New-York tribune., 1903-07-23
WHAT TO EAT IN HOT WEATHER.
A Vegetarian Relates His Experience in
Giving Up Meat Eating.
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 Ine Editor OF Inc 1r1DuQe.
Sir; In discussing what We should eat IN hot
weather Physician" in The Tribune, recommends
the use OF meat, and mentions the case of "a Inedi-
cal man Of heavy weight, almost overcome With
heat" who was restored by being filled up with
hot luncheon of soup meat and one vegetable" i"
which he had recommended.
The explanation. which he gives in a serni-scien-
ttfc manner, is interesting and instructive far
as it goes but If the reader believes that equally
beneficial effect could not have been secured from
a meal Of properly selected. well cooked. nutritious
vegetable and tactical food. without meat he has
been led into error.
THE slice of meat or chop mixed with the tradi-
tional potato" brings the whole down to the aver
age composition of a fairly arranged vegetable
meal 1t is fact, known all who have tested
both systems that all the essential properties
requisite to resist the wasting forces Of nature
working in the human machine are found in abun-
dance in vegetable and lacteal foods. and better
proportions for mans use than in dead flesh. We
gain instruction from the animal kingdom in this.
for animal that lives on flesh is OF great use
for labor or service TO man; even the dog becomes
sick from eating too much meat and is doctored
with biscuit of Indian meal favored with boiled
liver to tempt his taste. Nature is stingy with
carnivoroUs beasts. The mothers have barely
enough milk for their whelps. THE young lions
goat get from the meadows and pastures enough
human family besides
Beef contains Y per cent of water and 5 per cent
of saline Oatmeal contains Der of
water and an Insignificant quantity Of saline mat
Ter oceI, before IL IS palaIdDe, must De sea-
soned' with still salt. This creates an IN
natural thirst, maljeg IL the most unsuitable food
in hot weather. It is claimed that there are over
one million habituaI vegetarians in The United
States and not one drqpkard is to be found among
them: Fruits, vegetables and berries abound in
rich juices, tempting TO the palate that has
no use for intoxicants to quench thirst or stimu-
late energy.
An experience of sixty-six years as meat eater
and five years a vegetarian has convinced me
of the superiority of the vegetable system, now.
at the age Of seventy-one, I ten pounds heavier
than when I lived on meat. 1 able TO work un-
interruptedly at trade that requires than the
average mental and physical labor. have walked
from my home to Coney Island (seven miles,, with
the heat at s. in the shade. My meal preparatory
to this pleasant stroll of two hours was half a
blackberry pie cheese and q glass Of milk, and
ANOTHER glass of milk at the finish.
Can any reasonably candid physician contend that
the fragrance and luscious sweetness of the past
ure and meadow of the flowers and clover, that
come 10 US in the delicious milk, cream and butter
from the lacteal channels Of the living animal; or
the strengthening power of the grain or the deli
cacy of the fruits of earth can be transmitted
to human beings through the uncean cells of life
less flesh? Carnivorous animals do eat their
own kind, and man eats only the flesh of herbiv-
orous animals PROTEINE.
Brooklyn July 19, 1908