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Show How Vegetarianism Hurts Us By M. A. LANE, SC. B., (Former Research Fellow In Physiology, University of Illinois.) the hunt, active, bright-eyed, alert, vigorous vig-orous and pushing. Then, with a sucTesHful kill, there would naturally bo a little gorging of meat, followed by a long and lazy rest. Now, while we, their descendants, are not quite as savage or quite as Improvident Im-provident as were our primitive forefathers fore-fathers of the Jungle or the prairies, and while It Is true that we are not distressed with alternate scarcity and redundancies of food, we Inherit tho stomachs and the general digestive machinery ma-chinery of those active old fathers of ours, and a reasonable degree of alternate alter-nate gorging and starving Is good for us. Unfortunately, however, most of us have to attend to business year In and year out, anil we cannot lie Idle around the woods digesting off our gorges, whereas fasting Is not to be thought of by persons who work at occupations very different from hunt Ing. But we can do this: We ran cut down, or cut out. our meat diet at irregular ir-regular and fairly frequent Intervals; go without meat altogether for a week or so; be vegetarians, not regularly, but quite Irregularly, for short lengths of time. And then when we give meat Its Inning, we will be better prepared pre-pared to appreciate It, and to extract from It the health and happiness we need. The vegetarian Is therefore herewith here-with supplied with a "scientific principle" princi-ple" as sound and as negotiable as a golden eagle. But If he adopts It he will have to cut himself In two. (Copyright, 1911. br hr Columbia Prrat Hyn.lli tr ) his work. And although he might not have adnitted It were he charged with It, I knew he was afflicted with a disorder dis-order of the digestive apparatus that always accompanies vegetarianism. He was. In fine, the victim of a prejudice that left him unequal to the work he was compelled to do. and which he was doing at the expeftse of his health, happiness and success In the world In which he moved. Upon what grounds does the practice prac-tice of vegetarianism rest Its claims? The answer Is, on no grounds what soever, unless It be those of the man who has an "Idea" that If he looks over his left shoulder at the moon, or sees a black cat on the thirteenth day of the month, he Is dead sure to have bad luck. And yet It is only when It Is ridden to death as a hobby that vegetarianism can be charged with Inanity. When It Is practiced occasionally and for a limited lim-ited time, and at Irregular intervals. It becomes the useful servant of scien-tlfl scien-tlfl Intelligence. There Is a "soul of truth" In vegetarianism, as there also may be. so far as yoij or I know to the contrary. In the belief that If you see a black tabby on Friday the thirteenth, thir-teenth, you will lose regularly at poker for some considerable time thereafter. This soul of truth takes us backward a bit In the na'ural history of man. The primitive ancestors of European Euro-pean races, like the savage races of the present time, were naturally fitted for, and therefore "needed." a certain amount of Irregularity In their feeding. feed-ing. Sometimes game would be plenty, and sometimes it would be scarce. When It vas scarce, or not to be had at all. those primitive ancestors of ours were necassarlly limited to a atarvatlon diet They were very hungry, aaj their hunger made them keen on I soruetiuKs despair for the future of the human racii when I see some !poor n an or poor woman trying to ... - -"T worry along .'i 'l'V'i ?s ' through an all too-l-K'J' "V limited and not I - over Joyous life on I. 'a diet that Is fit y J only for guinea -) "' pigs, rabbits and : kine. t 'yf I have no quar- ."lto. rcl with the vege- V- tarlan or with his V t f't "principles;" In '( .( fact. I don't know -'V ' nave never ? . i i ' betn able to find HV-kiu. A'.'tUi out Just what his principles are. But I'm sorry for him. I once knew a young man who was trying to do the very hardest kind of work the mixed kind, which Is physical and mental, too on a dlt that a healthy rabbit would hesitate about adopt lug unless guaranteed that the quantity would be absolutely unlimited. This young man would make a breakfast of a bit of tread, a small plate of boiled rice, and a glass of water; he would luncheon on a small quantity of butter beans, or some ether equally Insubstantial airy nothing, and then he would top off the day with a piece of cake and a cup of tea always weak tea, too. Occasionally he would go on what might be called a veritable "feeding "feed-ing bat," and would wildly dissipate on two bananas for break faat, boiled rice with green corn and an apple for luncheon, and a "lentil cutlet." with two bananas for dinner! And after this desperate plunge Into the flesh pots of Egypt he would Always feel as guilty as If he hail Just robbed a safe and could hear the police coming to take him In. You couldn't persuade that1 young man that he was slowly but certainly killing himself. Had you stood him up before all the physiologists of the world, to be assured by them not only on their reputation as men of science, but on their decency and honor as rcn, that that sort of a diet was never "Intended," by any scheme of nature or any deity Imaginable, for the human machinery of digestion, he would probably prob-ably have come out of the seance with a vague Idea that somehow or other they were Just trying to fool him for some hiddn and vicious purpose of their own. It would be a good thing If all men and all women were early In their youth put through a course of study I mean actual study, from the thing and not from the book, which la worse than useless, net even being useless on the vast differences between the digestive apparatus of the plant eat Ing animal and that of the meat-eating, or omnivorous, animal, such as man. The young vegetarian mentioned above was very brave; as brave as anybtdy cou!d be In such circumstances circum-stances and on such a diet, but he would often look with longing eyes on the steaks and chops his companions consumed at table, while he himself was sturdily punishing himself with rice and other wholly unsavory dishes Also he was rather dim of eye and not specially active on his feet or at |