The Washington herald., 1913-05-25
Lower Sort Of Mankind
Graves Meat" Says Ber-
nard Shaw-Nobles, Act
ors, Authors, Araists Advo-
cate Fleshless Diet for
Health and Beauty.

/ Health and Beauty.
There are a number Of reasons why
people become vegetarians; and religion
health, desire of beauty. taste, ant
artistic feelings play part in them. Oh
late a new reason has been added to tbs
| list which might be called social ol
possibly political. growing out of de
sire, as 1t does. to boycott the beei
| trust.
But whatever may be the reasons that
prompt this form of diet II certainly /:
increasing the world over. Even in Eng
land, the land of meat eaters, it il
spreading almost as fast6s in the United
/ States. This may be due largely to the
| fact that doctors have Of late rather
cried down meat. especially for rheu-
matte people As rheumatism is ma
tional disease of England. vegetarianism
| is probably resorted to as means OF
| freeing the body from pain.
Perhaps the most famous vegetarian
in the world today is George Bernard
Shaw. He has sounded his trumpet to
draw attention TO the subject many
times His reason for being a vegeta-
rian in that meat is distasteful to him.
that 1t is repulsive to him to think OF
eating the carcasses of slaughtered ami
mails, that meat eating is unclean, un-
artistic, and revolving. He also feels
repuIsion against all alcoholic drinks
and tobacco: why should he fill his sys-
TEN with such unnecessary rubbish.
he asks. and dun and befog his brain
with them, when he Is so much better
without them.
Mr. Shaw is tall. robust. and healthy,
with a ruddy color, clear eyes, and an
elastic gait His diet consists of fruits.
nuts, vegetables. and cereals. He often
makes what he regards as a hearty
meal on four bananas. and when he is
travelling he does not have the trouble
that most people do, for he can carry
In his grip supply of nuts and with
the fruit and vegetables and grains that
he can buy be can manage beautifully.
He said at a meeting of yegetarians:
There are two sorts of mankind,
those of higher and those of lower char
acter. The lower Graves meat. I do
not like meat and never did"
Prophet Daniel As Excmplar.
And again he said:
Daniel was a vegetarian, and after
a time be became very handsome That
struck me at the time 1 am not sure
that it did not have something to do
with my views"
Miss Marie Coreln is another English
vegetarian of literary fame. She Is a
vegetarian because of her aversion to
killing; the thought OF taking life to-
satisfy the appetite is shocking to her.
One has only to see Miss Corelh to real
ize that meat is not all necessary to
an appearance of roundness and perfect
health. for Miss Corelli is as plump and
rosy as a child. ....
The Countess of Warwick adopted
about a year ago. and
people have surmised a good many mo-
tives for the action of the beautiful
Some say she made the |
change for the sake of her beauty and |
figure, others because of religious |
scruples. and again others because she |
hnds that her wits are clearer on a veg
>tarian diet II is to be supposed that !,
the first reason has had a good deal to |
DO with II. and that Lady Warwick
viewed with dismay the rapidly increas-
ing flesh that was destroying all her
beauty Since she adopted vegetarian
sm she has lost many pounds and has
-egained her former slenderness and
oveliness. She has made a careful /
,tudy Of a perfectly balanced diet and |
IS thus enabled to nourish her body 1
without becoming over stout or over
can. She is fast making other converts |
% vegetarfanism, for to be overweight 1
s almost disgrace at the Court Of st.
lanes.
There are three famous French ac-
resses who have, within the last ten
years, become strict vegetarians, and
,ne and the same motive prompted each
the preservation of beauty and slen-
lerness. The actresses are Retane,
ords da /
Divine Sarah Fats Never!
One cannot imagine Sarah BernhardtI
,etting actually fat, and yet the famous
ctress was gaining weight and losing
he lines of her figure. notably about
he neck and waist. As in everything
ise In life she made a careful study
horities on the subject. The result was
hat she gave up all flesh food and be-
anne strictly a vegetarian. She has
that vegetarian diet makes
ne younger and more elastic and. gives
clear brain and steady nerve. She has
,st her heaviness, and her figure has !
realty improved. so that she is enabled
I nearly seventy and as a great-grand-
iother to act the role of Joan Of Arc !
tights and to reveal an agile. grace l
u figure. 1
Nine. Bernhardt does not even eat
zgs, as they are form of flesh food. |
nd she takes no chances. She sticks
, a simple though widely varied diet !
Z dried and fresh fruits, nuts. cereals, {
nd vegetables. Her only beverage Is 4
DOL spring water. In
Rejane became a vegetarian to stayl
ie appalling increase of her weight. s
he was becoming so stout as to be I
lite untitled to take the parts in which c
le had been 80 successful the world r
1er. 1t was a good deal of q wrench !
her will power, this renouncing meat. o
II she is fond Of good living, and es-
ecially of fine dinners and many {
,urses, but her art Is her life and so q
le schooled herself to give up a meat V
ct and to adopt vegetarianism- Now
le finds 1t easy to go without flesh q
od. She has found that she can keept
,rseff youthful and slender in appear D
ice and her figure Is strikingiy beauti- b
4, with no hint Of the heaviness that e.
ice threatened 1t. a
How Cleo "Came Back Re
Cleo de Merode is. perhaps, the most
Imous dancer that the Paris opera
'er had. Her figure was perfect in its
rfect roundness and the long. beautiful n
roat and fine, small head of the dancer =,
ere copied many times by artists. Then :,
a sudden she began to show an In g
ease of flesh. She did not dance as .
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