APPETITE 



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APPLE 



consideration the knowledge the child already 



'. ich bit of information or new 



knowledge must be so presented as to show the 



relation that exists between it and the facts 



idy known and the relation of each of them 

 as a whole. Only knowledge presented In such 

 a way is of value because it can be thoroughly 



nilatcd and combined with previous knowl- 

 edge. 



(b) When ideas are presented, the memory of 

 past similar ideas will exert a modifying influ- 

 ence, and the tendency is to interpret the new 



by the old ideas whli-h first come into con- 

 scioi; one interprets new ideas in 



the light of his special experience. The artist 

 sees in a landscape material for a beautiful pic- 

 ture, while the farmer sees in the same landscape 

 so much fertile soil suitable for cultivation. 



ASSOCIATION, LAWS OF ; INTEREST ; PER- 

 CEPTION. O.B. 



APPETITE, ap' c titr. This word, which in 

 Latin means desire in general, is in English 

 most commonly used to mean desire for food 

 and drink. Just what is the physical cause of 

 craving which is felt at fairly regular 

 intervals is not known, but physicians agree 

 that in a healthy person it is the very best 

 guide as to the time of eating and the amount 

 to be eaten. One of the new health crusades 

 is based on the principle that one should eat 

 only when hungry, and then only just enough 

 to appease the appetite. It is a good rule for 

 anyone to eat slowly, so as to give the appetite 

 a chance to become satisfied before too much 

 has been eaten. Physicians hold that most 

 people who are not engaged in hard manual 

 labor stimulate their appetite artificially, and 

 in this manner they overload the body and 

 reduce their efficiency. 



APPIAN, ap'ian, WAY, called the Queen 

 of Roads, a famous highway of ancient times, 



APPIAN WAY 



Drawn from a photograph, showing its appear- 

 ance In the twentieth century, twenty-two hun- 

 dred years after its construction. 



named from the Roman censor Appius 

 Claudius, who began its construction in 312 u. . 

 Leading directly from the gates of Rome to 

 Capua, in Campania, it was afterward extended 

 to Beneventum, Tarentum and thence to Bnin- 

 dusium, on the southeast coast of Italy. This 

 broad, historic highway, the Via Appia that 

 the Latin student so often comes upon in his 

 reading, was paved with huge blocks of 1 

 laid on a bed of broken stone cemented with 

 lime, and it formed the chief thoroughfare 

 for travelers from points east and south of 

 Rome. Portions of the road are yet in use, 

 and there still may be seen the ruins of many 

 of the magnificent tombs that were built along 

 its sides in the vicinity of Rome. 



PPLE, the most profitable fruit of 



authority- the iiiuM valuable in all thr wnrlil. 

 It is also the commonest and one of the oldest 

 known; references to it are frequent 

 literature of all countries and all ages. Pop- 

 1 with tl of the 



tree of knowledge" eateh by Adam and Eve in 

 > 



I wnri.i. ami :tll our woe, 

 With 



:i;i'l the Greeks also made an apple, tin- famous 

 Apple of -Discord (which see), the cause of a 

 great disaster. In general. hou,\i. it ha* 

 received more favorable notice, for poets have 



to sing not only of the "apple blossoms 



ulnrh hiiii^ in rich profusion" but of 



the "alluring fruit" as well. Bryant's /' 



of the Apple Tree is a much-loved porm which 



sings of the beauties and uses of the tree itself. 



name is used, in combination, for \ 



:>ot at all ivl.it, ,1 1.. ll..- 

 Rather start linn, at liret, seems Whu 



