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N»t Saodwiclies. — Grind aome of the nuts so fin« as to make a paste or butter ; spread on the cut biscuits, as you would dairy butter ; grind the balance of the nutsjust fine enongh to pack, and spread them also on the sliced biscuits. Season both spreads to taste with saU, French mustard or horse radish. Pea- nnts, black walnuts, butter nuts, chestnuts or almonds will do.

Strawberry Float. — I pt. of strawberries, 2 cups of pulverized sugar, 2 eggs, i pt. of milk, vanilla to flavor. Crush the berries. Beat the whites of 2 eggs very stiff, and gently add I ^ cups of sugar, then gradually add the crushed berries, beating well all the while, until all is a stiff pile of rosy creani. Pile in the center of a glass dish and set on ice to cool.

Custard for Float. — Beat the yolks of 2 eggs well with }4 cup of sugar. Heat the milk to boiling, add to the eggs, return to the stove and boil again until Ittliickens. Flavor and set on ice to cool. Pour the sauce around the berries when served, or serve with rich sweet creani instead of custard.

From the Amfticai Vrgclaiian Cookery,

Potato Salad. — 4 boiled potatoes when cold. 4 stalks of celery, Ji of an onion, 4 sprigs of parsley, i hard-boiled egg, small pinch of ctlery seeds. Cut potatoes and cekry in

small pieces. Chop onion and parsley very fine, mix with potatoes and celery, sprinkle with salt and pepper to ta:<te, add pinch of celery seeds. Cut the hard-boiled e}!g in pieces, nnd mix all well together. Make a salad dressing and pour over the potatoes, *c., and set to cool. Place on lettuce leaves.

AT MEAL TIME,

Delivered Before the Vegetarian

Society of Philada, on May i?th, 1897, bv

William Canby Ferris.

hian is a social animal and it is not simply a love of the good things which he finds on the table that makes meal time so attractive to the average mam It is true that the healthy human being, whether man or woman, looks forward with keen enjoyment to the time of giving full satisfoction to the demands of his appetite: especially if the cook is known to be good ; but we must also remember that meal time is with many, the chosen season for the free exchange of thought and this is particularly true with those who have risen above the purely animal plains of thought and action and who look forward to the family meeting around the table more because of the Social and Spiritual enjoyment which they derive from it. .

This is particularly true of all Vegetarians, for they more than any others have learned the true secret of how to enjoy their meals. While many gourmands strive to enhance the purely animal pleasures of the table by pan- dering to a perverted and depraved iippetite. Vegetarians have learned the better way of enjoying, by exercising a careful control over the appetite. The joy that a well dressed and bloated gourmand feels in swallowing one or June,

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two dozen of raw oysters is akin to the^winish Kratification displayed by the hog while gob- bling up his mess. The joy which thetrne Vegetiwian feels when he sits down to gratify his keen appetite with the bestoffood in his reach, and with his appetite strictly under the control of his reason, is a joy worthy in every way of a being with snch godlike powers as man. That the Vegetarian has not only mncli keener enjoyment and more of it, but his enjoyment leaves behind it no after ill effects; no cloud to dull bis intellect, no torments of dyspepsia: no fire in his blood to nrge him later to seek further excitement in strong drink or in other excesses r all these are the effects which follow indulgence in stimulating and unnatural foods.

As long as we remain in our bodies so long must we recognize the necessity of providing them with proper food, and Nature has made this a pleasure to us by making it an enjoy- ment to eat. It should be the constant efibrt of all true Vegetarians to guard against the perversions of this sense of taste ; to make the gathering at meal time an occasion of social and spiritual enjoyment as luucli as a time for enjoying food that is prepared in a refined, skilfnl and tasteful manner. This task must rest upon the mistress of the household more than any one else and it is in her power to call out the higher and better nature of all those who sit around her board by appealing to that nature which is in every one ; she alone can see that the table linen is pure and spotless ; that the glasses and china are sparkling, deli- cate and tastefully arranged, that flowers are set upon the board ministering to the love of the eye for the beautiful and the love of the sense of smell for delicate perfume.

The mistress can do much, but if she is confronted by a constant demand for food that is in excess of all natural requirements, she can not do all ; she will be worn out in body and wearied and fretted in soul by the con- stant effort of providing three meals a day when two would be better for every one con- cerned. The physical strain of washing dishes three times a day for la targe family is 1897

more than many Bien realize, and it is my sincere and deliberate conviction that most men eat three meals a day from sheer force of habit and not because Nature demands them.

Let us consider this question of the uunibet of meals which are prepared in most all Amer- ican families, three meals a day rain or shine, Sunday or week day : it would indeed make most men open their eyes to be told that breakfast is not ready and wont be ready un- til dinner time, and that then both meals will be taken together ; but as a matter of fact it would send the men to work with keener and more active brains, because the vital forces would not he taxed to digest a meal for which no real demand existed and which was loaded into the stomach from mere force of habit. It would save an immense amount of useless drudgery in the kitchen, and the hearty en- joyment of dinner would more than make up for a little self-control in the matter of eating no breakfast.

I haye had personal experience in this mat- ter; during the last winter I read Dr. Dewey's excellent work called " The Tme Science of Living or the New Gospel of Health," I had been doing much ^mental work and noticed that my head suffered from my mental activ- ity. For two months I went without break- fast entirely, and walked three miles to my work : 1 found myself repaid many times for my self-control ; my general health improved ; my brain grew clearer and my mental opera- tions under better control, and though I confess that I did often get hungry, the pleasure I realized from my simple dinner of bread and fruit made up for it all. I have not kept up the good practice as 1 should have done simply because of the comment it called forth from those who imagined I was starving myself.

Tliere is one rule so plain and simple that it would seem that every one should know it and put it into practice ; this Golden Rule is simply: "Eat Only Whkn Hungry." There is no rule of our Ijeing that is violated more frequenlly by most men ihan this : na- ture has given every man a guide which is "3

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infallible as that Inner Light that lightetb every ma.a who coineth into the world," but alas it is often perverted and what most men call appetite is simply a habit of eating at a certain time and an expectation of taking food at that time. It is certain that strength comes from perfect assimilation of food and this is too often interfered with by never allowiag the digestive apparatns a chance to rest. It is very important that we cat only the proper kind of food ; but it is equally important that we eat no food at all until we have a healthy and vigorous appetite for food. How mauy of you have ever tried the experi- meutof fasting forone whole day just to find out what a healthy, normal hunger is? And ■ yet Tanner fasted forty days and Griscom fasted forty-five days without taking a mor- sel of food. Over feeding kills more people than battles.

Just give Nature a chance to get rid of some of the useless material that you have put in your body, by ceasing to take food altogether for just one day; you will be de- lighted and surprised at the result.

As to the amount of food no person can lay down any invariable rule by which all men can be guided ; experience is the only tnie guide. He has not made the very best use of his faculties who has not found by actual test, that certain kinds of food and cerUin wiiys and times for eating it, are better than what is the customary way, The testimony of Lewis Coniaro, who lived for fifty years on twelve ounces of solid food a day declared that his health and enjoyment of life in- creased in proportion as he confined himself to a plain diet and very little of it.

Anna Kingsford, M. D. lestified that a diet of fruits, nuts, and vegetables, without ani- mal products or meat of any kind, is the ideal food of man, and gives the best re.sults men- tally, morally and physically.

It is certain that when an individual has entered upon the straight and narrow path of Spiritual attainment, certain sources of vitality and strength are freely opened to him which remain closed to those who have never learned

the lessons of self-control and v.'lio conse- quently remain on lower planes of thought and action. Members of the Ralston Health Club here, know that I am only telling the simple truth when I affirm that when we place ourselves in a receptive condition we can absorb power, vitality, health and life from the inexhaustible storehouses which lie all around ns in the earth and air. It may not enable us to do entirely without food, bat for those who have discovered this source of snpplyand who have learned to utilize it, the question of diet becomes a very simple one. I know a high priestess of the Temple of the Magi who confines herself to a half a teacupful of Graiinla twice a day with a few dates or other fruits ; and she enjoys the best of health and never suffers from hunger or from that kind of headache which comes from deranged digestion.

These are some of the rewards which come to those who enter upon the paths of Spiritual Attainment, but there are others, and simplic- ity and self-control in eating and drinking are indispensable conditions to theii realiza- tion.

VEGETARIAN SOAP. Mr. Silliman of Philadelphia, a member of the V. S. A., and the T. S., has the whole- sale agency of White Cloud Soap, which he assures us is made of pure olive, cocoa-nut, palm and cotton-seed oil. It is the whitest soap we have seen and is very soft and re- freshing to the skin, Mr. S. has offered to supply the V. S. A. with this soap on such terms as the profits of sale will innure tothe Society. See advt. on cover. By mail a cake is rather high, on account of postage, but when ordered by $10.00 boxes cost is quite reasonable for so pure and delicate a toilet soap.

GOOSEBERRY SEEDS. Recent convurls to reformed diet who sufier from the constipating tendency of the past regime, will be helped by swallowing fresh seeds of gooseberries. These gently, yet effec- tually stimulate the peristaltic motion of fairly active bowels without drawback. — R, Hecker. June,

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How all thlDgs grow In the iwce; ipriDg motber I All (hinici grow bCRutiful together : The clouds glow soft, the skies grow blue, Thegraw grows gnen, (he earth grows new. The children dear, gniw hale and strong. Andlhedays, the vnydayi grow long.

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And why. oh why should we (his beauty spoil By killing birds that sing aud beasm (hat toil ? Vhy should we mar this ennh so bright and fair By staining l( with blood ? Why Gil (he air With crlw of dying be»siB, and tniMfiig laynbn, So sweetly playing 'round L;ieir molher dams?

Why should we t>oaal of Spring's deUghtfu! chann

When we go forth to take of Spring onr Hll t Why should wenotall creatures lo'.'e lo see

When we were kindly formed of milder clay? Why not strive (o make this world oroum TtfiD with loWng kindness. fruKs and flowers?

Enjoy the sunshine and the blessed air.

HOW FOOD AFFECTS OUR TREATMENT OF ANIMALS

Dear Apple Blossoms. — A vegetarian diet will help you very iiiucli in regard to treating household pets with kindness. You will find that you are naturally better tempered than flesh-eating children are; also that it will come easier to you to be loving attd tender with animals, than it doe.s with t/iem, as they are usually fond of teasing them for their own selfish pleasure.

All pet animals, birds, etc- will respond very quickly to aSectionate treatment. Tlie following incident from Our Dumb Animals for May will surely interest you greatly ;

"As Mr. Nied linger was approaching the place at which he was spending the summer he heard cries of distress. At the corner of the bam he found a colt wedged between the siding and a post which ,sup|)orted the ends of the wires of a hiirbed wire fence.

"The barbs of the wires of the fence were hurting the colt cruelly. But the cries which Mr. N. heard were not from the colt. They came from the colt's mother, a beHUtiful brood mare, who stoiid hy with. exi*-nded utck and wide ^yts and quivering body, expressing her 1897.

pain, her solicitude, and cryinjr out for the help which she could not give herself.

" Mr. N. hurriedly removed the staples which secured the wires to the post, the wires dropped and the colt went free. The mother, with every demonstration of joy at the re- lease of her offspring, rushed up to it, licked it, put her chin over it, and fondled it with low sounds. Pleased that he had given the mortier so much pleasure as well as that he had saved the colt. Mr. N. started along the path to the house, but he had not gone far when he was aware of hoof-falls behind him. He looked over hisshoulder. Therewasthc mother. He reached out his hand. She licked it with low whinnies of thankfulness. She followed him clear to the house, and still stood on the lawn thanking him for what he had done in the interest of one whose mother she was, and whom she loved with all a mother's love. — Charles Josi ah Adams,"

This trne story will show you how much a horse can love you if you are kind to it. The same is true al>out all other animals. A veg- etarian child, whose taste has not been perverted or corrupted by meat, will be ever so much sweeter in dispasition and general character than one who has become accustom- ed to eat meat.

Think how cruel it is to take a calf away from its mother, and then carry it to the bulchei, to be cruelly killed, and then eaten by those who call themselves Christians? "The cattle on a thousand hills are mine," So says God Himself. VVliatate wedoing with God's cattle then, when we stand by and .';ee them slaughtered, as if their lives were of no account. Dear Apple Blossoms, do not be deceived; do not let any selfish arguments discourage you. Some people say that animals were created for food, and will even quote Bihle passages that seem to support their afisertions. Let us see : "And God .said, Behold I have given you every heth bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and ever}- tree, in the which is the fruil of a tree yieldinj; st-ed ; loyoii il sAaU be for vieal [o>-/«-<f|."— Walter S Weller.

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irULCHING BF.TTER THAN HILUNG.

The hubit of hilling corn and otlief vejte- tableK is a conimon vay t" avoid wi-eding closie to the plant by liof-ing- weeds and heap- ing upon the plants thereby nllowinj; rain to run off and allow the plants to dry Up in lands which are naturally dry. A convenient way is to lea^'e the ground in its original flat stale, and lay a coat of grass round the young plants, about a inches thick. This is sure death to weeds and affords c clean carpet for the cook to walk up^n. iu search of vegetables. In this way tomatoes, beans, corn and potatoes may be started and need no weeding for the whole season. — Alfred H, Howe, 149th St & Trinity Ave., New York.