Some Celebrated Vegetarians.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XIV, Issue 2490, 9 March 1896, Page 3

Some Celebrated Vegetarians.

"The future is with the vegetarians," rcid Yirchow. Germany's greatest medical rcientist, some time sneo, when interviewed upon the subject. "What will people eat in the future '?" It is interenting to note how many of the most distinguished people belong to the class of non-meat-eaters. Vegetarianism is well represented among people who wield the pen. Count Le Tolstoi, the strange man who, amidst the dreary wilds of Eussia, produces books read the world over, declares that for years flesh has not polluted his lips. Ouida, the novelist, finds a fruit diet essential to successful fiction-writ-ing, and the broad-minded reasoning of Mrs Mona Caird nourishes on the same sustenance, as does the scholarship of Professor Mayor, who amazes Cambridge by showing how much learning can subsist upon lunches of no more substantial food than a piece of bread and an apple. The Professor is an enthusiastic vegetarian, and declares that higher thinking has no greater enemy than fie-h eating.

That vegetarianism is, indeed, not | inimical to acute thinking, Edison, the inventor, is an example The food which enters the laboratory in which the great inventpr immures himself for days and weeks at the time almost suggests by it 3 scarcity and simplicity that the inventor has discovered some mode of obtaining nutrition from the atmosphere. Frnit, bread, and milk he declares to be the material upon which he thinks best. Sir James—afterwrads LordHannen attributed the retention of his extraordinary powers of work, in spite of age and study, which might have ruined the constitution " of three men," as a brother judge put it, to his never allowing a particle of flesh food to pass his lips. " I owe much" to vegetarism," once declared that popular weilder of the brush, Hubert Herkomcr. Herkomer's father was a vegetarian of the strictest kind, as is Mr Bruce Joy, one of our most famous sculptors, the producer of the celebrated Bright statue which Liverpool boasts ajnorg its art treasures.

One of our hardest workers in our islands i« Sir Isa-" Pitman, the man to whom the world owes the perfeclion of phonography. He works ten hours a day on a vegetenan diet.