The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-13
LED HIS SOUL
| FOR TEN LONG DAYS.
Then It Was Heavy Vitt1es for the
Man Who Tried a Vege-
table Diet.

(which I seize the occasion here and now
to state" ~oracularly began the large con-
tented looking mar in the hotel cafe, who
was surrounded by three Of his cronies and
who was himself rapidly surrounding a
thick, well broiled steak, with mushroom
trimmings and a saute Of chicken livers on
the side, with a high, perspiring mug Of
fcamy ale close at hand, that the man who
is too much Of a terrapin to have a word or
30 to say in the bosom Of his own family
isn't worth a Costa Rican peso, and that
which I say and proclaim is no phantasy
born Of poppy, mandragora or any Of the
other drowsy syrups Of the East.
1--we earned this feed. I've put in ten
days earning it. My wife may connect
with the idea that a really and truly sure
enough live man Of this era and epoch can
slide along on a diet Of Shelley and stewed
carrots. but III be eternally bubble wubbed
II that ideas ever going to stick again with
me, and you CAM"
what dye s'pose the yap's talking
about" inquired the large mans three
~crories, wonderingly.
--and you can gamble your lace mitts
on that went on the large, contented
looking man with the feed in front of him
Il want to be coarse and clayey and carnal.
Il WdIlJ 70 slOuIuoI MY Wlhlc llldn = DuIutll
along the common dirt road. I don't
want to inspect the stars while l stumble
over the olods, as my wife puts il, although
I've only a gauzy notion of what that
means. ! don't want any spiritual irradia-
ton. I'm not hunting. for any aesthetic
tons with the illimitable that I'm going
to hun for. I want to trudge along just
like the ordinary, everyday Teller, getting
the civilized .yittles that I can provide
myself with II I've the price, and FIN
Leftover soIse, cut In one OF the large
others. "That's what ails him-leftover,'
Not on your natural have ! got any left
over, replied the man with the three inch
steak and things in front Of him, but I
must have had something worse than a
souse when allowed my wife to spring
ago. Shed been limiting about that vegeta-
rian business for some time-ever since
she'd got mixed up with q bunch Of Bud
dhistio women folk who burned punk sticks
In front Of a joss every day, or something
like that-never could get much head or
tail Of what they thought they were doing.
'On this particular morning, just ten
days ago, my wife took advantage OF the
glowy way l was feeling over a good bit
Of business pulled of the day before, and
then she unwound this vegetarian coil
Of a bang-up breakfast and I didn't feel,
just then, as II I'd ever again care for
another square meal. So size got me to
promise to do a ten day trick Of vege-
tarianism. She said 1t would not only
make me feel like a four time winner
physioally-maybe she didn't use that
exact .~phrase-but that the elimination OF
animal foods from my diet would cause
me to take O spiritual brace that would
give me a hull lot Of inside glimpses into
upper atmosphere games Of Which ordinary
flesh eating folks knew nothing whatever.
She even said that il l stuck to vege-
tarianism I stood al oddsEon chance to
become a mahatum or ma ha tina, or some
old thing like that-those lobs in India
that sit in caves with about ninety-four
grains Of hop in EN- all the time, thinking
huge thinks. She said that by clinging