The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-29
Jomer1 and Society.
BY MRS. ,. M. DecOT'TE1

I be ciassed rathep as disease than ! peculiarity
 Three thousand years ago the royal author of an incomparable love song wrote:
 "As the apple tree among the trees of the wood. so is my beloved among the sons. l sat down under his shad- ow with great delight. and his fruit was sweet to my taste" And again Comfort me with apples" or, as the
 marginal reading has 1t, straw" (old
 English for "strew'') ''me with apples.
 This same kingly bard was the first
 horticuIturist of his age, knowing. as
 we read elsewhere. the name and prop
 critics of every growing thing from
 the cedar of Lebanon to the hyssop up-
 on the wall" The exalted rank he as-
 signs to the apple tree is therefore
 worthy of respect, and has been abnn-
 dantly confirmed by latter day pomol-
 ogists and dietitlans. An eminent
 English authority upon food values
 says: Eat uncooked apples constant ly, although. of course. lin moderation. and years will be added to- your life.
 while the evidences of age will be long
 In coming
 Dr. W. W. Hall. for a long time ed-
 itor of The Journal of Health, one of
 the ablest and most common sense writers upon dietetics this country has ever known, nut upon record fifty years ago his belief that 1t was impossible for healthy person to eat enough ripe, sound grapes to inJure his diges- ton. "A pound of grapes" he assert ed, may be eaten at one time with im- punjty and with benefit to the eater" This--to the superficial thinker-start- ling hypothesis is fully supported by the history of the grape-cure, as prae- fka TrS certain towns and cities where thls is popular schools, public and private. are closed for ten days when the grape season is at its height, and household tasks suspended for the same time. Hundreds of families and hosts of vis- itors to these places flock to the vine yards and practically live there while taking the cure" This same "cure" consists simply in eating all the ripe grapes one can consume daily, and lit- tie else except brown bread and but ter. The specific effect of grape juice taken thus. au naturel, is to bring the stomach and bowels to a healthy con- dition. It acts also healthfully upon the blood, dissolves and elects biliary calculi and gravel
 It is altogether possible that the free, joyous life in the open air may con tribute essentially to the marvellous cures reported by those who have tried the course of diet I have described. Granting this, much is left to the credit of the fruit. The grapes must be at their best maturity; the skins are re- jected. but not the seeds Surgeons are now agreed that the popular idea of grape seed lodging in the vermiform appendix is a fallacy. The origin of the belief was undoubtedly of the fact that minute calculi in shape not un- like 6 grape seed are sometimes found in a diseased appendix.
 This chapter is written especially for our use-mother, whose conscientious and consistent aim is to feed her fam fly with food convenient for them. A barrel of apples will furnish desserts for hungry. growing children for a longer ene and at 4 cheaper rate than pastry. confectionery and other sweets at double the price. The abundance of grapes in the market at this season and their cheapnsss-from IS to 25 cents for a five-pound packet of Con cords. Catawbas or Niagaras-bring them within the reach of families of humble means. You may not be able to go to the erape-cure; you may bring the grape-eure to you. Buy the fruit in the storeroom which you have con- Verted foI the time into a homemade small plot of ground, or even city or