Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-03
THE ART OF EATING.
Vegetarian Fads Reduced to Their
Most Absurd Extremes.
GOOD FOOD AND BEAUTY.
What Bread and Butter Have to DO With the
Worlds Progre.s-Dangers In Food-The
Necessity for inspecting vegct~bles-Proper
Ways Of Killing Animals.
written for The Evening Star,

u oc IN reKaru 10 It's lood.
The men in the employ Of the Hudson BAY
pounds of meat day.
The Esquimaux eat their forty pounds of un-
cooked blubber in the twenty-four hours.
Mr.. kiplings Hindoos diet on baked crow
and rice, with rancid butter in a liquid state.
But the man who reads and writes for news
papers or furnishes achievements for the news
papers to chronicle must have something be-
yond this elementary sor; of living, for action
is translated nutrment.
Other factors of the equation being adjusted.
as the nourishment is. so will the performance
be. The world is slowly going through its
primer OF nutrition by adopting theories Of
food. trying them anu throwing many away.
IL often throws little kernel of truth away
with the rest and must afterward grope in the
dust to pick il Up again.
The past year il has been born upon some
people that they have nutritiye organs who
never were aware of the fact before. For them
eating ceased at the top of the outlet as if food
went into bag from there and they had no
more TO do with IL. A most fortunate state OF
Things. according to general belief. IL il would
oniy last, but this condition is apt TO come 10 a
sudden and disastrous end.
When brain. nerve and will-the power TO
| originate and to execute-have TO wait upon
their feeder ard are practically palsied when il
suffers. men begin TO realize the interdepend-
enee OF soul and body and give the latter q
| spect it never knew before.
| LAW OF WRINKLES
When madam reads from eminent authority
as follows and feels it in her followed outlines
Of face and form, she. too, begins to query
what shall we eat to remain in force and fresh
ness: The skin of the face wrinkles by the
same law that an apple wrinkles The pulp of
the fruit under the skin contracts as the Juices
dry up. and the skin. being too large for the
| contents. shrivels and lies in folds When the
/ fat under the skin of the checks and figure
which in youth is abundant begins TO be alb
sorbed. the cuticle which so long as this fat
existed remained smooth and even. begins to
shrivel and fall into lines. because it is no
longer fitted to the lining beneath it,
| Not an absolutely accurate way of stating the
case, but true in it's limit. How. then. is
madam to retain her good looks and the master
OF the house keep the free step. alert mind and
general sense of well being as long they have
use FOR these things? i think myself that peo-
pie should attend a health class once a week or
fortnight just well as go to a Browning
club, an art class or a PRAYER meeting. The in
terest of the subject would hold out longer
| Then we might sooner settle the limits of
diet for impaired digestions. whether they are
best to go on twelve ounces of bread and
glass of wine a day. like the forever quoted
| Cornaro, whether it is safe to partake OF
peas. turnips and cabbage boiled five hours in
I ettsd VI tHc ds pa. VI uOst are ptplfl-
ming to tell us.
One might risk an indigestion for the sake of
settling the question for himself the shortest
way. We might have the facts for the assump-
tellect. as promulgated by the editorial staff of
| the Boston Herald.
| WHY DANIEL DIETEo.
1t is singular that no one has thought TO
quote the example of Daniel and his diet of
lentils in this connection. and Daniel was sup
posed to see into things as far as most people
1t never strikes any of the vegetarians who cite
his case that it might include special reasons
for the diet Probably the meat of the Assyrian
city was prepared with no more care than that
of India today. where we read that of every
| three Tommy Atkinses one suffers from tape
worm from the detestable meats OF that ancient
and unchanged empire. where the very cows
and pigeons develop tastes for unclean food
and where. as Miss Ormerod Wilson. the ento-
mologist. tells us. the grasses and grain of the
waysides are smitten with rust and fungus from
ground dehled by cholera breeding pilgrim
| ages.
A clean bred, hearty youth might forswear
such meat while at college without being veg
| etarian at heat, and there is nothing to show
that Daniel Ike IT to his baked beans after his
promotion in he civil service where he could
eat of the king meat.
| FRAUDULENT vEGETAEIANs.
This vegetarian question needs closer scru-
tiny than it has yet received, none of the argu-
ments in its favor bearing rigid inspection. For
instance, the nations quoted as living on veg
| etable food never omit meat if thew can get il
The Chinese, who are a stock example. add to
their rice diet all the pigs. dried fish and
| smoked geese they can raise; the Hindoo of
low caste will eat anything with a scrap of meat
| on it-crow, water rat or mussel-and the
| Italian, supposed to live in unqualified strength
and comfort on macaroni and tomatoes in fact
| favors il with goat milk cheese and drenches
his food with oil, and suffers hideons skin dis
orders from living on polenta and bread without
meat.
The English vegetarians of today use milk.
butter. cheese and eggs SO freely that each
| family would need a dairy to itself. and if the
kline were killed off on some pretext there
would be more beeyes than Britions in the
| island The more advanced of the sect deny
the use of bread in any shape as unnatural
For il they substitute such fare as this grayely
proposed as a day. ration of two meals: Three
| pounds ripe fruit, pounds dried eggs 1
| quarter to one-haf pound Of cheese-without
| asking whether YOUR brother likes il or not
| one-quarter TO one-half pound of almonds 1
pint of milk. This is the allowance made out by
Mr.. Hardinge of Weybridge, devout believer
| in no meat.
The idea of putting so much dried fruit into
| one daily requires a stronger digestion than
most people have to spare, nor is the amend
ment of dried fruit soaked in distilled water or
milk much better. Crumpets are not to he
mentioned Tor niilng properties beside such
diet The digestion Of these vegetarians is
something abnormal-or their stories are.
VEGETARIAN ABsURDITiEs.
Witness the menu Of the luncheon which DIR.
Helen Densmoro gave in London last fall to
George Meredith, the novelist of 1.-THE feshly
school" The feast was coldly set forth with
dates, prunes, figs. grapes, raisins, pears and
apples, berries, assorted nuts, cheese in va
riety ono mention of crackers-did thew eat
powdered parmesan on the blackberries?) with
| milk and lime juice for beverages. Let us hope
| they were not mixed. just before leaving we
are told the servants handed round cups Of hot
| water.
With little ground mustard and salt one can
| imagine the warm water serving a useful pur-
pose after such q monkeys repast. One would
| feel after it as if he had lunched of whole
| grocery. One can see Meredith taking leave
coon after the hot water in search OF immediate
brandy and soda, and ordering a very large.
well cooked beefsteak for dinner at the club
| that night. But what strikes a heavy blow at
vegetarianism is the recent detection of Dr.
| AEnus, the leader of the vegetarians in Ger
many, who formally renounces the diet, declar-
| ing that in his experience abstinence from ami
NAL food is the source of atheromatous arteries
q form Of heart disease with which no one wishes
TO be better acquainted than by name.
II is no wonder, however, that the ultra vege-
tarians eschew bread If it is the usual
health order.
The placerd ''unfermented bread" attracted
me the other day in the hope of something
estable but the loaf handed out was enough to
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