Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-06-24
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national holiday though there are several
legal holidays during the year, Christmas,
New Year day. Washington's birthday.
Labor day and Thanksgiving day, but Con-
gress only makes them legal holidays for
this District For instance, what We call
Labor day in this District and which 1t
is. a legal holiday, Is not recognized on
either side of the Potomac from US. The
states have their Labor day, but there is
no unanimity about the day selected, as
they have arbor days, founders day and
lot of other days. Some of the states have
state holiday day. but strange as 1t may
appear there is no national holiday day. 1
don't mean to be understood as saying that
the Fourth of July is not recognized as
holiday throughout the United States, but
1 do mean to say that except by common
consent there is nothing about 1t that
makes it national holiday. OF course 1t Is
a legal holiday in the District as 1t Is In
several states, but it is not legal holiday
in all Of the states. For that matter neither
is Christmas OF Thanksgiving day in many
Observation-Disclosures birthday is legal
holiday in this District, but just over in Vir-
ginia it is not. though If there is one state
where 1t should be state holiday it should
be In Virginia
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There is an impression very prevalent
in the minds of many persons" explained
a prominent fruit dealer to Star reporter,
that there Is rheumatism in Strawberries.
1t may be only Imagination. and due to
sons who are subject to rheumatic attacks
suffer from them very frequently during
what is known as the strawberry season,
whether they eat Strawberries or not I
am satisfied in my own case that the acids
in Strawberries work up nice attack of
rheumatism for me every year, but can
not resist them, and do not know as 1 want
to. But there is one satisfaction, and that
Is that while Strawberries may have some
thing to do with rheumatism, cherries.
which follow them, are an absolute cure
for rheumatism. / have never known
person to suffer from rheumatism who ate
freely of cherries, and l know of hundreds
who have been relieved of attacks by eat
ing them. have often had cherries order
ed two and three months before the season
for them opened hereabouts, and to supply
the orders have had to send to Cuba and to
California for them. The ordinary cherry
contains an acid which relieves if it does
not effectually cure. OF course. it may all
be in the season, and that rheumatism
would disappear anyhow, but it is safe to
say that there is no rheumatism during the
cherry season. I don't know of anything
healthier, though even the best tasting,
thoroughly ripe and perfect cherries start
up very fine cases of collie and cholera NOR
bus, which are very annoying. The colored
people of the south think, and it may be
that the same belief exists elsewhere and
among others as well. that all the cramp
or collie is taken out of the cherry by eat
ing it, swallowing stone and all. That I'M
questionably was the practice once, but in
recent years fears of appendicitis may have
changed it somewhat. though. for the life
OF me, / cannot understand why it is so
dangerous now to swallow apple seed, grape
seed or cherry stones, when, in old-fashion-
ed times, it was the rule to do so rather
than the exception. In Florida the orange
seed is very frequently swallowed, and
appendicitis is unheard of there. AS a
mediocre generally cherries
out doubt the most valuable of the small
fruit crop, even If they do not effectually
cure rheum; tism. They free the blood Of
the uric acid which produces the condition
known as rheumatism. and If they do no
more than that should be, and, think,
are, grateful"