Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-25


learn to pity them.
Goldsmith
Inc system Of vngetarianism does not
want followers for lack OF sentimental
attractiveness Most people probably
would prefer to live on vegetable products
rather than on the dead bodies Of other
animals Darticularly In summer. when
the mere thought of meat often seems TO
take away the appetite). If only it could
be done. but there is the rub In the state
or civilization pictured by Rcllamy with
the art of cooking brought to n state of
perfection unknown in this barbarOus age
ana the capacities Of the vegetable king
dom realized. it would he a simple mat
ter to live without animal food but az
Things now are 1t appears to most people
to be quite impossible Vegetarians say
however. that it is easier than it looks.
Nothing Is simpler. said a vegetarian
housekeeper In discussing the matter with
Irbune reporter yesterday. 1.-The only
diff1culty Is In making the change The
system has to adapt itself to a radically
new condition Of affairs. and as much i'm
purity resulting from the meat diet has
| lost twenty pounds. and my friends
thought / was going into consumption.
though | didn't feel as looked.
For this reason I would not advise any
one who cannot give up his or her reg,.-
lar mode of life for the time being to make
the change suddenly. At the old Hygienic
College, In New Jersey. vegetarian insti-
tuition the patients We're not allowed to
read anything requiring mental effort, to
write or to take much exercise while
adapting themselves to the new diet and
those who cannot put themselves under
such conditions ought to allow about a
year for the change"
But what do you eat instead of meat ?"
don eat anything exactly as a sub
stitute for meat. Meat is not so important
food as people think 1t. 1t is a stimulant
and when you do without it. it is the slim
ulant you miss. not the food. l use a good
many nut products. which contain more
protrine than meat. and gluten bread
which is the best bread there is; but we
vegetarians do not believe much in the
chemical theories about food and / never
make any conscious effort to balance my
diet. For breakfast this morning we had
oranges. cocoa, oatmeal. gluten bread and
currant jelly, and for dinner we will have
peas beets. rice and potatoes and black
berries. We use "A great deal Of fruit and
are great rice eaters Sometimes We vio-
late our vegetarian principles so far as to
put a little soup stock our rice and we
do not attempt to live by the ironclad rule
which excludes all animal products such
as eggs, butter and milk. We use very
little of these things however,
DO you find it any cheaper than the
ordinary way of living?'
Il can't say that l do. One must eat
something. and we pay as much for fruit
as other people do for meat. But it does
effect great saving in household labor
In the west. where people have been
obliged to try vegetarianism. often going
to pieces on pork and malaria the women
are delighted with 1t. because of the con-
seauent Tightening of their labors. have
noticed marked improvement in my
health since l have adopted this system of
diet. / first tried it for heada ches, from
which l had suffered for eleven years and
it has cured them. There is really nothing
new about vegetarianism. Meat eating Is
a modern practice. and Is the result of our
increasing prosperity. Meat has generally
in times past been a luxury but with the
Increase of wealth whole nations have
fallen to meat eating. with very little ad-
vantage to themselves. If we may Judge
from the prevalence of disease