The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-11-28

Montgomery. We claim that the veg etarian dietaTy-frults nuts, cereals and Hegetables-will assist nature to make cure of almost any disease, including cancer and consumption. Now, I'll tell you why We all know that plenty of pure water is the prime essential requisite of good health. Now the pur- est water IS distilled water.
 The water that comes down from the clouds is distilled waterd. But this distilled water is like a vacuum, It holds nothing in solution. but just as the air or any gas will rush into vacuum if the slightest way is made for it, so all the impurities of whatever it passes through or over will rush into the distilled water.
 As the rain comes down through the air it gathers to itself all the impuri-
 ties; if the air is full of soot and smoke the water becomes black and dirty. When it flows over the roofs of houses it gathers from them many im- purities.
 When the water goes into the ground and filters through several stra- ta of earth and rock it gathers up the mineral ingredients contained in them. And just so when distilled water passes | through the human system it takes all | the impurities from the system They are gathered into the water and so pass out of the system
 | Now, meat contains no distilled water. Fruits contain the most per- feet, the purest distilled water; 50 l there is no other food sogood as fruits. | r nE I,n Ia o,.1 fhn a.
 terhas to go through to get to the fruit up through the plant or tree, through the hard knots and long branches;
 there cannot possibly be any impurities
 left in it.
 Tines doctors are probably on the right track, and am not surprised to hear that the use of vegetable juices has led to good results, but fruit cure
 is better than a vegetable cure. The pure distilled water in the fruits takes all the impurities from the body, and
 leaves it in such condition that nature can work a speedy cure, Dr. Russell
 would find that pure fruit juices would
 work much better and quicker than his
 vegetable juices. He should use fruits more and vegetables less.
 "Vegetarianism is a misnomer, any
 way, The best vegetarians-the strict est, this is-and the most healthful live
 on nuts and fruits almost exclusively. Nuts contain more nutriment than
 any other known thing. They contain
 fatty matter in absolute purity, where
 as meat, which is far less nutritious
 anyway, often contains poisonous sub-
 stances and microbes. Nuts and fruits
 make the ideal diet.
 And there can be no doubt that fruits and nuts are intended by nature
 as food for man. What can be more
 beautiful than the apples, peaches,
 cherries and other fruits among the
 green leaves? If for no other reason
 than this of their beauty, nature has
 made it perfectly plain that she in-
 tends the fruits to be eaten.
 NO cooked food of any kind can ever
 be so palatable and so nourishing as
 these sun-cooked fruits. The best chef ; in the world is the sun. The nuts and fruits prepared by him are the best and ! the most deliciously cooked of all the
 foods that were ever known.
 . "All thin-skinned fruits, such as ap-
 pies, pears, plums, peaches and so on, should be eaten without pairing the ; skins. The skin of most fruits, except of course, oranges and such as have coarse, thick rinds, is good and con- } tains mineral salts that are beneficial ) Whether vegetables, and especially , those which grow under ground, are in- tended by nature as food I do not know
 or whether vegetables are injurious or : not do not know. Some people hold that they are. I am not ready to give up my vegetables.
 T am very fond of potatoes, very
 fond of caulit1ower-but that is a flow CT, anyway-and of other vegetables and I continues to eat them. I do not } think they do me any harm. And the } same about cereals. I do not know
 whether nature intends grains to be eaten by man or not
 Let me tell you a cure for insomnia s --eat lightly of nuts and fruits, one or
 both, just before going to bed, I nev- l CT knew any one troubled with insom- 3 mia who tried this without getting re 3 lief, promptly and permanently. Sometimes people say to me: T should think you would find your vege-
 tarianism too monotonous for any thing; a diet of only nuts and fruits - mustpaIl on one after a vile. What dc - you do then?'
 But there is no monotony about it g These people have no conception of the = possibilities of such diet. There are l hundreds of varieties of preparations oi 3 nuts on the markets now, and new " ones are being made alcost every day
 "The New York Vegetarian Club, ot :. which I am secretary also, sometimes 3 gives dinner prepared mainly of one , thing to show the possibility of va. s riety and palatableness. And the s guests are always greatly surprised ;. that so many excellent and taslty dishes l can be made from one thing. No, sir ]. there is no monotony about vegetar. X ianism. "-New York Sun.