The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-25
Responds to Toast
1.-THE Old Apple Tree"

Apple Tree" Attorney II. S. Blandford
today noon, at the weekly luncheon
of the Commercial club, created con-
| siderable amusement when he read
an essay on the subject, written by
one of his small sons Mr.. Blandford,
when informed that he would be ex-
nected to make response to the toast,
stated to his son that he did not feel
able to prepare himself in the short
time allotted him. and the youngster
immediately announced that he would
do the trick. Thereupon, he sat down
to his fathers typewriter, and this IS
what resulted:
1.-THE Old Apple Tree"
"Apple first means by which man
became a man-before, he was only an
angel
"It was the fruit of knowledge, the
foundation of human reason; before
he ate the apple man was child,
! PLAYING in a nursery made by ms
father: guarded by heavenly police
men. for fear something might harm,
or somebody Eidnap the children. At
ter he ate the apple man was con-
demned to think for himself, and by
So thinking has himself become god
| like.
Because of eating the apple, man
was condemned to eat bread in the
sweat of his face-the earliest refer
ence to bread and gravy that l have
ever been able to finland not bad
substitute for apples, as steady diet;
especially for crab apples, such as Mr..
and Mrs. Adam knew. 1 have half
mind that the good Lord made the
crab apple SO unpalatable in order
that Adam and Eve might not be
tempted to eat tit is almost like the
persimmon that the Dept. of Ag. is
now going to take the quicker out of.
'The Almighty called the apple tree,
the Tree of knowledge 1t Is evident
that the Almighty was a long way in
advance of the descendants of Adam.
Even yet the degenerate posterlty OF
| this good man and his progressive
wife. in the eastern part of these Unit
ed States, are trying to pack barrels
| in barrels, bushel baskets, and the
| abominable Lafean box-which is
neither barrel, bushel nor basket, and
is intended to knock HI out of the
western scientifically packed box. The
! lazy man always kicks at the trouble
the Industrious man takes to do things
right. Lots of trouble to educate the
| lazy man
"When Adam was fired out of Eden,
| he was sore. He had to rustic awful
hard, and he didn't know what bread
was He didn't find any bread on the
| outside of the garden, and pretty soon
he got awful hungry, ano he sneaked
over the garden wall and swiped some
sheep, and then he became a sheep
herder And while he was waiting for
tn sheep to become a big flock he had
thistles, and weeds, and everything he
could find that he could get in his
mouth and down his throat, and 1
think he must a did this for a mighty
long time, because the dentists say
man has got all the different kinds of
teeth in his mouth that all the other
animals have got.
| when Noah got through with his
voyage, he forgot about the apple and
started in with the grape, which was
not what was right, and he got stopped
mighty quick.
"TruIy funny situation. All over the
country men are talking mo meat,
eat vegetables. People are saying If
Arabs can eat dates, and other Eastern
peoples eat cocoanuts, and other fruits,
why cannot we eat apples 1t takes 10
acres to raise one beef; 10 acres will
produce, if properly cultivated, 5000
boxes of apples, equivalent to 10 oeeves
, in food content. Let's eat apples.
eff, in the shade of the old apple
| tree, human history and experience
started, let us hope, in the shade of an
old apple tree, human life and expert
ence will end. Here's a toast: May
the human being and the apple tree
develop, thrive and define together,
and that there may be at least one ap-
pie, for the last human being to eat.
ere he departs from the EARTH