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delicious refreshment for your guests Avhen they drop in to 

 spend a Avinter's evening and Avill ereate a spirit of hospital- 

 ity and good cheer, (Applause). 



THE CHAIRMAN: I wonder if the people in the 

 audience realize how much hungrier you look than you did 

 before Miss Hatch began her talk. IMy friend Patch here, 

 ""vho just moved, looks almost famished, to me. We have 

 always been glad of any questions or discussions at any of 

 our sessions, and we plan to carry out the same scheme this 

 morning. We would be glad to have any questions. 



A IMEMBER: ]Mr. President, I generally eat an apple 

 every evening about 8 o'clock. I am now about 80 years of 

 age and I thought I would buy some 800 trees and carry 

 me through to a century. (Laughter). I think that certainly 

 jiothing is better than an apple. Would you say eat a baked 

 apple rather than a raw apple? 



]\IISS HATCH : No, raw fruit seems to me more valu- 

 iible in the diet than cooked fruit, but if a person, for any 

 > ery special .reason, cannot seem to talce care of fruit^raw, 

 1hen cook it, l)ut the raw fruit seems to l)e nu)re healthful, 

 accomplishes more. 



THE CHAIR]\rAN: Well, that is a good advertisement, 

 our friend here has been eating apples and has lived to be 

 80. T should certainly advise him to set out that orchard, 

 and in the meantime some of the rest of us can supply him 

 a few years until it conies into bearing. Are there other 

 questions? 1 would like to ask Miss Hatch this question; 

 it used to be an old saying that fruit was golden in the 

 morning .silver at noon and lead at night, if I remem^ier 

 rightly; what about that? 



:\riSS HATCH: There isn't anything to support it. 



THE CHAIRMAN: I have been eating lots of lead, if 

 there is. 



:\HSS HATCH: Really I think it is a very good thing 

 to eat fruit at night just before you go to l)ed. The acid.s 

 raid cellulose are very good for laxatives, l)ut of course we 

 want to be sure it is ripe, morning or night. 



