A VEGETARIAN ON A JOURNEY

By J. George Heid, St. Louis, Mo.

"Can one be a consistent Vegetarian when on a jonniey and yet satisfy the appetite ?" If our perverted taste be merely consulted, it njay be difficult to be con- sistent. If not capable of ,coi(trolling the unnatural appetite which has been acquired by wantonness and excesses, for generations, perhaps, if there is an utter inability or lack of effurt to deny the sensual nature for prin- ciple's sake, it tuay be difRcult to satisfy the so-called appetite while on a journey, in fact, it would be difficult to do this at home even, but a consistent Vegetarian can enjoy the meals on a journey and find plenty to eat, although to observe a strict Vegetarian diet while on trains, etc., would almost necessitate living exclusively on fruits ; for one never knows where lard, butter or suet may have been used in preparing cakes, pies, pudilings or biscuits, or rolls and bread, and even in cooking vegetables. The only safety in eating a meal of cooked or prepared foods would lie in visiting a \'egetarian restaurant, or to board with a Vegetarian family. If, however, to eat no meats of any kind, but not to abstain from eggs, butter, milk, etc., or dishes containing these, constitutes a Vegetarian, then it is an easy matter to be supplied at most any restaurant in cities or towns one may visit, and even the railroad stations having lunch stands, can then amply supply the needs of the traveler. I have translated a bill of of fare from a Vegetarian restaurant called "The Fruit Basket," in Brunswick, Germany :

Kt!K>— Fried. BoLlcit or Scrambled— ligg P»ncBke,

French Rolln. Graham RolU,

PoUto Salad, Boiled. Pried or Mashed PoUloo.

Bread Pudding, Slewed Frolls.

Chocolate Cocoa, ).□««, Milk. German T«,

IiidlaD Tea, Kneipii'a Malted Coffee.

We use lemon juice inalead of viueKar la the preparation of

all oursalada. Out so up< sod vegetable*

Suppose a guest were to order from the above : One kind of soup, three vegetables, a dish of eggs or pan-cakes, one kind of dessert, one cup of coffee, cocoa, or choco- late, there would be served with the above, without extra cost, bread or rolls and but- ter, and one kind of potatoes. This would cost about one mark and fifty pfennnige (36 cents). However, should one wish to economize, he could take dinner at a cost of 80 pfennige (nearly 20 cents), which would give the guest soup, eggs or pan-cake, two kinds of vegetables, dessert, and bread or rolls. This would not include coffee, cocoa or any beverage whatever, because it is not considered according to the rules of hygiene to drink with meals, and there are many guests at these restaurants who are not \'egetarians from principle, but they obser\e a Vegetarian diet, having been ad- vised to do so by their physicians. These last-named dinners can be had by tlie month lor twenty marks ($4. 80), costing a trifle less than sixteen cents per meal.

There are many more articles to select from at tliese Vegetarian restaurants, such as mushrooms of various kinds, all kinds of fruits and vegetables in season, or il one wishes to pay tor them, things out of season too.

In Cologne, a Vegetarian restaurant had suppers a la carle, and dinners both a la carle and table d'hoie. These last were so arranged that one could order a 50 pfennige. Bo pfennige, or one mark meal, (12 cents, 20 cents and 24 cents). The twelve cent meal would consist of one kind of soup, eggs, bread, butter and coffise ; with the

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20 cent meal, would be served in addition to the above, one kind of vegetables, while with the 24 cent meal would be served two kinds of vegetables and one kind of dessert. This restaurant was one of the finest in Germany.

Suppers in German Vegetarian restaurants are always served a la carte. Breakfasts are not served in regular Vegetarian restau- rants there, unless run in connection with a hotel, for it is customary to take breakfast where one rooms. In most hotels, the cost of breakfast is added to the room, while in rooming with private families the breakfast called "Cafe complet," is included with the room. It generally consists merely of coffee and rolls, sometimes there is Swiss cheese in addition to the butter for the rolls.

Here and there a little advertising enter- prise is shown by the keepers of Vegetarian restatirants ; for instance : in Stuttgart, Germany, a proprietor of one of the leading Vegetarian restaurants issues a neat city map, showing the location of the Post Office, Railroad Station and other places of import- ance, and the convenient proximity of his restaurant to these places.

Many have paper napkins very tastefully gotten up with the addresses of the different Vegetarian restaurants in German cities printed on them, with illustrations of fruits and vegetables in the four comers; some, a handsomely illustrated centerpiece of a cornucopia, or a garden.

Extracts are printed around the border something like the following ;

"To un Tour iritnn p*!ti >Dd «••

t>0 not forg«loe«tqu)tei1ow." "Hot food *Bd drink to toothache wink. Food Md drink hot Ht each mnl, Soon the bcalih of (be uonxch Meal."

The Vegetarian restaurants bear such

names as "Pomona," "Ceres," "Thaly- sis," "Our Vegetarian Home," "Quisiana," "The Melon," "The Fmit Basket," etc.

Many Vegetarian restaurants have bath houses in connection, as it makes it con- venient for those who diet themselves by order of physicians, who also prescribe baths as a rule. A large one of this description exists in Madgeburg. Even many physicians in Germany who are not themselves Vegetarians, insist on their patients observing a strict Vegetarian diet.

How consistent Vegetarianism is lived up to in some parts of Germany may be seen by the method of a Vegetarian hotel in Dresden, which has bedding of linen and cotton, the covers of a sort of Vegetarian fibre, allowing no feathers, blanket nor hair mattresses, in fact, eliminating everything that animals would have to contribute. Many regret that a suitable substitute has not been found for leather in the manufact- ure of shoes, etc.

■'How can you keep op strength without eating meat?" I am, as you see, a living evidence of what strength is provided by fhiits and cereals, as I can walk with any ordinary pedestrian, and at a march, tire most any one living on meat, unless he be a professional sprinter, and as for supplying brain food and strength in one's studies, I was the only Vegetarian in the chemical school of the beet sugar industry; ask any of the professors how my rating compared with the others, for my modesty forbids my making the comparison.

My experiences teach me that a strict Vegetarian— especially if he lives princi- pally on fhiits — can get along with very little drink, since the food contains no seasoning to excite thirst. This is a great convenience where one has occasion to march where no water is convenient.

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them exceedingly valuable as food for travelers, soldiers and sailors and when combined with whole wheat or Graham flour become an ideal food for alt who go away from home.

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The subject of good wholesome rations is of immense importance to the success of our army and navy. The Greeks and Romans won their greatest laurels on plain whole- some fruit and farinacious food.

Mr. J. George Held will continue his articles on: "A Vegetarian on a Journey" and his next article will contain an account of the Vegetarian restaurants in other coun- tries of Kurope besides Germany.

The toughest and most enduring creature employed in the war is the army mule and he lives on forage and grain when he can get them, and eats up the wooden sides of his wagon when he cannot get coarse forage.

The Misses Richards of South Bethlehem, Penna. have opened a house for Vegetarian Boaders in that fine old town. Those who desire to spend their vacation among the mountains would And this an excellent opportunity.

We have appealed to the Health Food producers of Battle Creek, Mich., to fur- nish a model scientific ration for soldiers and sailors. We understand they are pro- ducing biscuits, crackers and wafers in which nut food is employed for shortening.

The nitrogenous elements of nuts and their compact nutritive chanicter render

One reason why soldiers become life- long invalids after a war is their consump- tion of diseased pork and beef which either kill the soldier by trichinosis in a few pain- ful years, with the salt pork, or produce a lingering consumption from tuberculous beef. See p. loi.

In view of the success in Europe* and America in cycling and other athletic exer- cises of the vegetable and fruit eaters there need be no fear of our soldiers losing strength by taking pure grain and nut foods instead of the horrid fat pork so full of disease germs as it is welt known to he. See articles from the Scientific American.

The close of Franklin Rowell's earthly career took place May 24, 1898 at the age of 70, at Tryon, N. C. He was a close student ; a good penman, a clear and forci- ble writer and above all a Vegetarian. His musical talent is highly spoken of. He traveled over many states to find a place suitable for a Vegetarian Colony but gener- ally found out objections which prevented him from makinga selection of any one lo- cation and he was honest in a candid expression of his opinions.

Attention is called to the advertisement of the New Vegetarian Quarterly. In order to obtain the 2nd class postal privilege for this periodical it will be necessary to present a good list of subscribers. So our friends will please send subscriptions without delay to enable us to save in tlie item of postage. We have staited with 4 pages but hope to increase to eight if encouraged t^ subscrip- Joly

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TUBERCULOSIS CATTLE. The Scientific American gives the follow- ing abbatoir statistics : In Berlin 1 2 per cent of the cattle slaughtered are tubercu- lous: Dresden 14 4; Upper Selesea 9.5; Durham 18.7 ; Midlothian 20; London 25 ; New York 20. No wonder so many peo- ple are dying of consumption.

A "MYSTERY" EXPLAINED. Dr. Mackay, Dallas', Texas, in giving an account of the visit of Rev. James Clark, for publication in the Dallas Herald, re- marked that the mystery about these people (Bible Christians") is in their calling themselves Christians in place of humani- tarians— the very antithesis of each other. It is not surprising in view of ihe partiality to blood-shed shown by many professing Christians, that this idea should arise, but the early Christians of the Bible were bumanitarians, and Bible Christiaos now seek to re-establish Bible Christianity as exemplified by Paul, who declared "If meat make my brother to offend. I will eat no flesh while the world standeth." — 1 Cor. VIII. 13.

small drove, and when the offal of this trichinosis hog is fed to hogs which are raised upon the grounds the latter cannot escape infection with trichinse. The slaughter houses are over-run with rats ; the rats feed o 1 the offal and they cannot escape the infection and become transmit- ters of the disease to hogs and dogs that catch them. The doctor conc"ludes tliat "every slaughter house is a center of disease for the surrounding country spread- ing trichinosis, echinococcus disease, gid, wire worm and other troubles caused by animal parasite including tuberculosis, hog cholera, swine plague and other bacterial diseases." Our remedy is the only sure one : Do not touch the slaughtered animals.

SCIENCE & SLAUGHTER HOUSES. The Sdettlific American publishes an ar- ticle on "The Slaughter House in Relation to Disease ' ' and shows that slaughter houses according to the Afediatl Record, are being investigated and horrid discoveries are being made. It also quotes Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D., who declares that "every slaughter house is from the very nature of things a center of disease." That some of the animals are surely diseased. At least one of the hogs has trichinosis even in a

IS CHRISTIANITY A RELIGION OF SLAUGHTER? The Christian Herald illustrated its Thanksgiving number by a colored pict- ure with a vegetable and fruit border, but its picture contained a barrel of the dead bodies of turkeys and ten others slung on shoulders or being handed over by butch- ers. Inside are illustrations ,of a turkey "ready tobe served." Also a picture of a flock of live turkeys and the editor of the Herald choosing which shall be selected for the slaughter, and there a girl with a switch and three boys hunting down the poor frightened turkeys selected for killing. The last picture is a dead turkey carried to a poor widow in a home of poverty. The let- ter-press accompanying gives an account of the editor of the Christian Herald presenting 100 turkeys to the Bowery Mission for dis- tribution among poor families. We have no doubt this is all well-meant by the worthy editor, but it is to be regretted that the Christian religion is thus made to appear a religion of blood ?nd slaughter instead ofa religion of love and mercy. :'

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