The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-12-15
THEORIES OF THE VEGE.
TARTAN.
nearly Every Human III or Fault TO b
Cured by Their Form OF Diet.

at the moment 80 heartily and 50 unre-
serveuly that the outsider is overborne
before he Is aware. The KHelp curists,
for example. running gleefully in the
early morning upon the park grasses,
saot ; and stockings In hand, halt per-
suaded even the cynio that possibly the
ills Of life belong only where the doc
trines OF kneiD are unknown or at least
unpractised 1t is quite astonishing TO
find how easy it is to persuade one sslf
that upon certain observanoes or non-op-
servanoes OF narrow limit depend so IN
expectedly much. There are the vegetari-
anal They hold that diet determines
WHISTLER there shall be health or sickness,
jov or sorrow, hope or despair, lore or
hate, good or bad form, natural or UNI
natural conditions. They verify believe
that were 1t possible to Danish the IN
toxicating flesh -eatiny habit among men
and women the present degeneracy OF the
race would disappear and that all tears
would therefore be wiped away. Eartnly
heaven could thus be gained nc single
bound.
There Is little group of vegetarians
In New York who have banded them
selves together under the name OF the
vegetarian society," They are few In
mum bers, but great In expectations, They
meet each month at Metaphysical hall to
sommuns with the light and to seek Its
PRONUNCIATION. 1t is liberal education
to attend the meetings OF this vegetarian
society. The same is true, OF courSe. OF
the Christian Science people and their
meetings, but tn at is, at the moment, en-
tirely irrelevant. There are many kinds
OF vegetarians. Some OF them eschew all
food that Is not of the vegetable kingdom,
while Others daily now and then with tire
meat that comes from deceste1 animals,
with the deadly fowls Of the air, or the
eggs thereof, and even with the poison
Gus fish Of the SEA. Some baoksliders o.
casionaliy look upon the lobster when IL
is red, forgetting that at last all these
animal products are only too apt to be
found arrayed with the wine cup. which
biteth like serpent and stingeth like IN
adder.
The gori liza, according to q German au-
thority, Is now regarded as the most
human ike of the anthropoid apes. be
is an enormously strong and ferocious
animal. standing erect he Is not moro
than tive feet high, and yet he is able to
encounter at once six men and to over
come them by his superior strength ana
agility. But the gorilla is OF the Frug'-
vora class that is to say he is fruit AID
grain eater or in other words he is n
vegetarian Therefore II human being
wishes to get strong, and to stay strong,
let MIN iulitgts the action of the gorilla,
and by means Of dietetios ''stifien tbs
sinew, summon up the blood, etc. Let
him become "a vegetarian and be happy
The New York Vegetarian Society had
its tenth annual meetiog last "Wednesday
evening Henry ID. Perky of Worcester,
Mass delivered an address at that time
upon Naturally Organized Food Makes
Possible Natural Conditions. MIR
Perky is an exec sdingly Attractive person
ality. he has long been an intsIe tsd
STUDENT OF food questions In early life
he failed in most of the things under
taken by him bsoaufe he had not come
to the vegetarian light, but since his re-
nunoiation of fish eating, about eight
He has put of the bodily intrmities that
formerly handicapped him. and is now
President of the Dread Institute OF Wor-
CeItsr. Vegetarianlsn as viewed by Dr.
Perky The repudiates l)r. aud arrays
himself among the farmers1 Is something
IL aupplanhs the public school ssytesls
and Is generally panacea for all civil,
religious and moral ills The Citizen -
Committee in its crusade against Woe
might well consider yegetarianism as ex-
poundei by MIR. Perky. Ninety five per
cent OF mercantile failings are due to i'm
proper diet. Business men eat foods that
are too beating. There Is too much devo-
ton to doughuts, pies and cakes White
flour 10 a dangerous thing, and those who
have not embraced vegetarian doctrines
are taxing desperate chances. A rather
neglected field of inquiry, it will easily
be seen, opens up thus to the astute
man who Is really conservative and
up.to-iate. The OK AMI the squirrel
flourish because of devotion to vege-
tart anism, but 20 per cent of the children
that coma into existence perish becauss
of its neglect.
Our system Is altogether wrong, II not
iniluitous, being founded upon Grass
error as no truly great man ever lived. go
far as MIR. Perky knows. whose diet was
not exceedingly frugal and mainly veae-
table. The outlook, 1t must be said, Is
par ticuIRrly gloomy for those on tslde
the fold. The Buddhists are natural vege
tarians. They are temperate and psacs-
ful, and serve as inspirations to those OF
Occidental degeneracy who are not vege-
tarians
Looking down upon the Held from an
eminence that may POSSIBLY be false ther
is much to see ana learn OF th9 VegeG Sel-
ans. Some OF iha vegetarian girl sara very
pretty. Ihsre Is a bloom on their cha5ks
Their movements are graceful and th1y
are altogether lively, especially when thay
take the physical culture course in con-
nel tion with vegetlriantsm. And than
there ia. O. 81 tinty, always this posi-
nility III To gs may be a grain of ttnth
in the vegtt ran theory. MIR. Perky in
his recent address. has shown Us some
thing of the wondrous possibilities of
sigid adherence to vegetarian principles
He can play on all sorts or musical in.
ftruments largely benause Of his vegatari-
anism. lie has shown that even ministers
can be pleased by 9astronomio consider
alton of a vegetarian dinner in twelve
courfes ana ths way may be thus prepare
far the spread OF this vegetarian gospel
so thst with ministerial guides we tn
ars not Of the cloth, may safely follow
in the footprints that thsy have made to
the Improvement and building OF tn
world and OF ourselves. 1t NAV be that
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