Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-03-20
Atiseellaaeuas 8eading.
LIVING ON RAW VEGETABLES.
A Cultured and Healthy Family Who New
| er Use Cooked Food.


IA Cultured and Healthy Family Who New.
er Use Cooked Food.
There are three charming women ir
Berkely who constitute the exception
necessary to prove the rule that man
is cooking animal. They regard
cooking as barbarity. Their dainty
palates rebel at the suggestion of any
food that has had its crude nature
modified by FIRE. To them the che
and all his works are anathema mar
anatha. They eat three hearty un'
cooked meals every day, and are as
plump as 'partridges, as rosy as pippins
and as happy as sandboys withal.
This astronomical eccentric trio
consists of Mrs. L. Beal and her two
daughters, Alice and Mary Beal. The
Beals are cultured English family
Their wealth and intelligence preclude
the idea that their extraordinary diet
should have been adopted through
either economy or imperfect investiga
ton into matters of science. They
moved from England to the South Sea
Islands, where Mr.. Beal was repre-
sentative of her majesty's royal gov
ernment. When Mr.. Beal died they
came to California, and have beer
living in a very pretty little place
which nestles among the Berkeley
hills.
1t was during their residence in the
islands of the South Sea that the Beals
acquired their taste for uncooked food
The Beals are in no sense simple
eaters of fruit. Their regimen in
cludes all kinds of vegetables, cereals
fruits, berries-everything, in fact
except meat. But nothing is permitted
to approach the oven or the pot, the
frying pan or the griddle.
The first article on the Beal break
fast menu is mush. That is, they cal
| it mush, but no one would recognize il
as the time-honored article. The raw
material is taken from the origina
package and deposited in the dish o
each breakfaster. To this is added
milk to suit. The Beals do not con
fine themselves to one kind of musb
but devour by turns oats in different
forms, cornmeal and wheats, but al
ways raw as the article comes from the
grocery. To this are added fruits
nuts and one vegetable, all in state
of nature.
At luncheon uncooked bread take:
the place of the uncooked mush
Wheat, corn or barley coarsely grouno
and mixed with milk is the substitute
for bread upon the Beal table. Lunch
con is completed much like the break
fast.
Dinner is completed by adding two
vegetables to the luncheon menu anG
by varying the uncooked "bread.
Any vegetable that may be in season
is allowed-string beans, cabbage
turnips, carrots, artichokes or aspara
gus, as the case may be. Green corr
eaten from the cob uncooked is said tc
be great luxury, and raw green pea:
are described as delicious. Wher
fresh fruits are out of season the drieo
fruits are accepted as substitute
Canned fruits are never served, be-
cause they are cooked before canning
Among the dried fruits prunes find The
greatest favor with the Beal family
Tea and coffee are never used, because
the Beals regard the brewing thereo
as form of cookery.
ave live upon uncooked food sim
ply because we believe that it is the
best" said Mrs. Beal yesterday. I'll
is not religious mania, but it is done
because we are satisfied that it is
proper from scientific point of view
Our dietary habits are the result o.
our experience while living in the
islands, and, now that we are in the
heart of civilization, we do not see
any reason to change it,"
The simplicity that is exhibited in
eating is carried through the remainder
of the house. The furnishing of the
place is very simple, but of the finest
that can be purchased. The floors o.
the house are uncarpeted, but are o.
hardwood, highly polished, with rugs
made from the pelts of wild animals
found in the islands. The raiment ot
Mrs. Beal and her daughters is as sim
pie and yet as expensive as the rest Of
their environments.-San Francisco
Examiner.