THE DOUGHTY VEGETABLE

Mr. Bernard Shaw, the champion of vegetarians, has recently made his gastronomic faith the topic of a campaign speech. The road away from revolution, says he, is through meat. Meat is a soporific, vegetables put fire in the eye. As examples he cites the bull rhinoceros, the elephant, and the human vegetarian philanthropist. The most effective example, however, is Mr. Shaw himself. On a garden diet he turns out more invective than any other man in England.

Taken by themselves, vegetables are harmless enough, except when they are heaved by irate partisans at political meetings. The deadly orange speeding on its fell course in a theater would never have been thrown if the hand and brain that impelled it had not been maddened by a diet of turnips and cabbage.

If Mr. Shaw is correct in his supposition and cetainly he proves it by his own example--Mr. Coolidge exists on a diet composed solely of beef steaks, what time his running mate is making burnt offering on the altar of Ceres.