Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-06-19
PANACEA FOR ALL HUMAN ILLS
FOUND IN THE SUccULENT
FRUIT.
COMING TO ITs OWN.
Plant Now Being Greatly Cultivated in
Florida and West India for
Commerce.
IT GROWS IN THE POOREST SOIL.

! - AfNOftA yOuI ulStsIiUu ana SDlFiIS.
drink pineapple juice. If you have one
root IN the grave and are nervous
| wreck from the attacks of dyspepsia,
drink pineapple juice. 1t is the grandest
tonic that nature mas yet offered poor
man, and is even better as a weapon
| against old age and decripitude than
| the sour milk diet that has made the
Bulgarian peasants the longest lived peo-
| pie on the face of the earth.'' This. and
more, says DR.. David L. Day, the well
known scientist of the United States
| theological Survey, who lays his splendid
| health at the door of the pineapple store
! house, and advises all who can to fol.
| low his example and be well.
II have been an enthusiast on the
| subject of pineapple juice for several
years,in fact, ever since tie year of the
buffalo exposition, when | happened to
make trip to Cuba" said DR.. Day. Il
| had read some time before of the virtues
OF patent medicine called pasquale
This Pasquale was claimed to be great
| cuFe-all, because of the pineapple juice
| 1t contained; but, unfortunately for its
| manufacturers, the pure food authorities
| discovered that it was composed mainly
| of glucose, and its sale was suppressed
On my trip to Cuba l was accompanied
| by Chicago real estate man, who was
| about as near nervous wreck as any
| OAS ever saw LIE ulu uOI dDDedr TO
| have many weeks to live. When we
got down to the island / advised him
TO try pineapple juice, to drink it in
| quantities, and to keep drinking it until
he had given it a fair trial. No one in
Havana seemed to know anything about
| the process of extracting the juice, but
got number of pineapples, and, cutting
| them up, beat them in mortar with a
pestle, and thus extracted the juice. This
l gave to our real estate friend, and
after he had consumed a quart or so of
the beverage he was different man.
Within Il short time he had completely
| recovered his health, and I'll bet is now
singing the praises of the treatment.
A Chicago Wreck Saved.
1.-THE juice of the pineapple contains
the natural ferments of healthy digestion
to a remarkable degree. 1t is far better
even than sour milk, because, unlike the
milk, it does not have to digest itself.
Sour milk, containing so much fat and
solid matter. has a good deal of work to
do, disposing of itself before it can as
sist in the digestion of other food in the
stomach. Not so with the pineapple
Juice. ] believe that if we adopted the
pineapple juice as a national beverage
the Americans would be the healthiest
people on the face of the earth. We
would never know what dyspepsia and
indigestion We're. / consume as many
!
such a believer in their efiiacy that, in
company with a number of friends, l
have them shipped from Florida by the
crate from Miami.
ION my second visit to Cuba, which
was the year of the st. Louis exposition,
| found that pineapple juice was almost
national drink. 1t was to be obtained
at any drug store, or at any shop where
drinks were to be sold. When iced and
properly sweetened there is no drink on
the face of the earth that will compare
with it, The beauty of the pineapple
tlpple is that it does not violate the
laws of health, or of prohibition, and
one can drink it indefinitely without be-
coming tired of it.
How to Eat Pineapple.
Americans as a rule do not know how
to eat pineapples. They should never be
sliced. That treatment releases the
Juice from the pulp, and leaves the meat
dry and woody and tasteless. Down in
Cuba, and in the lower part of Florida,
where they know how to eat the fruit,
they never peel pineapple. They take
ripe fruit-for pineapples should never
be eaten unless they are ripe-and cut off
the top and bottom; then they split the
fruit lengthwise, then quarter it, and
split the quarters. This gives eight
slices. which are then eaten from the
hand as one would eat a piece of water
melon. BY following this method you
get all the juice and can make a tidy
job of it. You eat it right down TO the
skin. and after trying it that way | do
not think you would voluntarily go back
! to the old way of chopping the fruit
| into chunks and eating the juiceless
pieces.
Will Grow Out of Rocks.
! OF course, except during certain sea-
! son of the year, the cost of pineapples
here is so great that the man of ordi-
| nary means cannot indulge in the juice
| as a hetween-meals and at-meal drink.
But even when the pineapples are at
/ their highest the drink would be a great
1 deal cheaper than champagne or any
| other hlgh-priced beverage With con-
stantly increasing knowledge of the yir-
tues of the pineapple there win be cor
| responding increase in production. and
the price will come down. The time will
come, and not far hence, when fine big
| pineapples may be purchased in any Of
our large cities for 10 cents apiece. At
! that price the man who raises them will
get ) cents each for his fruit and will be
making fair profit. Even when he gets
no more than 3 cents each on the planta-
| ton the pineapple raiser can make 800
| an acre from his crop. Now that is
pretty good farming, for it's mighty few
crc9s in this part of the country that will
yield such figure. The beauty of rails
ing pineapples is that it is chop that
natures quickly. The plantation owner
does not have to wait until his trees are
five or six years old before he gets his
full crop. In one or two years he is in
| a profitable business. and as land Is
| cheap in Florida he can easily buy more
and increase his acreage. The time is
bound to come when pineappleS will he
| the mainstay of Florida One of these
days the Everglades will be drained and
| every acre that is now submerged win
be yielding its splendid crop of pineap-
pies. Pineapples will grow out of
rock. This has been demonstrated. al
though it sounds like a nature fake
story. The coquina rock, which is so
| common in Florida, is q conglomeration
of soft Shells and experiments have
proved that pineappes will grow in that
| In fact, il is one of the easiest crops in |
| the world to grow, and, as | said before. !
one of the most profitable. The only
! thing that retards the business now Is |
| the lack of appreciation of the merits of |
/ the fruit. AS soon as this becomes gem
/ eral the supply viii grow. the trauspor-