Prominent Vegetarians.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 19, 17 October 1907, Page 10

Prominent Vegetarians.

One would scarcely think (says "M.A.P.") of seoking for a vegetarian on a battleship, but, if ono (lid, the Commander-in-Chief would afford the first surpriso. The descendant of the rollicking Watorfords, perhaps intent on purging .away tho good-living taint of his> ancestry, has cschewed all animal food, and in ; its placo has substituted tho fruit of tho earth. Who shall say ho doos not thrivo on it P Another, stringent vegetarian is tho headmaster of Eton, who has jtono so far as to stato that meat is one of the primary causes <of vico. Tho Hon. and llov. Edward Lyttolton's attitude towards moat is bound to liavo a marked effect upon tho young Etonians by whom ho is. surrounded—a snro indication of some of tho vegetarians of tho futuro. Mr. Lyttolton is a groat cricketor and a firstclass, all-round, open-air man, so his abstemiousness seems to have dono him 110 harm. Among other well-known vegetarians are Mr. and Mrs. Sidnoy Webb, Mr. Gcorgo Bornard Shaw, General Booth, and tho Itov. It. J. Carapboll. Among .thoso who wnvor on tho brink of this now hoalth inovoinont aro Mr. A. J. Balfour, Mr. E. F. Benson, Mrs. Asquith, Lady Gwendolen Ilorbert, Lady Holon Lacy, Lady Isabel Mnrgosson, the Marchionoss of Angleooy, Lord. Ronald Sutherland Gower, Lord Howe, Sir John Durston, Lord and Lady Droghcia, Mr. Keir Hardie,' Mr. Cyril' Maudo, and Mr. William Archer.,