The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1892-04-12
VEGETARIAN FARE.
A WOMAN WHO EATS NO NEAT AND
LIVES ON $3.50 A WEEK.

IL Is Really Very Attractive-Some-
thing About Those Who Eat Meat.
Why is it there are only about 200
v~egetarians in New York city, less than
the number in either Boston or Chicago?
In the latter city visits to the s~anguinary
meat packing establishments have driven
people to a nonmeat diet, and there is a
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 81. 3 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
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
hat 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 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 a
very hearty eater, as eaters go, but she
is 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
or muscle than she.
For her breakfast she eats cereal
food, granula, wheatena, rice or corn.
Of one Of these things she takes a table
spoonful and a half, costing perhaps one
cent, and cooks it. Then she has a cup
of coffee, costing about II cent more,
and a slice or two OF whole grained
bread at less than a penny 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
lentil soup, a most nourishing dish, in
volving an outlay of about half a cent.
This is followed by a vegetable of some
sort we'll cooked, a few olives or nuts,
two slices of bread, ONE 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 Or
oranges and a little chocolate.
Once this antimeat 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-
voured 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 sight
of a 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 would startle the unsophis-
ticated and shock a 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 a 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.
"Al the fighting Of the world is done
by meat eaters" said Mrs. LIE Favre.
Flesh engenders a fierce restlessness
which finds vent in war. Vegetarians,
while they will work increasingly, are
not fighters, but they win their point by
g%entleness and persuasion.
There is a constant craving for slim
ulant in a meat eater. Children fed on
flesh swallow slate pencils and ashes.
1t is because their system calls out for
the carbonates and lime Of vegetables.
Vegetarian children never eat their slate
pencils.
"A square mile Of land viii sustain