SCOTTSBORO, ALA., THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1897.
The hygienic importance of a fruit diet is becoming more and more recognized. If only ripe and good fruits are used, the natural appetite for them may be trusted almost implicitly. In many instances, a supposed disorganization of the system through the generous consumption of some favorite fruit food may be but the work of cleaning and regenerating the body—doing that which actually needed to be done, and which is much better performed in that way than through the agency of drugs and dosing. The habitual eater of fruits rarely complains of “a torpid liver” or sluggish action of the bodily forces. And it is this torpidity and sluggishness which is responsible for many forms of physical derangement.