The Washington herald., 1908-01-26
FOOD AND MORALS
CONDUCT AND CHARACTERISTICS OF PEOPLE
DETERMINED BY WHAT THEY EAT

/ too strong, has taken the first and a long
/ step toward deviation from the paths OF
rectitude. The sin is on the table A
meal of nuts. coffee and doughnuts win
make man so irritable and unreason-
/ able that his best friends will not care
] to associate with him. An unbalanced
/ diet means an unbalanced mind Feed a
/ boy ON corn bread and bacon. and he
viii be dun at school Feed a girl sau-
/ sage and preserves. and she will have
treckles and morbid thoughts Virtue
and vice come from the dining-table and
| the lunch counter The solution of Ills
ailments. and evils lies in the markets
With Profs Chittenden and Fisher. of
Yale University. and others advocating
with insufficient reason a low diet. and
the attractive cheapness of the ordinary
nonilesh diet, veEetarianism is a national
danger, and quietly insidi0usIy. is work
ing more damage than the unsus-
pecting public thinks The recent ex-
periments of Prof. Fisher demonstrate
th5t the cereals and pulses used IN place
OF meat by healthy muscular people or
athletic youths do furnish TO muscle
workers OF strong digestive powers the
ability for sustained muscular action.
such as bending the knee many times or
holding the arms outstret,ned. but this is
no reason why sedeutarv office men Of
business who use mainly nerve and brain
should omit meat from their diet
where the Chemist Errs.
While pulses. beans. peas. and cereals
may be shown by the chemist to contain
ncrve-feedng elements as literally as flesh
foods, yet it must never be forgotten that
they are so much harder than meat that
their nutritious elements are nuIlifed. /
The chemist overlooks tie mechanical ac-
tion or disestbiiity. as he IS only con-
coWed with analysis 10 find the pro-
portiuatc elements. In the rush whirl /
and worry Of modern civilized life. the
qualities which count most are nerve and
BRAIN and this is supplied most easily I'm /
the flesh foods. meat and fish, which are /
readily digested when used with suffi-
clcut green vegetables
To prove that meat is nerve food /
one must use the exhaustive method and /
take for subjects only those who have /
no reserve nerve force in their bodies I
such nervous wrecks as may be found /
among middle-5ged men and women.
Healthy young students are useless sub /
jeots, as they can live so long on their /
reserve qualities even when fed wrongly.
The nliddle-aged man or nervous wreck /
should be kept without meat. fish. or .
eggs or other animal products. and he 1
VIII show in his face and actions that /
he is getting hourly worse. When the ex- /
pertinent is reversed and all the pulses I
and meat substitutes are removed and
d liberal quantity of meat IS given with F..
vegetables, he VIII hourly improve. The
question Of reserve force already resi-
dent In the blood is seldom considered /
by eXperimenters, and for that reason /
Prof Chittenden's experiments with sol
diers were of little value. as they only
determined that q healthy person could
live on less quantities.
Would Result In Starvation.
Many vegetarian restaurants are conf
ing to their senses. for in London they
now have pIacards reading. we have
added fish and fowl 20 our menu" After
all, IL they eat the eggs. why not the
bird? And why discriminate between
fowl and other flesh? Have they never
watched the chickens follow the plow to
reed on the upturned worms? However.
with many Vegetarians the question is not
scientific, but sentimental or religious. II
can scarcely be religious with consistency.
Tor every move. every walk. must kill a I
form Of life A little reason Will show
that the one who eats most meat and
pays for il is the one who contributes
most literally 10 the happy life Of sheen
and oxen. who. but for the meat-eatere
would have to battle Tor pasture room be
gTudged them
NegeJarans do not stop 10 think that
q cucumber has an existence pleasant TO
llseii. Because 1t has no eyes. they can
not sympathize with 10. Not to eat meat
from desire not to destroy creation
would result IN the starvation which some
cults practice as much as possible.
but the grand argument of these fad
dists is that our anatomy, our teeth. are
like the apes. and that monkeys live on
nuts and fruit. Who wants 10 be an
ape. anyway Suppose monkeys have
iattencd down their fangs by eating hard
nuts. shall they not resort 10 flesh foods
If il help them i'm their evolution in ma
tures But, my fTUit-eatng friends. YOU
have only seen the monkeys at the zoo
logical gardens, where they depend on
the charity of passing sch0olbovs 10 give
them peanuts and candy. Go to Brazil. J.
The home Of the monkey. and watch him
as ! have done-CatCh the lizard on an
old tree or gObble the flies after carefully
picking away the wings and legs. As a
bird-nest TObbeT, he outstrips anv school
x
skill scraping out the contents with one
hand or sucking it through a hole which
he pierccs with his claw He Is not
beyond fishing In the shallow pools also.
Don't tell me again 10 go TO the monkey
10 learn vegetariaHlsm,
There is "a colony of nut-eaters who
profess to emulate the monkey. even 60
ing naked and eating cocoanuts But
they die often Of the sores which VIII
only disappear when they resort TO the
meats Of civilization. These enthusiasts
call themselves the Order of the Sun
Nuts Cannot Replace Meat.
Vcgetarians are "a high-minded noble I
class of people. as a rule. endeavoring ]
10 find better way Of living. But their Y
teachings are Impractical. for present
day cultivation has not vet yielded the
nut that viii take the place of meat.
The vision Of an idle man basking in the ..
sun near trees of nuts and bananas. with
nothing to do but pick up nuts and fruits
for meal, is attractive enough but
premature. Luther Burbank the wizard (
1f horticulture, the man who makes new Z
nuts, fruits, flowers. and vegetables. is 2
even now trying to blend the nutritious
but hard, Jordan almond with the soft /,
ness of the California pine kernel In
The future, my coeOanut friends. we may Z
follow your ideals, but not now.
Herbert Spencer, Cardinal Manning. and
many other ambitious men are among &
hose who have tried and abandoned veg
atarianism. It is safe TO say there does
not exist a man of renowned intellect :
Who is vegetarian and whose parents
we're also vegetariaus, for the diet does b
not conduce to mentality. The cult has s
always had a few followers for countless :
lses, but they die off rapidly and are c
recruited by the unsuspecting. who-are
,namOured by speciOus arguments and >
.bpannpSg and N-ho often baoor,o e7,es.,