The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-16
EAT APPLES AND BE HAPPY.

l Some Views of J. H. Hale Expressed
 succinctly for 'The Times" Read
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 J. H. Hale, of South Glastonbury, writes to the Hartford Times as fol- lows:
 Tn your issue of Friday, January 4, you copy from the New York Times an article on the "apple club ideas of one c. E. Tomlinson of Chicago, who is es- tablishing branches, or what he calls orchards" in the different large cities to encourage the eating of the health giving apple. Mir Tomlinson is quoted as saying, T am not in the business except to get people to eat apples for their own good. Apples are Gods own medicine. Apples breed optimism, energy, cheerfulness and ambition
 These ideas and his circular asking all to join the Apple club of America are along right lines, though not new or original.
 It has been certainly five or six years since MT. H. w. CollingWood, editor of the Rural New Yorker, started what he called "The Apple Consumers League no initiation fee or expense of any kind, just a promise to eat at least one apple day and have apples in some form on the home breakfast table every morning in the year, and always when eating at hotels, restaurants or on dining cars to call for apples, either in their natural state or for apple sauce or baked apples, whether on the bill of rare or not For all these years now Mir. Collingwood in his paper and from the public platform has been constantly preaching the doctrine of health and happiness to be found in the apple,
 Wnile, no doubt, this MT. Tomlinson will be welcomed as a friend and comrade in the work. it's mistake to count his "Apple club" as the first and real thing along the line, The honor belongs to Editor Collingwood
 It seems that a goodly number of others are thinking along the same lines, and it is easy. now to get baked apples along with other breakfast foods at hotels and restaurants, but they are none too common as yet in the family home, though many are catching on.
 During the present winter breakfasted at the, home of a professional friend who enjoys good living and the following most appetizing, wholesome and nourishing breakfast was served, without the accompaniment of meat andpotatoes" of the average family breakfast: One cereal, a big pitcher of cream, buttered toast, good coffee, with plenty of cream, and a bouncing dish of baked apples. literally swimming in their own juices
 It was a most delicious breakfast and certainly must have been much easier for the housewife.
 During the past thirty years 1t has been my good fortune to visit every state of the Union and most of them many times, and having freely come in contact with tens of thousands of people, I learned ong ago that lovers of fruits and flowers were most all optimists and always looking at life on it's sunny side, large majority of them do not use tobacco, only,a very small percentage use intoxicating liquors, and though often making inquiries on the subject, have never been able to find but one regular fruit eater who was a drunkard, and but few of quarrelsome disposition. am led to believe that if the money and energy expended In the so called temperance cause had been expended to increase the production and consumption of fruits many saloons might have been driven out of business long ago. Just get man fond of good American apples and other acid fruits and away goes all desire for strong drink! Fruit growing and eating makes people sunny, sweet and happy, and am fully convinced that eternal peace will rule the world just as soon as the Fruit Consumers League" has taken us all in.
 No one can be full of fruit and full of fight at the same time.
 For these and other equally good reasons I say more power" to Charles Edmond Tomlinson and his Apple Orchards in New York, Chicago and Boston, and other large centers of population where the elevating and purifying influences of the apple are so much needed,