Excerpt from How Latin America Affects Our Daily Life Questions for the Reader Before Reading In what ways are you conscious of depending upon Latin America for necessities, comforts, luxuries that you now enjoy? So far as you now see, what hardship would it cause you if our trade with Latin America ceased to exist? Will you try to formulate for yourself, either mentally or in writing, what your present feeling is towards Latin America so that you may compare this attitude with your feeling after you have read the following lesson? Where Latin America Affects Our Daily Life Most of us who live in the United States are unconscious of the fact that Latin America supplies the United States with a great variety of useful and necessary articles of our daily life without which we would be seriously inconvenienced, even when not subjected to many privations and great hardships. We are constantly eating, drinking, smoking, chewing, wearing, using, and working, playing and sleeping with bits of Latin America without even knowing it. Being the greatest of coffee-drinking nations, we usually begin and end the day by drinking this Latin American product. The chocolate which many of us prefer is made from cocoa or more properly cacao also imported from Latin America. Both drinks are sweetened with sugar principally from Cuba. Such of us as have acquired the habit of drinking yerba mate or Paraguay tea, extensively used in South America, must look to Brazil and Paraguay for our supply of this excellent substitute for tea, which promises to become popular in the United States. Let pupils draw coffee pots, cups, grinders, sacks and routes from Brazil or Costa Rica and learn from storekeepers the quantity of coffee used in your locality each year. It may seem strange to associate tropical Latin America with the ice-cream soda and other cold drinks we enjoy in hot summer days, yet without quantities of limes, pineapples, bananas, cocoa, coffee, vanilla beans and sugar from that part of the world, we might be denied the pleasure of many refreshing drinks; at least we would have to pay much higher prices for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.