Show FRUIT EJ HOT WEATHER Danger It Would Seem lurks in Nearly EcrytldnJ Good to Eat Danger lurketh in all thats fair and beauteous from woman lovely woman to a fresh and wholesome looking box of strawberries lying on the counter in a grocery This is not the despairing cry of a misanthrope mis-anthrope but a fact too true It ia common com-mon talk that hives with all tho attendants attend-ants strawberry rash and indigestion are due to this red and juicy berry There r are other fruits which are eaten of very heartily during the hoi weather and xvhioh ure r nevertheless quite bad In their effects on many people What is sauce for the gpose is in thecae pi fruits decidedly not sauce for the gander During the summer months meats are 1 pretty generally abandoned as food for vegetables of all kinds the supposition 1 being that the fatter are less heating and heaver as odd than flesh of animals or i birds Thig In itself is a mistaken t idea as ma1JIpf the vegetables contain more heating material than a small L amount of flesh which wouu satisfy the J appetite Bntraiobt people will advocate a vegetable diet for hot weather The suminer fruits I are however looked upon many people as very dangerous For Ihis there is considerablereason based on sold fact Tho sight bf a strawberry will albneC use a nausea in many people peo-ple and sickness the breaking out of a rasa rheumatim etc result from eat in c the fruit Pineapples are forbidden by nature to many people who can eat strawberries with impunity A single piece of pine will causa the tongue of such people to swell up the mouth to burn and become i parched and the work of the salivary I glands is impaired Bananas a very popular l pop-ular fruit all the year round but the cheapness of which in summer makes it the most freely aaten of all fruits are condemned out and out by many leading physicians They claim that eaten raw it is more harmful than the cholera breeding breed-ing cucumber and that fried or cooked it is utterly worthless as a food THese facts are known by report at any rate to many people and a reporter of the Argue called on Dr F C Curtiss yesterday afternoon to get tho facts authenticated au-thenticated The doctor said that in the first place the C fruit acids as they are called can scarcely be considered as such from the fAct that they are of course organic or-ganic and therefore easily split and assimilated as-similated with other food in the alimentary alimen-tary canal l I consider fruits eaten in moderation of course a very desirable Article of load The berries are for the most part absolutely harmless The 4 f t rawberry affects some people very badly I bat I think it is not the juice or the acid of this berry but the seeds which are so indigestible Many varieties of the fruit are covered completely with small pointed yellow 1 and very hard seeds From these the whole trouble arises They do not digest C but lie in the stomach and cause a great deal of trouble there and in the bowels t The effects from eating them are I believe be-lieve largely of a nervous order and due to the idiosyncracles of the Individual slid notwholly assignable to the fruit I think there can be nothing in the acids which would create such trouble for when taken as in drinks these effects do not appear The blackberry is said to be constipatinR but there is little or no LJ ground for the statement The root of v the blackberry plant contains astringent matter which of course would affect the bowels but the berries do not 1 be iieve The larger varieties of these berriee are very healthful if they are r areally ripe When green the interior is hard iad solid although the outside may be blarK and attractive in appearance Tg ff j o Q = u The hard fibrous center is very indigestible indigest-ible and should never be eaten Pineapples are said to hurt the mouths of some people I think that this is not from the jnice which is wholesome enough ordinarily but is due to the harsh fibrous and rough nature of the fruit which crap and irritates tongue ton-gue and mouth lhe poorer pineapple the more trouble from eating it A ripe banana 1 think is good eating It is peculiarin this that It is as good in Albany Al-bany as inFJorida 4 The trouble that cemes from eating them is often because they are too green Here too the fibrous interior of the skin is a large factor in the disorders which arise from eating them The layer of thick g strips within the outer skin and partly adhering to the banana itself is what is Indigestible not the smooth fruit Scraping it with a knife carefully after taking off the rind will remove this trouble Speaking of cooling drinks he said that lemonade was very good in hot weather 1C cools the mouth and throat and by acting on the salivary glands keeps the throat moist and healthy The acid of the lemon he thought especially good only it need not be so strong as to affect the teeth An acid state of the stomach is coming to be recognized as avery a-very good state It acts as a preventive of cholera for the germs are killed and eaten up J iy tho acid I would not recom merd eating a whole lemon undiluted for that would concentrate the acid and ender its action on the stomach very badOn On the whole however if a person sin s-in good health and strength fruits and berries are very desirable as part of each meal They will do the majority of people i peo-ple no harm but rather good They should however be eaten moderately temperately as should all other kinds of food Those who are affected by one kind of fruit should let it alone and eat of others Apples and pears even haTe a little hard oebbly core which is as bad for many as is the fuzz of peaches The best and most harmless fruit that I know of is the cherry It is smooth and thin of skin and if a variety is eaten which has but a touch of acidity and is not too sour they are the very best of fruit They have everything to recommend recom-mend them and can do no harm unless eaten of to excess Albany Argus |