Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-04-14
VEGETARIAN FARE.

VEGETARIAN FARE.
A WOMAN WHO EATS NO NEAT AND
LIVES ON $3.50 A WEEK.
Mrs. Le Fevre, OF New York, Tells About
Her Diet Of Nuts. Grains and Fruits.
It Is Really Very Attractive--soms-
thing About Those Who Ea. Meat.
Why Is it there are only about 200
vegetarians in New York city, less than
the number in either Boston or Chicago?
In the latter city visits to the sanguinary
meat packing establishments have driven
people to nonmeat diet, and there is
large and increasing class that forages
upon 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 York's vegetarian
200. She has not eaten meat for
four years. A diet of nuts, fruits end
seeds she claims is more wholesome and
much cheaper than one composed Of
flesh. Her thirty day experiment Of
living on her favorite foods at the lowest
possible cost was recently told OF. She
brought her table board down to $1.30 q
week. She claims that with this she
committed many astronomical e1trava-
gances and that the price can be still
further pared down.
Mrs. LIE Fsyre. goes little further
than most vegetarians, in discarding
roots and leaves altogether The hum
bile potato, the succulent lettuce and the
homely cabbage are not to be found
upon her bill Of fare, nor viii she par
take Of radishes, turnips. carrots or the
many items usually 30 well relished
that como under the head OF roots or
leaves.
She thinks that they arc very poor
Glass Of nourishment and inteaded only
for horses and pigs, though under Q
vegetarian dispensstion what the pigs
are intended for it would be difficult to
say. Some of the proprietors Of yege-
tartan sanitariums who find potatoes
somswhat cheap and excessively filling
for their patients take issue with her on
these points.
don't think that Mrs. LIE Fsyre is a
very hearty eater, as eaters 60, but she
is very well nourished and does vast
amount 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. granula. wheatena, rice or corn.
OF one OF these things she takes table
spoonful and half. costing perhaps one
cent, and cooks il. Then she has cup
of coffee. costing about one cent more,
nnd slice or two Of whole grained
bread ut less than penny . slice, and
concludes the repast with an orange or
banana. The quantities given are not
large. but they can .e increased to suit
the appetite, and the heartiest eater, she
thinks, couldn't very well make away
with more thlii ten cents worth.
The luncheon consists Of plate OF
ientil soup, most nourishing dish. III
volving an outlay OF about half cent.
This is followed by vegetable Of some
sort well cooked, few olives or nuts,
two slices OF bread, some fruit, canned
cherries or something like that or pud.
ding. The check fos this meal would
be seven or eight cents.
Supper is made up of whole grained
or oatmeal bread, preserves, bananas os
oranges and little chocolate.
Once this antimeat advocate saw q
porter in the east carrying 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 greer,
cucumbers and garlic. and never de-
youred flesh at any time. Two-thirds Of
the people in the world-three-fourths
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 sigh
of butchers shop or wagon load Of
deceased pigs is exceedingly repulsiye.
There is no vegetarian restaurant ir
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 il
these places " ould startle the unsophis
ticated and shock q butcher.
Vegetarians everywhere realize that
the best way to preach their doctrine Ii
to, induce people to eat one Of theil
meals. Bachelors and spinsters bent or
dietary reform and ignorant, OF cooking
or perhaps not having o kitchen at theil
disposal, find It hard to board at Q res
taursnt and not live on meat. They cal
live ON apples, perhaps-Mrs. Le Favrt
did once for two weeks and grew stout
and healthy-but many Of them might
not care to.
aAIl the fighting of the world is done
by meat eaters" said Mrs. LIE Fayre
"Flesh engenders q fierce restlessnes'
which finds vent In war. Vegetarians
while they will work Increasingly, ar
not fighters, but they win their point BY
oantlanaaq and parsnagion.
"There is a constant craving for stim
ulant in meat eater. Children fed OF
flesh swallow slate pencils and ashes
1t is because their system calls out fol
the carbonates and lime Of vegetables
Vegetarian children never eat their slat'
IA square mile of land will sustain
six times as many vegetarians. as mea
caters. Think Of the waste there j
herel Meat is tho most e1trayagan
food we can use. The overcrowding o
the earth will compel the universe
adoption of vsgetarianism.