The Archive · 1920

Fruit and Beauty

Fruit is the friend of beauty.

The beauties of the Courts of France knew this and ate fruit to the exclusion of much of the heavy ier food. It is a matter of court tradition that one beauty ate 30 oranges a day and nothing else for a long time. Her reward for this semi-fast was a completion of brilliant clearness.

Bananas are helpful to those who wish to increase their flesh.

A handful of crushed strawber-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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