Oh, my goodness! Color me flabbergasted! For years I have been living a lie. I was told long ago (perhaps first by my parents) that though Gelatin products like my beloved Jello was once made from boiling down the bones, hides and connective tissue of animals, that at some time manufacturers stopped using animal products and changed to some magical synthetic chemical alternative. Well… color me wrong.

Now that alcoholic drinks are under the ban, doubtless Americans will consume more coffee than every before, and there may even be a revival of the old-time coffee-houses. Three hundred and sixty-five years ago, this autumn, the first coffee-house in the world was opened at Constantinople, and two hundred and seventy years ago the first English coffee-house sent forth its aroma at Oxford.