DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 15, 8 April 1927, Page 14

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

APPLES (Copyright, 1927.) THE apple is the first fruit to be mentioned in the history of the world. It was an apple that Eve ate. Most other kinds of fruit are called some sort of apple. Potatoes are oarth a.pples—pomrae de terre—oranges are apples of China, tomatoes are love apples, and so on. The apple contains a mild acid which is very beneficial to most systems, although some people cannot eat them. So healthful is the apple as an article of steady diet that we have a proverb, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Many, people eat an apple just before going to bed. It has been noted that those who do not drink or have given up the drinking habit are very fond of apples. They seem to be in some way a substitute for liquor. The apple is the friend of man and the ideal food. It not only contains nourishment and vitamines, but it has sufficient bulk to be of value in the intestines. Apples are good raw, and apple pie is admittedly a great institution. Every encouragement should be given to the production of apples and to their wide consumption. They are not only a pleasant, but a healthgiving food. Children eat them at all times and their consumption does not seem to take away their appetite for other foods. The only thing that seems to be against their popularity is that they are common and can easily be procured. If every apple cost a dollar apiece and was hard to get there would be discovered in them wonderful medicinal values. But things like water and air and apples, though so vital and necessary to life, are disregarded simply because they are so common.