The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-02-22

ard. This is Prof. Atwater's cheapest
menu, from this they run up to 30
cents per day for each man.
Now let us look at DR.. Kellogg's bills
of fare. They are from the booklet
before referred to, and are models OF
healthfulness, simplicity and economy.
Breakfast. Baked potatoes, 2 pounds;
oatmeal, : pound; graham bread, u
loaves; cream gravy, l pint; baked APP
pies, u pounds. This is for four per
sons, and the total cost is put u! IL
cents, or AZ cents for each person.
Another breakfast: Drowned corn meal
mush q pound corn meaD; split pea
soup G pound split peas); graham
bread, loaf; apple sauce, q pound
dried apple); sugar, u ounces. Cost
of breakfast for four, III cents. Each
PERSONS share OF cost, 1929 cents.
Dinners. Irish corn soup with crou-
tons, : pound; potatoes, 2pounds; corn
bread g ounces corn meal, 20 ounces
aour); stewed beans, 7 pound; stewed
dried peaches, J pound. Cost of din
ner for four persons, Is cents.
Baked beans, pound; boiled pota.
toes, pounds; peanut sauce, one-fourth
pound; graham gems, u pounds. The
cost of this dinner for four is ten and
half cents. No suppers are given, so a
family who follows the plan laid down
in this booklet can live very economi-
cally. Any kind of grains, fruits and
most vegetables can be used in these
simple bills of fare, also nuts of all
kinds, but meats are not used. This
tends to greatly reduce the cost OF liv-
ing. There are three opinions as to
the use of flesh foods: /. Those who
reject them wholly on account of their
alleged un6tness for human food. 3.
Those who think the flesh of animals
is not necessary to man and that it is
cheaper to do without it. 3. Those
who think meat necessary for man, no
matter how much it costs. A great
many people have a sort ofsuperstitious
idea that they cannot live without eat
ing meat, or at least that they cannot
work without it. do not know that
Prof. Atwater has any vegetarian views,
he writes as a scientific man, but he
suggests the substituting beans for
beef on the score of economy, and says
"The question naturally arises, Will
the nutrients in the beans be really
worth as much as the same amount OF
nutrients in the meat? The meats are
very little more digestible than the
beans, but the difference is very small
The meats also have very small
amounts of materials, 30 called extrac.
tives, which are highly. priced for their
flavor, and which are not contained in
the beans. These extractives are the
substances dissolved in the water ir
the preparation of beef tea and the
meat extracts. For invalids, and some
times for people in good health, they
are useful, but their use is medicinal
they have no value as nutriment. Or
dinarily they are not at all essential
This statement carries great weight
coming from the source it does. /
seems that meat is not necessary and il
is certainly very much less in cost
And since 30 many cattle have beer
condemned for tuberculosis, it does
seem as though food which was not sc
liable to disease was to be preferred
AS to pork, no Jew eats it, and few
days ago Tread that the death rate o.
the Jews is only one half that of othel
peoples. 1t does seem as though hui
man blood and tissue is far better made
of cereals, fruits, nuts, and the like
than the flesh of animals, especially
hogs.