Show SAW EVIL IN USE OF COFFEE beverage was once looked upon by orthodox edans as insidious to public morals for one who has ever walked the streets of a turkish town it Is almost impossible to imagine them without coffee houses yet those resorts are of comparative among the turks and they were not acclimatized without bitter opposition while the properties of the coffee berry are supposed to have been discovered or rediscovered by an arab dervish in the thirteenth century they were unknown in constantinople until years later the first coffee house was opened there in 1554 4 by one shamsi a native of aleppo the beverage so quickly appreciated was as quickly looked upon by the orthodox lis as insidious to the public morals it was variously denounced as one of the four elements of the world of pleasure one of the four pillars of the tent of lubricity one of the four cu cushions il of the couch of voluptuousness and one of the four ministers of the devil the other three being tobacco opium and wine Kah veli whence our coffee is a slight modification of an arable arabic word literally meaning that which takes away the appetite 11 1 1 G dwight in scribners magazine |