New-York tribune., 1891-02-22
UEIITH FOOD

We have received copy OF Food" period
ical published in Philadelphia by the Vegetarian
Society Of America an organization of worthy pco-
plc recently Incorporated Our contemporary,
the penetrating reader may perhaps suspect, Is
devoted to strict vcgctariansm in all articles of
diet the cornerstone of the idea being the Graham
gem. "A mixture of sterized bran and distilled
water, baked with wood-irc. We trust that
we shall be parGonci if present some news
OF the movement rs gathered from Food"
As we intmatcd, the Graham gem seems 10 be
our contemporaries notion Of the perfect food the
idea appearing to be that il a man ask for bread
We shall give him a gem. The reader will be glad
20 know that salt, once banished, has been al
lowed TO return 10 the table TO slight extent
"A moderate use of the article probably does
HARM" says Food" but it is still all unncccs-
sary." One contributor finds that "cats, dogs
and Insects do not SALT and that q calf has to
cultivate his taste up TO it, learning TO like 1t
lust as boys get liking for tobacco One
worthy lady writes that she gradually reduced
the quantity Of salt used in her cooking till at
the end Of six months she used none at ALL and
the family never knew the difference. Were we
inclined 10 scof we should call her attention to
the historical man who got his horse down to
one straw day, with the painful result well
known to every sch0olboy 1t appears, too,
from the correspondence tnab certain OF our
vcgota arian friends in England have concluded to
abandon cereal grains, pulse and potatoes, az
containing too large a proportion of starch,' AND
TO coninc their diet wholly to fruit, nuts, and SO
forth This would seem to be their probable daily
bill Of fare Breakfast, apples and peanuts; dinner
peanuts and apples; supper, both. Another
correspondence lady living in Cleveland, writes
that she has discarded "al vegetables which
grow in, or rather, under, the ground" retain
ing only such as mature in the air and suni ght."
This we are glad TO note, rules out the hot and
iniiaming potato and the fiery and exciting turnip,
twin scourges of the human race. There is also
an interesting article on the Beef-Tea Deluson,"
in which it is clearly shown that beeftea is no
better than It, should be- and that what the sick
really want is water
\ thing from which our contemporary derives
great satisfaction is the fact that many famous
men have been vegetarians to a greater or less
extent Meat eating, it holds causes obtuseness
of intellect and renders il impossible for those who
are addicted TO it to see those nict distinctions
in nature, art and science" which it is desirable
should he seen. As confirmation of this idea
have only 10 point to a most notorious meat
eater, the dull and phlcgmatc William Shake
spcarc, who numbered around in the latter part of
the sixteenth and fore part of the seventeenth
centuries The fellow might probably have sue
ceeded in literature lad he given up capons and
shcrrs-sacll and stuck TO Cruel and filtered water.
VcgelaraniSm, aso makes physical strength and
animal courage, Says our Phiadcplia friend.
This, of course, has been long rccognized-indecd,
il the original vegetarian who established this
fact. My SOM" said the original vegetarian. as