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Show GIVE VEGETARIANISM A TRIAL. If you wero In a cannibal country, how would you like to bo tho canni-balee? canni-balee? To bo fed and fatted and slain and spitted to decorate tho Interior of your big brother? , Well, Mr. Edwin Ed-win Markham has tedd us In a poem that ho reads to overybody and everybody every-body reads, that man Is Brother to the Ox. Shall we carvo our brother? No, not by the' ox-eyes or cow-eyes of Juno! As, for tho sheep, how can anybody seo ono without thinking of a lord chancellor? Now,wo shouldn't caro to eat a lord chancellor, especially especial-ly a particularly tough ono llko Eldon - .- -or Brougham. Tho pig hath a devil. Tho pig Is unclean. Ho is too bad to eat. Yet thero aro pigs that do great service and aro too good to eat; those sagacious, sa-gacious, epicurean noses that hunt tho truffles. Of course, nobody but a Prodigal Prod-igal Son cats veal. Is thero anything In tho vegetarian philosophy? Let's find out. Is it meat that makes you snap and .blto at tho breakfast table? Is It meat that makes you an affliction unto tho wifo of your bosom? Feed upon salads, !iko Nebuchadnezzar. Eat berries with tho birds. If worst comes to worst, bucklo your bolt tighter. Fortunately, For-tunately, overybody has a belt to bucklo these days. Let us bo mild-eyed, mild-eyed, but not melancholy, Lotus-eaters, and no longer ferocious carnivores. carni-vores. Now York Sun. |