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Show Apple of Eden Not in It You find charred pears in the kitchen heaps of middle Europe, where the lake villages used to be. These remnants date back of the ap. pie, and bo far as we can discover the pear was the very first one of this wonderful family to become of importance, impor-tance, to human beings. In fact, It aeems probable that an eatable pear or possibly a cookable pear was in possession of our ancestors a good while before there were eatable apples ap-ples or even cherries, plums and pos- . slbly even strawberries. But the whole pear family was Just as surely working up toward civilized and garden gar-den conditions as human beings themselves. them-selves. Evolution has brought us along together, with pretty nearly equal step, and now it looks as If our future development was to be nearly as close as our past Outing Magazine. Maga-zine. - i |