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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 9184, 13 October 1888, Page 5

Professor Henry Drummond, the author of "Natural Law in the Spiritual World," is pictured as a tall, slim, fair young man, with a trim moustache. The olive has important qualities tore-' commend its use for the table—qualities which should certainly secure for it there a. more general friendliness that it now possesses. One block—and we presume the only one—in the way is that its taste is, ab first, disagreeable to many people; but the palate soon gets over the squeamishness and in a little time and with very little practice learns to take them with intense relish. But, laying aside their palatableness, there is another consideration which has or ought to have too strong a claim upon our gastronomic affections to be ignored : I allude to their wholesomeness in spurring the digestive machinery whenever it is inclined to be anywise sluggish. Therefore, let me say to the dyspeptic that) if his taste does not now flourish for the olive, he should lose no time in cultivating it until it does ; for ho will rind hidden there not only an amount of deliciousness he little dreams of, but also more repairing and lubricating material for his weakened inner man, than in all the pills and medicinal draughts that were ever invented for the stomach to concoct. I would also state for his edification, that, in the south of Europe, whore the olive is extensively used as an article of food, indigestion is scarcely ever heard of ; in fact, so little known that the word itself has no comprehensible meaning. He must take this, however, ius hearsay evidence, for I speak it not of my own knowledge. Still, from persona, experience of the wholesomeness of the olive, 1 am prepared and willing to believe it myseifc