The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1917-02-22

me to go down town to attend to som,
business, but she said that she knew
well enough that all the business
had down town was to sit around Bill
Blossoms store and talk politics with
a lot of old coots who never die
amount to anything, and who ought
to be compelled by law to stay al
home and help their wives. Well,
finally compromised by hanging out
the clothes, but | began to study the
matter. l asked myself, "What is the
matter with Jane? What causes her
to act in this arbitrary manner? ?"
One evening / read an article on the
effect of diet. 1t said that the dis
position of people was determined
largely by what they ate. The arti-
Gle went on to say that eating meat
tended to make the eater savage, die
tatorial and unreasonable. That says
to myself, what is the matter with
Jane. / will put her on a vegetable
diet. / will soon see who is running
this house. Jane has been eating too
much meat. / will start the yegeta-
BILE diet at once.
"'April 5. l suggested to Jane on
April that / was satisfied that peo-
pie eat too much meat. She was at
that time feeding her face with some
thick, rare steak. She didn't seem so
very much interested, and l took up
the subject again. said to her in
my most impressive manner, "Jane,
people eat too much meat" "Well,"
she says, "why don't you quit eating
it? Nobody, so far as | KNOW" she
says, "is trying to compel you to eat
meat if you don't want to. There's
plenty of grass and other vegetables
you can fill up on if you want to-"
With that she reached for another
piece of steak. / see that want get
ting anywhere to speak of and de-
cided to come out direct, so | says,
"Jane, you are undermining your
health by eating meat. You should at
ofce begin on a vegetable diet. You
should eat mostly carrots and turnips
with a filling of bran" Jane looked
at me with suspicion, and asked where
| got hold of this vegetarian idee of
mine. l told her that l had been
about it for good while, but
she simply said, "huh," kind of like
A snort as it were, and went on eating
oeefsteak.
"'April 10. The vegetarian idea
hasn't so far worked out as | had
planned. 1t seems that after my talk
With Jane she got hold of the article
m the effect of diet and think she
.aught onto what | had in mind. Any
way, the next day she brought the
natter up herself and says to me;
Il have been thinking about what
you was talking about and concluded
maybe there is something in it. Come
o think about it you are quite meat
ater for a man who doesn't do moth
ng land me building the fires and
arriving in the wood, doing the
burning and washing, and hanging
ut the clothes). have, therefore,
ecided to put you on vegetable diet
t once" l objected strongly as
nan should who intends to run his
wn house. I told her plainly that
neat was proper food for man
nd that a vegetable diet was espe-
iallv adapted to the female sex, and t.:
nat would not be dictated to by my [
life as to what l should eat. Well, |
ne argument waxed mighty hot, and
nallv rather than have it said that l {
as tyrant in my own household l
greed to compromise. | went on a t
egetable diet and Jane still eats t
eat. c
"'May 10. | have been on vege- c
lble diet now for 80 days, eating l
othing but turnips and spinach and
ran and the like. The Teller who f
rote that article about the effect h
diet on the human disposition was t
CHIT. Jane is eating more meat v
ian ever and she hardly gives me g
inute's rest while | am awake. She e
,esn't let me go down town at all S
" more and has added making the a
Ids and scrubbing the floor to my S
her duties. For the first week or u
after | went on vegetable diet b
kicked and felt disposed to assert
v rights, but now l am getting so V
at l have practically no nerve. 1t II
this here internal vegetable diet W
at is doing the business for me. II
"'July 3. l have now been on u
richly vegetable diet for nearly II
rec months. Jane has made me
IN the socks in addition to milking n
e COW, straining the milk, doing the "
urning, working the washing ma III
inc and hanging out the clothes, "
aking the beds and scrubbing the ~
ors. There is going to be Fourth VI
July celebration in the city park
l asked Jane about going