Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-23
DECLINE TO KILL KID
METHOD ADOPTED BY A vEGE-
TARTAN TO MAKE CONVERTS.
A Seventh Day Adventist Asks Dinner
Guests to Stay
Goat.

The period of high meat prices has been
a haymaking time for vegetarian enthu-
siasts. With tireless energy they have
talked their fad, and with not a little sue
cess, according to the retail butchers. One
man who thinks that most human Ills come
from the eating of f1eshlast week adopted a
rather startling method to make converts.
If it did not succeed, 1t was not because
of lack Of boldness In design or vigor In ex-
ecution. The man in question is a tailor.
He is member Of a Seventh Day Adven-
list congregation. and in such spare mo-
ments as he is not warning his friends and
acquaintances of the end of the world five
years hence he is eNpatiatiHg on the gen.
eral dablerie of a meat diet
This tailor recently Joined a South Brook
Ign debating club, which meets at the
homes of Its members and discusses all
sorts of questions, from excise to the rela-
tive merits of ping pong and lawn tennis.
In due time the turn of the tailor came to
be host, select the question for the evening
and lead the discussion. The club dissuaded
him from choosing the end of the world as
the theme, and submitted to Yegetarianism.
A Goat Herd.
Before relating what happened at the
meeting it will make the situation clearer
to explain that the tailor keeps large
home. He takes special pride and delight
In constantly increasing herd of goats,
since they are not carnivorous. He has
sworn never to sell or give away any of
them for fear one of his pets might be
slaughtered. So the ''billies" and nan
MES" are increasing rapidly. The man Of
goose and shears does not worry, because
he thinks he can furnish all the accommo-
dalton that he needed r 10 re
remaining to the world but his neighbors
nave visions of a time when he will have
to buy western ranch on which his goats
may multiply and die from old age.
On the night of the vegetarian discussion
the members and their wives sat in the
tailors parlor waiting for the meeting to
open. Their exchanges of courtesies We're
occasionally interrupted by the bleating of
a kid, which appeared to be in an adjoining
room but this caused no comment
After considerable delay, when the mem
berS had settled into state of patient
passivity, the double doors from the dining
room were suddenly burst open and the
tailor rushed in He held struggling and
bleating kid under one arm and a big cary
ing knife in the other hand.
An Object Lesson.
81 have a few friends here to dinner. " said
the tailor, ''and L thought it desirable to
give them some meat-a roast or a fry.
Who'll cut the throat of this little goat for
me-"
He looked around. his black eyes burning
with excitement. No one moved. The men
looked on with amused wonder, while some
Of the women seemed a little nervous
Brandishing his knife, the excited vegeta-
rian then passed from person to person.
thrusting the handle of the knife at each
of them, and shouting:
''Will you kill it, VIII you kill it,
Each In turn declined, one man growing,
Il draw the line at goat meat" Just as the
man with the knife reached a stout woman.
who al times is inclined to be hysterical, his
wife rushed in with sheet and shouted:
Here, this is TO catch the bloodi'
This was too much for the hysterical wo-
man. and, in fact, several others began to
look alarmed.
What! You will eat animals. but not
Kill them! Why, you haven't the courage
of your colyictonsi' exclaimed the tailor
scornfully. Here is this gentle animal
with its trusting eyes tthey were rot Spe-
cially trustful at that moment. You
will not kill it yourself. but you are per
fectly willing TO have a. butcher rob it of