Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-09-14
DIETETlcs IN ENGLAND.
The Higher Life People Who Eat No
N Meat.
Especial correspondence

Ehe IiiSher Ltfc PeOple VINO Eat NO
Meat.
Especial correspondence-l
NEW York, Sept. 6,--My friend Louise has
just returned from Europe, has been away
months 81 more, and has learned no end
interesting things. / o know whether
Lolise is n thcosopllist or not, because they
say that t~heosophists, real good ones, never
themselves as such. Louise, how
ever, always knows all about the new things
talked about among the people who are a
little ahead Of the rest of us, and while abroad
she met several of the Chelas, Gurus, NUNS
and Rishees, who write the remarkable things
that we read over here, with bullying eyes.
She had the pleasure of knowing several
modern Pythagoreans-men and women who
not only believe in pre-existence, but ac-
tually remember enough of their last ems
bodiment to fix their identity. For instance,
one man, a celebrated preacher, calmly said
that he knew his previous personality per-
fectIy, but as he did not particularize my
friend did not inquire. DR.. Anna Kings
ford is another who remembers her
past, or is said to. She is a remark
able woman in all respects, the au-
thor Of many excellent books, among
them sThe Perfect Way and eThe Perfect
Way in Diet,n and is also the leader of the
opposition 10 viyisection in England. a
thorough Buddhist is she in the matter Of
diet and regard for all forms of life. h
eats noflesh whatever, and carries her theories
against the slaughter of nimal to the point
Of wearing vegetable shoes, eschewing
leather altogether. These shoes, as described,
are something new and extraordinary, but
have not yet reached our murderons shores.
Soles and all are constructed of some fabric
xooJo frn,,, ,l,rtc ioefAal IF tho 3cEipS NJ
beasts. They are said to look like leather,
have the quality of endurance, and cost
enough to make them popular with "the best
society," which sees no merit in anything not
expensive. They are vegetable, certainly;
but the vegetable fibre is first made into
paper, then pressed into O counterfeit of
leather.
Neither will DR.. Kingsford wear feathers
or furs, or any article of use or ornament
which is procured by the destruction Of its
original and. only legitimate owner: She is
the founder of the Hermetic society, an
organization made up principally of English
theosophists, who wish to investigate occult
subjects and acquire spiritual riches from a
western standpoint--Jhat is, untrammeled by
any absurd reverence for Indian wisdom,
simply because it is Indian. 1t is whispered
about among DIR. Kingsford's friends that she
is Lady Jane Grey, reincarnated. She is
| very learned, and acquired her learning by
the intuitional method, which we are told by
| the seers and wise ones of the east, is the true
| way and the perfect way, and the one that
will finally sppplattt the long, tedious, tire
some process of coming DER and DER now in
vogue,
her rules OF diet. Vegetarian restaurants
have sprung up all over London, and meat is
ruled out by the higher life people altogether.
These anti-rie:,t people call their diet the
v. e. NJ, which being interpreted is, @Vege-
tables, eggs, MILK Some there are who
draw TIL. line on eggs. One doctor has given
himself mp wholly to tho fight against eggs as
an article of diet. He says they are too CON
centrated altogether.
My friend says that all the v. e. NJ people
whom she met, with the exception of DR..
Anna Kingsford, arc sallow, unwholesome
looking creatures, and that the cooking in
the vegetarian restaurants is the; worst in the
world. Why the meat denouncers should be
sallow and thin | can't imagine. Their food
is surely more refined than that of the car
nivora, An English lady in this country told
me that she had heen Il follower of the vege-
tartar rules ffeFs SONS tiifiv, ttut.wds forced to
abandon them BECAUSE she found herself
growing SO sensitive in mind as well as body
that she could not come i'll contact with
others without suffering. She learned, she
said, to feel What persons were about to sri
to her before they opened their lips; and "
know, without a word, Often, what they were
thinking OF. This is exactly what the strivers
after spiritual light claim for their diet, and
why they adopt it. They want to refine
themselves in body and soul; to cultivate the
sixth sense said to inc III us all, but undevel-
oped BECAUSE of our intensely inaterialistic
lives.
Some of Tue FsssfiffSh-I literature or
diet is deliciously clear and irTesistibly allur
| ing. For Instance, we are told that our
NUNS and Risiices awe divided human food
and drink into three c~lasses-Sathic, Rajasic
Il ,rI4 mn I y .x,N 49,, ~ ~ -, la n,,,r,a,
in Satwaguna we must register i'll the first
class. The other two classes develop Rajas
and Tamas altogether, and as everybody car
seq at Il glance we can never climb spiritually
il we have such qualities. All food of the
first class starts one into Daiba Sampada,
while that of the second and third class
pushes one inevitably into Ashuric Sampada,
That being the case, who would take the con.
sequences OF Ashuric sannpada for the sake
OF tickling his appetitel Not J.. Who
wouldn't develop Satwaeuna at all costs
One author recommends pure and simple
cows milk /" some vegetable foods and fresh
fruits. All, hut we cannot all own "pure
and simple cows and must take our milk
diluted. chafkea, or otherwise manipulated
as the milkinan secs fit. Any one who eats
after terrestrial happiness and ~enjoymen,
which Is never satisfied, but ever, increases
With that awful result before our eyes, who
would hunger for such deadly dishssl
My friend also saw Mr.. Sinnett, author oil
"Esoteric Buddhism, ;" and reports him as fal
less interesting than his books, which is offer
tbs way with authors. Mohini Chaturgi, tn,
Hindu who writes much lofty ~theosophisa
literature, was also Known to Louise. Sh'
says he looks like au abstraction. One can
think of him as ali embodiment. He nevel
shakes hands with any me. Thinks 1t is al
unspirftual form OF snlutntioh. He Is not
psychic,Sihongh a Chela ri high degree. II,
wears the costume of Tho upper class Hindu
and has it nude Ut black velvet for evening
and he speaks Englisli esuuisitely.
l=ST1DE GARRISON,