DAUDET 



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Rio Grande Valley in Texas. Up to 1917 over 

 4,500 trees in bearing in Arizona, California, 

 Texas and Florida have produced about 10,000 

 pounds of fruit 

 yearly, valued at 

 a little over $500. 

 But over 22,000 

 trees not of bear- 

 ing age were at 

 that time re- 

 ported, almost 

 20,000 of them 

 being in Califor- 

 nia, so the date 

 industry in the 

 United States 

 may still develop 

 into one of im- 

 portance. 



Uses. Besides 

 the food value of 

 the fruit, there 

 are a number of 

 other economic 

 values credited to 

 the date palm. A 

 liquor resembling 

 wine is made 

 from dates by 

 fermentation. 

 The trunk of the 

 tree and other 

 parts are used 

 for fuel and in HOW DATES ARE 

 the construction GATHERED 



of fences, etc. The leaves are used for matting, 

 baskets and bags; the fiber, in making rope. 

 The buds are eaten as a vegetable. When 

 roasted, the fruit stones are used as a substi- 

 tute for coffee, and when ground they yield an 

 oil. When the oil has been extracted the 

 remaining substance is valued as food for cat- 

 tle. M.8. 



For information relating to the growing of 

 dates in America, consult bulletins issued by the 

 secretary of state of Arizona. 



DAUDET, dodeh' , ALPHONSE (1840-1897), a 

 French author and dramatist, famous because 

 of his keenness of observation and ability to 

 write what he saw. In his younger days he 

 was deprived of the pleasures most boys enjoy, 

 and at the death of his father he went to the 

 college of Alais, a little town of the Cevenries, 

 where he worked and studied, later becoming 

 a tutor. He was unhappy in this, and in 1857 

 he abandoned teaching and took refuge with 



his brother Ernest, who was earning $15 

 monthly by writing for newspapers in Paris. 

 This sum supported the brothers until the 

 dawn of brighter days. 



When he was eighteen Alphonse published 

 Les Amour euses, 

 a small volume of 

 poems which 

 gave him some 

 recognition in the 

 literary world 

 and soon led to 

 appointment as /JlHk 

 private secretary ttBffl ^BBW: 

 to De Morny, 

 half brother of 

 Napoleon III. 



About this period ALPHONSE DAUDET 

 he dramatized Numa Roumestan and wrote 

 several plays. In 1868 he issued La Petit Chose 

 (The Little Chap), an autobiographic novel. 

 His best and most enduring novels were written 

 during the following fourteen years, and in- 

 clude Jack, The Nabob, L'Evangeliste, Tar- 

 tarin of the Alps and Sapho. The latter, the 

 best known of his works and probably the one 

 of lowest moral tone, yet teaching a striking 

 lesson, he considered his masterpiece. Sapho 

 has become known through its dramatization 

 to thousands of people who never read one of 

 Daudet's books. Throughout his literary ca- 

 reer he was given help and inspiration by his 

 wife, whom he married in 1867. 



DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVO- 

 LUTION, a society organized in Washington, 

 D. C., October 11, 1890, for the purpose of 

 perpetuating reverence for the forefathers' 

 deeds in Revolutionary history, the erection of 



Building erected and owned by the Daughters 

 of the American Revolution, in Washington, 

 D. C. It is called Continental Hall. 



monuments and the collection of relics. Any 

 woman is eligible for membership at the age 

 of eighteen, provided she is acceptable to the 

 society and is a lineal descendant of an an- 



