The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-12-06
Vegetarian Renaissance in Boston

Vegetarian Renaissance In Boston.
A series of railroad excursions at reduced
rates brought a number of Massachusetts
ruralists to Boston last week, and caused
a wave of exaltation in the easily excited
Boston bosom.
Several spools of thread, papers of pins,
and copies of Madame SARAH GRANp's
masterpieces were sold. Tie spas were full
of pilgrims from Cape Cod and Springfield,
distending themselves with %doughnuts and
soda water. Rapturous hundreds took
their first ride in the Subway. The guides
did a 4 good business in pointing out the Old
South, the Old State House, and the in
trenchments of the Ancient and Honorable
Artillery Company at the Parker House
bar. "Our city," said the Boston papers,
"wears q gala appearance"
Amid this mad rush of business, NUM-
nicipal politics was not neglected. As
sault and battery, verbal or physical, illus
trated som of the Democratic eaucuses.
The Hon. JOSIAH QUINCY thought, and said
nothing. The Hon. GEORGE FRED WILL
LIAMs said, and thought nothing. In short,
a great. busy, precious week.
And OF higher planes han those of bust
ness and politics. In Boston, Mind is
always hard at work. and you can hear it
working. Mind in Boston has been per-
turbed for a good while. What has be-
come of the literary laurels that once
rustled smugly around the Bostonian browi
Why has s~terility blasted the Bostonian
intellect There are more words than
ever, but where are the Boston booksl
There are more things to write about than
ever, but where are the Boston writersf
In clubs, in solitary sessions, Mind in
Boston pondered. 1t came to the conclu.
sion hat 1t was out of condition because it
has not been fed right. 1t resolved to be
fed right henceforth.
At a meeting of the Procopeia Club the
other night, says our esteemed contempt.
rary, the Boston Transcript, the subject of
vegetarianism was extensively discussed"
So was " a sample bill of fare of an en-.
tirely vegetable nature" Here 1t is:
1T copSSted of corn soup with crackers. escalloped
eggs. rice cToquettes and green peas, apOle-and celery
salad with mayonnaise dressing. and cheese waters.
Ice cream and cake, coffee and fruit"
Cheese as an animal product is refused by
the most rigid y~egetarians and they re-
gard ice cream and cake as abominably
mineral. Possibly these objections were
brought out by some of the vegetarian de.
baters present; by the Countess WAcHr-
MEIsTER, for instance. "who has recently
published a vegetarian cookbook, and who
has been for a number of years one of the
ablest advocates of a diet from which the
meat element Is eliminated by SWAMI
SARADASASDA, a Brahmin among Brah-
Minis; or by the Hon. RALPH WALDO TRINE.
Even the vegetarian orthodoxy of eggs,
and consequently Of ~mayonnaise sauce, Is
open to doubt. We trust that the Proco-
peia Club will expurgate its bills of fare at
Its next meeting. Blu Boston, which
doubts everything believable and believes
everything doubtful, will be slow in query.
ing it's vegetables, II they are set before it
with due authority.
There will be a feeling of sadness among
the admirers Of Boston when they look at
the P~rocopeia meal. Is exhausted Mind to
be restored by escalloped eggs and apple
and-celery saladl Can cheese waters, ice
cream and cake minister to Mind dis
easedi 1.-THE prominent Bostonians inter
esting themselves in forming a vegetarian
society for the purpose of establishing a
vegetarian restaurant" and reGstablish-
ing literature in their city, are in
danger Of making a grave mistake.
If they allow themselves to be mis-
led by the pseudolachanophagy OF the
P~rOcopeia Club. The Boston Mind needs
to revert to the genuine Boston food, the
empress and crowned queen OF brain-Luild-
ing vegetables, the Boston baked bean.
That has made Boston, and the want of it
may yet unmake Boston. Other vegetables
may do for other cities, but the city Of the
three hills must eat beans or die.
"YOurS was ! born. and ye.
The hsAn ana beAnsY.
Made all my blood In me-"
3 MultileGuminouS vegstariAniSm will