BAKED APPLES FOR BREAKFAST. 



£S\ fs^HE true, not the new, should 

 be the motto of those who 

 write or speak about the apple 

 — the fruit longest in use by 

 our branch of the human race. There 

 are certain simple principles that must 

 be given, line upon line, precept upon 

 precept, to every fresh generation of 

 men, or rather should be given just 

 about that time that the generation is 

 beginning to lose its freshness and to 

 call on the doctor for remedies. Every 

 well to-do man of good digestion and 

 appetite tends to eat too much meat 

 every day after his twenty-fifth birthday, 

 and one of the values of fruit, the apple 

 above others, is the ease with which it 

 may be made an " anti-meat-for-break- 

 fast" article. With baked apples and 

 cream and good roast potatoes on the 

 breakfast table, the dish of cold or hot 

 meat becomes subordinate, even if it is 

 not entirely abolished. Men of forty, 

 the age when every man not a fool is 

 supposed to have acquired the right to 

 give medical advice, at least to himself, 

 will relate their various wonderful dis- 

 coveries and remarkabie self cures just 

 as they had given up all hope ; and in 

 general these reduce themselves to this : 

 " I ate less meat, but I did not know it, 

 and I took a great deal more fruit, 

 especially apples." 



Baked apples for breakfast tend to 

 reduce the amount of meat eaten, if we 

 are inclined to eat too much, and to 

 supply the system with mineral foods 

 and the digestive tract with acids. People 

 who eat too much food are not to be 

 advised to eat baked apples as a mere 

 addition to the breakfast, and those who 

 need a substantial meal must not let the 

 baked apple interfere with the taking of 

 solid food. As a rule those who eat 

 three meals per diem will wisely have 

 the nicest dish of baked apples obtain- 

 able for breakfast. It is a piece of 

 simple wisdom worth pages of ordinary 

 medical literature. The digestion of 

 milk is somewhat delayed by sour fruits, 

 but pure rich cream is not milk, and 

 taken with a juicy baked apple, what 

 dish can be more tempting and whole- 

 some ? 



If you are twenty-eight or thirty -five, 

 inclined to ring the doctor's bell and 

 talk with your druggist, try this prescrip- 

 tion. You may put sugar on the apples, 

 but we shall not sugar coat the remedy 

 with any mystery or any claim to 

 novelty ; we merely turn to your good 

 wife or your housekeeper, and ask 

 whether she is careful to give you nice 

 roast apples and cream, and to make 

 the breakfast meat dishes as little tempt- 

 ing as may be. — Amer. Garden. 



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Southern Fair, Brantford.— We are 

 pleased to notice that the Directors of the 

 Brantford Southern Fair are giving promin- 

 ence to the Horticultural Department in cheir 

 prize lists, a copy of which is now before us, 

 and from which we see that they are offering 

 over $4000 in cash prizes for excellence. We 

 would recommend fruit growers, florists and 

 market gardeners to write to the Secretary, 

 Mr. Geo. Hately, Brantford, for prize lists. 



The Ladies' Board of Directors, which has 



been a feature of Brantford Fair for some 

 years, is again in charge of that department. 

 This year the prizes are all cash with the 

 exception of a high grade lady's bicycle, 

 valued at $75, which is given to the exhibitor 

 taking the most prizes in the Ladies' Depart- 

 ment. 



Special arrangements have been made with 

 the Railway Co's. for carrying passengers and 

 their exhibits. Particulars are to be an- 

 nounced in the regular weekly papers. 



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