butter beans, the most concentrated of all foods, come on the table perhaps once a month, lentils or peas perhaps once a week.  None but those persons who have strong digestive organs should eat pulse foods at all; and then only when they have plenty of physical work to do.  I have known several people who tried vegetarianism who have given up the trial in despair, and, when I inquired closely into the causes, the abuse of pulse food was generally the chief one.

I will now give a list of the composition of the various foods, which may be instructive and useful to those to whom the study of dietetics is new, as well as to vegetarians who may wish to use it for reference.  The list is copied from a little pamphlet by A.W.  Duncan, published by the Vegetarian Society in Manchester.

Butchers’ meat and Fish.

Flesh F.
100 Parts   Albuminoids.  Gristle,    Fat.  Extractives, Mineral  Water. 
Contain                  Ossein, etc.       &c.         Matter.

Mutton Chop 7.6 1.2 42.0 4.1 1.0 44.1
Mutt’n C.Bone —­ 18.7 9.0 —­ 40.1 32.2
Beef 8.0 7.0 30.0 —­ 5.0 50.0
Pork 4.5 5.5 50.0 —­ 1.5 38.5
Fowl 14.0 7.0 —­ —­ 2.5 76.5
Mackerel 13.5 12.5 2.2 3.1 68.7
Herring 10.0 7.0 —­ 2.0 81.0
Bacon 8.1 65.2 3.8 0.6 22.3

Heat-producers
100 Parts  Flesh-   Starch,      Fat.     Mineral Indigestible  Water. 
Contain    formers.  Sugar, &c.            Matter.  Fibre.

GRAINS.

Wheat, White
English 11.0 69.0 1.2 1.7 2.6 14.5
Fine Flour,
from white
soft Wheat 10.5 74.3 0.8 0.7 0.7 13.0
Coarse Bran 15.0 44.0 4.0 6.0 17.0 14.0
Household
Flour, J.B. 16.2 69.0 1.1 0.7 0.5 11.8
Oatm’l, fresh
Scotch 16.1 63.0 10.1 2.1 3.7 5.0
Buckwheat,
husk free 15.2 63.6 3.4 2.3 2.1 13.4
Pearl Barley 6.2 76.0 1.3 1.1 0.8 14.6
Barley Meal 11.7 71.0 1.7 0.5 0.1 15.0
Rye flour 10.5 71.0 1.6 1.6 2.3 13.0
Maize 9.0 64.5 5.0 2.0 5.0 14.5
Rice, cleaned 7.5 76.0 0.5 0.5 0.9 14.6

PULSE.

Peas          22.4     51.3         2.5     3.0     6.5           14.3
Lentils       24.0     49.0         2.6     3.0     6.9           14.5
Haricots      23.0     52.3         2.3     2.9     5.5           14.0

NUTS.