Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1910 — PRESENT OF SACK OF COFFEE. [ARTICLE]

PRESENT OF SACK OF COFFEE.

In Brasil Set Aside for Child at Its Birth for Wedding Day. "We have a custom in the coffee raising countries,” said Ricardo G. Muller of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, who Is interested ,ln coffee plantations in that country, according to the Washington Herald, “which is unknown in other parts of the world.* When a child Is born in the coffee country a sack of the best grain is set aside as part of the Inheritance to be received on attaining Its majority. "Usually the sack is the gift, from some close friend or relative, ans it is guarded as sacredly as if it were a gift of gold or bonds. No stress would Induce a Brazilian parent to use coffee which was made the birth gift of a child. “As a rule it is sealed with the private seal of the owner and bears a card giving all particulars about the variety of grain, its age on being sacked and the birth of the child to whom it is given, and other details, which are very interesting when the gift is due. > * “Generally the coffee is opened for the first time when the child marries. The coffee for the reception or marriage feast is made from the legacy, and according to precedent this must be the first time the sack is opened. After the coffee is made for the wedding feast the sack is carefully closed and sent to the new home of the young couple and should keep them in the staple for a year at least.”