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 College pudding Tapioca and custard Blanc mango & jam Maize and peaches Wheat and jelly STEWED FRUITS Apples Raisins Plums Damson Peaches 3 3 3 3 3 Wheat cake Coffee chocolate Cheddar Gorgonzola Celery 2 2 1 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 Turnips Sprouts Baked potatoes Mashed " PASTRY Damsonpie Apple tart Plum SUNDRIES

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No greater variety can be required for a good selection. The vegetarian restaurants are closed on Sundays and bank holidays. On these days dinners must be taken at home. In dealing with this subject of food, I have simply put down the result of my own experience and that of others. It may interest the reader to know that the meals above enumerated give all the elements necessary to sustain life. It is outside the province of this work to show what they are and in what proportion they are required. That is a separate study. The enquiring reader can test the truth of my statement from The Perfect Way in Diet, Fruits and Farinacea, and such other works. This closes the remarks on the most important subject. There should be no difficulty in carrying out the above plan and, if carried out, it will be found that it is far better even from the point of view of health. For, luxury and over-eating never lead to health. Wise frugality in diet is the surest mode of preserving or attaining health. Says Dr. A. Von During: "Wouldst thou enjoy life, renounce life's enjoyment. "There is an Italian proverb which says: "He who eats more eats less (because he shortens his days by gluttony)." Again Seneca says: "Multos morbos multa fercula fuerunt" --"Many dishes many diseases." Says Professor Meyor, that first Latin professor from whose Why I Am a Vegetarian the above quotations are taken, with regard to students' extravagance:

Many we know who, for their own persons put up with plain fare, blush to set before guests what costs them little. They deem it penurious, shabby, churlish. This prejudice certainly affects students, at least in England, to no small extent. Even thrifty men may save three shillings a day, i.e., a guinea a week, by adopting Spartan self-control. In other words, they may win without contest a scholarship of 50 a year. tenable