SECRETARY'S PORTFOLIO. 



LET THE GOOD WORK GO ON. 



What with the daily press urging people to eat less meat and 

 more fruit and vegetables ; every Sunday paper printing a 

 beauty page in which a fruit and vegetable diet is strenuously 

 urged ; physical culturists' physical culture shows urging the 

 same thing, the butcher ought to be all a-tremble, even if every 

 fruit grower and fruit dealer isn't already rich. Vegetarianism 

 undoubtedly is making mighty strides, and we don't mind saying 

 it's all the same to us. 



Apple a day, keep the doctor away — 

 Apple at night, starve him outright — 

 Apple each meal, and one for sleep, 

 Kill him and shroud him and bury him deep! 

 Maids who seek a rosy cheek 



Orchard-way go faring, 

 Apples ruddy, apples sleek. 

 Six a day seven days a week — 

 Show nor stint nor sparing, 

 Pluck and eat, sour or sweet, 

 Seed and core and paring. 



Vaithful and vruitful and vree, 

 Yere's to the apple, lads, yere's to the tree! 

 Vriend o' the varmer, lads, ne'er may 'e vail 

 Till turnips be rosy, lads, and cherries be pale — 

 Huzzay, the apple tree. 



— Fruit Trade Journal. 



