Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-04-29
VEGETARIAN FARE.
A WOMAN WHO EATS NO MEAT AND
LIVES ON $3.50 A WEEK.

Vegeldrlans IN New York city, less tha
The number in either Boston or Chicago
In the latter city visits to the sanguinar
eatpacldng establishments have driver
people to a nonmeat diet, and there is
large and increasing class that forage
upon the fruits, nuts and leaves of tn,
earth.
These facts were communicated to m,
the other day by Mrs. lie Favre, tn,
leader Of New York's vegetarian
200 She has not eaten meat fol
four years. A diet of nuts, fruits and
seeds she claims is more wholesome and
much cheaper than one composed of
flesh. Her thirty day experiment of
living on her fayorite foods at the lowest
possible cost was recently told of. She
brought her table board down to 81. 30 a
week. She claims that with this she
committed many astronomical extrava-
gances and that the price can be still
further pared down.
Mrs. lie Favre goes "A little further
than most vegetarians in discarding
roots and leaves altogether. The hum
bic potato, the succulent lettuce and the
homely cabbage are not to be found
upon her bill Of fare, nor will she par
take Of radishes, turnips, carrots or the
many items usually SO well relished
that come under the head of roots or
leaves
She thinks that they are a very poor
class Of nOurishment and intended only
for horses and pigs, though under a
vegetarian dispensation what the pigs
are intended for it would be difficult to
say. Some of the proprietors of vege-
tartan sanltariums who find potatoes
somewhat cheap and excessively filling
for their patients take issue with her on
these points.
l don't think that Mrs. LIE Favre is a
very hearty eater, as eaters 90, but she
is very well uourished and does a vast
Rmount Of work for the fuel she con-
sumes doubt if any meat eater Of my
acquaintance can do more labor Of brain
or muscle than she.
For her breakfast she eats cereal
food, grauula, wheatena, rice or corn.
Of one Of these things she takes a table .
spoonful ana a half, costing perhaps one .
cent, and cooks it,. Then she has a Gu,
Of coffee, costing about one cent more, .
and slice or two Of whole grained .
bread at less than penay a slice, and .
concludes the repast with an orange or
banana. The quantities given are not
large, but they can be increased to suit
the appetite, and the heartiest eater. she
thinks, couldn't very well make away
with more than ten cents worth.
The luncheon consists of a plate Of
lenul soup, most nourishing dish, in.
yolving an outlay Of about half a cent.
This Is followed by vegetable of some
sort well cooked, a few olives or nuts.
two slices Of bread, some fruit, canned
cherries or something like that or pud-
ding. The check for this meal would
be seven or eight cents.
Supper Is made up of whole grained
or oatmeal bread, preserves, bananas OF
oranges and little chocolate.
Once this auumeat advocate saw a
porter in the east carrying a large piano
down the street ON his shoulders. She
became interested at once and wanted
to find out what food would produce
such enormous strength. She inquired
and found that he lived chiefly on green
cucumbers and garlic, and never de-
youred flesh at any time. Two-thirds of
the people in the world-three-fourth
some people assert-never eat meat and
know how to.
In Boston there are vegetarians of the !
second generatiOn-that is, their parents
had eaten no flesh for some years before
hey were born and they themselves J
nave not broken their fast upon roasts ]
md boileds. To these people the sight
II butchers shop or wagon load of :
deceased pigs is exceedingly repulsive. {
There IS no vegetarian restaurant in q
he United States, and the nonmeat eaters !
want TO start one in New York. Lon
lon has at least forty places where one i
an dine upon the vegetable fat of the .
and without tasting flesh. The number q
nd variety OK dishes that are served in '
hese places would startle the unsophis- e
icated and shock a butcher (
Negetarians everywhere realize that +
he best way to preach their doctrine is Y
induce people TO eat one of their
meals. Bachelors and spinsters bent ON
letary reform and ignorant Of cooking.
r perhaps not having kitchen at their +
isposal, find it hard to board at res Il
lurant and not live on meat. They can [
We ON apples, perhaps-Mrs. LIE Favre s.
i'd once for two weeks and grew stout v
nd healthy-but many of them might c
OF care to- !,
"All the fighting Of the world is done b
meat eaters said Mrs. LIE Favre. h
Flesh engenders a fierce restlessness
hich finds vent in war. Vegetarians. c
lille they will work increasingly, are d
't fighters but they win their point by 81
and persuasion.
There Is constant craving for stim- to
ant IN a meat eater. Children fed ON
'sh swallow slate pencils and ashes.
is because their system calls out for
q carbonates and lime of vegetables. pc
egptarian children npvar aaf thoi, .Io4. I be