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A Truthful Woman in Southern California

CHAPTER XII
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No pure oil is brought to our country.

The public think the price too high; they prefer to buy cotton-seed oil at thirty-five cents a gallon, and this is adulterated with peanuts, sunflowers, and so on.

This will do for the masses, but the best is none too good if it can be found.
Few appreciate the medicinal value of olive oil.

Nations making use regularly of this and the fruit are freed from dyspepsia.

A free use in the United States would round out Brother Jonathan's angular spareness of form, and make him less nervous and less like the typical Yankee of whom the witty Grace Greenwood said: "He looks as if the Lord had made him and then pinched him." One does not see the orange groves here, but the lemon trees and walnuts and olives are an agreeable change--just for a change.
"Who ever thinks of connecting such a commonplace article of diet as the lemon with the romantic history of ill-fated Anne Boleyn?
Yet, indirectly, she was the cause of its first introduction into England, and so into popular notice.


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