| Show diet lie very strict ascetic sect of vege carians who only live upon seeds and uncooked food look down i their weaker bretl ren wl 0 eat eggs and milk ind butter in fact everything which does not necessitate the liking of life which ii to me to bo the only rei soluble standpoint it is certain tint the giving UP of animal food cures many illnesses which no medicines cn reichi I 1 everybody very body knobs tie bad ef feels 0 butchers meat in gout and rl in affections of the cheari it is often tl e only remedy and the wonderful results are not did cult to explain in i case where rest often ne ins cure lr one reflects that while the me it e iter s 1 lias seventy two beats in tl e minute tl e vegetarian s only 1 AS fifty eight be its therefore 20 bets IMS in the course of the ty four hours insomnia and nervousness aro affected in tl e same nay there is less wear and more repose in the constitution I 1 could enu many er illnesses in which vegetable diet doea marvels but will only mention those of tl e skin most hive unusually cleir and otten beautiful complexion I 1 need only remind those who know tl em of the old ind 1 ripi monks who all have smooth white ind pink 1 ra leito angelico kind of cices which ire not found among the orders that do not live on lenten fare the splendid teeth of tt e peasantry pei santry who never to ich meat for themselves ind it is the same in other countries where tl e people live under similar conditions it Is foolish to vegetable diet with tern I 1 arance erance as miny do 11 ey are quite as toni shed to see i vegetable eiter drink ing wine or beer one thing how ever Is true viz that it is tar easier to cure a drunkard if you deprive him of meat because as dr jackson head doctor of the asyl im for dipsomaniacs Dipsomania cs dan ville new says it is clear that contains some not nutritious par tides which excite tre nervous system so much that it at last becomes ex hausted and unstrung in this state of exhaustion unhealthy reaction follows which brings on a paroxysm and violent desire for i brits rod the excite ment which tl ey create jr bunco professor of i chemistry at the university of hale w rites in his book on rhe appetite of the drunkard is directed almost ex to anneal food ar d Tege tari ans ire quite right when they teach thit si irit drinking and excessive use of animal food are in connection with eccli oil er eat is often calad a fil but it is a healdt y and an innocent one ind tl e reaction against tl e present stile of things it imparts bigl aness an 1 to alie body I 1 brigt aness and clearness to the mind the vegetarians I 1 know are all ally strong active and for their age one of them walked without stopping for tl airty four and anoil er time twenty seven hours without a rest while on an ex cursione in norway feats not easily equaled by the most inveterate beef eater traveling mountain climbing all seems easier and less fitl guing on this light and sooth ing diet and why should it not give strength to the limbs and sinews it one reflects that all the animals nho do the heaviest work in the world like horses oxen and elephants are entirely herbivorous it is not my intention to be understood to say that I 1 look upon vegetable diet even with its necessary ac compani ments of fresh air frequent ablutions and exercise as a panacea or everything and that medicines become useless vi e are mortal and there is no perfection in this imperfect horld has a greater belief than I 1 have in remedies judiciously given during allness but it is the many who are out ot health and below par will out hard y knoring what is it e matter with tt em who would be all the better for try ing whether their discomforts comforts dis spring from too high and rich a diet or from the inability to procure any but inferior meat or elsh lady 1 aget in the nineteenth century for april A german inventor has devised a means ot producing a light superior in strength to either oil or electricity it is by meins of air driven through pum ice stone the latter having been am with benzine the benzine gas thus obtained Is then carried through a fine magnesium powder and proceeds upward through a pipe to be consumed in a small lame of a claimed candle power the apparatus consists of a blast engine for the air aliro agh the pumice and a num ber of er accessories all of which take up but a small space |
