| Show vegetarian FA EART RK 1 A WOMAN WHO EATS NO MEAT F SAT AND LIVES ON A WEEK RIM mra le ie fevre of new york tells about iler her diet a of nuts grains and fruits it I 1 in really beally very tery attractive some thins thing about those these who Eat Eai Meat why whyna is it there are only about vegetarians in new york city less les than the number in either boston or chicago Chicag 67 in the latter city visits to the sanguinary meat packing establishments have driven people to a diet and there is a large and increasing class that forages upon the fruits nuts nuta and leaves of df the earth these facts were communicated to rr me 0 the other day by mrs le favre the leader of new yorks vegetarian she has not eaten meat for four years A diet of nuts cuts fruits and seeds she claims is more wholesome and much cheaper than one composed of flesh her thirty day experiment of living on her favorite foods at the lowest possible cost was recently told of she brought her table board aown down to a week she claims that with this sho she committed many gastronomical extras a gances and that the price can be still further pared down mrs le favre goes a little further than most vegetarians in discarding roots and leaves altogether the hu humble potato the succulent lettuce and the homely cabba cabbage 0 6 are not to bo be found upon her bill of fare nor will she ehe partake of radishes turnips carrots or the many items usually so well relished that t come under dr the head of roots or leaves she thinks that they are a very poor class of nourishment and intended only for horses and pigs piga though under a vegetarian dispensation what the tha pigs are intended for it would be difficult to say some of the proprietors of vegetarian sanitariums sanitarium who find potatoes soma somewhat what cheap and excessively filling for their patients take issue with her 0 on n these points I 1 dont think that mrs le favre is a very hearty eater as eaters gob go but gutshe she is very well nourished and does a vast amount of work for the fuel she consumes I 1 doubt if any meat eater of my acquaintance can do mo more re labor of brain or muscle than she for her breakfast ehe oats eats ee cereal real food rice or corn of one of these things she takes a tablespoonful and a half costing perhaps one cent and cooks it theu then she has haa a cup of coffee cobee costing colung about one cent more and a slice or two of whole grained bread at less than a penny a slice and concludes the repast with an oran orange 13 or ba banana tiana the quantities given are not largo large but they can be increased to suit the appetite and the heartiest eater she thinks very well make away with more than ton ten cents worth the luncheon consists of a plate of lentil soup a most nourishing dish involving an outlay of about half a cent this is followed by a vegetable of some sort well cooked a few olives or nuts two slices of bread some fruit canned cherries or something like that or pudding the check for this meal would be seven or eight cents supper is made up of whole grained or oatmeal bread preserves prea erves bananas or oranges and a little chocolate once this anti meat advocate saw a porter in the east carrying a large piano down the street on his shoulders she became interested at once and wanted to find out what food would produce such enormous strength she in inquired quid and found that ho he lived chiefly on green cucumbers and garlic and never devoured flesh at any time two thirds of the people in the world three fourths i some people assert never eat meat and know how to in boston there are vegetarians of the second gention generation that is their parents had eaten no flesh for some years before they were born and they themselves have not broken their fast upon roasts roast a and boilers boi to these people the sight of a butchers shop or a wagon load of deceased pigs is exceedingly repulsive there is no vegetarian restaurant in the united states and the eaters want to start one in new york london has at let forty places where one can dine upon the vegetable fat of the land without tasting hesh flesh the number and variety of cf dishes that are served in these places v startle the unsophisticated q and shock a butcher vegetarians everywhere realize that the best way to preach their doctrine is is to induce people to eat one of their meals bachelors and spinsters spin bent on dietary reform and ignorant of cooking or perhaps not having a kitchen at their I 1 disposal find it hard to board at a restaurant and not live on meat they can live on apples perhaps mrs le favre did once for two weeks and grew stout and healthy but many of them mig might not care to all the fighting of the world is done by meat ea eaters said mrs le favre flesh engenders a fierce restlessness which finds vent in war vegetarians while they will work unceasingly are not fighters iut hut they win their point by gentle gentleness riess and persuasion there is a constant cravin craving for stimulant in a meat eater children fed on flesh swallow slate pencils and ashes it is because their system calls out for the carbonates and lime of vegetables vegetarian arjan children never eat their slate PT pencils I 1 A square mile 0 of f land will sustain six gix times as many vegetarians as meat eaters thins of the waste there is ia herel meat is the most extravagant food we can use the overcrowding of the earth will mill compel the universal adoption of vegetarianism the roots and leaves I 1 consider food for the lower animals the pig grubs in the ground round tor for his potatoes but I 1 dont I 1 pluck the rich ripe grain the nuts and I 1 the apple I 1 consider the ap pie the finest food th there ere is an electrician can arrange apples in a row and obtain a current of electricity fr from om them I 1 think wo we should eat only tho very best form of nourishment and I 1 consider that the nuts and fruits answer this requirement new york herald |
