DIET REFORM

One of the greatest reforms needed by the human race is that of turning from the ex- cessive eating of meat to the more delicate and wholesome food of the garden. In this work the seedsman and nutseryman — not overlooking the horticultural journal — take a chief part. — Vicks /UitsiraUd Maga- zine.

We are glad to see this able horticaltural publication take so high a stand on diet re- form. Surely the horticultural press should join in a crusade against flesh eating. EASY WAY TO BLANCH CELERY.

I suggest this easy method of blanching, at least for moderate supplies, which does away altogether with the necessity of treoches or banking. If intended for win- ter blanching, about the middle of Novem- ber the plants are taken up on a dry day and placed in water-tight troughs or other ves- sels in a quite dark cellar, the plants stand- ing erect and close together. Enough water is potued on the roots to cover them, and the supply is continued through the winter as it evaporates. This constitutes the entire labor. The stalks are gradually and handsomely blanched in the darkness, and many new ones spring up during the winter months, especially if the apartment is not very cold, and these new shoots are remarkable for their delicacy and perfect freedom from any particle of rust, appearing like polished ivory. A small separate

apartment in the cellar, without windows, answers well for this piupose. Boxes, tubs, or any vessels which will hold a few inches of water, may be employed. The plants, as grown in the open grounds may be slightly earthed to bring them into a more compact form, if desired. — Epilomist. JAMAICA.

Mr. H, W. Gerlach writes in Frankford //erald of this island:

All the nativesare black, and all the ser- vants also. The walks and drives are sim- ply grand. ■ It is certainly a new land of beauty. Owing to the work, and improve- ments made by the great Fruit Company, the cocoanut trees grow to a great height, the natives climbing to the top, and run- ning along the heavy branches with the quickness of squinels. The green cocoa- nat is alone nseid for its milk, it being con- sidered a great delicacy. Orange groves send forth their perfumes on the air; al- mond trees grow in great profusion : they bear a beautiful pink and white flower in blossom time somewhat resembling our peach blossom, only much larger.

Far as the eye can reach on every side are banana trees laden with their delicious fruit ; the natives, men and women, gather them and carry them to the steamers. The women carry almost everything on their heads, and work outdoors all the time, helping to load the fruit on the steamers ; with the men, they seem to be a very jolly set ot people, laughing and singing as they work, and seem to know no care or respon- sibility ; the women earn about 50 cents per day, are very bright and intelligent and seem to have great strength and endurance.

There are 57000 acres of land under culti- vation by the Fruit Co. There is a nar- row gauge road through the mountains to the cofiee plantations on the mountain tops. On the outskirts of Port Antonia are large groves of ginger trees under culti- vation they bear a t^autifrd blossom and fill the air with a spicy fragrance. There is a peculiar quality in the atmosphere that stimulates the system without any after &tiguing effect, die air is sxA and tMdmy.

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MARGARET. Fairv Story for Little Vegetariaks.

Margaret was a small gtrl with rosy cheeks. She had a father and mother and a FAIRY GODMOTHER. Now this little old woman who was Margaret's Fairy God- mother loved her so dearly that she watched over her constantly and often spent the whole night by her bed when Mai^ret was not well. Margarefs father and mother were good and kind but they often gave Margaret food that was not good for her and so she was sometimes sick. When Margaret got sick her father would sit by the stove and smoke cigars while the tears ran down his cheeks, for he loved Margaret and he did not see why she was not always well .

But the Fairy Godmother knew very well why Margaret was sick and one night when Margaret was in bed with a cold and sore throat, the Fairy Godmother came gliding into the room where Margaret's fathersat with his feet on the fender blowing rings of cigar smoke up in the air. You must know that the Fairy Godmother was pos- sessed of Occult Power, and could make herself invisible in an instant or she could make herself so small that she could easily enter a room through a keyhole. She had a long nose that almost met her chin, and she wore short skirts and shoes turned up at the toes. She slid in through the key- hole so suddenly that Margaret's father dropped his cigar in surprise. She spoke out loud in a high squeaky voice to Mar- garet's father:

"John!" she said, "whal ails Margar- elf

"I don't know Godmother," he said, ' ' we have done everything for the child but she gets no better ; every time that she goes out of doors she gets more cold and I fear that the Good Lord will take her away from us."

Here the Fairy Godmother fairly snorted with indignation. "Nonsense!" she squealed in her squeaky voice, "that child simply needs a change of diet to make her iiver act. You have fed her on butter and sweets until her system is all clogged up and now you must do as I tell you and feed her on apples every day."

" Apples!" exclaimed her father, "why they cost fifty cents a peck and I will have to give up my cigars if I buy apples for her. How can I do that ?' '

"You can! and you must!" said the Fairy Godmother, "for your child only needs apples to make her well and apples she must have!" Here the little old wo- man stamped her feet on the floor so fiercely that Margaret's father tipped himself too far back in his chair and fell over back- ward. When he picked himself up again the Fairy Godmother had vanished : but he twught a barrel of apples next day and never smoked any more cigars. Margaret was soon well again after she was fed on apples! and strange to relate Margaret's father was better tor doing without his cigars and Margaret's mother laved him dearly for buying all tbe apples the child wanted. — William Caiiby Ferns.

All our young friends especially are invited to attend the Vegetarian Ficuic at Willow Grove, Thursday, June 15. 1899.

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Vol. Ill, New Series, No. 30. JULY, 1899. Whole Ndmber 103.

FRANK W. ROSS, B. S., A. M., M. D., D. O.

DR. ROSS, whose portrait we present on the opposite page, is recorded in the "Livesof Eminent Physicians," by Stone, as being a graduate of five col- leges, including the Indiana State Univer- sity and the Barnes Medical College, at St. Loai», Mo., the largest drag college west of the Mississippi. He is a fellow of the American Association of Physicians and Snrgeons. Late Chief Physician and Sur- geon of the Botany Park Sanitarium ; spec- ial lecturer on hygiene in American Medical College of Indianapolis, Ind.; author of Medical Hygiene, Sexual Diseases of Men, Medical Secrets, Hygiene Cook Book, Hygiene Complete; Professor in the Central Univer- sity Correspondence School, of Indianap- olis, Ind. Dr. Ross has lectured to crowded booses in many states on "Through Ire- land, Scotland, Germany, Prance and England," "From New York to Cali- fomia," "Old Mexico and the Passion Play at Tacuba," "The Two Greatest Museums io the World — the Loavre and the British." Dr. Ross' Medical Hygiene is recommended by many preachers of the leading denomina- tions. This book is a very useful com- pendium of the hygienic treatment under the separate titles of the various forms of disease and the hygienic prescription is given in the common English vernacular, making it a book of easy reference. We notice that in nearly every direction for the 1899

cure and prevention of a disease, Dr. Roes insists on the diet being limited to fruits, rice, oat-flake or wheat meal gruel and and toasted brown bread or similar food aad vegetables and a total abstinence from drugs, flesh-meat and fermented or distilled liquors, tobacco, and other poisons, includ- ing tea and coffee. Milk is permitted in some cases.

The book treats of the Diet Cme, the Grape Cure, and advice is given as to which fruits are best for certain cases. The water cure, both internal and external, is largely treated of, and many cases of cure by the simple remedies prescribed, are related. The flushing of the colon, usually called Dr. Hall's remedy, but which had a prior origin, is largely prescribed. The hot bath is described as the best stimulant, while cold cloths or ice applied to the chest is recommended in cases of hemorrhage of the lungs.

The following systems of diet are recom- mended :

V. E. M. Diet.— Break&st: 6 to 8 oz. brown bread and butter, cup of cocoa or weak tea; or wheatmeal, oatmeal, hominy, or barley porridge, eaten with brown bread and stewed frait. Dinner: thick vegetable soup eaten with brown bread, followed by a milk pudding and stewed fruit. Or a potato, haricot, or Vegetarian pie, or the stew in the next diet. Or simply two vege-

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tables, brown bread and some vegetable sauce. A3 a second course, milk pudding and stewed fruit. Those who do not eat flesh should eat peas, beans, or lentils every other day. Supper; 6 to 8 ozs. brown bread and butter, boiled Spanish onion, boiled or raw celery, or other green stuff, or stewed frnit or milk pudding. No food for at least three hours before going to bed. This diet is for those who desire to get bet- ter health than the ordinary people, and for the delicate. It is especially useful in heart, liver, kidney and chronic stomach com- plaints, iti syphilis, and in gout and liieumatism. For the hypochondriacal it is the best diet I know.

Macaroni Diet. — For breakfast and supper, about 6 ozs. brown bread cut into dice, pour boiling mUk over this, allow to cool, and then eat. Dinner: 4 ozs. mac- aroni cooked and made into a pudding ; eat with stewed prunes or other fruit. Next . day have a stew made of about 2 ozs. each of peas, or lentils, with rice or pearl barley ; cook them well, 6a vor with a little carrot, turnip, onion, sweet herbs, butter and salt ; eat with brown bread. Finish up with stewed fruit and bread. This diet is useful in all chronic cases, and if observed for some time clears the body of waste, and purifies the system generally.

Milk Dibt. — Milk and barley or rice water in equal parts ; a teacupful may be taken cold every three hours. This diet is a quick cure for violent sickness or diar- rhoea.

Fever Diet, — Milk and water, gruel, porridge, vegetable soup, milk puddings, toast water, whey, lemonade, bread and milk, fruit fresh and stewed, preserve water, etc. These are the foods that should be given in erysipelas, measles, scarlet fever, small-pox, typhoid or other fevers, and in acute attacks of sickness of all kinds. 100

The book is admirably adapted for femily use and is being largely circulated. On sale by the Vegetarian Society of America at the published price: half leather, $3.00: cloth, $1.50; boards, $1.00.

Dr. Ross has established the National School of Hygiene, at Champaign, 111., which is meeting with encouraging success, having already twenty students.

A PRACTICAL TESTIMONIAL.,, I have been practically a Vegetarian for over twenty years. During these twenty- two years I have not had to call a physician (for myselQ nor have I spent any money for patent medicines. Previously I bad found frequent use for both. My health gradually improved after the reform in my diet. I do not remember having a head- ache for the past fifteen years. I have not been sick in bed for more than a day or two at any time, and but seldom at that. I mention it merely lo show that my exper- ience has been that of others. — W- D. Chap- man, Tampa, Florida.

FLESH, ALCOHOL. TOBACCO. I believe that pure food lays the founda- tion for physical, mental and moral health- I never beard of a Vegetarian who was a drunkard. Flesh, alcohol and tobacco form a triplet that is always in accord — or rather, that always produces discord. Flesh poisons, alcohol paralyses and tobacco stupefies. Pure food, pure air and sun- shine, of the heart as well as of the otiter world, give that poise of body and mind which results in the removal of dis-ease — an abmormal condition in which some fnnc- tions usuTp vital force which belongs to others, and thus the whole system is thrown into pain and confusion. — Ellen Snow, Hartford, Conn.

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ASBESTOS LEATHER. A German inventor has patented asbestos leather. The asbestos is combed into fine fibres, then immersed in an India mbber solution until every fibre is covered with the solution. The solvent, petrolenm ben- zine, is evaporated. The fibres then cohere perfectly, and the mass pressed into any desired form. It is said to resemble very closely leather in it pectiliarities and struct- ure.— Zeugdrucker Zeitung.

parallel, as no one has attempted more than a twelve hours' run over this or any similar course. Last year was noted for Vegetarian athletics and this year is already making a brilliant record.

VEGETARIAN ATHLETIC VICTORY. 325 MILBS IN 24 HOURS. According to The Vegetarian, LoadoD, England, Mr. George A. Olley, a youth of 1 8 years, has won the gold medal offered by Vegetarian C. C. to the member who would ride 270 miles over the roads south of London in twenty-four hours. Mr. Olley not only accomplished the distance required, but 55 miles more in the specified time. It was practically an unpaced ride, for, although he had singles accompanying him, except during 45 miles, when he was quite alone, he gained little advantage thereby, other than that of companionship, preferring to ride abreast of, rather than accepting shelter behind these firiends. The night was showery and pitch dark. He used a 6s-inch gear and had two punctures to contend with. The route was fi^m 32 Queen's road, Wimbleton, to Leatherbead and Horsham — villages familiar to ns as being the places visited by us on a lecturing tour in 1S43, we think it was. He also rode half a mile down a wrong road, which was not counted in the distance made. At the end of the long ride he was not at all distressed, but had a splendid color. He kept np a regular pace of fifteen miles an hotir for the last three hours. When the hilly character of the roads is taken into consideration, the distance made has no 1899

SOUTH AUSTRALIA V. S.

A communication from Mr. Arthur Faw- cett, Hon. Sec. of the. Vegetarian Society of South Australia, informs us that this society was organized in Adelaide in Nov- ember, 1898, with twenty-seven members and associates, and that the publication of a monthly paper is in contemplation.

Mr. Pawcett arrived in Australia in 1893, and felt that he was almost alone as far as human aid was concerned, but he worked and lectured and gradnally became ac- quainted with those who were in sympathy with the cause, and the organization of the society was the result of his labors. He distributed leaflets and some one handed him a copy of FotjD, HOHB AND Garden for May, 1898, and hence his application for publications (rom America, which we endeavor to comply with as far as our means will allow. Mr. Fawcett is a life Vegetarian and a member of the Vegetarian Society, Manchester.

The new organization is about opening a central office and reading room. Our read- ers can render essential aid by subscribing for sending Odr Postscript and other tracts and publications for distribution. We would be glad to send thousands of these little messengers. Who will contrib- ute fimds for this purpose ? We understand Mr. Fawcett contemplates a visit to Amer- ica, where we have no doubt he will receive a cordial welcome. He is being ably assisted now by Mr. I. Newton Wood, who is lecturing, so that a movement has been fairly started in South Australia. Meetings and conversaziones are announced.

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THE ANNUAL PICNIC

OF THE PHILA. VEGETARIAN SOCIETY

Was held at Willow Grove, oo the after- uoon and evening of Thursday, June 15, 1899. The New York Vegetarian Society was especially invited and Mr. John W- Scott, president; Mrs. Margaret Haviland, vice president; Mr. Arthur Haviland, hon- oraiy and active secretary of the New York Society, and Mrs. Henry Wilhelm, of Brooklyn, N. Y,, were present. Members and friends of the Philadelphia Vegetarian Society from West Philadelphia, German- town, Frankford and other parts of the city were present. The picnic assembled at Grove No. 1 at 3 o'clock, but a storm com- ing up rendered it necessary to adjourn to the Urge pavilion where, at 5.30 o'clock, a Vegetarian picnic was served as follows : Sliced tomatoes on lettuce.

Nut sandwiches. Squash sandwiches.

Egg-plant sandwiches.

Nasturtium sandwiches. Graham gems.

Raisin sandwiches.

. Olives. Pickles. Cheese.

Hermit cookies.

Chocolate cake. Sponge cake.

Bananas. Lemonade.

This menu was practically and merrily discussed and highly enjoyed, after which Rev. Henry S. Clabb, president of the Vegetarian Society of America, called the meeting to order, and welcomed in a cordial manner the guests from New York, and all who had come from various parts of the city. He congratulated them on the experience of the past year, in which the record of prominent events had added to the testimony in favor of the principles of the Society. In athletics : in the walking matches of Germany ; in the bicycle races of New York, San Francisco and recently in England, where a Vegetarian Bicycle Club has just awarded a gold medal to George OUey, a Vegetarian of four years, 103

for having made 325 miles over the hilly roada of Surrey in twenty-four hours ; all these trials of strength had established the fact in the public records, that in cases of protracted endurance, flesh-eatiug could not compete with Vegetarian training. Id longevity, too, the record was strong in favor of the simple Vegetarian &re, as Mr. Diamond, who was "an old man" at 65, by giving up flesh-eating, is an athletic business man to-day, although be had passed, on the first of this month, his 103d birthday. For grace and beauty, we have the experience and testimony of the two eminent prima donnas, Lili Lehmanu and Emma Calve, both having been restored to health, vigor and beauty, as the latter expressed it, by "spades and potatoes."

Mr. John W. Scott, the president of the New York Vegetarian Society, who is a stalwart Englishman, said he had for years worked at his business twenty of the twenty- four honrs a day, six days a week, and positively felt no fatigiie. He had alwajn enjoyed excellent health, but attributed his ability to stand the strain of business for over 100 hours a week to his simple habits of diet. Although he did not entirely ab- stain from animal products such as could be procured without destroying life, milk. cheese and eggs, his experience led him to prefer nuts and fruit even to these, and he found the less he took of the aoimal products, the better. He said on the ustuU belief that animals had no after life, it seemed more cruel to kill an animal than to kill a Christian. In the case of the animal, you deprive him of the only life he can enjoy, while in the case of killing a Christ- ian, you simply transfer him to the regituis of the blest. Of course he did not advocate killing in either case, but this was a bdr inference from the common orthodox belief and he could not see how this belief conld

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be held and continue the killing of animals in order to feed on their flesh.

Mr. James Gartside, of West Philadel- phia, gave his experience in the army dar- ing the War of 1861-5. attribnting the prev- alence of typhoid fever among the soldiers to being fed on heavy rations of fat pork and other forms of fiesh-food. He had himself escaped the recent epidemic of La Grippe by abstaining from flesh and sub- stituting nut foods.

Mr. Arthur Haviland referred to the very extensive introduction of health foods and their general substitution for flesh-meat, which had become so prominent a feature of our civilized American life. Especially -was the recent introduction of nut food in the form of Peanut Butter working a desir- able reformation in the habits of the people. He said peumt Bandvriches had now become the thing at afternoon teas in &shioBable New York. He also referred to the good aatured hits at Vegetarianism in the comic papers both of l^ondon and New York. One illustration was the picture of a bear which is made to say ; "Be not afraid l I am a Vegetarian,"

Mr. Scoville, of (lermantown, made one of his characteristic speeches, in which he showed the indulgences of the fleshly appetites was the chief cause of nervous irritation and of consequent disagreements so common in domestic and social life.

Mr. Ht;nry Doolittle, of Philadelphia, and Mr. Thomas James, of Chicago, made a few remarks, after which the president referred feelingly to the honor done to Frank- lin in the statue unveiled the previous day in Philadelphia, characterized by Mr. Beck as the greatest American ; that in his auto- biography, Franklin attributes bis success in life to hts early habits of living on rais- ins and bread while studying and working at the printing business, behaving attribut- 1899

ed his clearness of thought to his abstemious habits. That while none of the companions of Franklin at that time are now ever heard of, Franklin himself is honored the world over as "the greatest American."

After a solo on the flute by Mr. Scoville, the meeting adjourned to enjoy the at- tractions of the beautiful Willow Grove Park, at which, and for the courteous treatment of the Management, much satis- faction was expressed.

ANOTHER PRIMA DONNA CURED. "SPADES AND POTATOES." Mile. Emma Calve' has a large farm at Cevennes, where she rusticates each sum- mer. Last summer, according to the SaiKrd*y Evening Post, this "famous singer went into her kitchen garden and cared for her own vegetables. No one was allowed to touch tbem and the results were far better than when the gardener cared for the things. She wore a short skirt of blue jeans, sabots and a linen shirt-waist. She spaded and hoed and watered her vegetables day after day, and proudly sent gifts of the finest fruits of her labors to friends in Paris.' The prima donna was very ill and nervous when she went to Cevennes, but this free open-air life and the vigorous exercise soon restored her to the most robust health, and when friends ask the secret of her cure sheanswers, 'spades and potatoes.' "

FREE MASONS' VEGETARIAN BANQUET. The Herald of the Golden Age reports that at the banquet of the Arcadian Lodge of Free Masons, held at Hotel Cecil , London, the following leaflet was found in all the programme cards: "No animal flesh is ever provided at the social gather- ings of this Lodge."

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Silk is reported to be largely superseded by mercerized cotton. Tliat even experts cannot in many cases distiogoish between these goods, and the new &bric is said to outlast silk for umbrellas and other ex- posed uses. Of course it is less costly.

The Saturday Evening Post is the paper we read for relaxation from mental labor. It is delightfully refreshing.

Mrs. F. Q. Ogden purposes to devote 50 acres of her cotton plantation in Mississippi to the planting of a pecan grove.

The article on the "Chemistry of Food" on the next page will form No. 5 of Ouk Postscript, and we ask our friends to aid in its extensive distribution in letters.

The Baltimore American says: "The King of Italy is the only Vegetarian mon- arch in Europe, and the only king now living who was ever wounded in battle." This indicates that Vegetarianism and courage are not incompatible.

We call attention to the aims of the Vegetarian Colony by Mr. A. S. Donald- son, West Hurley, N. Y., advertised in this number. Those who desire to co- operate on such a basis will please write him their whole mind on the subject.

The reciprocity treaty with the Barbadoes is only the first of a series of similar treaties with Great Britain. Jamaica is to follow, so that we may hope that a trade with that island may soon be established that will include the free importation of banana Sour, which will be a wholesome exchange for American wheat flour. 104

The Illinois Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis is being organized at the rooms of the Medical Society, Chicago. It is to obtain legislation to prevent the sale of tuberculosis cows. The Vegetarian Society at McVicker Building teaches people not to eat cows at all and discourages the nse of milk.

The Boston /oirnfai/ states that the ancient practice of falconry is likely to be revived in Boston. If destroying life is to be con- tinned as a sport among intelligent people, it may be well to delegate the work of slaughter to carnivorous birds, but why continue it at all ? Cannot Boston invent some humane sport ?

The return of Miss Btnma I. Bettes, Secretary of the Philadelphia Vegetarian Society, from a five months' visit to Colo- rado, is a source of- real pleasure to her numerous friends in Philadelphia, It is not easy to find a better place to live than the City of Penn, and those who go away tisual- ly return with increased satisfaction.

The Picnic of the Philadelphia Vegeta- rian Society on the fifteenth of June, at Willow Grove Park, was successful in bringing together many congenial friends, and the beauty of the ride by trolley from the city, and the surpassing loveliness of the park, altogether made a day of rich enjoyment. We have given some pictures of the park which afford some slight idea of this most popular resort for the people of

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Philadelphia. After the picnic and ad- dresses, Food and Postscripts were dis- tribated among the listeners, some of whom expressed themselves greatly interested.

GROWING YOUNG. The two photographs of the Centenarian Diamond in the Jane issne, show how liv- ing a pure Vegetarian life will cause a man to grow younger in appearance even after fifty years have been spent in the ordinary fleshly indulgences. We have noticed the same effect on ladies who had lost the first charms of a youthful complexion, by the adoption of generous unselfish diet, have acquired a degree of freshness and healthy vigor surpassing even their early attractions, reminding us of the far-famed fountain of perpetual youth.

AMERICAN VEGETARIAN COLONY. Among those who have declared ad- hesion to the movement to petition Con- gress for a gmnt of land in which to start the Vegetarian Colonyare: C. J. Zeitinger, Zeitonia, Mo.; John R. and Kees K. Coop- er, Edwin Greble Dreer and Franlc N, Normart, Philadelphia; Mrs. K.J. Staples, Mrs. M. Clover, Arthur E. Clover, Miss L. A. fiuffam, Miss H. Blacklin, Miss R. Clousin, Miss M. Chaffie, A. J. Mondock, M. A., Allen Weeks, Miss Anna Dunlop, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Mrs. H. Houghton Chaapel, M. D., Palmetto, Pla.; Prank Katzung, Chicago, 111.; L. A. Johnson, Waterbury, Conn , Halvoe Clauson, Santa Cruz, Cal.; A. S. Donaldson, West Hur- ley, N. Y. The letters are all indications of great interest in the movement and the preferences are chiefly for Sonthem and Western Florida, Western North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, East Tennessee ; semi-tropical location, etc. The object is 1899

to have a good location both for fruit pro- duction and for markets ; a place where children can grow up Vegetarians from the force of the example of their elders, having no examples of flesh-eating and slaughter before them. We want at least 1000 ad- herents to make the petition impressive.

A DEBATE. On Friday evening. May 26, a debate before the New York City Liberal Club on the subject "How to Live," was opened by Hon. T. B. Wakeman fiivoring omnivorous diet as the best for intellectual, civilized man. Dr. E. B. Foot, H. Alden Spencer, Miss Agnes Florence and others, in ten minute speeches, carried the fine audience with them, although the eloquent Mr. Wakeman spoke for an hour and a half. Mr. Spencer, as usual, favored the use of food which requires no cooking, such as nuts, wheat and fruits. He gave each of the several hundred hearers samples of shelled almonds mixed whole winter wheat as "the best food for the masses."