RALSTON BREAKFAST FOOD

We have received from the Purina Mills, St. Louis, through James A. Mc Caflrey « Sons, 4007 — 9 Market St., Phila., packages of Ralston Breakfast Food and have given it a fair trial. It is very easily prepared in ten minutes and makes a ver>' delightM breakfast. It consists of wheat granules which when stirred into boiling water form a ver>- palatable dish in a few minutes. It February,

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is also good for gems and pancakes and being manu&ctored on a liberal scale and sold inconvenient packages can be adopted nniversally for either winter or summer use. It is endorsed by the Ralston Health Club of Washington, D. C, We have great pleasure in adding the endorsement of the Vegetarian Society of America.

Purina Health Flour, We have also received from the same manufacturers a bag of the Purina Health Flour and we have succeeded in making it into excellent whole wheat bread. Itcomes nearer to the Graham ideal than any other whole wheat fiour we have been able to obtain.

DO WE EAT TOO MUCH MEAT? Mi5- Rorer, in the Ladies' Home Journal for January asks the question : Do we eat too much meat ? and goes on to prove that we do in the following articles ; ' ' Aged peo- ple should eat very little meat ; " " Vege- tarianism is coming into favor ; " "Diseases caused by excessive meat diet ; " " Physical breaking down of meat eaters;" "Three simple and nourishing meals;" From the latter we quote the following :

" I trust my readers will not think for a moment that I am condemning entirely the use of meat. Individually, I use all (with the exception of pork and veal) in modera- tion, and toward the close of the day. From long experience I have found that a heavy morning's work can best be accomplished on a break&st composed of a well-cooked cereal and fruit, with perhaps, a cup of French coffee, or cereal coffee, and a piece of well-toasted whole wheat bread. The noonday meal , especially if work is to be continued in the afternoon, should be com- posed of a cream soup, with whole wheat bread, an omelet, some of the higher forms of nitrogenous food, in the proportion of one-third to two-thirds carbonaceous food.

Fruits, again, may be taken, if they agree — a baked banana, a baked apple, peaches, pears, or any of the very ripe, sub-acid fruits. " FOOD FOR BRAIN AND NERVES.

Of all the food that makes brains, the blanched almond is the best and gives the highest nerve or brain and muscle nourish- ment. The person who wishes to keep his brain power up would do well to include these in his daily bill of fare. Juicy fruits give more or less of the higher nerve or brain food, and should be eaten by all who earn their living by their clearheadedness.

The German analytists say that the apple contains a larger percentage of phosphorus than any other fruit or vegetable, and that it is wonderfully adapted to renewing the essential nervous matter of the brain and spinal cord. The acid of the appleseems to eliminate from the body noxious matter, which, if retained, makes the brain heavy and dull, besides causing jaundice, skin eruptions and other troubles. A good ripe, raw apple is one of the easiest of vegetable substance for the stomach to digest under normal conditions. Prunes make one proof against nervousness, but are not muscle- feeding. — New Ideas. FRESH GATHERED FRUIT & VEG.

The only true way of living is the adop- tion of the Vegetarian diet. Fruits and nuts, are the best for vital force, cooked food loses that element called "glame" by Ral- ston. This summer I realized the effect of fruit and vegetables that were consumed soon after gathered and I realized how im- portant it was to live where I could get my strawberries picked a few minutes before they were placed on the table ; a near neigh- bor supplied them daily during tlie season. Sweet com and peas. I have no relish for if not cooked, as soon as gathered. — Fannie B. Ballou, Attleboro Falls, Mass. 27

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NO MURDERS AMONO KIMhk;-.

Your little verse "Humanity in Japan" in the Oct.no. is an eye opener to the fact that, although designated "P^;an" in the Christian nomenclature, the Japanese as a nation in refinement and humanity are away ahead of this "Christian" nation and this feet you do not propose to conceal .

This will serve to introduce a brief ex- tract from the pen of an eminent writer and lecturer, Lyman C. Howe, that I met in my reading the other day ; because so appropos to your main line of thought in condemning the slaughter of animals for human suste- nance: "Mr. Ghandie, the Janist Hindoo, is a brilliant and physically well equipped man. But he kills nothing to eat and he says that among his people, representing five millions, it is the religious law incul- cated from earliest childhood and from generation to geuemtion that man should never kill either man or brute ; and they live on fruits, cereals and vegetables. As a ' result of this system of living there has not been a murder committed among his people iu 5000 years ! Think of that, ye Christians, with your systems of carnivorous cruelty, savage divinity, fratricidal instincts, wars, murders, slavery and suicidal epidemics."

Is not our animalism and savagery largely the result of our theological training? — V- Fell, M. D., Nashville, Tenn.

VEGETARIANISM IN BRIEF. The principles of Vegetarianism are per- fect. Meat is not essential to man's exist- ence as many think for in the beginning man's diet contained no meat at all and since man ate no meat in the beginning why does he need it now? But let us have Scripture for what we say: " And God said : I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit

of I tRV vuklmg sioed , to vou it shall be fur uiciit. — GcQcsia 1 — ay.

The primitive diet of man is the best. Because of its primary tissue-building prin- ciples it contains the elements which go to make pure blood, healthy flesh, and a clear brain in their most simple and easily digest- ed forms. Flesh food, on the other hand, is in a secondary state, because it is nothing more or less than vegetable food digested and re- vitalized and made into flesh.

Flesh, then, is a material which is manu- factured by digestion and absorption of physical bodies, from the vegetable king- dom ; therefore when we eat flesh we are only eating the elements of vegetables in a very imperfect state, as the virtue of the vegetables must of necessity have lost some of its energy during the process of transfor- mation from the vegetable to the physical.

It only appeals to the reason. Flesh should not eat flesh. The proper diet of man is herbs, fruit and nuts. They contain all the elements needed for the structure of the human body and when man lives on these alone he has better health, a clearer brain and a good and agreeable disposition. —J. A. Shopen, Elgin, 111.

CRIPPLING GOLIAH. I feel that since I have given up the eat- ing of auimal food, I have crippled that Goliah, the Philistine champion, that David killed. I do not feel that I have killed him dead, but I am free from the appetite of all animal substances. — Rev. J.B.Johnson, Va.