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Show I ' Mi63 Cohsos, tho cheap dinDcr i lady of New York, haa been double- discounted, and badly "ltd" in ' ' economic cookery, and by an Eng lishman at that. He is vice-president " Tfll tb 0 Vegetarian Society of England, and "icnuV4D . lbo London Tunes a recipe for soup that will make Miss ; iorson niusn at ner reckless exirava I gance. It ia simply Egyptian lentils (or common field peas will answer aa well,) wauhed, soaked and boiled furiously for three houra. Celery and other vegetables may be added, but are not necessary, the soup without with-out them being equal to the best gravy soup, aud agreeable to all palatea. A penny's worth of lenlila will produce more nutriment, the j vegetarian cUiraa, than a shilliug't) worth of bfef; and he points to himself him-self as un example of what cheap diet will du lor a man. He claims to have lived fur thirty years on aeeds, vegetables vegeta-bles mid frii.tfl, and says as to strength ot Innv and limb, he ia still "one man in u thousand." It is to be fearid this cheap living will be "run into the ground." The man'j horse diet of straw was good enough as long as it lasted, and promised great things ia tbo way of economy, but just as the animal had accustomed himself to it ho d'ttd. |