more deeply impressed pressed in with natures wondrous care of her children than by a spectacle to which my m v attention lention dt was recently directed in the island of trinidad said jimr robinson treasurer of the barber asphalt company on my last trip to trinidad idad air robinson Eo binson went on to say 1 I asked for the f first time how it happened that the cocoa trees always grew grer gre r in the shadow of a larger tree whose branches were notably long and rich in foliage I 1 had seen the cocoa in many other climes and it always seemed able abla to take oare care of itself I 1 was told that experiments had been made lu iri trinidad with the cocoa to see if it could nob thrive alone and it had bail been proved beyond question that it could not cot the blaze of the equatorial sun down there is so fierce that the cocoa withers and dies unless r protected by the shade of its companion tree to which the name mother of the cocoa has been very appropriately given another marked peculiarity about the climate of the group of islands in that latitude is that alien races who go there to dwell dare not drink much of the water the natives on it well enough but persons not native cannot imbibo imbibe it with safety boiling or filtering does not seem to do it much good and the be consequence is that all the white people on the islands have hava to drink whisky as a regular ba beverage daverage scotch whisky and soda oda E are more popular there than in scotland and one drinks this concoction with meals as milk wine beer coffee or tea iz is drunk dronk elsewhere st louis republic |