The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-09-13

I and Marseille has ever since prided it.
self on the prosperity of its fruit mar
kets
Fruit purifes the blood, resists the
development of disease germs, and, as
it were, raises the boiling plant OF the
organism.
Sunstrokes involve process of blood
| fermentation, a flesh eaters blood
| might seethe in a temperature that
! would hardly begin to affect the COM
fort of fruit eater. The patrons of
those Rhenish grape sanitariums boast
that their diet makes them warm
weather proof.
A fruit diet has also the effect of a
moral antiseptic and in warm weather
would help to dispel the gloom of that
world-weariness that defies the argu-
ments of optimism.
alas! what avail our ethics against
a diet of bull beef" write Father De
Smeth from Sioux missions. Rage and
roast beef are as frequent concomitants
as benignity and bananas; the plan
tain-eating Indios of Southern Mexico
are almost proVocation proof.
The typical John Bull is an orthodox
but highly irascible country squire.
ITS the damp climate" explains the
vegetarian on the other side OF the
channel, but in a damper climate tru-
gal Pat is as light-hearted as his Bre-
ton cousin.
Tract societies should hand out a
pint of cherries with every pamphlet
The Millennium Association ought to
distribute melons. Our Rhamadan, the
chance for reconciling body and soul
with the laws Of nature, begins in
September, when fruit is cheaper than
meat.
AS a rule, sweet and mellow fruit are
the most wholesome, but there are indi-
vidual predictions, founded on Curl
a I)VEnan-
tics naturally shrink from raw apples,
but there are people who avoid stone
fruit OF all kinds on the plea that they
prefer immunity from collie to the best
peaches ever sent from the freestone
paradise of Smyrna. Del.
Ripe pears however, carry all votes
and watermelons almost reconciled the
natives of Mexico to the deviltries of
tbe Spanish invasion. There is tradi-
tiOn that the heroes of the PyFenees,
the companions of the patriot-saint
Palaya, lived for two years on berries
alone-probaby the mountain whortle-
berries that grow as abundant In
Southern Europe as in our Southern
Alleghenies. and were dried for winter
use nv thousands of bushels, in the
original homes Of the Cherokees.
Danger in Single Diet.
Their ubiquity and cheapness would
make them a good substitute for sanl-
tarium grapes, but there is no reason
why a fruit cure should be limited
to a single product Of our teeming
earth. The rigorists of the TrauDen-
Kur, it is true, stick almost to grapes
alone, even to the exclusion of bread
but their specific is VIGOROUSLY apt 10
cloy, some of the patients being sus-
pected of compromising matters by
FREQUENT visits to neighboring farm
steads, at time of the day
when the atmosphere is redo
lent with the fumes or brat
wurst and sauerkraut. A vegetarian
of my acquaintance had a similar ex-
perfence on a sailing vessel where he
had to bride the supercargo to sell
him a case Of dried fruit. They had
nothing else in the shape Of vegetable |
products, and the result was a lifelong |
aversion to dried figs.
Eventualities of that kind might be |
avoided by more varied bill OF fare. |
Meal sugar and fat are the three |
main requisites of a nutritive diet, and |
the first could be derived from that |
tree-bre known as the banana or |
plantain, the fruit Of the Musa Sa- /
pientum, the plant of the wise men,"
who perhaps really knew what they
were about. AS a staff of life 1t beats
unleavened bread out of sight, not to
mention the bread of our city bakeries.
and the sour rye-paste Of Northern
Europe.
The list Of saccharine fruit would /
run into scores, as far north as st.
Paul, and believers In the Importance
of the fat-ingredient could console
themselves with the fact that q few
weeks practice will overcome a north
lander's aversion to the taste OF olives
Abysslnia. moreover, boasts a sweetiah
olive that seems 70 be as productive
as the acrld variety, and could prob
p bly, be acclimauzed IN Southern Calf
fOrnia. II the definition Of fruit can
be made 10 include nuts, there would Il
as cotton seeds.