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THB PARK where the Philadelphia Vegetarian Society held its picnic on June I5tb, 1899, is worthy of permanent record and illustration. The ride to the Park on the trolley road is, all things considered, the most varied and delightful trolley ride lead- ing out of Philadelphia. It is along the Old York road and cars up Eighth and Thir- teenth streets convey passengers, for ten cents each, swiftly along between residences and grounds that compare quite favorably with such as adorn the soburbs of London aod Paris. The speed of the trolley, even on the hottest summer days, causes a breeze to be fielt which is of itself a most delightful refreshment to the passengers, and even invalids feel an invigoratton that brings on a healthy glow. But through the enterprise of its promotes, the end of the journey at Willow Grove is the climax of landscape beauty

and attraction.

The general view, which can be taken from the trolley as it passes around the grounds, embraces the three groves, specially provided ^th kitch- ens, water, tables and benches for laijje or small parties; the Lake, with its Electric Fountain, Boat Houses and Gondolas ; the Music Pavilion the Casino, the Ladies' Pavilion, the Theatre, the Bicycle Track and Grand Stand, the Chutes, the Gravity Kail- road and the Grand Pavilion, where the picnic and after dinner addresses were made (see page 102), all combine features of interest, and the wide THE I3LAND. Spreading lawns and gravelled walks

amid shrubbery and flower-beds, around Lake and Lily Pond, with undulations of surface sufGcient to cause variety of landscape at every turn, with the Chelten Hills in the distance, make this the most charming resort of the kind to be found on either side of the Atlantic.

The view we give from the Music Pavilion aSbrd some idea of the popularity of the concert feature which is this year made exceedingly attractive by the scientific perfonu- aoces of the Banda Rossa. The height of beauty and fairyland effect is when the Christ- mas tree is lighted at night, the Electric Fountain is displaying its varying colors and the band is playing to the assembled multitude.

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T. ANDERSON HANSON.

"Vol. Ill, NbwSbriks.No. 31-32. AUG.-SEP., 1899. Whole Number 104-5.

T. ANDERSON HANSON.

THE ATTAINMENT of eighty years in good health and spirits on the twentieth day of last June is what we congratulate Mr. T. Anderson Hanson npon, and we have given him the place of honor on our frontispiece this month be- cause we Icnow how earnestly he has de- voted the latter part of his long life to the cause of temperance in regard to both food and drink. It is fully fifty-seven years ago since he pledged to abstain from intoxicat- ing liquors with the understanding that if he ever repented of that act he could writh- draw the pledge. But he never had any cause to repent; on the contrary, he had every cause to be thankful that he had so pledged himself, as, when aiding to subdue the great conflagaration at Hamburg iu May, 184.3, those engaged in the same work who were supplied with liquor, per- ished in the fire they were working to put out, but keeping a cool head saved him from that terrible fate.

Owing to a railway accident in March, 1853, he became afDicted with sciatica by which he seemed to be doomed to a painful lameness for life, but hearing a lecture by James Simpson, the first president of the Vegetarian Society, England, he was led to adopt Vegetarian habits and after six mouths' careful attention to his diet, during which time he visited Tunis, he was com- pletely restored and in splendid form and 1899

has had no twinge of sciatica since. He, however, succumbed to social influence and again became a flesh-eater. As a conse- quence he suffered for twenty-five years liver disorders which made life miserable. But Sylvester Graham's Science of Human Life came into his hands and its reading again induced him to adopt a Vegetarian diet. He lost all his liver disorders and for the past twenty years has consistently abstained from flesh. He declares: "I hardly know that I have a liver. This amendment I attribute to my change of diet altogether . "

At the age of seventy-two, in 1891, he had the misfortune to break the fibula of his left leg. The doctor told him at that age the bones would not often knit. He, however, kept to a pure vegetable, bone- forming diet and recovered so completely that, after seven weeks, he traveled seventy miles, changing from 'bus to rail without assistance. Since the swelling subsided, he has had no reminder of the fracture. He often now walks ten and sometimes fifteen miles a day.

Mr. Hanson came to America and attend- ed the World's Fair and Vegetarian Con- vention at Chicago in 1893, and was exceedingly active in taking part in the proceedings of that and other conventions and was fully equal to the younger members of his party in exploring the American

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continent and in gallantry to American ladies. He says: "this restoration I at- tribute to my abstinence from fire-water and from flesh." Being troubled with a congh in winter and sometimes, in a milder form, in summer, and finding the prescriptions of the medical profession of no avail, he turned with but little hope to Dr. Nichols' brochure on the "Common Diseases of the Day." There he found the use of tea, coffee, cocoa and cheese discouraged, as irritants to the bronchial tubes. He dis- continued them, and says: "I took to wheat-bran tea* and have thereby got com- pletely cured of my cough, leaving not a wreck behind."

Mr. Hanson writes almost a juvenile band for steadiness and concluded one of his interesting letters thus: "Fifty-seven years on alcohol abstinence and twenty years a Vegetarian, my system seems far from deterioration and, barring accident, I look forward to being useful for years to come. I have a good memory, a steady hand and as erect a gait as here and there one past four score. I can sincerely rec- ommend my beverage and diet."

Mr. Hanson is treasurer of the Vegeta- rian Federal Union and, in conjunction with Miss May Yates, he represents the Vegetarian Society of America in the councils of the Union.

A COMMONWEALTH AT WASHING- TON, D. C. Right in the heart of the Capital City there is a society called the "Common- wealth," the thirty members of which range from 4 years, the age of the youngest member, to 72, that of the oldest. Twenty years ago this society was started in Belton,

•for mipe for Bran Tn and fiftji olher iiicful teelpea. ace pamphlet of the Vafctartan Society UII1. pkbi on >p- pUcalionbr postal card toibeVcK'UTifiDSocielv ofAmeilca, mi PoullcnHtStrvel. stall on F, Philadelphia.

Texas, a town about 200 miles from Gal- veston. Under the leadership of Mrs. McWhorter a plan was drawn np and ap- proved. Since that time they have lived together like one large family, sharing everything in common. They opened an hotel in Betton called the ' 'Commonwealth, ' ' which, though at first disliked by the townspeople, soon won the approval of the travelling public. Another hotel was opened at Waco, which was equally suc- cessful. Their worldly goods increased and they took turns in travelling; engaged in philanthropic and educational work and helped others start in life. Uist autumn the "Commonwealth" decided to remove to Washington, and the community has bought a fine piece of property on Kenesaw avenue near Fourteenth street. The house is being repaired and enlarged and when completed, each peison will have a separate room, and there will be parlors, reading rooms, dining room, school and play rooms for the young- er members. The community owns a horse and carriage. They live economical- ly, but well, and each one takes whatever recreation she chooses. Everything is sys- temized so thoroughly that there is little restraint upon tiie members, who lead their own individual lives to a remarkable degree. As Mrs. McWhorter says: "We try to fol- low nature's laws. We are living for the good of each other, and whenever possible try to do good to others. We elect to give people an opportunity to work for them- selves, to open up a way for them to earn their own living rather than give them alms."— V. B. in Philadelphia Ledger.

The use of the pronoun "she" indicates that this is a commonwealth of females only, but we are not sure it is so. We like the plan of "living individual lives." The drawback on communities usually is the restraint on personal freedom.

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MAKING PEANUT BUTTER. There are di&eretit methods of making this much talked of batter. Some boil the nuts with oil, some with water. Some steam them. Some roast them in large cylinders, which cause their own steam to penetrate the nuts. Btit we carefnlly bake them. We prefer this method because it preserves the richness and parity of the not. But we do not bake them to a dark brown, bnt just sufficient to loosen the skins and partially free the oil, so as to cause it to blend with the l^rinaceous portion of the □at in forming a soft, creamy or buttery substance. We add nothing to the nuts by baking and therefore do not detract from their natural sweetness. They are cooked jnst enough to make them easy of digestion and not browned so as to be like fried food (an objection made by some to the toasting process). Even water or steam injures the keeping quality and will canse the butter to become rancid. Some manufacturers retain the brown skins of the nut, grinding them altogether. This lessens the labor, but it detracts from the flavor and purity. Then to disguise the bitter flavor of the skin, salt is added, supposing that it will be the means of preventing the butter from becom- ing rancid. This again detracts flivm the parity and delicate flavor of the product. The skin of the nut is a preservative of the kernal, but if ground up with It introdnces a very objectionable element which not. only injures the flavor by its bitterness, but detracts from the keeping quality. Then, if a nut be burnt or scorched as in roasting, it introduces a kind of cinder and ashes, which also detract from the keeping qual- ities of the butter. In our process all scorched nuls are eliminated. Indeed, the scorching is usually

much a matter of thoughtful care as the art of churning the gilt-edge dairy butter of the special dairy farmers who obtain double price for their product.

We believe pure peanut butter will be found far superior to Cod Liver Oil or even Olive Oil for anaemic and consumptive patients, and we would be pleased to bear its results when tried in such cases. Ab- solute purity is the true secret of our

DR. MUSSEY'S VISIT TO ENGLAND.

BY T. ANDERSON HANSON. The March issue of Food, Home and Gakdbn, containing, as it does, a very cor- rect likeness of Dr. Mussey, whom I remember, reminds me of him as a guest of my father-in-law at Bradford, Yorkshire. Although my father-in-law had not discov- ered the advantages of a fleshless diet, as had his guest, the two fraternized well, for in the year 1846, they were both able to look back upon the many years they had been as medical men, eye to eye on the drink question. In June, 1827, Dr. Mussey read an address on ardent spirits before the New Hampshire Medical Society. Ur. Mussey, in one of his addresses, asks: "What is a poison?" and replies: "It is that substance in whatever form it may be which, when applied toa living surface, dis- concerts and disturbs life's healthy move- ments. It is altogether distinct from sub- stances, which are, in their nature, nutri- tious. It is not capable of being converted into food and becoming a part of the living organs. We all know that proper food is wrought into our bodies ; the acton of animal life occasions a constant waste, and new matter has to betaken in which, after digestion, is carried into the blood and then changed: but poison is incapable of this. It may indeed be mixed with nutritious

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substances, but if it goes iuto the blood, it is thrown off as soon as the system can ac- complish its deliverance, if it has not been too far enfeebled by the influence of the poison. Such a poison is alcohol — such in all its forms, mix it with what you may."

I had an idea that Dr. Mussey paid a later visit to this country than to the World's Temperance Convention, held in London in 1846, but although I have con- sulted Mr. Robert Rae and the Rev. Daw- son Burns, I cannot establish the fact ; the latter tells me that he died on June zi, 1866, at the age of 86. — 77 Amersham R., New Cross, London, S. E., April 15, 1899.

COMING OVER. I suppose it will seem rather strange to receive a letter from a meat-eater in defence of the Vegetarian system, but nevertheless here we are. I received the February issue of Food, Home and Garden and thank you for the favor. I recognized my father's autobiography and portrait and was pleased with them. I have always been an eater of meat, but I hope and expect to give it up. I am seriously think- ing of becoming a Vegetarian, as I believe it is the best and most healthy way to live. Every time I sit down to a meal of which meat forms a part, I cannot help asking myself if it is a proper article for food. My mind or reason answers no in spite of every other argument. It seems to me as if it were a sort of legalized cannibalism that has found favor with the public gener- ally, but I think it will in time become a thing of the past, especially among the more enlightened people. Why should the flesh of one creature be any more fit to eat than that of another? Why not eat crows and buzzards ? They certainly are not any more filthy than chickens or hogs. But why should we take the life of any creature 118

that has just as much right to live and en- joy this life as we have? Is it not to satisfy a gross and carnivorous appetite? There are an abundance of things which nature provides us, in the line of vegetation, on which we can well exist without resorting to the criminal practice of slaughtering innocent creatures. This is a subject to which I have heretofore given but very little thought although I have always heard my &ther advocate it, but hereafter I intend to investigate it, us I think it is a great benefit to all who adopt it, both morally and physically. I will close by saying : May the health and blessings of a Vegeta- rian life be and remain with you all. Amen. — G. E. Dickie, River Rouge, Wayne Co., Michigan.

FROM SKEPTICISM TO CONVICTION We have been the strictest Vegetarians for the past six years. The refining and elevating influence of Vegetarianism is be- ing daily exemplified throughout the length and breadth of the civilized world. I first started as a skeptical experiroentor, but soon discovered that I had unvailed a necessity. Very few understand that meat is a powerful stimulant to the sensitive nerve tissues and like alcohol or other pow- erful stimulants that have been constantly used for a long period of time, to be re- moved, causes a great relaxation. The vital forces having become so accustomed to act under these strained conditions, are at first apt to be disturbed, as with the in- ebriate. The sensational desires which amount almost to passion in some cases, must be entirely ignored in overcoming any powerful stimulant until the system can readjust itself to the new conditions. Health improves, vivacity and vitality increases and the expense of living greatly decreases. Add to this moral and spiritual

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caltare and that person stands above the vkissitndes of ordinary life. The once stupefied conscionsness now being illum- tniLted goes oat, with a whole-soul desire, to aid others to rise out of the death-dealtng flesh-pots and show them by example the real sacrifice flesh eating imposes upon the world. — ^J. A. Martin, 3212 Madison street, Seattle, Wash.

IS CHEESE VEGETARIAN DIET.? We all know that we can use milk, butter and eggs without taking life, but not cheese. Whan I was a girl I saw a great deal of cheese made, among Connecticut farmers. The inside linings of the stomachs of animals are cleaned thoroughly, then put in strong brine for a certain length of time. It is then taken out of the brine, stretched on frames and dried, then pat away for use. When a cheese is made, the milk is heated to blood-warm, a small piece of the dried stomach- lining (or rennet, as it is called) is cut off and pat to soak in warm water ; this water is strained into the warm milk and when it is cold, it is turned to thick card. There are two kinds of rennet on the market for making junkets fi'om sweet milk : in a liquid form and one in form of tablets. I presume they are both made from animal's stomachs in some way, bnt I do not know positively. I do not think Vegetarians would make use of cheese if they knew how it was made. I know, as I have seen the whole process of cheese-making and have often assisted in ic when I was a girl. It was not until I became acquainted with my present hus- band that I knew what Vegetarianism really is, and, now that I do know, I want to do all I can for the cause. — Hannah E. Siddons, P. O- Box 61, Harrison, N. Y.

See Dr. Reinhold's ad. of Vegetarian board. 1899

VEGETARIANISM.— A NECESSITY OF PROGRESSIVE LIFE.

BY DAVID S. CADWALLADBR, PHILA., PA.

Vegetarianism is a deep-seated principle of human life — of injinile life — and cannot, consequently, be ignored by the trviy pro- gressive mind at this stage of human devel- opment. To see such, it is no longer a matter of speculation or doubt, but a real, tangible and intuitive scientific fact, based npon a close study and a correct knowledge of the divine laws of our being, both individually and socially, spiritual sov- ereignty. It is the legitimate result of a divine unfoldmeut of the human sool to more exalted conditions of conscious exist- ence : a veritable expression of the indwell- ing spirit of growth or the spiritual law of necessily.

In the universal economy of life there is no practical substitute for it, therefore man, sooner or later, by virtue of his inhsrent powers, must become a Vegetarian, To the truly inspired soul and scientific mind, there can be no doubt about the necessary and persistent ontworkings of this divine principle of human life.

Vegetarianism as a science of the sool, an art of life, requires a patient study or a spiritually receptive mind, or both, is order to fully comprehend its true mission on earth — life. Infinite life — the holiness ol being — dictates the true course of all human life, and, in fact, of all life, as its integral or individualized parts, and there can be no deviation, with impunity, from its wise and impartial requirements to the end of human perfection, preparatory to the final re-union of the human with the divine in the universal centrality of being.

Let each and all diligently study and become master of this problem of life, and thereby introduce a new and necessary spoke in their wheel of human progress.

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The watermelon, from seed to rind, is an antidote for kidney and liver troubles. Every part is valnable. The thick rind makes an excellent preserve and the seeds, dried, keep well and can be used as a tea all the year. They can be ground in the Vegetarian Society Mill.

We are glad to see that Dr. Reinhold has taken a larger house at 873 Lexington ave- nue. New York, where he not only treats chronic cases with water, hot air, wet sheet, massage, etc., but will be able to accommodate transient and regular boarders with Vegetarian fare.

The Dnkhobors now located in Manitoba are an example of strong, stalwart men and women, who have voluntarily and from conviction, adopted a Vegetarian diet for many years and in a severely cold ciimate, with evident advantage to their health and vigor. We understand they now number 7.500-

It is a common practice with those who attack Vegetarianism to take the position of a single writer as a genuine exposition of Vegetarianism : there is a great variety of independent writers on this subject, none of whom are entitled to be recognized as exponents of anybody's theory but their own. Nor do they claim that they are.

Dr. Amadeo, a Porto Rican physician, is quoted in the /w/^r Occaw, Chicago, as claiming that his own countrymen have weakened under a compulsory Vegetarian diet, caused by high tariffs, and are longing for the delightful canned or "embalmed" beef. This, no doubt, is a canard gotten up in the interests of the great Chicago industry.

The Newburyport Daily News contains an able letter from Mr. J. A. Wilson, of Amesbury, Mass., embodying the first 15 items of the Vegetarian Synopsis. We will be happy to supply a copy of the Sjmopsis to any one who will procure its insertion in a local newspaper or magazine.

In addition to the articles ennmerated in our twelve-page pamphlet as productions of the Vegetarian Society Mill, we may add a very superior article of Fruit Butter, by which fruit sandwiches may be added to the picnic and lunch menu, a pint can of which will be sent by mail on receipt of 50 cents.

Sir Henry Thompson is quoted as say- ing that no form of vegetable nourishment has ever been found on which it is possible to rear an infant, milk being excluded. How about Mellin's Food for Infants? Bnt does it follow because we subsist on milk in infancy we must eat the mother in maturity ?

Mrs. Siddons article on cheese is Umely. Dr. Kellog's objection to cheese is that it is a nursery of microbes and is usually infested wilh them. Now that nut cheese has been described by so good an authority as Mrs, Korer and is m»dein our nut butter dairy, there is no excuse for taking animal cheese.

The first meeting of the Chicago Vegeta- rian Co. was held July t2th, when the fol- lowing directors were elected: President, Clarence S. Darrow : Vice President, Dr. F. N. Doud; Secretary, Addison Blakely; August-September,

Treasurer, C. P, Johnson : Manager, h.H. Snyder; Miss Francis E. Dosenberry and Mrs. Fairchild Allen complete the Board of Directors. This is a list of good workers who will, we trust, keep the good catise alive in Chicago.

LIVED TILL HIS 95th YEAR. Daniel F. Tieman, who was mayor of New York City in 1858-59, we are informed on good authority, was a Vegetarian the last thirty years of his long life. He was bom January 9, 1805, and died Jane 29, 1S99. By adopting a Vegetarian diet he long outlived all the associates of his active political life. He voted for Andrew Jack- son and William McKinley.

DR. KELLOGG IN ENGLAND. Dr. J. H. Kellogg, of Battle Creek, Mich., was cordially received by a crowded andience at Memorial Hall, London, Eng., June 15th, and delivered one of his char- acteristic addresses. We are glad to see Dr. Kellogg has so completely won the hearts of English Vegetarians. Mr. Arnold Hills occupied the chair and paid a deserved and graceful tribnte to the lecturer. He also visited Manchester, where he was similarly welcomed.

AMERICAN VEGETARIAN COLONY. We have received a large accession to our list of petitioners to Congress for an appro- priation of land for a Vegetarian Colony, bnt we need many more. Send ns the names. Those who know of a suitable a\\s, govern- ment land, will please report location and description of the same, to aid in selecting.

ROBERT INGERSOLL. The A'ijrM /Iw^nVaa remarks that "Ing- ersoll was a good deal Oriental. He hated meat-eating and vivisection. 'Every time a piece of meat goes between my lips I am ashamed of myself,' he said. He would not consciously shake the hand of a vivi- sector." Robert IngersoU's name was, for some time, on our subscription list. Had he followed his evident convictions on the subject of food, his life of kindness and charity would probably have been much extended. Many lives are sacrificed by not obeying these higher impulses.

DR. WILLIAM E. A. AXON. We congratulate our learned friend Dr. William E. A. Axon, Manchester, Eng- land, on receiving the honorary degree of LL. D., from Wilberforce University, at its recent commencement. Mr. Axon is a member of the Vegetarian Society ot Amer- ica, Vice President of the Vegetarian Soc- iety, Manchester, and literary editor of the Manchester Guardian, Vegetarian Messen- ger, etc.

INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM. The success of the Commonwealth Com- munity now located at Washington, D. C, is owing to the individual freedom enjoyed by the members. The failure of most com- monwealth communities is attributable to the mles affecting personal freedom which soon become irksome when applied to daily life. When the law of love is written on the heart, other laws become unnecessary and with this law there is the truest liberty.

BLOODGUILTINESS. We have received a copy of the New Republic, Washington, D. C, containing a strong protest against war and killing by Caroline A. Blodgett. It also hints that the inhuman practice of detroying life, both animal and human, prevents the fruition of the second advent and that event cannot occtir until Christ's followers shall lay asidR their bloodguiltiness and adopt in practice, aswell as profession, the lawof love.

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MRS. THACKER'S CABIN. Our friend Lindeman says the log cabin where Mrs. Sara Thacker lives is in a canyon 2000 feet below the site of the Esoteric Colony which adjoins her 40 acres, and that the sun seldom shines there until mid-day. Mrs. Thacker has 160 acres nearby, in addition, which together form the 200 acres of her proposed ideal colony. He further says Mrs. Thacker is a good neigh- bor to the colony.