COMMONPLACES AS NOVELTIES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 43, 15 November 1918, Page 3

COMMONPLACES AS NOVELTIES

HOW ELIZABETH ATE CHOPS. The man' who is reputed to have brought peanuts into popular favour died only the other day, wiiicii ss-vves rto remind ona (says a Canadian writer) I that while the present eeneradion ;r*« ! come to look upon many matters as comj monplace, in our fathers' youin tlir.y ! were unknown. Up to n recent period I fnmnlooa were grown for their beauty, I but not for food, and, und" ,, .the name of "love apples." were presumed to lie poisonous. Indeed, in many parts of Europe tlicr are not yet consider*! wholesome. Pineapples nn|il recent limes wore- almost, unknown in this clima.te, and wore extremely expensive, lowing chiefly to transportation difficulliics and lack of cold storage facilities. ' Can one imiurinc flic dignified Oiiw. F,liH>"th ] picking iiji a greasy clinn in hrr finders J and tearing I.ho meat from l!n< hr J j Well, s'ip dil, for them were n<) forks iin England for a lnrgr. r n rl: nf lvr j rcijn. And ]wla)nes. maize, and doI also roniai?ip(] miifiiown in Rurope ! for manv centuries. It'is scarcely a hundred years since the first pound of nntliracite coal was mined in Prnn«vlvanin. and it is considerably le?= tlmn " lui"fli'f>(l vear.a. fiO to be accurate, since the first oil-well on H ,A Oonli""i'ii "-■'

ilisr-overnl in the same Rrnlo. T|- jg n l S|) intor"stiiij» to ronrcmplal'n Tin! H>» which come after in will again bo 'strnjujprs to both nnlMiV'lo ronl' nnd oil. for it ii pslimnfnd ll'nl l!>" Irtiov.-n supplios nf boHi will bo exhaust ed in one hundred vears.