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times, asked at the temple of the Gods what she should do to obtain 

 beauty of face. The high priest declared it to be the will of the gods 

 that she should breakfast exclusively on raw ripe apples. This she did 

 and became more beautiful every day so long as she continued the prac- 

 tice. The old priest did declare the wisdom of the gods, for we now 

 know that the apple, persistently and wisely used, if taken at the 

 beginning, will cure constipation and other afflictions, aud their cure 

 will result in beauty of face. 



Apples, How to Eat. Apples, one of the most common and 

 most healthful of all fruits, often become almost a poison to many 

 people merely because they neither know how to select suitable fruit 

 nor how to eat it when selected. Dr. Sawyer, of Baltimore, Maryland, 

 who has spent much time in the study of the effects of the apple upon 

 the human organism, says that he has found hundreds of people who 

 told him they would not dare eat a raw apple; it would make them 

 sick. But after he showed them that by chewing all the virtue out of 

 the pulp and then discarding it, they could enjoy eating apples as 

 well as anyone, they had no further trouble. 



Apples, HOW to Select. Apples for eating should first of all 

 be fully ripe, without being over-ripe, and be ripened on the tree. 

 The practice of picking apples green and keeping them till they slowly 

 ripen (rot) is a most iniquitious one. After an apple begins to decay, 

 even though but a small piece of " rot " shows, it is no more fit to eat 

 raWj for the ptomaine poison of the rot has been absorbed partly by 

 balance of the apple. Again, many apples are very full of woody fibre 

 or pulp. All these when eaten raw should be simply chewed and the 

 pulp rejected. In selecting apples for eating, therefore, it is best to 

 select those which have the least pulp and the most juice. They 

 should be fully ripe and full grown. All other apples should be sent 

 to the cider mill or baked or stewed or otherwise thrown on the garbage 

 heap. 



Grapes. Grapes, when ripe and wholesome, are plump and 

 firmly attached to the little stems. They are unwholesome if at the 

 point of attachment to the stems they have become loose and, particu- 

 larly, if there is a slight discoloration apparent on the grape at this 

 point, or if it has become at all soft. In either one of these cases it 

 should be rejected as unfit for use. 



Grapes are among the most wholesome and most nutritious of 

 fruits. In the archives of the British War Department is the report 

 of Col. McWade, whose corps in India was at one time obliged to sub- 

 sist for two weeks on grapes alone. It developed that the soldiers 

 stood this diet very well, but after a couple of days all the officers 

 were sick with diarrhoea and indigestion. An official inquiry proved 

 that the officers discarded the skins and seeds of the grapes, while the 

 soldiers ate the whole grape. An order was thereupon promulgated 

 that the officers should eat the grapes entire skins and all when they 

 soon recovered, and continued well until food could be provided. 



