Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-12-28
living WITHIN
ONES INCOME
How 1t May Best Be Done ia
These Days Of Siren
uousity.
FOOD NOT COSTLY
A Vegetarian Diet Is Not Absolutely
Necessary. but the Less Meat
One Consumes, the Better
the Chance for Health.
From the Queen.

80: 49,
have not been wanting advocates of y
itemporaries of the reformers. From the
times OF the Essences, who frank 40
wine and practised the greatest as
ceticism i'll diet. to the present. With
its vegetarian associations, mankind
mas been urged to give up he "tiesh
pots of Egypt" and live upon herbs and
fruit and water from the spring.
Whether or not this doctrine has made,
substantial progress among the nations
of the world is doubtful: but today
there is u marked tendency TO accept
and live up 20 TINS teaching on The part
of many leaders of thought and
fashion.
Were this moveNent for 4 simpler
life due to IA mere love of novelty and.
change, Il pandering to u morbid GRAY
ing for some new excitement. no WordsI
could be too strong whcrewith 10 CON
denim it. But we believe that there is Il
general wave of feeling for a more ideal
life. and a strong reaction on the part
of many women against the artiticialty
of modern living. The life of the Ordi-
nary woman of society, TO say nothing
OF the leaders thereof, is too frequently
such a of engagements, OF
Iu.lCtlOIIS. w Sotlil slItltS. Ist Noiii
| pared with the lives of many women OF
the laboring classes. it is very hard,
work. And even if the object be pleas
ure. the pursuing of it entails Il great
deal of trouble, work and very often
considerable personal sacrifice. More
over. the pursuit of pleasure, when
continuous. becomes simply another
form of work. and the strain of it on
the body and mind is practically just
the same as il it We're done for II
wage. Late hours. excitement. loss of
sleep. improper food. Irregular meals.
bridge parties, and all the wear and
tear of modern society life tell heavily
many of whom often feel tempted to
doubt whether the game is worth tia
candle. .And if the mind does moi revolt
the body Will in time rebel. aud out
ragged nature demands compensation
for disturbance as surely as night fol-
lows day. Illness S~uperNenes. and the
victim of an unnatural mode of life has
TO give up for Il time and seek renewed
healtli at the seaside, the sallatorium.
or undergo one of the many continental
cures Such modern diseases as can
Ger and appendicitis are undoubtedly
due TO the modern manner of living
of wrong feeding and high pressure.
Thus the present wave of reform IN
food and drink is but the result-an-
other form OF eNpreSSion-of the physi-
cal reaction which nature imposes upon
all who break her laws.
A vegetarian regime is often n bug
bear to the majority of readers, who
regard it either as an unlnitigated NUS
ance or a harmless fad. AS IL matter of
fact. however, a diet from which flesh
meats are excluded may today be made
so appctizing. so paiatable and so salts
flying that its adoption is by no means
the modification of the flesh that most
noOnIp think who hn,-c NAT triad IL IL,
the first place. science has of late years
made so many strides in dietetics that
not only are there many new food NIB
stances discovered or invented, but
there are now so many preparations of
vegetable foodstutfs that an infinite
variety of dishes and palataDle food
can be put on the table. and the alb
n of meat is scarcely noticed or its
presence desired. The science and art
of cookery are now so we'll developed
and so much facility has come with
practice. that there need be little or no
self-denial in restricting oneself to a
vegetarian diet. In fact. SO varied. SO
'palatable and pI"Aiuse may a modern
meatless meal be r,..t it is open TO the
charge brought against the ordinary
regime being a long way off from the
simple life now advocated. In warm
ATTITUDES. where the populations are
denseSt the mass of the people SubSist
mainly on cereals. fruit and legumes.
with milk, butter, cheese, fish and con-
diments, according to locality and rank
of life. The japanese. for instance.
are practically Il vegetarian race. n
yet they have proved themselves infin-
itely superior in physique. courage and
endurance to the burly Russian soldier.
Moreover, the p%easantry OF many Eu-
Ope countries eat very little meat.
because they are too poor to purchase
it,. Up to quite recent times the Scot
fish and Irish ~peasantry lived very
largely upon oatmeal and potatoes.
Chemically considered. we know of
course. that vegetable food contains
every clemens that is found in meat.
since all animals derive their susten-
ance from the vegetable world. directly
or indirectly. AS the late Mattieu Will
,lialns used TO say, in eating beef We eat
grass at second hand. and what is now
done for us by the OK would soon be
done in the laboratory of the chemist.
This is now in a fair way of being done.
and what, with condensed, pre-digested
and chemically prepared foods.
,"Punch's" dream of tabloid meals
would seem to be almost capable of
realization. One thing in favor of the
meatless diet will appeal strongly to
who are habitually more tenn
perate in eating than men-a vegetar-
ian diet is undoubtedly n great aid to n
clear complexion. Another and Incl
dental advantage which will be appre-
ciated in the kitchen is the fact that
the plates and dishes for h reformed
diet are easier to ash than those used
for meats.