The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1894-12-04
APPLEs mr. C0MFLExIoS.
Helen Campbe sa,s rhey Are Splendid
f,r Hral.h md IoOks.


4 modern ecoffer, who like other scot
fers has now and then CLEANS OF right,
has lately written that the reason I've
yielded 10 the serpent was because apples
are good for the complexion, and tnat
he told her so. " neither The argument
vas needed or not. II is a true one
Nothing in all our varied and fascinating
range of fruits holds quite the quality OF
an apple. \ ripe raw apple at It's b-st
IS dirtSteO in elghty-hNe minutes ara
TIE maliC acid which gives IL its distlnc-
tive character, stimulates the liver, As
sjsts digestion and neutralizes much
oXious matter which, II not eliminated
produces CfuptiOns Of the SKIN, Ihcy
do not satisfy Ike potatoes, complain
people TO whom they have UCen recon-
mended as food, but the starch OF the
potato added to the surplus of starch
We are always eating makes that YeGc-
table a Thoroughly undesirable standby.
Tic mere fruit we add 10 our dietary.
the clearer brains ana the clearer SKIN
We are likely 10 have. Our forefnthers
must nave felt this intuitiVely for tho
chief relaxation Of New England evenings
was apple-eating. and no one has given
us much more picturesque pulllnb VI
this fact than Beeeher.
when the day was done and the can
dies were lighted and the supper out Of
the way, we all gathered about the
great kitchen fire; and soon after Georse
or Henry went down for apples.
A boy hat is a universal instrument.
Lac to fetch berries IN, a basket for
Stones to pelt frogs Tithal q measure
TO bring up apples in. And big-head-
ed bows old felt hat was not stingy in
its quantities; and when its store was
finished the GRAND could be repeated.
TO eat six, eight or twelve aples in
an evening wac no great feat for grow
ing Young lad. whose stomach was no
more in DANGER Of dyspepsia than the
! eighboring mill through whose body
passed thousands of bushels of corn,
leaving Ii fatter al the end Of the year
than at the beginning. ClOyed with APP
pies? To eat an apple is to want 10 eat
another"
This is one phrase of apple eating and
there comes with cooking another which,
abuse the pie habit as we may. strikes
a chord In every breast which has known
the seductive charm of a perfect apple
pie. Apple pie" says Beecher, who de-
lighted in all creature comforts, should
be eaten while ii is yet fiorescent, white
or creamy yellow, with the merest drip
OF candied juice along the edges las If
the flavor were so good TO it5eif that
its own lips wateredD of mild and
modest warmth the sugar suggesting
pie neither dissolved, nor yet in original
substance, but hanging as IL were IN
trance between the spirit and the flesh
of appiehood.
The Paris Figaro" states that the
daughters of the Car receive annually
5000 rubles til they are Of age; there
upon, until the marriage, $1,000. The
Princes receive $1,000 tin Of age. then
10000 be sides a eft Of 10000 rubles,
and at their marriage another gift OF
2000O0
Nine. Rejane, the French actress. is
now setting the fashions 10 the women
OF the gay metropolis, and so to the
world. Sarah Rernhardt. equally noto-
rOius and FAR more gifted, tried TO sue
coed Eugenie as a fashion leader after
the fall OF the Empire, but she hadn't
the figure or the taste.
More than half a century ago"
French lady said the other day, two
simple children at a garden tete AZ
Versailles took a fancy 10 me- and would
have me talk TO them, play with them
ana prepare their fruit Their own very
tine ladies' bribed and cOaXed 10 no avail;
the children returned Ia me and sat upon
my knees. Destiny has strange surprises
in her lottery Those children are now
Queen Victoria and the ex-Einpress Eu-
genie At that time who could have fore
told their future greatness, FOR they were
both many moves from holding the scep-
ter? So you see that on my lap were
seated AT one moment the future Sow
ereigns of two mighty kingdoms.
Colts latest British victim Is the Mar
qus of Salisbury, who, In spite OF us
slxty-fo years, was drawn INTO tle
game recently while staying with Bar
Balfour.
new shirt collar has lately appear
in Paris, and, being used by the fIeaof
don't. las b1en nicknamed the ords'