Smyrna times., 1892-07-27
VEGETARIAN FARE.
. WOMAN WHO EATS, NO MEAT AND
LIVES ON $3.50 A WEEK.


Why is it there gre only about 200
Vdgetarians in New York city, less than
ttie number in either Boston or Chicago?
In the latter city visits to the sanguinary
packing establishments have driven
people to a nonmeat diet, and there is
Large and increasing class that forages
uiOn the fruits, nuts and leaves of the
earth.
These facts were communicated to me
the other day by Mrs. lie Favre, the
leAder of New Yorks vegetarian
$50. She has not eaten meat for
four years. A diet of nuts, fruits and
seeds she claims is more wholesome and
much cheaper than one composed of
Hllsh. Her thirty day experiment of
Hiring on her favorite foods at the lowest
pdlssible cost was recently told of. She
brought her table board down to $1.30 a
week. She claims that with this she
committed many astronomical extrava-
gnnces and that the price can be still
further pared down.
Mrs. LIE Favre goes little further
than most vegetarians in discarding
roots and leaves altogether. The hum
BILE potato, the succulent lettuce and the
h0mely 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
ltaves.
She thinks that they are very poor
class of nourishment an9 intended only
flor horses and pigs, though under "a
vegetarian dispensation what the pigs
are intended for it would be difficult to
shy. Some Of the proprietOrs of vege-
tllrian sanitariums who find potatoes
Somewhat cheap and excessively filling
for their patients take issue with her on
these points.
don't think that Mrs. LIE Favre is
very hearty eater, as eaters go, but she
il very well nourished and does a vast
amount of work for the fuel she con-
sumes. l doubt if any meat eater of my
acquaintance can do more labor of brain
| dr muscle than she.
For her breakfast she eats cereal
| food, granula, wheatena, rice or corn.
OF one of these things she takes table
| tpOonful and a half, costing perhaps one
lent, and cooks it. Then she has cup
if coffee, costing about one cent more.
and a slice or two of whole grained
bread at less than penny 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 heartlest eater, she
thinks, couldn't very well make away
with more than ten cents worth.
The luncheon consists Of plate Of
lentil soup, most nOurishing dish, in
pOlving an outlay of about half a cent.
This is followed by vegetable Of some
tort well cooked, few olives OF nuts,
Two slices of bread, some fruit, canned
cherries or something like that or pud-
ling. The check for this meal would
be seven or eight cents.
Supper is made up of whole grained
81 oatmeal bread, preserves, bananas or
oranges and little chocolate.
Once this antimeat advocate saw
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
/
and found that he lived chiefly on green
Cucumbers and garlic, and never de-
Voured flesh at any time. Two-thirds of
the people in the wOrld-three-fourth
some people assert-never eat meat and
wouldn't know how to.
In Boston there are vegetarians of the
second generation-that is, their parents
had eaten no flesh for some years before
they were born and they themselves
have not broken their fast upon roasts
and boileds. To these people the sight
of butchers shop or a wagon load Of
deceased pigs is exceedingly repulsive.
There is no vegetarian restaurant in
the United States, and the nonmeat eaters
want to start one in New York. Lon
don has at least forty places where one
can dine upon the vegetable fat of the
land without tasting flesh. The number
and variety of dishes that are served in
these places W ould startle the unsophis-
ticated and shock butcher.
Vegetarians everywhere realize that
the best way to preach their doctrine is
to induce people to eat one of their
meals. Bachelors and spinsters bent on
dietary reform and ignorant of cooking,
or perhaps not having kitchen at their
disposal, find it hard to board at a res
: taurant and not live ON meat. They can
live on apples, perhaps-Mrs. lie Favre
, did once for two weeks and grew stout
} and healthy-but many of them might
: not care to.
; "All the fighting of the world is done
: by meat eaters" said Mrs. LIE Favre.
, "Flesh engenders fierce restlessness
which finds vent in war. Vegetarians
} while they will work increasingly, are
not fighters, but they win their point by
gentleness and persuasion.
'There is a constant craving for stim.
ulant in meat eater. Children fed OF
: flesh swallow slate pencils and ashes
It is because their system calls out fol
the carbOnates and lime of vegetables
/ Vegetarian children never eat their slate
, pencils.
"a square mile of land will sustain
six times as many vegetarians as meat
eaters Think of the waste there j.
herel Meat is the most extravagant
3 food we can use. The overcrowding Of
= the earth will compel the universal
4 adoption of vegetarianism.
",rhe roots and leaves l consider fooC
for the lower animals. The pig grub
in the ground for his potatoes, but
0 don't. pluck the rich, ripe grain, tn,
: nuts and the apple. consider the ap
! pie the finest food there is. An electri
o clan can arrange apples in a row anC
obtain a current of electricity from
them. | think we should eat only thl
. very best form Of nOurishment, and
Q consider that the nuts and fruits answe
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