The San Francisco call., 1909-04-11
Scene California rasn vineyard showing the pickers

cereals or specially prepared food for
invalids. The people of Spain for the
passing centuries have had in raisins
greater health food than the ingenuity
Of man has ever compounded.
'Raisins not only possess the food
qualities that nourish the body and
sustain life, but they are a perfect
eliminant of the harmful acids that
are left in the human system through
the use of foods that clog and impede
the organs of digestion and assimila-
ton. For this reason the free use OF
raisins purifies and enriches the blood
and creates Drawn and beauty.
VALUE OF RAISINs LITTLE KNOWN
''At the present time this truth about
raisins is known to comparatively few
in the United States. With the excep
tion of some of the enlightened people
of California, the raisin is still q lux
ury, used infrequently with nuts and
black coffee after dinner or In the plum
pudding a. rare intervals. AS food
used daily and plentifully, in the va
rious ways in which they are a delight
to the palate and a stimulant to the
digestive system, the value of raisins
is still practically unknown.
1T is putting 1t nvne TOO strongly to
say that this ignorance is a widespread
misfortune. When Spain was the only
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ignorance, for the supply was limited.
and the means of distribution made
quate. But now, when the interior val
leys of California supply raisins of sur
passing quality and in prodigal abun-
dance for all the western world, they
should be found daily upon every table
in the form and perfection of flavor In
which they come from the vineyard,
and In the varied forms which they
may be served, cooked and uncooked,
to add variety and pleasure to the menu
and health of the consumer.
The purpose of this little booklet is
to make the real value of raisins known
and in SO doing bestow it alike upon
consumer and producer.
THE raisins of California are pro-
duced under conditions and amid en-
vironments that appeal alike to the
| Imagination and the practical approval
of the discerning. Here are beauty and
utility united in perfection. The lofty
/ Sierras, eternally snow crowned and
! towering above the slumbering valley
until their white pinnacles are lost
amid the blue vaults of space, present
| to man at once picture of incompar-
able grandeur and a beneficent bounty
Of nature that has but few counterparts
in the world. From the snowy fields
and glacial Ice deposits OF these frigid
heights come the exhaustless streams
/ of pure water that make green and
| fruitful the semitropic plains below
| Amid such scenes of enhancing
beauty, in an atmosphere purified by
countless DAYS of sunshine and fragrant
with ever blooming flowers, are Cali
fornia raisins produced.
BETTER THAN CONFECTIONERY
rs 1t any cause for wonder that the
blessed union of such fertile land with
waters SO bountiful and pure should
produce a marvellous vintage, or that
| into the perfect fruit there should be
distilled these elements from natures
laboratory that sustain, prolong and
beautify human life?
THE we'll grown and we'll cured Cali
| fornia raisin is the most delicious and
! the most healthful fruit bestowed upon
mankind. 1t is only necessary that its
| true value as food become widely
known. Sugar in moderate quantities
| is required by the human system This
is especially true of growing children.
The sugar OF the grape, matured and
perfected in the raisins, is, by scientific
analysis and experience, superior to all
other 1t is far more healthfui and
nourishing than any kind of confec-
tionery. The housewife who supplies
the children literally with seeded or
| seedless raisins, and all the family with
raisins in the various forms in which
they are so appetizing, will be amply
repaid for her wisdom by the pleasure
| and good health of those who have bean
placed under her care"