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MAECH 



Confessions about diet Cures for rheumatism Effects of tea- drink- 

 ing Sparing animal life a bad reason for vegetarianism The 

 Berlin foot-race Mrs. Crow in Edinburgh Bagehot on luxury 

 A word about babies German and English nurseries Sir 

 Richard Thome Thorne on raw milk The New Education 

 Difficulty of understanding young children Gardening 

 Cooking. 



I FEEL at last the moment has come when I must make 

 a confession. I am a non-meat-eater ! I know that this 

 will probably entail the loss of the good opinion of my 

 readers, and I should never have dreamt of bringing 

 forward so personal a matter, had I not felt compelled 

 to do so in consequence of the numbers of letters I 

 have received in which the writers deplore their loss 

 of health, their gout and rheumatism, and the general 

 ailments that prevent their going into the garden, etc. 

 This strikes me as unnatural and wrong. There is no 

 reason at all, unless there be actual disease, that sickness 

 should as a matter of course accompany old age any 

 more than any other period of life. 



This chapter is not intended for the young or the 

 healthy or the really sick, but for those chronic sufferers 

 who are constantly appealing to the medical profession 

 for ' something ' that will cure their aches and pains, 

 their sleepless nights, their stiff joints, and their 

 neuralgias, and who put all their faith in drugs which, 

 even when they seem to do good, turn out to be 

 palliatives, not cures that is, in the case of constitu- 



