IT IS believed that we absorb impurities more readily from animal than from vegetable food, even when the meat eaten is in its best condition, and certainly no one doubts the unwholesomeness of the diseased and chemically embalmed meats that are now put upon the market. Q Athletes who train on a vegetarian diet (and their number is increasing) are notably successful in contests demanding strength and endurance. Q Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale, has completed tests by which he finds that a vegetable diet is more con- ducive to endurance than a diet including flesh food. Q Fortynine persons were examined, among whom were students, physicians, nurses and college instructors. Q Professor Fisher says: "The result indicates that non'flesh eaters have far greater endurance than those accustomed to the ordinary American diet." Q Vegetarians of some years' standing are seldom, if ever, found among patients who are troubled with blood diseases. (J Students of the subject find that, as a class, great meat eaters are more antagonistic, irritable and nervous than nonTneat eaters, and are more given to using stimulants. 11 12 We mast eat to live, not live to eat. -Folding. (J In the minds of many people the debasing effect upon the thousands of men engaged in the business of slaughtering animals for food forms one of the strongest reasons for seeking to eliminate flesh food from their diet (J The too free use of dead flesh as a diet clouds the mind and dulls the spiritual perceptions, brutalizing the finer sensibilities of the soul, while stimulating the animal propensities. <J Fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables form the purest and most ideally perfect foods for man. The very thought of the sunshine they have stored up in their growth is a stimulus to their digestion, and these pro' ducts of the earth contain all the elements that go to make up blood, bone, muscle and nerves in a form at once agreeable and easily digested by the human stomach Q[ The question of expense is one to be considered also. It has been demonstrated by one of our leading food experts that ten cents' worth of peanuts contain more than twice the protein and six times the amount of energy that is to be found in a porterhouse steak. Value for value, then, it will be seen that a well selected vegetable diet is not only far cheaper than meat but contains more of the available elements needed to supply the human machine in order that it may perform its work with the least possible amount of waste. 13 14 Let us often have as dinner guests, "Mirth that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides." "FORTY CHEWS TO A MOUTHFUL"

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IT IS believed that we absorb impurities more readily from animal than from vegetable food, even when the meat eaten is in its best condition, and certainly no one doubts the unwholesomeness of the diseased and chemically embalmed meats that are now put upon the market. Q Athletes who train on a vegetarian diet (and their number is increasing) are notably successful in contests demanding strength and endurance. Q Professor Irving Fisher, of Yale, has completed tests by which he finds that a vegetable diet is more conducive to endurance than a diet including flesh food. Q Fortynine persons were examined, among whom were students, physicians, nurses and college instructors. Q Professor Fisher says: "The result indicates that non'flesh eaters have far greater endurance than those accustomed to the ordinary American diet." Q Vegetarians of some years' standing are seldom, if ever, found among patients who are troubled with blood diseases. (J Students of the subject find that, as a class, great meat eaters are more antagonistic, irritable and nervous than non-meat eaters, and are more given to using stimulants. We mast eat to live, not live to eat. -Folding. (J In the minds of many people the debasing effect upon the thousands of men engaged in the business of slaughtering animals for food forms one of the strongest reasons for seeking to eliminate flesh food from their diet (J The too free use of dead flesh as a diet clouds the mind and dulls the spiritual perceptions, brutalizing the finer sensibilities of the soul, while stimulating the animal propensities. <J Fruits, grains, nuts and vegetables form the purest and most ideally perfect foods for man. The very thought of the sunshine they have stored up in their growth is a stimulus to their digestion, and these pro' ducts of the earth contain all the elements that go to make up blood, bone, muscle and nerves in a form at once agreeable and easily digested by the human stomach Q[ The question of expense is one to be considered also. It has been demonstrated by one of our leading food experts that ten cents' worth of peanuts contain more than twice the protein and six times the amount of energy that is to be found in a porterhouse steak. Value for value, then, it will be seen that a well selected vegetable diet is not only far cheaper than meat but contains more of the available elements needed to supply the human machine in order that it may perform its work with the least possible amount of waste. Let us often have as dinner guests, "Mirth that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides." "FORTY CHEWS TO A MOUTHFUL"

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