WATCH LITTLE CHILDREN

By Rev. Louis Paroli.

It is through ignorance or insu£Bcient

knowledge of the laws of all wise nature that

our appetites t>econie depraved.

Look at the little children and learn from them what to eat and what to drink. When they have bread and fruits they are happy, and they eat of them with a relish ; drink freely pure water, jnst to quench their natural thirst, and are healthy, TOS3' and plump.

They shrink, as a rule, from anything that is given to them in the form of flesh meat, whether boiled or roast. Have a horror of beer, wine or any other liqnor, unless it be sweet and sugary: they thrust their faces away from the greasy and disagreeable odor of the kitchen not less than from the so called "sweetest" Havana fumes.

Only when they becouie pre.ssed upon by the "big" people they begin to deprave their appetites and gradually are led to the cfaving for flesh, arranged, drugged and embellished in different styles, as the fashion goes, but always flesh, dead flesh, decaying fleah. carca.«s flesh.

■ Oh! depravation, wrought by whom? By innocent peo]'Ie? Why, yes, most of the time. By wicked people? Yes, occasionally, to corrupt them according to our mournfully common, wrong practice.

Why have we never considered, for the love of truth, that the natural inclinations of the child are pure, and not in hiiu to remain and rule him only while he is child, but they are there to be known,- studied, seconded, de- veloped and perfected by those who have charge of theliltle man or woman.

Do not you think, kind reader, that every little one is in fact the best practical philoso- pher and hygienist on earth ? But pardon me, "he is only a little child who has no sense ; ' ' some one would say so.

Hark ! Let us understand what the Arche type of man and nature says about children as our practical models : "Indeed, I say un- to you unless you become as little children you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven,"

Indeed the craving for so much meat ealiufi'

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and snbseciuently for alcobolic beverages is a curse in this land, retarding onr possibilities of perfection and an immense source of siaa and diseases of all kinds, and will sbut out of the final reward the thousands of gluttons and drunkards or otherwise not extremely intemperate people.

Let us then for the love of ourselves watch the little children when they eat and drink, and what they demand, and like for their food and beverage ; let us do this with the greatest attention and reverence, as though we were seeing the author of nature. Let us imitate them in their natnr- al course of doing and express sach conduct in ourselves ; let us meantime fulfil our sacred duty of bringing them up religiously to the adult age on the only wise, and natural way of dietetics, which is told by their gennine inclinations and advocated with the dearest logical force by the Vege- tarian societies of America, England, Ger- many, France and elsewhere. Could we see the greatest conceivable multiplication of such societies in America and all over the world, how much less diseases we would have to sufier from ; how much less of sel- fishness and vice would entangle and trouble the thousands of souls who mourn and sufier terribly in the midst of this, our American civilization, which might by such means as we have intimated, become the greatest Chris- tian Civilization ever seen on the fiice of the globe.

We are receiving letters from people who have read our first article on the Vegetarian cause requiring more knowledge on the subject, and especially practical directions to become accustomed to the vegetarian diet.

Well, our intention is just to help them all, as wisely desired, so far as it will be penuitted by the space alotted to us in these columns. — New Orleans, La.

I hope some of those colony schemes will be realized. — John Jenny, Cleveland. — Now isthe time to.takeiitockin the V. S. A. for that purpose.

I have recei\-ed " Out of the Clouds" (list No. 5) and am well pleased with it and very hungry to finish it — Mrs. Lydia A. Irons, Marshall, Wash.

1807 HENRY L. FRY. 1895

On the 27th of May, 1895, before the morn- ing dawned, our good friend, Henry L Fry, the founder of the School of Wood Carving in Cincinnati, Ohio, departed this life. He had been apparently unconadons of out^rard things for many hours. Before breathing his last, there were some symptoms of returning coDsciousDess and a few words weie uttered but not with suffident distinctnes!) to be understood.

Henry L. Fry had been a Vegetarian, we believe, about ten years when we knew him in London, England in 1844, so that when be died it was fiilly sixty years that he had lived the true life and he had attained the ripe age of eighty-eight years. We were in partner- ship with him in an educational effort in London connected with the Phonetic caase, both being writers of Pitman's Phonography.

He enjoyed his 88th birthday. May 8th, 1895, being visited by his children and all his grandchildren who brought flowers and congratulations.

According to his special request his remains were cremated. He leaves a widow and a son and daughter both the latter following their father's profession.

Mr. Fry was an earnest reader of Emanual Swedenborg and his latter years were made happy by following the example as well as precept of the illuminated seer of the i8th century and especially in the conviction that the laying down of the mortal body at death is followed by an immediate resurrection to a more perfect life of activity and usefulness in the spiritnnl world. He was a stockholder in the V. S. A. and always a generous sup- porter of the cause and n writer of many choice articles, usually taking an esthetic and poetic view of the principles he had so loug and so consdentiously espoused. Age appeared to be the only cause of his departure.

Although I have been, so far as eating flesh is concerned, a strict Vegetarian foi forty years I have seen to-day for the first time yonr valuable little paper. — W. O. Crosby, Institute of Technology, Boylston St. Boston, Mass. (March 4, 1895.)

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AMERICAN COCOANUT BUTTER. This batter is manufactnFed from shredded cocoa-nut and put np in cans and barrels. It is perfectly pure and g:naranteed to be free from all animal fots or vegetable compounds. It is white, sweet and free from liability to rancidity.

When in Chica^ in August, 1895, we visited the Pure Food Company's wotks. North Water St., and were kindly shown through the establishment by Mr. Dearborn, the manager of the Company, who impressed us very favorably as a gentleman of high character and respectability. The cocoa-nut Tat is imported from the West Indies in large hogsheads and subjected to steam and hot water and lastly centrifugal mechanism until ereiy particle of impurity is thoroughly washed ont of it. It is then poured into tin pails which by a uew mechanism are made oil proof so that the cocoanut butter can be transported with the greatest safety even in the hottest weather and the pailscan be open- ed witfaont injury and when emptied of their contents become very useful pails for general use in the home. It is then cooled and shipped. There was no smell or other symp- tom of lard about the premises and Mr. Dearborn said that lard costs so much more than cocoanut fat that it would not be econ- omy to use it for adulteration.

The following testimonial will be read with interest ;

ehlc«(fo, Mir 19, 1895— To the Pure Food Product CompaBT,— Genllemen:— We. the nndenlciiRl offlcUU of >be Palmer Home, Cblcaio, nil., who han had your dKoanot Butter on trial aad ia eiperimcDUl uae for two Boatha past, an do* (a(l« numeroiu leotiil Id a poilllDn to uy ibat yonr CocoaDut BDtter, (white stock) to absoluttly pin, DDd oT [ta kind the mo« elegant aod aweeteit aub- ■Itnteror battemctput intoiuc Id either kitchen, pantry or bake hoiue. For all kindiof ftylng It has no peer; It don not bunt and doea not Impart ■ flavor of gtcaae to dlihea cooked Id It.

We have tried It In alt klnda of delicate white aanca and wnpa found In the menu! of a large hotel, with reiult* of tlie moat aallsfkctory character aa to Its merits Id the kitchen. In the Paitiy Cook's shop It has also beeo >ob)ected to a UjIdj ordeal Id the making ofpoUDdcake, blacBlt, and all the numeroua kinds of small fincycake. and large fralt aod white cske which we uae. Here the

In addition to the foregoing hcta. 11 oa Butter are equal to 11! oa, of cooking batter in all and every pastry room preparation : a Baling of one-fourth

Aa at first we were skeptical and alow to discover the merits of the Cocoanut Butter, we now beg to olfcr yon Ibis repott ilgned tiy each of a» separately and Jointly as the reaulta of onr senral testa and aa a guarantee of the genuina character of onr In Testigatlona.— James J. N. Heame, CWef Steward. JoKph Scyl, Head Cook, Herman Weimman, Head faatiy Cook.

It is stuted on good authority that fifty lbs. of this cocoanut butter will go &rther than seventy-five lbs. of either lard or butter and than eighty-five lbs. of cottolene, cotosuet or any of the compounds now advertised. With this article there is no nncertainty, no liability or fear of cholera-hog, sick, tuberculoses cow or bull goaded to madness by bis cruel torment- ors. This butter is found to contain all the acids that cows' butter contains and which are found well adapted to aid digestion. There is no unpleasant odor or taste in cooking with this product.

Sold in barrels at 12 cts. a lb. ; in 60, 50 or 25 lb. tubs or cans at 13 cts. a lb. ; in 10 lb. tin cans at $1.50; S !•»■ cans at 80 cts and 3 lb. cans at 50 cts. each.

Address orders with cash to the V. S. A., 310 Chestnut St., Philadelphia. The large quantities sent by freight and small quantities by express. In ordering state by what con- veyance desired.

In another letter from James J. N. Heame, Chief Steward of the Palmer House, he states that the saving in expense to the House by using Cocoanut Butter is $90 a month.

Let us hope and pray, meanwhile I will continue to make efibrts to interest Catholics in the work.— Fr. Louis Paroli, New Orleans.

Mrs. Porter who is considered by many to be the prettiest woman in Chicago is growing more beautiful oil her Vegetarian diet. — Mrs. C. Le Favre, Chicago, Illinois.

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I tell my boys F., H. ft G. teaches my principles and Ihat they will live ten years longer with clearer heads and better breath and habits and at much less cost if they will follow its teachings —J. W. Clarke, Auburn, California.

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WOMEN'S VEGETARIAN UNION. Mrs. Adrieune Veigele, Asst. Sec. of the Women's VegeUrian Union, London, writes an interesting account of the formation of this Union by the Vegetarian lailies of that great city. Among the originators of this move- ment are Sirs. T. R. Allinson, Mrs. Sheldon Amos, Mrs. Onniston Chant, Mrs. Mc Donall, Mrs. Margaret Shurmer Sibthorp, Mrs. C. Leigh Hunt Wallace and Miss May Yates ; as Hon. Secretary Madame Alex. Veigele the founder of the Women's Vegetarian Union.