y_ succeed!

SLOWPOKE, _with an air of being sure of success this time_
(_Recitative_): Now please do what father says.

BETTY: In everything, except about coffee.

SLOWPOKE: Well, then, you must make up your mind to do without a
husband.

BETTY: Oh--yes? Father, a husband?

SLOWPOKE: I swear you can't have him--

BETTY: Till I give up coffee? Oh well--coffee--let it be
forgotten--dear father--I will not drink--none!

SLOWPOKE: _Then_ you can have one!

BETTY (_Aria_): Today, dear father--do it _today_. (_He goes out._)
Ah, a husband! Really this suits me exactly! When they know I must
have coffee, why, before I go to bed to-night I can have a valiant
lover! (_Goes out._)

TENOR (_Recitative_): Now go hunt up old Slowpoke, and just watch
him get a husband for his daughter--for Betty is secretly making it
known "that no wooer may come to the house, unless he promises me
himself, and has it put in the marriage contract that he will allow
me to make coffee whenever I will!"

[Illustration: "AH, HOW SWEET COFFEE TASTES--LOVELIER THAN A THOUSAND
KISSES, SWEETER FAR THAN MUSCATEL WINE!"

Opening bars of Betty's aria in Bach's _Coffee Cantata_, 1732]

(_Enter_ SLOWPOKE _and_ BETTY, _singing--as chorus--with_ TENOR.)

TRIO: The cat will not give up the mouse, old maids continue
"coffee-sisters!"--the mother loves her drink of coffee--grandma,
too, is a coffee fiend--_who_ now will blame the daughter!

[Illustration: THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COFFEE HOUSE IN THE WORLD

The Caffe Pedrocchi in Padua, Italy, empire period, erected by the poor
lemonade vendor and coffee seller, Antonio Pedrocchi.]

Research has discovered only one piece of sculpture associated with
coffee--the statue of the Austrian hero Kolschitzky, the patron saint of
the Vienna coffee houses. It graces the second-floor corner of a house
in the Favoriten Strasse, where it was erected in his honor by the
Coffee Makers' Guild of Vienna. The great "brother-heart" is shown in
the attitude of pouring coffee into cups on a tray from an oriental
service pot.

The celebrated Caffe Pedrocchi, the center of life in the city of Padua,
Italy, in the early part of the nineteenth century, is one of the most
beautiful buildings erected in Italy. Its use is apparent at first
glance. It was begun in 1816, opened June 9, 1831, and completed in
1842. Anton