The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-05
Rinehart, Rinehart.
WAGNER AND VEGETABLES,
Lehman Sings Isolde After Eating Rice
Soup.

Lehman Sings Isolde After Eating Rice
Soup.
A vegetarian diet can produce Wag-
merriam music in triumphant power.
Nine. Lilli Lehman several years
ago was Frustrated by severe illness,
and was off the stage for a long time
She even despaired of Tegaining her
health and of being able to resume her
career. At that critical moment two
of her friends advised her to become a
vegetarian. She followed their advice,
with most beneficial results. One adj
vantage she derives from it is that on
the days when she sings she is not
obliged to change her diet Here is
something that she has to say on the
topic:
THE days on which I sing" said
Nine. Lehman, Il vary my mode of
life hardly jot. For five years I have
been vegetarian. What a glorious
word for those who, like myself, can
utter it with such a feeling of exulta-
ton! My shattered nerves had kept
me for a long time on a bed of i'll
ness. 1t seemed impossible for me to
recover from attacks of heart palpita-
tons, dizziness and fainting spells.
FINALLY Eugene D'Albert and Pro-
fess0r klinWoerth recommended me to
become vegetarian Though I had
kind of mysterious repugnance to the
to which had become accustomed. es-
pecially in America, and feared that 1
might be attacked with weakness in
consequence, ] gathered my energies
together and began one day to live
only on vegetables and fruit.
what happened? 1t agreed admir-
ably with me. True, the first two or
three days I couldn't get rid of the idea
that I didn't feel satisfied. But by the
fourth day I was accustomed to it, and
after fortnight the attacks of dizzi-
ness and faintng and heart palpitation
had ceased. I was a free being. cured
of all my troubles, which had been
playing me such bad tricks.
I'm addition to this. I must not un-
deTestimate the satisfaction 1 feel in
knowing when I sit down to a meal
that | am not eating my fellow crea-
lures, and that in order to satisfy my
appetite no harm can come to them,
and it has not been necessary to take
the lives of any of them.
But you want to know principally
what I eat and drink the days l sing
Whether 1 sing or not my diet remains
the same. ] carry out the same pro-
gramme, and that suits me perfectly.
If I happen to be at home I rise very
early-at or 7;3O o'clock-go into my
garden and work there among my
plants and flowers.
"If the weather is bad I write great
deal. At 7:30 I drink a glass of milk,
eat little rye bread, and now and then
some fruit.
casually I dine at noon, but when 7
sing in the evenings. an hour later. I
take plate Of vegetable or rice soup,
then l eat a plate of vegetables. At
o'clock | have a cup of milk, and at
o'clock eat some green salad, couple
Of eggs or cheese. At odd intervals
during the day | have fruit. Perhaps
twice a year I eat fish, but I don't care
for ii much. and only eat it when I
can find nothing else.
with one plate of rice taken in the
afternoon ! am strong enough to sing
Isolde and to stand the strain of all
the great roles which last until mid
night.
Il never touch alcoholic drinks, never
am thirsty, and ! have a fine, buoy
ant feeling when I am out walking
Every morning l go through caltsthen-
les. take swim when can. otherwise
cold baths, work a great deal in the
garden and indoors. l no longer know
what fatigue is since I've become a
vegetarian and can stand a great deal
more both mentally and bodily. There
fore ! can highly recommend this mode
of life. Simple as 1t is, its effect upon
the soul is most stimulating" Chicago
Chronicle.