The herald., 1896-05-10
APPLES FOR THE coMpLExroN
There Is No Better Cosmetic in the.
World Than This Lucious Fruit.

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There is No Better Cosmetic in the.
| World Than This Luclous Fruit.
| An ounce of prevention is worth q
pound of cure. A little spring tonic is
better than a gallon Of summer medi.
cine In the far southern countries
folks are Meady beginning to take an
tidotes against malaria or concoctions
for purifying the blood. Human beings
| like trees, wish to put out fresh sprouts
| in few weeks. A good dose Of spring
medicine enables them to do so in bet.
ter form. l asked physician yesterday
what was the best tonic for this sea.
son of the year. He answered "fruit."
"Nothing is better than plentiful
diet of fruit for the spring." he con-
tinued. II would omit bananas; they
agree with some. but are apt to give
] the majority Indigestion"
l told him that in my school days each
spring the scholars We're allowed to buy
a barrel of apples. No restriction was
| put upon our eating as many us we
| wanted. The teachers selected good
stock and our parents approved of the
programme. 1t was an old-fashioned
school. and that spring diet was part Of
| the curriculum. When someone inter-
rogated our old schoomaster about the
| l.
never could teach anything to children
| with torpid livers." Hence the diet OF
apples.
"Your schooimaster was man after
my own heart" said the physician. "Ap-
pies are the finest spring medicine there
| is. a half dozen n day Is good dose.
With children so desirable a medicine
| has no terrors. Where something out of
q bottle could not be forced down their
| throats an apple will be begged for, and
| the young rascals are just administering
| to themselves the best of medicine. A
woman may talk about the benefits re-
sulting to the skin from this or that
cosmetic. but If that woman would go
in for a fruit cure. take my word for 1t,
she would get more admirable results
| than ever hoped for.
Lemons, oranges, grape fruit, apples
and grapes. Just before breakfast ev-
| cry morning squeeze lemon into a
glass of hot water without sugar. Don't
gulp this down, but sip it. The hot
| water is excellent for the stomach and
| the lemon cuts through the dryness In
the throat. which is a usual morning
condition. 1t stimulates the appetite
and filters its way into the blood. pur-
| flying as it goes. This is an hour prob
ably before your coffee. preceding ones
bath and toilet. BY breakfast one IL
ready for the orange. which puts the
palate into pleasant tickle for it's food.
Grape fruit. or the large Florida shad-
dock. is excellent for luncheon; eat ID
with plenty of sugar, as you know it is
a most toothsome dish. For dinner I
know of no special fruit to adopt. Baked
apples are always palatable with ones
| nd foil xx.tt1 tI,,
coffee. Before bedtime comes the apple
or two Of them if you care"
| but that doesn't make up your six
! apples. DOCTOR" I said.
| ''Oh. the others are added all through
the day" he answered. Eat one when
ever you feel so inclined. should adj
wise woman to keep bowl of fruit in
the room she oftenest sits in, so that
whenever she feels inclined her appetite
may he easily satisfied"
but as l don't care especially for
fruit, DOCTOR l said, "the inclination
may never come
"Yes it WILL" he answered, Its like
drinking beer in Germany. You can't
stand glass when you go there, but
you find yourself drinking quarts day
in few weeks time. If one is in the
habit of awakening in the night and
| feeling thirsty a lemon squeezed over Il
| glass of cracked ice and placed on a ta-
BILE near the he'd will be found the most
palatable of drinks.
"You have a great faith in fruit. doc
tor" | said. ITS almost cure all,
eh!"
"Well. it would serve the purpose Of
medicine very frequently if adopted."-
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