Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-19
WARNS AGAINST FLESH FOOD
WI TING-FANG TELLS WHY 1T
IS NOT GOOD.
pure Food, Pure Air and Pure
Thought" Chinese Ambassador
Recipe for Long Life.

| WI TinS-fang. Chinese ambd ssddor to
| the United States. paid visit to the
Washington Sanitarum and Seventh Day
Adventist Training School for Medical
Missionaries at Takoma Park yesterday
and lived up to his reputation as a sup
porter of the vegetarian diet and Trainer
of questions. His apparent curiosity and
his speechmakng powers were in full
working order. and he found an indulgent
and apprecative audience among the Off
Gals and students of the institutions.
Three things. he told the students. are
| essential to d long. happy and prosperous
life. and they are the three things which
he has adopted as means for living far
| beyond the usual span of life--pure food.
pure air and pure thought. He denounc-
ed flesh food as impure, ''pernicious poi
SON" And he classed fear. anger and
worry impure thoughts
Ambassador WI was introduced TO the
students of the missionary training school
as a man well known to Americans be
fore he came from China and ii Was de-
clared that no man ever asked so many
questions as he. And his audience was
presented as composed entirely of ''vege-
taridnS.
This is a great surprise TO me-" he de-
clared when called on for the speech. II
am fond of asking questions. | have ask
some more. but l am introduced to talk
to you instead. This is what | call an
up-to- date institution. / don't want TO
criticiSe the medical system of the coun-
try, but up to few years ago believed
in what is now called the old school syS-
tenn. But I am told that medicine has
not been able to do much good for those
who are siCk-that is. one has to depend
on other things than medicine. 1t has
been said that medicine does not cure
81 lyn hot /
graduate you on being here to enjoy mod
ern instruction. l hope all of you will
succeed in your careers.
Il am glad that in this institution you
have given up the habit of eating flesh
food This plan was first brought to my
attention in Picking. Up to three or four
years ago l was fond of animal food,
meat, mutton. chicken, and drink. cham
payne and such things. | found 1T all
poisonous injurious to health. 1 am glad
you share in my opinion l hope you will
never go back to the pernicious diet.
From giving up flesh food l have derived
much benefit. All my former complaints
have been cured and they are gone for
good. never to come back. Will De
happy and live long life.
IF you, when you leave here. are in
clined to go to foreign countries ad-
wise you to go to China and practice. BY
going you will be doing any amount of
good. Young ladies will be welcome and
will remain there a very long time very
likely get husbands there. And young
men who are single can get married
there too.
For a person to succeed in this life
to live long and be prosperous there are
three essentials. Pure food is the first
essential. Eat nothing that is injurious.
Here you eat no flesh and drink no in
toxicants. and SO have pure food. Pure
air is also important Here you have
pure air. And the third essential Is pure
thought. pure mind. The mental power
has a great deal to do with the main
tenance of health. If you get angry or
worried. if you get into what you call
beastly temper. you can't live very long.
Control your mind. Dispel any fear AL
ways entertain a cheerful mind.
Il hope to live very long. and l hope
you all will live Ions to keep me COM
pany.'
Following the AMBASSADOR. DR.. D. H.
Kress. whose guest at d vegetarian din
ner Minister WI was. pointed out the
importance of pure food. diet without
flesh
LAS result of the tuberculosis con-
gress a wave of reform for pure air is
sweeping over the country he said
Likewise. wave of reform for pure
food will soon sweep over the land