FRUIT EATING.
The more we encourage the use of fruit as an article of food, instead of so much flesh meat, the more we shall destroy the taste for strong drink. In a recent number of the Journal of the Society of Aits, we find Shirley Hibberd, the great horticultural authority, saying: —Those who smoked and drank generally disliked fruit, whilst on the other hand the eating, ot fruit created a distaste for alcoholic liquors, and he defied any man who was a real fruit eater to take to drink. He was satisfied that the move consumption of fruit was promoted the more you would promote the sobriety of the people. Not that every apple contained a temperance society ready made, or a number of- good resolutions ; but whilst farinaceous and vegetable food generally was antagonistic to the use of alcoholic liquors, the use of fruit was still more so, because it brought the palate into that delicate condition that strong drink was distasteful.”
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 305, 20 March 1878, Page 4
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