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Show Fresh Vegetables. It is believed by vegetarians that a purely vegetable diet makes people amiable, am-iable, good natured, generous, developing develop-ing the finer characteristics of the user, and that excessive meat eaters become the opposite. Whether this be true or not. fresh vegetables are appreciated in the early spring. They are an essential change from the heavy winter viands and should form the greater part of our daily menus. i Almost every vegetable lias its particular par-ticular use in the human system, and nature provides sufficient variety to keep us in fine bodily condition if we will live in accordance with her laws and not abuse her gifts. Tomatoes act directly on the liver. Onions, garlic, leeks, shallots, chives, stimulate the circulation, increase the saliva and gastric juices and promote digestion. , . - Pears, beans and lentils, called also legumes, are among the most nutritious nutri-tious of vegetables, containing as much' carbon of wheat and more muscle-forming muscle-forming food. Iettuce and celery both have a good effect upon the nerves. The former is soothing and the latter Is. a tonic. The free use of pieplant, or rhubarb, rhu-barb, is considered a "spring tonic," anl will prevent the use of medicine which is often apparently necessary to tone up the system. Being such a common and inexpensive plant, it is teally not appreciated by the majority of housewives. When so fortunate as to have it growing in the garden it is generally used in small amounts for pies early in the season and the remainder re-mainder allowed to go to waste, when it might be utilized in a variety of appetizing ap-petizing dishes all the year-around, as it can be preserved for winter use equally as well as the more expensive. |