Excerpt from Conservations for Freedom’s Cause
Concentrated sunshine, purest of distilled waters, Nature’s sweets Fruits best of all, supply the universal craving for sweets. The time has passed when fruits were regarded as an article of luxury rather than a staple food. Rich. Ripe. Raw fruits are essential to a perfect dietary. They contain the richest, purest sweets of the most reliable brand. When man takes these distilled waters. Sugars, acids and mineral salts as Nature prepares them his blood will keep its normal tone. The mineral salts in the apple are iron, lime, phosphorus and magnesia, etc. These salts in this form are easily assimilated and aid greatly in maintaining the body in a perfect condition. Apples blend perfectly with one of the meat foods or one of the fats, non-starchy vegetables and salad vegetables. They are man’s most uni versal relish and a child’s delight. A basket of apples on the table in the winter months adds as much beauty and fragrance to the room as does a vase of flowers in summer. The apple pleases every sense, touch, taste, sight and smell, and its fall pleases the ear. Its rare keeping qualities make it possible for people in the most remote parts of the world to enjoy its delicious flavor and refreshing nourish ment. John Burroughs tells us the full-juiced apple waxing over mellow is the concentrated shafts of Northern sunshine; it is the natural antidote of most of the ills the flesh is heir to, full of vegetable acids and aromatics. Its sugar and mucilage make it highly nutritious. The apple is the commonest and yet the most varied and beautiful of fruits - temperate. Chaste, bracing, sub-acid, active, best friend of man. To absorb and transmute its quality one would be cheerful, contented, equitable, sweet-blooded, long-lived, shedding warmth and sunshine and contentment all round.
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