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Show WHY SHE TURNED VEGETARIAN" The Counters of Essex, who has many American friends, recently became a vegetarian. The other day. In a letter to New York, she accounted for her abandonment of flesh food. "Not long ago," she wrote, "I visited a slaughter house. "I can't tell you how everything was plained-deep with blood, how there arose from the drenched1, dark floors the peculiar odor of blood. "As I was hurrying away three beautiful beau-tiful lambs were led in by a man with a long, shining knife. Filled with pity arid indignation, I said: " 'How can you be so cruel as to put those innocent little lambs to death?" " 'Why, madam," said the man, you wouldn't eat them alive, would you?" " |