Evening star., 1895-06-15

| origines are, and YOU
| may say. "Oh, bother revivals of any sort!
Haven't we just had one of Napoleon, and
| who cared that didn't want to?"
But there's the rub, and the difference
between what has been and is to be in the
| line of revivals.
To revive Napoleon or any individual is,
1 grant you, but to add a figure to the
| spectacle of life which concerns US only
as fancy dictates, but to revive the abor-
| igines is to dig into the past and bring in
| to existence everything possible of stage
of human development which means fad
| that is going to revolutionize the conditions
| Of life in general SO that you'll be obliged
| to join in whether you like it or not.
Confidentia.ly, I inform you right here.
I'm scared about it, for my prophetic vision
| sees not far distant the day when I'll have
| to abandon the reputation of an advanced
| mind, or go to living on roots and wearing
what Eve did, it, indeed, / may happily
| stop short of suicide in carrying the re-
vival to a consistent end.
Goodbye to Civilization.
| That is the truth. The so-called benefits
and pleasures of civilization are about to
take an awful slump. The day is at hand
! when to say of one "he is civilized" will
| be reproach to his aim in life, and an
| assertion CT his lack of culture.
| Already, to keep up with the procession
| as it is moving in my vicinity, have had
| to turn the children out barefooted put
| Irilby slippers and very little else on my
| self, and tegin living as nearly like the
| Swiss family Robinson as the incon-
veniences of an effete civilization will per-
nit But this is merely to strike the gait
| or the movement to come. and you really
ought to know the pace some other people
are travelling.
1t was early in April that one woman I
know broke down and cried in the midst
| of the sixth course of dinner she was
giving, and when she could get the better
| or her emotions said she might just as we'll
declare right there and then that from
that time on she meant to live nearer to
nature.
One Meal n Day.
| She would have only one meal day in
her house, end that should be exclusively
| of nuts and fruits. She said that a COM
| munity of 100 families up in Boston are
| living that way, and. of course, after that
| we all dropped our knives and forks and
replied mo. thank you." to everything till
| the nuts came on, which we cracked val
iantly with our teeth and picked out with
our fingers.
Meanwhile, the lady's idea friend took up
| the subject.
1t is absolutely essential in this plan of
| living near to nature to have an idea
| friend. He said that half pound of dates
and a pint of milk are quite enough for a
| meal for anybody
He is mistaken on this point, however
In my modest way claim to be somebody,
at least with reference to victuals that are
eaten. and after trying one day to live on
| half pound of dates and pint of milk 1
| understood perfectly the origin and devel-
opment of cannbalism. To be sure my
impatience may have entered into the mat
ter Heaven Is not gained by q single
tound;. We mount the ladder round by
round Possibly if 1 had been humble
1 nyysyh to ncrir,
pound of dates and a pint and a half of
| milk the first day, I might have done bet
| ter the second day, and finally. have drop
| ped down to normal capacity for food.
relative to capacity for food, the idea
friend said the way to find out your ca
| pacity is to eat as little as you think you
| can keep alive on till the next meal. and if
| You don't keep alive, or fail in any degree
| to do so, you need to eat trife more next
| time On the other hand, if You more than
come just short of dying, you may know
you have eaten too much. and you want to
| lop off date or two from your rationS.
| 1t is not to be deduced from this that
dates and milk are the only things per-
| mitted by nature ard fin de steele aborig-
| ines. Any sort of fruit and nut goes One
| man know, intimida ted by his progressive
| wife, has reached stage of development
| where for breakfast he eats a mixture of
| oatmeal and English walnuts. This is
more unique than up to the standard of
| aboriginal dietary excellence, because ce-
| reals are prescribed, and the evil of having
| to do any measure Of cooking is sought to
| be overcome. You can see right here what
| the effect of this aboriginal fad is going to
| be on the laboring clasSes-farmers, milers,
| middlemen Everybody engaged in the pro-
| duction of every kind of starchy food must
| go out of the business, as well as every
body dependent on the consumption of AMI
NAL food, and therell be no cooks. This
| last sounds almost too good. to be trle,
| know, but, believe me, the half has not yet
been told.
Ever the Dress Problem.
There will be no dressmakers, either
| revived aboriginal lady physician as
| sured me the other day that all We really
| need to wear is flannel band protecting
| the digestive region from sudden chills.
AS the aim Of the new dietary endeavors
| is to eat only such food as needs the least
| disesting, l can readily foresee an advance
| where no digestive region viii exist and all
| real necessity for wearing so much as the
| flannel band will have disappeared.
| 1 know a woman now who sails for El-
| rope next week with two children, and all
| the clothes she Is taking she will put in a
| box so small she can carry it en- her back
| in case of fire or difficulty with foreign
methods of transporting luggage.
| This woman Is another leader in the re-
vival of the truly aboriginal. She is cut
| ting loose from handsomely equipped
| home and her husband, and without a
servant to her heels. taking two babies
| u,
| other side, where, on the Belgium coast
| she means to make the experiment of peas
ant life and bring back to civilization
when she returns a systematic plan of the
primitive man and his paradise, free from
| the tolls of modern inventions. Her babies
| dainty outfits are all to be left behind, and
for fine linen and purple she has substl-
| tuted blue jean. After the hot season they
| will go to Paris, to the Latin quarter
where is now another woman know who
is seeking in the liberty of this section OF
| Paris the knowledge and the courage to
return next fall and cast off the burden
| of the service of mainmon. Her great,
handsome home In the West End she means
to abandon then and put in practice the
| life she now is learning.
She Has Broken Loose.
This life includes an apartment Of three
rooms for herself. mother and two sons.
which is barren of any furnishing not
strictly utilitarian in character. Here she
| cooks her own meals-she hasn't caught
up with the fruit-and-nuts pilgrims yet,
| though she has broken loose in all else
| from that hydra-headed god of modern
civilization, keeping up appearances"
| Have you ever stopped to reckon what
| would ha left of yoI1 ~ vou ryara to 10 the