IMPROVED VEGETARIAN SOCIETY MILL

We have received the following note from the New Machine Co., that manufacture the Vefretarian S"y Mill, dated Feb. 4th, 1898:

" We ate glad to know that you were pleased with the last three which we sent you and think that yon will be still more pleased with these as we have made eoine changes in the pattern, which we think are a great improve-

The mills have arrived and we find the improvement consists in the hopper being made one casting with the body of the mill on which it stands, improving the shape so as to facilitate the feeding of the mill. The weight of the mill is also decreased without impairing its strength.

TESTIMONIALS.

The following are all voluntary testimonials as to the value of the Vegetarian Society Mill.

Hnving used the milt I have no hesitation in saying that it will perfectly meet the needs of those who desire pure food supplies of their own manufacture. — Mrs. Ellen Goodell Smith in the Fat of ike Land p. 52.

I have received the mill. I am well pleased wilh it. I have it set up at a friend's house whois using it. — H.J. Marly, Cleveland, O.

I ordered one of your mills in Feb. '97 and have had it in constant use in my family ever since. I could not do without it. I find the sieves unnecessary, and I am in hearty, agree- ment with you that it is conducive to health to eat bran and all with our wheat. We are all very fond of pea-nut butter and the mill makes it to perfection. I am constantly find- ing new possibilities in the mill. — Rev. Elmer P. Krause, Leechburg, Armstrong Co., Pa.

The mill is here ; set up and working for higher ethics and better morals among all my neighbors, I am delighted with it, forthoagh it is easy enough for me to be a Vegetarian, it is B very difficult thing for most people be- cause whole whet^J fiour spoils by dampness so soon and few people can tell whether they are eating food or mere rubbish. By baking pea nuts very brown and salting well I can grind them into paste which no meat eater can tell

from raeatbylooV or taste. — Mrs. N.E.Arnold, Dayton a, Florida.

So far as I have had opportunity to try it I think the mill will do excellent work. — E. L. Richardson, Avon Park, Florida.

The V. S. Mill came all right. The mill is strong and durable and will do all youclaim for it. I am well pleased with it. — E- Tre^isnre.

I have had a pretty good chance to lest the Vegetarian Society Mill here this winter and I find it very useful indeed. — James E. Ainsley, Winterset, Iowa, Feb. 20th, 1898.

It works satisfactorily. It is simple in construction ; easily turned and suitable for a variety of purposes in a household. We have ground wheat and maize of difierent degrees of fineness and nuts to our satisfaction with it. — Prof. D. Gregorson, Santa Barbara, Cal. WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH IT.

An almost endless variety of health foods can be made with this mill. The following directions for some of the products will be suggestive also of many others which an in- telligent experimenter can turn out :

No. I. — To make Leuti), Peas and Back- wheat flour, simply grind the fineness desired.

No. 2. — Whole wheat flour. — Grind the best, thoroughly cleansed wheat obtainable as finely as possible and sieve out the bran.

No. 3. — Wheatena. — This excellent food for mnsh is made by grinding the wheat as for whole wheat flour and sieving out both the fine flour and the coarsest bran.

No. 4. — Glutin flour. — Regrind the bran ex- tracted from the whole wheat flour (No. 2.)Bnd Wheatena (No. 3 )and sieve out the light bran. RECIPE.

Prom Miu Lllysn RIcharda, I3> AuKimti St., PumIc, N. J.

Nut food Croquettes. — We do like your nut food very much. Sometimes we form it into little croquettes whirling it in egg and then in cracker crumbs or gran ola and fryingin nutcoa. — This is good made from any kind of nuts ground in this mill.

The improved Mill is not increased in price. To obtain it remit $4.75 in check, draft, or mon- ey order to V. S. A., 310 Chestnut St., Phila.

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REV. JAMES MADISON ALLEN.

JAMES MADISON ALLEN is now a veteran in the Vegetarian vineyard of labor and cultivation having In the sixties first called public attention to Veg- etarianism publishing in the Religio Philo- sophical Journal and the Banner of Light a card expressing the central thought on the Vegetarian principle and soliciting correspondence. The letters responding bore uniform testimony in fevor of the Vegetarian practice. The letters have been carefully preserved but not yet published.

In 1876 he called a Hygienic Home- school Convention at Matfield, East Bridge- water, Mass. A similar meeting was held at Ancora, N. J. ' After spending a fall and winter in Florida he returned to Ancora and purchased a twelve acre &nn where a home was built dedicated to Purity, Peace and Progress — Health, Harmony and Hap- piness. No animal food of any kind was partaken of in this home which was con- dacted to secure individual and social improvement through mutual altruistic endeavor to promote each other's welfere by obeying all known laws of physical and mental health.

After six years' effort to maintain this Home in all its high purposes, the efTort was given up and Mr, Allen re-entered the lecture field.

In 1895 steps were again taken towards colonizing Vegetarianism at the geogra- phical center of the U, S. in the fruit belt of the Ozark mountains — the land of "the Big Red Apple," South-western

and North-western Arkansas. Writing of this effort Feb. 9, r898 Mr. Allen remarks :

"Here, where the climate is mild; the winters short; the land productive and especially adapted to raising fruits, nuts, vegetables and cereals ; the water pure ; the scenery fine; healthfiilness unsurpassed ; it was thought that the germ of a true civ- ilization might be implanted with some hope of permanency and genuine success. Two hundred acres of land were selected and purchased, in Washington County, Arkansas, for the purpose and a beginning made. It now remains for the requisite number of earnest and devoted humanita- rians to come forward, combine their forces, and demonstrate the feasibility and superi- ority of a humane and peaceful Social State — wherein is neither Cruelty, Caste, nor Crime — Destitution, Disorder, nor Disease — neither Idle Rich nor Idle Poor, but all usefully occupied in agreeable ways for the general welfare, and receiving full returns for service rendered.

Single-handed the Vegetarian is at a dis- advantage. Combined, our influence will be limitless and irresistible. Through com- bination, we were able at Ancora to send out a monthly periodical, at a time when there was no other, I think, in the United States representing the humane diet. By combination the existence and continuance of our invaluable American organ, Food, Home a Garden, has been rendered possi- ble— long may it flourish ! Vegetarian journals, literature, societies and clubs.

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eating-houses, lectures are now at last be- coming quite the order of the day, both in America and in Europe. How long before the spirjt of Association will develope Colo- nization, in fraternal honiea, where no blood shall flow to appease the ferocious appetite of civilized cannibalism, and humanism in all departments take the place of present day brutalism?"

One of the best Manuels of Vegetarianism, " Figs or Pigs" has been published by Mr. Allen and it contains a valuable compendi- um of the arguments for a pure and hu- mane diet. Also a Handbook of Social Science, a Guide to Fraternal Colonization.

Our good Brother Allen was bom May 15th, 1836, at East Bridgewater, Plymouth Co., Mass. At sixteen he commenced a seven years' academic and collegiate course which he pas.sed under the kindly influence of a happy New England home. The dis- trict school house twenty rods away was the nearest building to his home. Phrenology was introduced to the family by a traveling lecturer on that subject and studying the books published by Fowler and Wells, led to the study of the human constitution and food, thus was he early led to espouse the Vegetarian cause. Writing of this period he remarks ;

"I proposed to ray brother that we ab- stain from meat for two weeks. Next morning at breakfast I was momentarily tempted to partake of the ham and eggs (of which I was fond) ; but I said within, NO ! ,and have never once since eaten nor been tempted to eat a mouthful of dead (or live) hog, nor taken in all so much as a pound of any kind of animal flesh. (Neither have I taken a single mouthful of butter, or a spoonful of cow's milk, except when eating food cooked with these articles. The ob- jections to animal products are, I think, viilid, though not so serious as totheuseof 52

flesh. Better let the animals entirely alone.} I have never smoked but one cigar — quite enough for a life-time ! Have never drank a swallow of distilled liquor of any kind, and but one-half glass of wine (under pro- test.)"

The language used to express his detesta- tion of slaughtering animals for food is very strong and he concludes a long and inter- esting communication thus :

' ' I believe that if every person accustom- ed to use flesh and its products should here- after be obliged to do the kilting also, our tables would in a majority of cases be speed- ily cleared of every last vestige of murder and made attractively iqnocent, sweet and beau- tiful : adorned with charming flowers and luscious fhjils, and surrounded and over- shadowed with a pure, innocent and peace- ful mental atmosphere, wherein the very angels from the Peace-heavens may com- mingle their loving thoughts with otus, and lift us to loftier planes than those to which we can ever hope to attain so long as we remain in mental rapport with tlie sub- ter-human, infernal sphere of the slaughter- house! I can truly say after almost a half century of practical experience in Vegetari- an living, that my conversion to that principle was an event in my life for which I shall ever be profoundly grateful. It was a turuing-point from which I have gone for- wards towards lofty ideals. Although by inheritance somewhat deficient in vitality, I have never in my life had headache, nor (since the age of six years) taken any stronger 'medicine' than Sage Tea, or Mullein Syrup."

Many need F., H. & G. who think they are not able to pay for it these "hard times." Such persons would find times easier by following its instructions. — Mrs. C. K. Smith, San Diego, Cal.

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