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Show GEN.. BOOTH A VEGETARIAN. Salvation Army Leader Will Not Eat Meat. Few people are aware that Gen. Booth, head and founder of the Salvation Salva-tion Army, who recently visited this city, is a pronounced vegetarian. In years he has eaten neither fish, flesh nor eggs, says the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. Even butter, milk or vegetables cooked with fat are denied. de-nied. His diet is solely, upon cereals, boiled rice being largely his sustenance. susten-ance. He occasionally eats rice for breakfast, dinner and supper, and then enters upon the same diet the next day. A member of the army said recently: recent-ly: "Gen. Booth believes in his body. Yet meats and strong drinks he heart- . ir- despises. He will not smoke, because be-cause he realizes that he has a nervous nerv-ous system that must be protected. He "will not drink, partly from principle and partly because he realizes that for every stimulation there is an equal and consequent reaction. He is a vegetarian not merely because he believes be-lieves that primitive mankind the Adam and Eve of the Bible were vegetarians, but because, after a long practical trial, he finds himself far younger than his years, while the mortal mor-tal parts of most men, who laugh at what they call his crankiness, are like John Brown's body "a-mouldering in the grave." |