Arizona republican., 1910-04-16
WHY NOT PROCONG LIFE?
vegetarianism One of the Systems
 Used by Students Of the Subject.

Women who eat eggplant become 1 jealous. Carrots are conducive to a ! quick temper. String beans encour- 1 age profanity. Potatoes lead to laZi- ness and spinach to activity. Onions in [ vite a perpetual grouch, and green peas often lead to the divorce court by arousins the flirtatious instinct. So says no less an authority than the gov ernment department of agriculture ! These statements are made in an of ficial bulletin just issued. It is held 1 that given vegetables are in harmony or that the individual may be benefited or harmed temperamen;ally by his choice of the vegetables he eats. There i fore. says the government, eat only those vegetables that are suited to your temperament
 If government experts state boldly that vegetables exert these strong in { fluences upon mans temperament, is it
 altogether unreasonable for the vege- tartan to argue that a vegetable diet,
 rightly chosen, is efficacious in pro
 longing human life? Not very long
 ago no less a parsonage than Doctor
 Wu. the former Chinese minister tn
 this country. came out flat footed in
 favor of vegetarianiSm. Bv following
 it's mandates. it is said. he expects to
 live to be considerably over 100 years
 old. As q method of prolnnsing life veGetarianism is believed in by many.
 Its theory is almost worldwide.
 Though cain seems to have been the first vegetarian. either because of the disfavor of his practice encountered at the outset ar his frsltricidal disposition. he is rarely referred to by followers of that cult, who originate from two quite diverse sources-one physiological. the other religious.
 Both of these classes. however. assert that the quality of the food which one eats is all important. that animal food tends to piltrefaction and disease while the acid principle found in vegetables tends to prevent this and at the same time preserve normal condition of the organism.
 Dr. George Chcyne. who has been called the father of modern vegetarian ism. was a vOluptuary in his early life. and attained the enormous weight of i4S pounds. By adopting q diet of milk. water and vegetables he reduced him self tn li0 pounds and lived in uninter- rlIpted health to the age of -. He wrote several valuable works on the subject
 Among carly vcgctarians are enum- crated the Tythagoreans. the Essenes and the Brahmins. and many celebrities are claimed as adherents of the system, including Pythasoras. Cyrus the Great. Cicero, Plautus.. Plutarch. Porphyry, Lord Bacon. Sir William Temple, Lord Kaims, Dr. Thomas Dick. Alexander Pope, Sir Richard Phillips, Sir Isaac Newton, pr. Benjamin Franklin. Thom- as Jefferson, John Howard. the philan- thropist and the poet Shelley
 Dr. William Alcott. in a work on Vegetable Diet" argues that man is fitted for this kind of food. because anatomically his teeth and digestive or gans show that he is built that way; phy ysiologically. he has better appe- tite. disposition and resulting fcrm and features medically. from the improved health and immunity from disease re- sulting
 Vegetarians claim that not only are i the necessary clements for the repair | and upbuilding of the body found in | vegetables. but that s(eh 6iet per sisted in for a number of years tends l to make men less brutal. more thought ful and humane. This idea s carried l 10 the point of enthusiasm.
 There Is an urgent need for an in