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teetotaler and Is strongly advocating fruit juices. This is of scientific import- 

 ance, for similar results have been obtained in thousands of other cases, and 

 the improvement made is founded upon a natural and rational basis. 



The vast majority of people would be greatly benefited by making one of 

 their meals largely of fruit without cream or milk and with sugar in modera- 

 tion. If such were the case there would be but little call for "blood purifiers" 

 and spring tonics, and most women would be relieved of the anxiety incident 

 to a bad complexion. 



A fruit diet is especially adapted to hot weather. If on a warm morning, 

 instead of eating freely of ham and fried eggs, liot biscuit, pancakes or fried 

 potatoes, with one or more cups of hot coffee, fruits and dextrinized cereals con- 

 stituted the breakfast, a much more comfortable day would be spent. 



A piece of lemon in the mouth or a little lemon juice will often check 

 the nausea in pregnancy and seasickness, and quite surprising results may be 

 obtained in treating a felon by putting the finger into a fresh lemon and cov- 

 ering with a cold compress. 



I have seen the most gratifying results follow the administration of fruit 

 juice in rickets and tetany, as well as in constipated children. 



In malarial fever, lemons, grape-fruit and apple juice are the most valuable. 

 In dysentery and enteritis fresh or unsweetened blackberry juice is the best. 



THE FRUIT BUSINESS FROM A COMMERCIAL 



STANDPOINT. 



By Me. W. H. Chapin, with Glafke Co., Portland, Oregon. Address delivered at 

 Northwest Fruitgrowers' Meeting, Portland, January, 1904. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



Some weeks ago, when ISIr. Lamberson asked me to talk to the fruitgrowers. 

 I thought I would have time to pick up something to say. but. like a man 

 with a note in bank coming due, time goes on very fast, hours develop into 

 minutes, days into hours, weeks into days, months into weeks, and so on, and 

 it seems only two or three days ago that lie spoke to me aliout it. On Sunday 

 I said to my wife, "I wonder what I am going to talk to the fruitgrowers 

 about?" and she said, "The best tiling is for you to get up and say you don't 

 know anything about it. and they will applaud you for a brief speech," and 

 that reminds me of tlie story of an Italian who went to San Francisco, and 

 was finally nominated for alderman on the Democratic ticket, not because he was 

 particularly fitted for it but because they wanted to control the Italian vote. 

 The day before election they had a big mass meeting in the opera house, and 

 they told the Italian he would have to make a speech. He told them that 

 he could not make a speech, but they insisted tliat he would have to. When 

 the night came the opera house was crowded full of people. It came time 

 for the Italian to speak ; lie was pushed forward, and he said : "Ladies anda 

 gentleman, I no canna speak a very well de language, but my hearta beata lika 

 hell for the Democratic party." That is the way with me, my heart beats hard 

 for the Fruitgrowers Association. I think of fruit and dream of fruit all the 

 time, though I do not pretend to be a talker on the subject. The commercial 

 side of fruit growing, and the fruit industry, are the things that come to us 

 every day, and are what we are familiar with, so naturally we think everybody 

 else is familiar with it, and that they know all about it. For that reason, I 



