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Show AS A MAN EATETH. T' $?; Leguminotherapy is the latest scl WV entlDc novelty. It Is a big name foi p-M vegetable diet not, however, the or I J?a dinary, helter-skelter vegetable diet, I . -2M but scientific vegetable diet, wbercbj f i the oxact physiological and tempera- ' , mental relations of each vegetables tc f -"A the human system arc carefully deter- "4 . mined. "'( K.. Green poas, for example, according ! to this new science, cause frivolity . 1 and should be withheld from young ' r ladies with a congenital tendencw to J& flirt. On the other hand they arc F cxcellont for the wall-fiowors and 1 "!:' pessimists, and should bo given in 3 f s generous helpings to bashful boys j. '' Carrots develop good temper and : ; V amiability, and arc particularly rec- "" HjL ommendod for Janitors, car conduct- or3 and ticket agents. The potato develops reason, as well as calmness ,r and reflection; but care must be taken L.-'"'" lest it Induce apathy and indifference " L'y or that disinclination to work which l! Is observable among boys who aro Uf-5 fed dally on fried potatoes. String Wm!& beans stimulate the poetic and artls- 'Tr'- tlc faculties; while cabbage and caull- .. flower, nourishing though they are, ' ' excite to ' vulgarity of thought and , manner, and aro thereforo to be V shunned by those in training for tho . 7 parlor. : J These are but a few prescriptions &C7. chosen at random, but thoy suffice to I? :s demonstrate the magical possibilities W&' of leguminotherapy No longer, there- fLr " fore, is the whole truth comprehended mu 7 In the dictum of King Solomon, that IT as a man. thjDkerh In his heart, so is W'l ) he. It must now share its placo with w . tho modern croed, that as a man eat- flb- j eth, so is he. itr& It is not wholly a new belief, how- feK ever, for thos worthy apostles of tho Jt no-meat diet who havo been pound- 4i ing at the doors of our Intelligence i ? from as far back as we can remera- I -'l1 ber have all alons maintained that tho i eating of flesh makes us all like unto Wr the very' animals upon which wo feed. 5 , Perhaps It is. It certainly looks as if Z - it ought to be. Yet, like the inqulsl- 4 ' tlve Willie who was Informed of this ' - truth and wondered therefore whv H the eating of missionaries did not j ' i make Christians of cannibals, we. too. : &' must be forgiven for holding some " : -" child-like doubts upon the subject. I - ' Clifford Howard in LIppincott's. I . ' |