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Show CHOCOLATE IN MANILA. In Manila chocolate Is furnished you while you wait. A Chinaman comes right Into tht house with his basket and rolls the crushed cacao beans and sugar. With them he makes a supply of chocolate, so delirious that those who have tasted only our American biand can form no Idea of it. When the Chinaman makes his appearance ap-pearance the first thing he does is to lay aside his hat and shirt. Stripped to the waist and barefooted, he begins his work. All the oil has been extracted extract-ed from the beans. Some of it has gone to anoint the had-s of the Filirno young ladii s, w to light the Filipino homes. With a rolling pin John Chinaman China-man grinds his be:ins to a fine powder. This tykes time, but in Manila everybody every-body h?s "all the time there is." Tills done, he opens another basket and dips out the sugar needed to make the beverage. bev-erage. The sugar is the kind that we call soft, or coffee" sugar. Like the bean it grows on the islands. Industriously, the Chinaman rubs and grinds, and gradually the choccolate forms on the bottom of the board and drips off in. sticky sweetness Into the basket beneath. The family gather gbo'ut to sample the product while the Chinaman stops to smoke a cigarette. Cups of the beverage are handed around from the biggest to the littlest. These are to serve as samples. If they are declared all right, the Chinaman returns to his work, and for several hours rubs patiently away at his task. |