Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-19
SARCOPHILEOR FADDIST
CONFLICT OF OPINION BETWEEN
NEAT EATERS AND OTHERS.
Opposing Camps Of the vegetarians-
Water Should Not Be Drunk
Fruit Juices.
From the London News.

| From the London News.
| My brother is a vegetarian. He denounces
my meat-eating habits as "cannibal' and
| ''sarcophagal.'' and the latter word always
gives me a vague uneasy feeling that i am
| a sort Of human cemetery. In these sultry
| days. when strawberries are fourpence a
| pound and cherries threepence. when you
| could cook beefsteak on the pavement.
and the fumes of baked liver and caifs-
head come out OF the doors Of cheap res
| taurants into the summer air. generally
| have an awakening of conscience and de-
| termine to look into the matter.
Yesterday I ventured into a vegetarian
| restaurant in quest of the simple life and
| an idyllic diet that should involve no muir
der Of my fellow-creatureS. a diet which !
| imagined full of cooling and juicy
| things. For just now all ones hunger setms
to have been transmitted into thirst.
| found lots of other people of the same
| opinion. London seems to be alive with
| vegetarians. They are here from all parts
| of the world. holding an International con-
gress. But vegetaria nism Is not so simple
| as 1t seems. Its esoteric doctrines 60 far
| beyond the mere abstinence from flesh.
| Every vegetarian has his own theories of
diet. and terrible dangers are found to Turk
IN thlngS apparently most innocent.
The Perils of Water.
began by pouring out for myself a
turnbler Of water. cooled by a piece of clear.
| sparkling ice. But Immediately I was the
center Of looks Of amazement and horror.
You should never drink at a meal" said
my neighbor. THE best time to drink is
three hours after or before eating And
are you not aware that water Is full of
dissolved minerals. such as lime. which be-
come precipitated in the tissues, gradually
accommodating till the blood vessels are
made brittle and finally break down? Nine
times out of ten. when a man dies of So
called old age it simply means that he
has broken down through deposited min
erals. He has lost all his elasticity and be-
come partially petrifed.''
And that Ice is probably full of patho-
genio germs" added a scientist at the
table.
Perhaps I may take cup of tea?'' 1
INQUIRED.
Decidedly not. Boiling may certainly
nave eliminated some of the mineral mat
ter from the water, but the fannie acid
VIII reduce you to a feathery condition in
consistent with perfect vitality. And tea,
Gomez, peas, beans. asparagus. Ientils. oat-
meal and other articles commonly and ig-
norantly used in diet have been found by
Dr. Haig to be charged with the powerful
poison Known as xanthin, the fruitful cause
Eials dies"
But surely" asked. "a human being
| needs liquid in some form?'
THE liquid should be that purified I'm
| natures filter. the juice contained in ripe
| fruits
Strawberries and cream?" 1 ventured,
| seeming at last to see light.
| NO, soft-stalked fruits like the straw
| berry and tomato should be religiously
| avoided. The liquid from the soil does not
| pass far enough to be thoroughly filtered
An apple is the type of fruit YOU require
The elose-grained wood of the trunk effect
| us lily removes mineral matter Preferably
| the apple should be from the top of the
| tree. and carefully washed and peeled
why be thirsty at all?" asked a young
gentleman with cheeks rosy as an apple.
1t all comes Of the bad habit of eating
salt never take salt. and I have not
touched drop of liquid today
Il have not drunk liquid for thirty-flye
years." said a wizened old PROFESSIONAL
| Locking person.
do you never feel thirstyT'
Well. | have known the sensation COM
| mcnly called thirst. But l always carry a
| nlnt pebble which 1 place In my mouth on
| such occasions, and IT. stimulates the ma
tural flow Of saliva and prevents the tenn
pcrary dry and parched feeling"
"A Few Necessary Rules.
I made a few notes of the rules necessary
| to be observed for health as laid down by
my vegetarian friends. To begin with
bread. It appears that white -four is mere
starch. from which the life-givng elements
have been removed. and that yeast is a re-
| pulsive material closely akin to disease mat
ter. and probably fertile producer of
symotc disease. On the other hand brown
bread is full of the needle-like spieulae of
the husk, which irritate and inhame the
eater. Besides. the husk contains a GUAM
t1ty or poisonous xanthin. Better avoid
bread altogether.
Vegetarians often eat form of bread
without salt, yeast anything but brown
hour and water. 1t is known as bullets
among Its patrons, and is an excellent ex-
he nnth Co
practice further and consume grain and
nuts dry and raw, eating them with a spoon
and doing all the milling for themselves
This question of cooked or uncooked food
divides vegetarians into two powerful sects
One is for having everything raw Ripe
| raw fruit and nuts" according to them, is
the only necessary food of man. Others
would save our moars by resolving food
INTO delicate puree' or cream, provided
1t be not too sloppy.
In particular boiled vegetables are con-
demned as both useless and dangerous All
the valuable salts are melted out by the
water, and the woody refuse left Is most
| unwholesome. Boiled cabbage takes five
hours to digest. raw only two hours and a
half! But, on the other hand, the raw cab
bage must be masticated thoroughly; and an
hour and three-quarters of diligent chewing
is needed for a meal
conservative cooking Is an invention
to remedy this. The cabbage Is cooked
in its own juice. without salt or added
water.
An important point Is that you should
have no breakfast. To eat breakfast is
working the machine too early in the
morning.
Vegetarianism as Religion.
In Manchester there is vegetarian
church. 1t has existed for nearly a hum
dred years, and a condition of membership
is abstinence from flesh, fish and intoxi-
eants. 1t was founded by the Rev. John
Coward. former Church of England cler-
gyman, nirety-seven years ago, and
daughter church with the same principles
sprang up in Philadelphia about twenty
years later.
These are the only vegetarian churches
in the western world. In China how
ever. a non-vegetarian is looked on as a
wording, and the giving up of dog flesh
is taken as a sign that Buddhist or Con-
sucan has got religion"
Panama Conditions.
From American Medicine.
Health conditions In Panama still OCCUPY
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