Life — July 21, 1910 — page 32: what you’re looking at

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May I venture in turn to ask whether you are aware of the nature of that theory?’ “*Well,’ I replied, ‘I understand that piparianism is the dictetic creed of those who regard nutarianism as a needlessly gross form of alimentary tentation, and believe that by substituting the pip for the nut a more refined and equally nourishing dict can be provided.’ “*You are very nearly right. But when you say “ equally nourishing" you understate the piparian claim, which is that the pip is, almost without exception, a more highly condensed form of the vital essence than the nut, You follow me?’ “Certainly. But are not the quantity and variety of pips exceedingly limited as compared with nuts?’ “Ah! There you touch the weakest point of the piparian system as at pres ent practiced. But this obstacle is in a feir way to carly removal. Mr. Luther Burbank, who, as you are probably He aware, has introduced the pipless apple food substances not naturally piptonic.’ into commerce, is expected to produce an “*T suppose, then, that at present ihe appleless pip of a size commensurate pip is usually employed rather as an aj- with the fleshy envelope thus displaced, junct to the nut than as a complete dict and it is practically certain that by judi- in itself?’ cious crossing a large variety of giant “*By many people. I myself am not pips will be attainable. A. similar proc- yet a strict piparian. Indeed, only this ¢ss will no doubt succeed as well in the morning I ate part of a brazil nut at case of the Orangeadz, or citronic group, breakfast. Yet I believe it is far better as in that of the Cideracex. 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