Fruit Eaters Need No Doctors

' We were rtruck reeently by tbe remarks of a ductor friend of ours, wlio said no one hing wlll do so much to make people independent of the medical profcssion as lie daily tree use of fruit. He had noticed hat tlioie farmers in whose families fruit was regnlarly and larre]y consuined selIdin needed his services. Wc thouiht wli„t, h pit}' tliat every furmer in tl e land could nut be eonvinced ot these trutlis. lt is a deplorable f;ict that farmers' faniiiea do not enjoy that roblUt health tliat country air and nut door life, with plenty of extrcise, should give. Ii is ulso a faut tliat, living on farnig inipc i ion utico alt aiiiiu Li jluuuuc ibundant ciops of the varied fruits, but veiy tew have plenty, and many liever jave any fruit, except it may be au occasj(1n,.i ,4,,.iv.. 'xiie Mandnrtl food in a mauity of farmers' bvosee consista largely of bread, butter nul mcat (mostly pori' :ried in greaf-e,) and, wliere pnany orcake s used, it has lard in lare pioportion in t compositiou ; and thia food is eaten at east nvice, and, in many families, tliree times a d:ij-, year in atid year out. Is it any wonder that they are not more healthy, and that their Drcvailini diseases aresucli as UidlOnte au over consumption )É jfieasy toid. If fruits were xpensive irdtflicult to rais. , there would besome excuse; but there is no part of the coun.ry without plenty of varieties adapted to ts soil and climate, and just such as are iiteil liy nature to both nourisli and cleanse the body, and no more skill is required to grow them than to arowcorn or