Show In Humboldt6 time he on one occa clon rcmarlc remarked 0 that more nutritious food cmijd be raised on an acre nutrltouB of land planted to bananas than In any other way TippftheTongue in the New York Press Hays that the na tives of the Islands of the Caribbean Ca-ribbean se pack weights of from 150 to 200 31 pounds over the hills h16 and the writer says he has been in formed that their sole food Is bananas That Is possibly true but pssibl t those arc shortlived men Their tissues tssues give way early and the reason thoy are able to puck such heavy loads is because of constant 1 practice Just the same as the ordinary man that drlllu drHu himself every 4 1 day can in L little while lift L weight I of several hundred pounds But that docs not establish that ho lias u strong i constitution and the natives of Central America and tho islands of the Carib I 1 I bean sea are all wcazenfaccd and look I when to be a hundred years old at an age the while man IH In his prime their tissues are all shrunken I BY the way Tip tells I tels some very In J tereatlnp stories about how bananas are I made ready for the market in this coun try Of COUrse they are picked green Jn the southland tllancl from nc where they we brought and have to be ripened after I their arrival and ripened In dark aCC1 ccl 1 r I lars or bj a worse process Tip hhlts very strongly that I Is not uncommon for the Dago venders to sleep with their fruit offering the heat of their bodies to mellow It We mention tho matter to give a new flavor to the fruit I received here Some of It needs It |