The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1892-07-15
VEGETARIAN FARE.
A WOMAN WHO EATS NO MEAT AND
LIVES ON $3.50 A WEEK.

Mrs. Le Fevrc, of New York, Tells About
Her Diet of Nuts, Grains and Fruits.
1t Is Really Very Attractive-Some-
thing About Those who Eat Neat.
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 and
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
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
BILE 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 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 sanitariulns 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 IA
very hearty eater, as eaters go, but sne
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 brash
or muscle than she.
For her breakfast she eaiA cereal
food, gralula. wnutttcaiiL, rlce or t-- u,
OF one of THESE lLt4s5 she lahGs a taDiG-
spoonful and a h.lii, costing perhaps one
cent, and cooks 1t. Then sac nas Il cup
of coffee, costing about one Gent Lore,
and slice or two OF w..tr- SiAIned
bread at less tIIi-n penn :. aIIC'.. s~.4d
concludes the repaat NI.4l s..I of'-i4s9" VI
banana. The quantities gwen are moi
large, but they Can be increased 60 suit
the appetite, and the heart1est eater. sne
thinks, couldn't very well make away
with more than ten cents worth.
The luncheon consists Of pi4te o1
lentn soup. a most nourisHiAS 'taa'. ~
yolving an outlay Oh aOout ne.3 Il $. .sD
This is followed by vese.,-.-.f 81 .e5 ..,,
sort well cooked, IL few OIiSto ~ . .--
two slices of bread, some fr1it. Cl....ll
cherries or something ilko Lhst or i',t,r
ding. The cneck for TINS meal 1.,s:-!s
be seven or el5nt cents ---
Supper is made up Of whole 81. .
or oatmeal bread, preserves. ban;sils>o o4
oranges and u little chocolate.
Once this antineat advocate saw /
porter in the east carrying i 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-thirus Q
the people in the world-three-four,h h
some people assert-l.ever eat meat an'
wouldn't know how to.
In Boston there are vegetarians OF til
= hat iS their
had eaten no flesh for some years boIoE
they were born and they themseiVe
have not broken their fast upon roast
and boileds. 70 these people the sis,
of butchers shop or wagon ioau Z
deceased pigs is exceedingly repuiai'o.
There is no vegetarian restaurant l
the United States, and the nonmeat et.teI
want to start one in New York. Loi
don has at least forty places where oil
can dine upon the vegetable fat OF tn
land without tasting flesh. The mum bt
and variety of dishes that are served
these places ould startle the unsophi
ticated and shock a butcher.
Vegetarians everywhere realize tn;
the best way to preach their doctrine
to induce people to eat one OF the
meals. Bachelors and spinsters bent {
dietary reform and ignorant of cookln
or perhaps not having a kitchen at tie
disposal, find it hard to board at a re
taurant and not live on meat. They C;
live on apples, perhaps-Mrs. LIE Fav
did once for two weeks and grew sto
and healthy-but many of them mig
not care to.
IAN the fighting of the world is do
by meat eaters" said Mrs. LIE Fav1
'Flesh engenders a fierce restlessne
which finds vent in war. Vegetarian
while they will work increasingly, a
not fighters, but they win their point
gentleness and persuasion.
There is constant craving for stil
ulant in a meat eater. Children fed
flesh swallow slate pencils and ASH
1t is because their system calls out
the carbonates and lime of vegetable
Vegetarian children never eat their sls
pencils.
"a square mile of land will susta
six times as many vegetarians as me
eaters. Think of the waste there
herel Meat is the most extravaga
food we can use. The overcrowding
the earth will compel the un1ver
adoption Of yegetarlanlsm.
1.-The roots and leaves l consider fl
for the lower animals. The pig grl
in the ground for his potatoes, bu
don't. / pluck the rich, ripe grain,
nuts and the apple. l consider the
pie the finest food there is. An elec
clan can arrange apples in row
obtain a current of electricity fr
Il .Ny