Evening star., 1933-01-06
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

"An apple may happen TO be better
given than eaten," says an old garden
proverb.
It is an antidote to the popular rhyme
about AN apple day keeps the doc
tor away"
The tyranny of the apple has beer
tremendous.
Many persons are as much a slave
to 1t as serfs were to their lords and
masters in the old days.
They think they must roll over and
play dead when ever any one mentions
an apple.
1t Is a sort of lesse majeste to imply
that an apple won't keep the doctor
away or words to that effect.
Just why any one should be so set
on keeping the doctor away" is some
thing of O mystery, since most medical
men are very pleasing gentlemen, well
worth paying for If one can't induce
them to call any other way.
No doubt most persons would bt
better of if they made less attempt
to keep them away, and had them
visit them more often.
The beneficial effects Of the apple
on some constitutions is very marked
but upon others 1t is distinctly Mill.
Yet every one, despite his personal
preferences, is supposed to sing the
praises of this fruit, whether he likes
it or not.
Our old garden proverb proves that
the prevalent slant on the doctor ano
the apple was not universally held.
Can't you see some old worthy wink
ing one eye, as he mumbled to the
world in general, "an apple may happen
to be better given than eaten"
No doubt it was a direct answer a,
it seems to be, to the more familiar
quotation.
OF course, it is possible to read the
proverb as an excitement to generosity
If said by an elder to child doubtles,
such would be the meaning
At random, however, and without
special settings, it means that some
body or other dislikes apples enough
to prefer giving them away to eating
them.
Pleasant enough to look at, and often
fine for what ails you, If you happen
to have a certain physical constitution
the apple nevertheless falls down in
the eating thereof.
1t Is messy and undignified fruit
in many respects, being worth it all to
its admirers, but, what they should
never forget, not worth it to those who
see it otherwise.
What is so difficult In this world is
to get other people to see q thing as
you see it, especially if you both see
it differently!
Millions of words both oral and
written, are expended annually upon
this task, with just how much net re-
suit of conviction nobody knows; for ii
Is impossible to measure such things.
Many persons are convinced who never
will admit it.
The great trouble lies not only in the
genuine inability of so many people
not to be able to see the other side OF
any subject but also in the plain fact
that writings for a thing are eagerly
accepted by those who already are for
it, and those against a thing by those
who are agin 1t.
With respect TO the great god Apple,
we can only say, as ought to be appar-
ent to any one, that we are agin 1t, and
believe that there are many other per-
sons in exactly the same basket.
In the first place, the word MUNICH"
has been too long associated with 1t.
One cannot eat an apple in the
ordinary sense but invariably must
munich it.
Now, of all the words In the Ian
guage MUNICH" is in some respects the
worst. Not in that it refers to the
grinding by the animals of the fodder