Show r DIET VIET OF THE FUTURE VEGETABLES AND FRUIT TO REPLACE REPLACE REPLACE RE RE- PLACE MEAT Dictates s of D Destiny Point Strongly Toward Toward Toward To- To ward This End Abundance End Abundance and Cheapness of Natures Nature's Production Bound to Turn the Scale That Americans are great meat eaters eaters eat eat- ers may be considered a fact of ot derivation derivation de de derivation from the hunting and fishing stage of ot the country's life ute So long longas as meat was abundant and cheap it had the recommendations which led to its choice as the principle article of ot food The vegetarian who here and there raised his voice In protest against the consumption of ot flesh foods was little heeded heeded A people are guided guided guided guid guid- ed in the selection of their foods very little by deliberate choice They eat the things which are clo closest st to hand The time may come with that remote remote future to which is referred everything Utopian when nations will wiIl deliberately deliberate deliberate- ly select the predominating articles of their diet with reference to the development development development devel devel- of specific racial char tics But at present people in general are not even convinced that what they eat has relevancy ncy to what as a nation they become For a few centuries to come Americans Americans Amer Amer- scans certainly will continue to eat the food convenient to them while good good allowing the sere sereal- sereal ai- ai to tickle their palates with health foods But ev even n American independence nd- nd ence or indifference is amenable to the dictates of ot destiny Just us now Americans seem seem destined to to drift more more- strongly than ever toward a fruit diet The moving consideration Is the fancy figures with an upward tendency at t which flesh foods are sold The other cons consideration is the abundance and cheapness of fruits As wisdom takes counsel of necessity a third motive which of itself would not have great weight is is the superior wholesomeness wholesomeness of ot fruit foods We JiVe produce the biggest apple crops in the world our peach crops are unparalleled unparalleled unparalleled un un- paralleled our watermelons and small fruits respond in abundance to to the mere tickling of the so soil l with a hoe The same story holds true of all do- do fruits But this term has become become become be be- come elastic California distributes distributes' throughout the country great Peat quantities quantities quantities ties of tropical fruits and the area of ot cultivation of these Is constantly ex ex- tending When Wilen the Panama trench Is dug ug the Pacific coast fruits can b be brought to the eastern markets with greater celerity and less Jess cost Modern Modern Mod Mod- ern means means of transportation have made the plantations of ot the West Indies Indies Indies In In- dies also almost the same as though they were within the country c confines It is safe sa-fo to predict that the consumption consumption con con con- of ot bananas especially will wUl soon be increased Oranges ar are being I 1 consumed in rapidly increasing quan q gdan titles Certainly during the summer months fruit will beking be king During th the winter months the tae force of habit will wiIl prevail and more more fruit and less meat neat will b be eaten eaten eaten eaten-Balth Baltimore Baltimore e Her Herald ld |