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Show The Ancient Pear. You find charred pears in the kitchen kitch-en heaps of middle Europe, where the lake villages used to be, says a writer in Outing. These remnants date back of the apple, and, so far as we can discover, dis-cover, the pear was the very first one of this wonderful family to become of importance to human beings. In fact, it seems probable that an eatable pear, or possibly a cookable pear, was in possession of our ancestors a good while before there were eatable apples or even cherries, plums and possibly even strawberries. But the whole pear family was just as surely work ing up toward civilized and garden conditions as human beings themselves. them-selves. Evolution has brought us along together, with pretty nearly-equal nearly-equal step, and now it looks as if our future development was to be nearly as close as our past. |