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Show Asailing the Humble Prune. (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.) It cannot be denied that the prune is nutritious. If it were not. whole generations of boarders would have perished of starvation. But it has no variety of flavor. A dish of stewed prunes tastes the same in all climates and in all latitudes. Other fruit charms by its variety of flavor. Apples, for instance, differ as much in flavor as vinegar and molasses. The trouble with the prune Is that it leaves nothing noth-ing to the imagination. A man learns as much about its flavor by eating one prune as by eating all the prunes in creation. This sameness is a fatal defect. de-fect. Surprises lurk even in boarding house hash, but not in prunes. |