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Show Banana Ink. "Tho banana furnishes us with Ink, with handkerchiefs, with wax, with blacking, with excelsior, with oil,, with flour, with window cord, with brushes." The speaker, a banana planter from Jamaica, paused anil smiled. "You don't belleveanie, do you7" he said. "Yet, truly, the banana treo Is a wonderful thing. Every part of -It serves some good use. Thus the long leaves make a fine excelsior. The juice, being rich In tannin, furnishes a good Indelible ink and a good shoo polish. The stems yield a fine quality of hemp and from this hemp there are made lace handkerchiefs, cords and ropes of all kinds, mats and brushes. The oil Is used In gliding. Ot banana flour, the flour ground from the dried frlut, thero is no use speaking you are too familiar with It." |