Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-02-10
A Dissertation on Turnips and
Theoscphy Called Forth by a Lunch
VARIOUS PSYCHIC PHENOMENA
Full and Free Discussion and To-
bacco Smoke
WIS ARE NOT GOOD WIVES

! Written exclusively for The Evening star.
Oriental opinion to the contrary not
| outstanding we are looking up in spirit
ual matters. If you doubt it. compare our
! green srocer's bill with that of our butch
ers, and note with what mystic devotion
! We are devoTing vegetables to the ex-
cuson of meat. This. too. mind you, for
our souls salvation, and only incidentally
DO we recollest that the practice is equally
! good for compilations.
Ever since high priestess of theosophy
lifted up her voice in our midst last win
ter and described what fr.ghtful magnet
isms We attract TO ourselves ating flesh
food, we have abjured red-trickling steaks
and juicy joints we would the satanic
majesty Of whose power they are conddc-
! tors. A practical reason for our vegetable
virtue is that il makes us Sood-na tured
| If you care to so into the metaphysics of it,
you will understand that by assimilating
with our own the bodies of murdered beasts
their arrested development resumes OPP
erations in our vitais and degTades our ma
/ tuFe Seeking perfect life. should
feed upon the perfection of life among the
! lower orders, which sustain our physical
state. viz. ripe apples. ripe Potatoes ripe
grain. The forces which went to produce
their FOODS being exhausted in fruition, we
have nothing to fear from thcrl. as they
! nave no power to resist the action of our
higher nature. Sickness and death re-
sditinS from eating unripe forms of these
lnla&s is easily explained clearly the meta
PHYSICS or an attack of cholera morous is
the unripe fruit when occasions our dis
tress retains enough of its individual force
to set up rebellion against the order of
our being. Thus the historic wee Of John
ny Jones ana his sister Sue might be tran
scenden Laiiy described as the triumphant
'Sotism of an unripe peach. But this is
getting technical
I There are some of us who stiu ya,trra
blue point and bird with our vegetables.
Any seeming incongruty in this does not
appear to the enlightened mind tina, prasns
the reason why a Christian NAV deyour
any animal but man, and consistently
usiinn the cannibal menu that includes him
inS thristlah feeds upon slaughtered COWS
Win clear conscience. because ne does NOT
recognize the existence OF their souls The
c2hIlbal feeds on Christians fer the san,e
: reason, Likewise we vegetarians are gov
slhtd III our varying courses by different
degrees OF insight.
At the Y. v. Luncheon
was ut a luncheon given by the v w.
Nedic Negetaiians) the other day. The
spread Was not limited to mama and honey
from heaven. but ordered on as broad ,rin.
ciples as theosophy. 1t Offered fish fowl
ana fruit on terms of perfect equality. with
a hsht for our cigarettes after grace This
nSht was originally furnished by Annie
besaht when last she visited U.S. in explain
rs nov II was or l should say out OF re-
gard Tor her continued existence how If *
Madame BlaNatsky finds a cigarette. Gown
Pt1ipie win asceticism. have no direct in
..snisehce 10 warrant the assumption that
Madame Blavatsky continues TO spnoLa
where she is but be that as IN NAV on
removing the veil from Isis she discovered
tlat, TO use Mrs. Besants own words
smoking cigarettes affords the power IN
warn OH from ones nature certain yibra-
lions OF a destructive character, to over
come which otherwise there would have 10
ee expended great amount of psychic
lorce Thus, If You chance upon us with
the filthy weed between our lips Won NAV
know that distrustful of our SURROUNDINGS
instead of idly beseeching Providence to de-
nVer us from evil We are avoiding tempta-
ton by fumigating the tempter.
we Always smoke at V. V. meeting
Not that all being women We are particu-
iarly suspicious of our surroundings, but
IN ORDER That there may be full and free
discussion of truth without possible harm
to any unprepared mind.
Various Psychic Phenomena,
We love Truth. We inevitably spell il
with capital T. and for its sake we not
only smoke cigarettes, but experience ali
sorts of psychic phenomena that would
have got us smoked ourselves in the DAYS
when witches were not known for what
they are For instance. at the luncheon
have mentioned the wife of western Sem
ator related how the night previous her
faith had cured her daughter of a terrible
toothache, and said that as she went back
| to her own room after accomplishing the
cure she daZzied to behold her body
enveloped in red light that illumined the
dark hall through which she passed like
| the light of the setting sun. The wife OF a
well-known judge told how a recent tour
fh,A,r 1l1Al A-rG
charm for her by the lack of novelty she
everywhere experienced The strangest
scenes and strangeSt people greeted her
with an elusive familiarity that all but re-
vealed to her how and when she had been
| associated with them before. Another
woman told the story of her pet blood
hound. which suggested Balzac's "A Pas
| sion of the Desert, and a naval officers
| wife narrated how she was followed to
| Japan and back b" tramp cat that still
haunts her at every turn with renroach-
doubt in her mind that in some former in
! carnation of then, both this cat has loved
and lost its soul for her.
The v. VS. Not Good Wives.
Afterward. general conversation turned
| upon Oscar Wilde's new gospel of sin-that
| we overcome vice by being vicious. simiia
! similibus curautur If YOU could have
| heard what was said this subject, you
would know exactly why We sound no syl-
| liable of our potato gospel'' in your ears
! If your soul still inclines to beef and NUT
ton. Recognizing the truth that every car
Eal impulse is. phiosophically considered.
| an expansive force in nature, which must
explode at one point If it doesn't at anoth-
er, we will cook meat for men as long
! they ask for it, Still, broad-mnded and
| accommodating as we are | wouldn't ad-
wise q man to marry one of us. You want
your wife on earth not at all, and We
WIS are most at nome in the clouds
With our minds in ''yoga," and our spirits
| in ''nirvana,'' leave You unwifed and
yet not a witower-a condition of affairs
| that is pretty apt to bore you IL Ii doesn't
in the end render you polygamous. l don't
mind confessng that Wv. though I am. l
eat UNDERGONE beef myself at regular inter
walls with great relish and an ethical pur-
pose. In the first place. one does get
beastly hungry living on hay. 1t is endur-
able for day or two, but there comes an
hour when the growing, growing empti-
| ness within, like some horrible monster.
roars for blood. and one must have a roast
| or steak or die. On such an occasion /
| take tine meat. Some advanced women
prefer to die. Either course establishes
| harmonious relations with ones husband,
and so the interests of truth and righteous
| ness are served.
The Laws.
The code of laws upon which have
founded our vegetarian society in Washing
ton is contained in the ancient Vedas There