In response to your invitation I am sending you my experience with
    vegetarian dietary.  Although, as you will see, this has not been
    altogether “unfired,” I think it should be of interest to many.

(1) I became a vegetarian at the time of my marriage, nearly three years ago, my husband being already a vegetarian of eleven years.  I considered this a good opportunity to commence.  Previous to this I had for some time suffered from indigestion, which continued for a few months after marriage.  I attribute the cure to the change of diet, and drinking hot water after meals.

    (2) We have one child eighteen months old, totally breast fed for
    twelve months, and another four months:  on breast and Ixion Food
    and some fruit juice.

    She has never had any disease whatever, and so far her teeth are
    perfect and she has cut them quite easily.  She is a bonny, sturdy
    little girl, and very intelligent.

(3) With regard to childbirth, I previously followed the advice of Dr Alice Stockholme in “Tokology,” avoiding flesh meats and bone-making food and adopting a diet of fruit (chiefly lemons) and rice, brown bread and nut butter, wearing no corsets and taking frequent baths.  The effect during pregnancy was highly satisfactory.  I enjoyed perfect health the whole time, free from the usual discomforts, and at childbirth I received similar results:  a speedy and safe delivery.  Indeed, since marriage, my husband, baby and myself, have been singularly free from even minor complaints.

    (4) As we do not have the specially prepared, expensive vegetarian
    foods (supposed to substitute meat), but mainly the simple foods, I
    consider the diet less costly than the meat diet.

    (5) We are honestly quite free from the craving for meat or meat
    foods.

(6) In the summer-time we live principally on salads, cheese, rissoles, etc., made from beans, peas, lentils, etc., fresh fruits, brown bread and nut butter.  In the very cold weather we seem to need rather warmer stuffs, such as porridge (carefully cooked) and cooked vegetables, etc.

    D. GODMAN.

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    BRIGHTON.

I have read with the greatest interest the correspondence in The Healthy Life on the unfired diet.  As the majority of your correspondents have not been living exclusively on unfired food, or have only done so for short periods, may I suggest that some of your correspondents or contributors live on an entirely unfired diet, excluding dairy produce, for a period of six or twelve months and then relate their experiences.  In this way some valuable evidence would be obtained.  At any rate I am prepared to do this myself.

With reference to living on the unfired