Smyrna times., 1893-12-06
! A FACETIOUS VIEW.
VEGETARIANISM CARRIED OUT TOITS
LOGICAL END.

The Arguments of the Advocate of Vege-
table Diet Applied to Some of the Rec
Ognized Evils of Life, and Some Startling
Deductions Are Derived.
The benefcent physical, moral. So
clal, financial and aesthetic advantages
OF vegetable food are insisted upon by
the members of the vegetarian congress
at Cmcago, and each advantage islauded
as salutary in the highest degree. Pro-
lessor Mayor, a well known classical
scholar OF st. Johns college, Cambridge.
AYERS that vegetarians suffer but little
from thirst. They are "set free from
cravings which the world without hears
as the voice of instinct, strong. imperi-
GUS, inexorable." He drinks O. glass of
lemonade at 7:15 p. m. "from habit rath-
er than to slake thirst" and he some
times takes a swig of milk at railway
station restaurants ''to encourage the
dairy at the expense of the brewery"
Thus, so far as he is concerned, thirst is
abolished. He needs no drink of any
kind.
The English soldiers and civil servants
in the tropic stretches of Asia and Afri-
ca have only to follow Professor Mayors
example. Thus the value of vegetarian
ism to military science becomes evident.
In fact, not merely the operations of the
commissary department, but the whole
art OF war would be wonderfully changed
and simplified if Mr.. Thomas Atkins
would forswear meat. Professor Mayor
has not attained his victory over thirst
without sacrifices, at which the grosser
race of meat eaters will grin. For in
stance, he takes the white of an egg,
neat, without salt or pepper. Thus he
avoids the indictments to thirst and
keeps his palate in condition to receive
with rapture that British vegetable. the
Brussels sprout. Doubtless vegetari-
an palate, long brought up on herbs
and grasses and salads guiltless of condi-
ment, becomes capable Of receiving savo-
ry sensations from dishes of the simplest
sort, and turnip picked up in the fur
row may be sweeter than a stalled OK
tenderloin.
We hope that Professor Mayor will
now go on to the abolition of hunger
He has put thirst away from him, and
there seems no reason why he should be
less successful with its running mate.
OF course he will be allowed to nibble a
radish now and then from habit. even
after he has conquered imperious, mex
orable instinct. The economic advan-
tages arising from the abolition of thirst
would be very great, and Professor Nav
or has it in his power, if he can get the
worlds hunger throttled, to add enor-
mously to the wealth of the world. Still
greater would be the saving if the world
would eat vegetables from habit only.
It's cheaper to keep COW than a man.
We are afraid, however, that the major
lty Of men would go on perpetual strike
II the necessity of eating and drinking
were removed, so that there would be a
loss OF wealth after all But what's the
use OF being wealthy if you can become
healthy and virtuous by eating vegeta-
bles only.
Ihe profound moral which vegetarian
ism holds for prohibitionists is obvious.
The consumption of flesh" " says a vege-
tartan resolution, "creates a thirst for |
intoxicating liquors and should be aban- |
doned by all who desire to promote tenn
perance reform" This goes to the root
OF the matter. Prohibiting grapes and
corn and hops and apples wouldn't be
enough. There will always be some in
toxicant as long as men continue to be
subject to the demands Of thirst. Here's
the real gold cure, the elixir of temper
ance, the pill of prohibition. Prohibition
and garden 'sass," one and inseparable.
now and fOreverl Nor is intemperance
the only evil which viii not and cannot
grow in the garden. DIR. Paul Foster of
Berlin is confident that the adoption of
vegetarian principles will lend the war
between the poor and the rich, solve the
social problem, complete the work Of re-
llg1on and in all ways ameliorate the un-
happy condition Of the human race"
Reflect upon these things, erring car
nivores, and think that every time you
order a beefsteak at the butchers, Won
are ordering unhappiness, the deteriora-
tion OF the human race and the debase-
ment of society. Go to the grocer's and
buy peck of potatoes and some cucum-
oers and plug of tobacco. and carry
peace and potency of socialregeneration
home to your cook. Who can tell that
The future of Europe may not be peace
ful If Professor Foster can induce the
German emperor to live upon string
beans and asparagus tips for a few
months? Will anybody pretend that
Ezzelino might not have been a man as
mild as milk if he had been restricted to
4 diet Of spaghetti in his youth? Does
anybody suppose that Jeffreys lived
lpon olives?
In addition to the moral, physical and
economic advantages Of vegetable diet
here is the esthetical advantage. Mrs.
Bruce, the English woman whose paper
IN ''The Esthetics of Vegetarianisnn"
vas read at the congress, believes that
meat eating is opposed to idealism,
while yegetarianism has much to offer
hat connects it with the highest and
pest in life. The highest aspect of veg
'tarianism is @stheticism. 1t is full of
'ital truth and beauty" We now see
Why Mr.. Oscar Wilde ate huckleberries
when he was in the United States. Using
he term @stheticism in its larger sense.
We see why Emerson ate beans and
Why, judged by results, so many Of his (
disciples seem to have lived on cabbages.
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