The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-13

achs-I was about to say morals, but
maybe that's putting it too strong. In
two weeks l began TO get fat, nv com
pleXion began to improve, and it was the
bananas, mind you, for the climate of New
orleans is very antagonisIic to the human
SKIN. My eyes frightened up, and | was
able to write three times as much with
twice the ease as l had been doing here"
"Pshaw! it was the hot milk" interrupt
ed her friend. 81 know a woman who has
gained fifteen pounds, looks ten years
younger and is twenty times happier and
a hundred times more agreeable since she
began to drink lots of hot milk four
months ago.
Am | a calf that hot milk would feed
my BRAIN retorted' the Southern girl. 'It
was the bananas l tell YOU. Waiter
bring me two bananas for my dessert. OF
course m pleased with the Improvement
IN my looks due to the bananas, and
wouldn't for the world disparage the many
virtues of hot milk but it's the improved
condition of my brain that Law the stress
on. AS | said, since 1 began eating ba-
nanas l can do a great deal more work.
and IL Is far better, too. Bananas act on
the brain like oil on machinery. Why, my
mind works twice as fast. Thoughts just
boil up in my head and flow out at the
TO this Bananas nourish the body amaZ-
ingly. and whatever does that nourishes
the brain.
Before L began the banana cure when
ever l felt faint or weak between meals
did Just what nine women out of ten do
1 ate several pieces,of plain chocolate and
felt equal to numbering my own grand
mother the next day. Now I've cut loose
from chocolate, and whenever I have to
miss meal for one reason or another, or
find that I shall be very late getting to
luncheon or dinner, 1 eat banana. The
banana is such a convenient tonic. There
is hardly a block in the city where you
cannot obtain banana and you can eat
1t right in the street without being de-
tected If you are sharp. Then too the ba-
mana is so sanitary. Why, even the Wo-
mans Health Protective Association could
find no fault with the banana it is so
protected from germs by its thick, eel-like
skin. That's another advantage, too; it
is so easily peeled, and there is nothing
about it to muss ones face, hands or
clothes. What the banana has done for
me it will do for any woman at this coun-
ter. 1t will put flesh on you, clear your
complexion, give you rosy cheeks and
bright eyes, feed and quicken your brain,
cheer you up; in short, it will make you
better mentally, physically and morally.
OF course, nine out of ten of you will say
that you can't digest the banana, and yet,
from appearances, you are able to digest a
luncheon consisting of oyster pates topped
eff with cream puffs, chocolate cellars, and
ice cream, and washed down with cups of
rich hot chocolate. That is enough to
prove that I am right when 1 say that
digestion or indigestion is wholly a mental
process. If war with Spain is going to
cut off the banana supply | hope it WOE {
come'' she ended triumphantly, her fresh
face ana dainty figure disappearing.
What crank on the subject of ba-
nanas," remarked thin, wrinkled looking
girl as the banana girl and her chum sot
out of hearing.
Yes" said another girl with a sigh
''but I'd be crank about bananas or any
thing else that improved my looks as hers
have improved, and /, for one, shall begin
that banana treatment right now" And
she did.