The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-09-30
Meat ana vegetables.

A certain dietary vagary seems to
have sort of periodical recrudescen o,
viz vegetarianism; but its advocates
do not stop to explain why men are
provided with flesh tearing teeth, and
they are just now rubbing their hands
in glee at the fact that in the late pc
destrlan contest between Berlin and
Vienna. the first two out Of seventy
competitors were vegetarians, and
covered the ground.at the rate of more
than fifty miles . day, says the New
York Independent"
An Eng lishman. writing in the Lon
don Spectator, says: "All the vcge-
tarians point to the achievement as
proof that their system of diet in no
way interferes with health or ply steal
endurance"
But do facts sustain their position?
A Hindustanee, who has lived on veg
etables, would not have thought the
action Of the pedestrians anything re-
markable, or worthy OF making an
ado about. A regular Hindustanee
carrier would cover n hundred miles
in twenty-four hours. bearing eighty
pounds on his shoulders, distributed
in two portions, at each end OF a
yoke, and many of the Bengalese seem
never to tire in walking; but these
people offer only feeble resistance
to disease. The masterful dominant
races are flesh eaters, and
where the energy is needed that is a
higher gift than the more mechanical
sinew-swinging power, there must be
meat diet to impart it. A lady
whose work was constantly reading
to blind professional man, found
that she must double her meat diet as
soon as she resumed her work after
one of her short vaca tions. "Hun-
ger" does not describe the sensation
she felt when she omitted the fleshy
ration. and she was accustomed to say
that the old wife's phrase, "goneness
at the stomach" was the only ade-
quate language There is carefully
authentica ed anecdote from India
that confirms the statement. that
where heavy task is to be done it de-
mands meat-eaters.
IA Hindu tribe contracted with the
Peninsula Railway company to do the
cutting work essential for the ascent
of the railway over the western
Ghauts. The work was terrible and
had to be done at speed: and, after a
few weeks experience, the tribe found
it utterly beyond their powers. As
| the pay was very good, and their
pride as workmen was involved
| they were almost in despair; but for
| tunately the whole tribe, and not a
| division of it, had taken the contract.
| They called, therefore, caste-meet-
ing, decided tina. during the continu,
ance of their contract they were al
| liberty to eat beef. They finished the
work well, with much profit. and
thereafter were again vegetarians,u n-
| less a profitable intermission pre-
| sented itself"
Many people. even in this age Of in.
telligence, are deluded into the belief
| that they are vegetarians, when sub
sisting on a diet that is largely made
up of milk. BY what course of reason
| ing milk is counted a vegetable passes
ordinary minds; but we recall veneer
able ex-Shaker who firmly believed
that he had mastered the secret of liv
ing on indefinitely when he found
what perfect heath he enjoyed on an
exclusive diet of bread and milk lie
began on it at 60, and combined with
it very healthful amount of moderate
exercise-.and really hattered himself
that he should certainly ''live to 100
| if not more" or he would add, ''yol
see I'm one of these vegetarians. II,
did live to 81. 1t has been claimed
that the meat eating people are more
brutal than the vegetarians, and it /:
said that the Russian soldier, wher
full" overwhelms you with maudlin
gush-he lives on black bread, while
/ the British army boy, under similar
conditions, is full of fight" but the
| IL SC l.,
says: 1.-THE vegetarian races are a.
cruel, as lustful and as wilful as tn,
flesh eating people, and incline, W.
| should say, to be decidedly more vim
dictive. Certainly we would rathe
offend prosperous English artisan
with two flesh meals day, than
Sicilian sawyer fed on macaroni AM
melons"
The men who mend and uplift tn
world are the flesh eaters.