Fruit As Food

A Chicago pbysician is responsible for revolutionary thcories in regard to fruits. He undertakes to prove the practical worthkssness as food of all cultiated varietics. Hyper-acid fruits, such as the leruou, shaddock, oruuge, apple and cberry, he asserts, should never be eaten. Subacid fruits, such as the grape, pear and peach, may be eaten, butvcith extreme caution. Sweet fruits, like the flg, banana and date, he unqualifiedly corumends, as they are simply wild fruits and have not bsen changed froiu their natural couditions or fiavor by man. On tho other haud, the fruits he condemns, he says, are forced or abnormal variations, as ia ehovni when cultivated and afterward allowed to run wild. They imniediately retrograde and assuine the sour aud inedible qualities originally inherent in them. Man, he claims, has not been able to make a proper food of them. They are unnatural combinations of fruit elements, and are frequently prone to cause digestive disturbances when taken into the stomach. By forcing Beedlings, grafting aud assiduously cultivatiug under artificial conditions man has modified the progenitors of our present doruestic fruits, he has made them acceptable to the pala te, but he has not eliiuiiiutcd their Earmful qualities.