Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-10-31
A FACETI0US VIEW.
vsoeTARIANlsM CARRIED OUT TO ITS
LOGICAL END.

rh. A rvumeuts Of tho Advocate OF vegc-
table Diet Applied to Some Of the Hec'
oruixed Evils of Life, and Some startling
Deductions Are Derived.
The beneficent physical, moral, So
,ial financial and aesthetic advantages
Of vegetable food are insisted upon by
the members of the vegetarian congress
at Chicago. and each advantage is Landed
as salutary in the highest degree. Pro-
fessor Mayor. 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
"A the voice Of instinct, strong, imperi-
ON, inexorable." He drinks a glass OF
lemonade at 7:l5 p. m. from habit rath-
er than to slake thirst and he some
times takes swig of milk at railway
station restaurants ito encourage the
dairy at the expense Of the brewery"
Thus. 80 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 wosld be wonderfully changed
and simpli6ed 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 pnt 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
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 May
or has it in his power, il 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 a COW than a man.
We are afraid, however, that the major
tty of men would go on perpetual strike
If the necessity Of eating and drinking
were removed, SO that there would be
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.
The profound moral which vegetarian
ism holds for prohibitionists is obvious.
1.-THE consumption Of flesh" says vege-
tartan resolution, "creates 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, tho pill of prohibition. Prohibition
and garden ''sass," one and inseparable,
now and foreverl Nor is intemperance
the only evil which will not and cannot
grow In the garden. DR.. 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-
iig1on and in all ways ameliorate the un-
happy condition of the human race"
Reflect upon these things, erring car
and think that every time you
order beefsteak at the butchers. Won
are ordering unhappiness, the deteriora-
1lon OF the human race and the debase-
ment OF society. Go to the grocer's and
ouy peck of potatoes and some cucum-
oers and plug of tobacco, and carry
peace and potency of social regeneration
nome to your cook. Who can tell that
the future of Europe may not be peace
Iul II Professor Foster can induce the
aerman emperor to live upon string
Jeans and asparagus tips for a few
nontnsf WIZ anybody pretend that
hzzel1no might not have been a man "a
MID as milk if he had been restricted to
! diet OF spaghetti in his youth? Does
'nyoody suppose that Jeffreys lived
Upon olives?
N ADDITION to the moral, physical and
economic advantages of vegetable diet
mere Is the aesthetical advantage. Mrs
5ruce, the English woman whose naner
N The aesthetics of Vegetarianism" /
vas read at the congress, believes that :
meat eating is opposed to idealism.
!, ME Vegetarianism has much to offer y
nas connects it with the highest and !.
'est In life. The highest aspect of veg. J
.arianlsm is astheticism. It is full Of D
ltal truth and beauty" We now 600 t
wy NM oscar Wilde ate huckleberries o
men ne was in the United States. Using 3
ne term @stheticism in its larger sense ?
70 see why Emerson ate beans and p
.ny, judged by results, so many of his v
iscipies seem to have lived on cabbages G
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