THE VEGETARIAN MAGAZINE. In days of old, when drugs were sold, They never dreamed such things could be. Think you these modern cures are good? (Their word was "bunk.') Very odd. And so do we. The following was sent to us a few days since by L. A. H. and it is too good to shut up in the solitude of a file drawer. "I am in need of a reliable office girl stenographer. Do you know of one? I had a good one who was with me several years but some impudent fellow came along and offered her a life time meal ticket and she flew the coop. The trouble is that most of the girl stenographers are only working till they get a chance to marry. If you get one and keep her for any period, she must be so homely that you have to sit with her back to you so you can work at all or so silly that she knows nothing. Nearly all the handsome girls are dunces or sap heads." J. S. P. F., Oregon, writes:-"Why did I become a vegetarian? Through the unfoldment of psychic powers I became convinced that all life was immortal,-that the day of separating man from other creatures belonged to a bigoted, superstitious past. Soul psychometry, clairvoyance and clairaudience, showed me the ONENESS of LIFE, and a universal language of life. Principle was involved, as well as feeling. In fact, the law within my own being compelled me to take the step as it became impossible for me to longer use flesh foods. Now, after years of vegetarianism, I find it a diet for health, strength, endurance,—mentally and physically, and the open door to greater spiritual unfoldment." Captain M. Petavel, one of the men who has been prominent in the furtherance of the Self-Supporting School Association in England, Stanford-Le-Hope, writes:-"Thank you very much for your sympathetic letter. I am sending you our literature which will show you what we are doing. We are working for the same cause in every way and should support each other. "I am not writing you a long letter because the literature will tell you all about us and I will keep you acquainted with our progress. 205 "We consider that we have done great work for the vegetarian cause. Most people who have come here have taken to our vegetarian way of living. Some have converted many pro tem, at least, to the diet." Next month we shall print part of the printed explanatory circular sent us, that others may know something of this good work. P. S. C. writes from Montana."If vegetarian diet is so wholesome and invigorating why do we see so many pale and weak vegetarians? Some of the strict vegetarians whom I have known followed this diet for a number of years and still their faces look like old parchment and they are never strong. There are several reasons for this state of affairs among vegetarians. First, they may not breathe plenty of fresh air day and night. They may take insufficient outdoor exercise. They may not drink enough water, and what is more probable, they do not eat enough fruit but take too many cereals and starchy foods. Of all the errors vegetarians make, these are the most serious: eating an excess of carbohydrates, not taking sufficient natural food, fruits fruits and green herbs. Mrs. G. MI, Utah:-"My little boy of eight is very pale and listless. He is fat but his skin is flabby. He has a good appetite. Could I do anything to improve his looks?" You do not say what the boy eats, but we know what he does not eat sufficient of. That is tissue builders, green herbs and vegetables which furnish iron and other natural mineral salts. The tissue builders are the entire legume family. Under that head come the peas, lentils, beans, peanuts. (These latter are usually called nuts, but belong to the legume family). Starchy foods with sweets of an unwholesome character have been the principal diet of this boy. Beside the legume family, as tissue builders, are the cereals and nuts. The vegetables also contain a certain percentage of tissue building power. As this is not a scientific treatise on food, we would suggest some of the following combinations as a well balanced food, to be taken during a certain period: 206 THE VEGETARIAN MAGAZINE. Breakfast.-Boiled, hulled rice with raisins. Change with California black figs, dates and prunes. Use one kind at a time. Add milk with this, sometimes butter instead. Let it always be sweet (unsalted) butter. Lunch.-Hulled rice again, cooked with carrots and olive oil added after being cooked. Dinner.-Apple, chopped, uncooked spinach with olive oil; entire wheat unleavened bread. Continue the rice and dried fruits for breakfast. Vary the other two meals with buttered lima beans (dried), Scotch peas, stewed lentils, lentil loaf, red kidney beans, black bean soup; one vegetable, carrots preferably, and the bread mentioned. With this fare should be taken fruits in season. In fruits we get distilled water, which helps eliminate waste matter of the system. Use plenty of salad herbs but not with the cooked food. The boy needs iron and this can be obtained in large proportions in spinach, strawberries, pumpkins, lettuce, leek, radishes, asparagus. These come in value in the order named. Carrots are rich in potassium, which makes hair health. Potatoes are also rich in this same element. In the above named foods, rich in iron, this element is also richer even than in carrots or potatoes. Onions rank high in phosporous but are not as high as either cabbage or spinach. Dandelion leaves are rich in the organic salts, fine tissue builders, but the cooking destroys the essential elements, so they should be eaten only in salads. Nuts should not be forgotten as tis.ue builders, muscle formers and fat makers. The value of uncooked cabbage in the usc of salads is not sufficiently known. A Man, Syracuse, N. Y.-"You spend a lot of money on telling people about not eating meat and not ea'g their friends. Now I wish to have good health but I don't care anything about having it at the expense of a lot of mushy sentiment. Sentiment never makes the world move nor gets money or good health. Give me good, sound reasons, not mush and twiddle twaddle, for not eating meat." You seem to think that, like the boy who drew a horse on the blackboard and wrote under it, "This is a Horse," we would not suspect you were "a man" unless you told us. Well, misguided friend, you are not a good specimen, of a man, only an imitation. For sound reasons for not eating meat we will refer you to a splendid book recently issued, called "A Fleshless Diet." It is written by a real, live man, one with brain and heart but he backs up the heart with a powerful brain. We have it for sale. Look up ads. You can never enjoy good health so long as you eat the flesh of dead animals, which commence decaying as soon as life becomes extinct. But you can also eat food with no flesh and not have good health. You mistake about the world not being moved by sentiment. The foundation of life's activities is largely made up of sentiment. The love of a mother is sentiment. The vows of the lovers are sentiment. The great, daring deeds of this world are sentiment. The love for the beautiful is sentiment. The efforts to better sociological conditions are sentiment. The church bell rings because of sentiment. The flowers placed on the coffin are sentiment. Even the songs of the birds in the tree tops are sentiment. It is sentiment which make a real man chivalrous and tender, makes him a noble specimen of the human, male brute. It is sentiment which causes the boy in school to double up his fists and pummel the one who has jeered at his sister or some less fortunate boy. It is sentiment which brings the boy back from the fartherest point of the world to his home, his old associates, which makes him crave a word, a look from his kind. Sentiment is the blossom by the wayside of life, giving forth perfumes 1 THE VEGETARIAN MAGAZINE. which sweetens the dreary atmosphere of prosiness and turns the clouds into sunshine. You would have no existence upon earth but for a sentiment. The world would be dank and noisome, like an underground -cell, were it not for sentiment. prison Rice The McFaddin-Wiess-Kyle Milling Co., of Beaumont, Texas, has the following to say relative to hulled rice, which the editor is determined shall be introduced in the market and distributed among the masses:-"We are forwarding you a sample of hulled rice. We think it is hardly going to be possible to popularize this product for the reason that the bran surrounding the grain is so rich in oils that it soon becomes rancid and unpalatable. The Chinamen and Japanese do not eat hulled rice. They prepare the rice by pounding it in a mortar and pestle and it has the outside bran removed. The rice eaten by all the large riceeating nations is an unpolished rice similar to the product we are now placing on the market. It is their staple food product and surely we can copy their experience extending over hundreds of years that rice with the bran removed is the proper article for consumption." Again they write, "We would ask you to ponder the question of hulled rice as to whether it is more preferable in this form than the polished article." In our opinion an article so rich in nutriment, containing such quantities of oil that it becomes rancid if not fresh is a food too valuable to remove this nourishing element to feed to the pigs and cattle instead of feeding to man. Because of this fault(?) and its acknowledged richness we are more anxious than ever to get it introduced and accepted as a cheap and nutritious food. The way to accomplish this is for all consumers of rice to club together and procure from one hundred pounds to a thousand fresh from the mill and make it the staple food. Rice is adaptable to SO many changes that an intelligent housekeeper can readily make it the foundation of most dishes. 207 Rice is far more nutritious than potatoes and more easily changed into unrecognizable dishes, which seems to be the chief ambition of many cooks. As the rice polish, removed from the polished grain, has double the food value of ordinary rice, there is every reason why the consumer should retain all this for food. The part next to the hull, as in all grains and foods of the vegetable kingdom, contains the most nutriment and vi tality-giving power. Rice in its entirity is an antiseptic food and contains little waste, being more easily and rapidly digested than any other known food. Its wholesomeness and merits can be readily understood. Of all foods in the curing of Bright's disease, rice stands first. Donald D. McDougall, Cincinnati, writes. "A vegetarian friend handed me a copy of your magazine recently, the first one it has been my pleasure to see, and I find that it is brim full of the sort of stuff that ought to be read and assimilated by all vegetarians, to which class I have belonged for thirty years. I am mighty proud for being in a position to say so. Find enclosed $1.00 for a year's subscription. "Yes, your invaluable periodical should be read by all persons who desire real, genuine health and an all around increase of vital efficiency. In the very nature of things the eater of flesh meats, or the eater of other to the eaters remains a stranger finer yet potent vital sensations and powers, which lead one into a closer touch with his maker, like the noble Daniel and his three companions. "The vegetarian sentiment is making a substantial progress in Cincinnati, especially so during the past year, largely through the influence exerted by the press, the daily papers publishing many articles favorable to our cause. Leading Cincinnati physicians have also taken up this practical reformative work. Having no vegetarian restaurant in our city, I have induced the Newell Restaurant Company, successful operators of seven cating places (see menu card mailed under under separate cover), to transform their Shillito Place Restaurant, now largely patronized by vege 208 THE VEGETARIAN MAGAZINE, tarians (as many of the Cincinnati members are such), gymnasium into a strictly vegetarian cafe, as soon as suitable persons to conduct it can be obtained. Probably you know of a married couple who are real, enthusiastic vegetarians, yet have good business ability as to restaurant work. It would be immaterial which of the two took charge of the cooking. I do not think they would have any trouble in getting suitable vegetarian help. If we just get the right start the Newell Restaurant Co. will find it necessary to open another vegetarian eating place within a year. Fully ninety per cent. of the patients sent to me for treatment, such as massage and the various forms of water and electric treat ments, have been advised to cut flesh meats out of their diet as one of the means of cure. Quite a large per cent. of these become vegetarians good. for "I have one notable case in mind. Three years ago a young farmer who was referred to me by his physician as the only hope left for regaining his health, he being a complete physical wreck. Within six months, under natural diet and my line of treatments, administered twice a week, after the first two weeks, he became a thoroughly robust man and his all round efficiency has been and is continuing to grow steadily. He is now one of the most enthusiastic vegetarians it has ever been my pleasure to know. His cure was mainly due to to the change in diet, because eating large quantities of flesh foods in order to regain his lost strength was what proved his undoing. He has converted his family even to the father, who is over seventy years old, from eating flesh. In fact it is said that the butcher bills of the community in which he lives have been cut · in half, and he is becoming an authority upon fruit raising. The products of his farm are taking the first premiums at his own and neighboring county fairs. "Now, that I, a stranger to you in the flesh, have already taken up considerable of your valuable time in reading the rather lengthy communication, you may be interested in a brief personal history. "I have been a constant reader of Good Health (the Battle Creek magazine) for thirty-two years and Dr. J. H. Kellogg, editor of the same, is my ideal, having the honor of knowing him personally for thirty-one years. The enclosed literature, which you may kindly return to me, will give you an idea of a little medical missionary work that I was Divinely instrumental in doing myself. "I returned to this city over four years ago, from where I had gone about nine years before to Connersville, Ind., with an ambition to found a sanitarium. I succeeded, but self delegated human instrumentalities stepped in to mar my plans for the noble institution's future. "I now occupy as treatment rooms the second and third floors above the Newell restaurant that is to become vegetarian." One of the several men who are doing great work for humanity, one of the few physicians who, with their sound knowledge and common sense as well as integrity cf character is helping to enlighten man as to prevalent superstitions relative to both man and beast, is Dr. J W. Hodge, of Niagara Falls, N. Y. This M.D. devotes his time, energy, knowledge resulting from years of professional practice and deep investigations, and his money to making known the fallacies of vaccination, the criminal hideousness of the fear of hydrophobia, and makes it his life work to help others. Following is a letter from him recently sent to this office:-"Some time ago I received a copy of your admirable magazine. I read its contents with pleasure and profit. I intended at that time to send in my name as a subscriber to your journal, but through the pressure of business neglected to do so. I now enclose a year's subscription. "I gave up the detestable practice of corpse-eating twenty years ago and have been better for it ever since. I regard corpse-eating by human beings as a relic of savagery. The slaughter of sentiment beings for food purposes I regard as a cowardly crime against our offensive fellow beings. Abbatoirs are veritable chambers of horrors and butchers are veritable murderers and assassins who have no regard for the sacredness of life as manifested in either the subhuman or the human species. "Do not fail to secure a copy of "The Twentieth Century Magazine' for Januar;, 1917. have two articles in this number which will interest you." THE VEGETARIAN MAGAZINE. NEW PUBLICATIONS Any of the following books may be obtained, from the Vegetarian Company, Inc., 243 Michigan Boulevard, Chicago. The "Courtship under Contract, The Science of Selection," by James Henry Lovell Eager, 440 pages, cloth bound, price, $1.20, published by The HealthCulture Company, New York and Passaic, N. J. This is a problem novel, full of interest and education in both eugenics and marriage. It does not advocate free love or non-marriage. author in his preface, says, "The joining in marriage of two persons, both of whom are imbued with the high aspirations of civilization, gives promise of a higher plane of manhood than now obtains.'' It is a charming tale, cleverly written, holding one to the last page. "The Confessions of a Monopolist, by Frederick C. Howe, Ph. D., 167 pages, cloth, $1.10, postpaid, publishers, The Public Publishing Co., First National Bank Bldg., Chicago. This is an interesting and instructive narrative told by a man of wealth and business acumen, one who has climbed from small beginnings to high and honored positions. Beginning from a boy, with ambitions and hastily built air-castles the story goes on into a seat in the United States Senate. All this developed from monopoly. The history and evolution of this progress is entertainingly told and reveals an unknown side in sociological conditions. 'Catacombs of Worldly Success or History of Coarseller Dell," by F. M. Messenger, publishers, Metropolitan Church Association, Waukesha, Wis., price $1.00. This is a story history of public, political and secret society event sand winked at crimes which are all taken from life. In his preface the author says, "Believing that the second coming of Jesus is at hand and that if hidden things were brought to light it would reveal a condition of things in society akin to those obtaining in the antedeluvian age, the author felt constrained to uncover such of the world's secrets as he possessed and could weave into a narrative of this •kind. "Cupidity, Invincible Ignorance and Credulity, the Basis of Professional Faith in Vaccination" by Dr. J. W. Hodge, contains some severe blows to 209 doctors along the line of persisting in this Dark Age practice of vaccination. Such literature as this will go a long way toward vetoing the bill of the Medical Committee of One Hundred' now striving to work under governmental protection. Dr. Hodge is not in the employ of anyone. He has "nothing to sell." He is not exploiting his cures of anything or posing as a 20th century Messiah. He is actuated in this work by purely altruistic motives and loses both time and money putting into effect his honest convictions, based on science and years of experience. "World Corporation," by King Camp Gillette, published by The New England News Co., Boston, Mass., price postpaid, $1.00. Send to the author to above address and help along the cause of the corporate party, now working to better the world. In this book the author logically shows how women can be emancipated by the development of this work in hand. He shows how his system can be made practical and gives a solution to every sociological problem now before the world. The book ends with the following: "It is not a vision of the future. It is a vision of It is at our very door, and the door is open. The dawn of a new era. streams across the threshold and lights the pathway of the future. now. "The Zodiac Birthday Book," by Beatrice Baxter Ruyl, square 12 mo., $1.12 postpaid. Published by The Baker & Taylor Company, New York. This is a work of great interest to those in quest of occult facts and fancies. Those inclined to dabble in astrology, those wishing to learn more of character, of human nature and causes for its variety of characteristies, will find this a most fascinating as well as a most instructive preduction. The description of those characterized by the influence of the twelve zodiacal signs are very exact and true to nature. Study yourself and find out why you do certain things and why you fail in others. A most entertaining book for a party, a social, or a gathering where monotony is not desired. "The Gold Brick," by Brand Whitlock, beautifully bound in crimson cloth, gold embellishments, clear print, price $1.50, published by The BobbsMerrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind. Who does not know the merit of Brand Whitlock's stories and articles, appearing in "The Saturday Evening Post,' "The American Magazine" and other current and popular magazines? For the third time this man of letters, pracical experience and executive ability |