Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-06
FRUIT FOR SUMMER THIRST.

FRUIT FOR SUMMER THIRST.
[From the Lancet.l
Chemical analysis would assign prac-
tically no nutritive value to the juicy
fruits, for they consist of little more
than cellulose envelope containing a So
luton of sugar, the amount varying
from IL per cent as with grapes, to
about Ia per cent, as with lemons. The
amount of water in fruit is consider
able. In watermelons it is no less than
80 per cent, in grapes so per cent, in
oranges Sc per cent, in lemons 80 per
cent, in peaches IS per cent, in apples So
per cent, in pears "a per cent in plums
so per cent, in nectarines SO per cent,
and in Strawberries so per cent, not a
fruit in the whole category containing
less than so per cent. The irresistible
conclusion, considering these facts, is
that fruit plays an important role in
diet as a thirst quencher Certainly
when fruits are freely represented in
the diet less fluid requires to be con-
sumed, and fruits would appear to be
endowed with subtle, inimitable flavor
which is ample inducement to imbibe in
this most wholesome form.
The question SO prominent in peoples
thoughts at this not season of the year
as to what to drink might, therefore,
on sound physiological reasoning. be
answered, eat sound, ripe, juicy fruit. 1t
is noticeable that as fruit enters into
| the diet the indulgence in alcoholic
drinks is diminished. Thus it is most
satisfactory to observe people taking
good juicy slice of melon as preparatory
to meal instead of sherry and bltters
or Cocktail" This is a most com
mendable practice and the proceeding
is dietetically speaking, perfectly ra-
tional.
The fiavorings of fruits, altho of little
nutritiye value, are undoubted stimu-
lants to the appetite and aids to diges-l
ton. Moreoyer. the juice of the fresh
| cut fruit is perfectly free from microbes
/ is as sterile as freshly, clean-drawn
| milk, and the fruit acids tend to inhibit
| the power of those disease producing
| bacteria which flourish in neutral OF
| alkaline media. The marked anti-scor-
butte properties of fresh fruit due to the
| vegetable acids and their salts in the
| juice are of great Importance. For the.
| most part these acids are combined
4 with potash and hence free diet of
\ fruit preserves a healthy alkaline condi-
ton of the blood. and there is conse-'
quently reduced tendency to the de-
| posting of acids to the tissues.
4 Peaches and that delicious and deli
cateiy favored fruit, the nectarine, con-
tain quite small quantity of sugar and
| this coupled with the fact of the tender
4 ness of their pulp, makes them suitable
\ for the equity and diabetic. There can
be no doubt that the juice of sound ripe
i fruit is an ideal means of assuaging the
i intense thirst of hot weather-cooling,
i refreshing ard Of an agreeable flavor.
1t is common experience that the
Il more person drinks to satisfy the de-
/ mands of thirst in hot weather the
worse he feels. The temptation is to
eulp down huge quantities Of fluid. with
the result that excessive perspiration
sets in and a very uncomfortable and
unrelieved feeling follows. On the other
hand, judicious amount OF sound,
ripe, juicy fruit, while containing all
the water necessary to assuage thirst,
would lead to no such distress and
would exercise other healthy effects on
the bodily functions.
World Leaders Hardy Men.
If the student of biography will look
up the life history of the men who have
been the foremost leaders of the world
in every branch of service and kind OF
endeavor, he will find, almost invaria.
!, bly,, that they have been men with
sound bodies and vigorous minds
Among the men of world wide fame
possessing superior physique may be
mentioned Plato, Demosthenes, Charlie.
magne, William the Conqueror, Martin
Luther, Cromwell, Peter the Great
Samuel Johnson, Goethe, and Bismarck
Walter Scott, Robert Burns and Pro
: fessor Wilson, OF Scotland, were distin.
guished nearly as much for their ath.
letics as for their literary achievements
, Peel Brougham, Lyndhurst, Campbell
= Bright, Palmerston and Gladstone, ant
!. other great political and legal leaders Of
: England. were all men of vigorous
health and hardy phys;ques. So were
the great political and pulpit orators
y like Fox. Burke, and Chalmers, of Eng
land. and Patrick Henry, Webster
! Charles Sumner, Beecher, Chaplin
= Brooks, John Hall, and Dwight L. Moo
:. dy, of our own country. The grea
> founders and preservers of the nation
: like Washington, Franklin, President,
: chief justices like Lemuel Shaw
J John b. Gibson and Samuel r
:, Miller, were men of powerful
+, bodies. capable of great physical
= strengthen endurance. Our grea
" financiers, manufacturers, and success
full men of affairs like Vanderbilt, Nc
!. Cormick and Huntington, were of stur
:. dy stock and great constitutional yigor
: So are Morgan, Carnegie, and the pres
ent-day leaders in the triumphs of 81
gantic business enterprises Professo
) Dudley A. Sargent, in September Sue
= cess s
For Over Fifty Years.
d Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup ha,
been used for children while teetiing
o 1t soothes the child, softens the gums
It allays all pain, cures wind collie and j,
y the best remedy for tliarrhoae. Twepty.
d five cents Q bottle.