ATDTDA (12): A visitor from quite far away, 337-343 #1

[bekah]

Vegetarianism  ca 1900-1910 (?):

Remember Dr.  John Harvey Kellogg of "The Road to Wellville"?   In 
real life Kellogg was  a huge proponent of vegetarianism and 
developed his Battle Creek Sanitorium along 7th Day Adventists lines. 
The book takes place between 1907 - 08.

Kellogg joined the Sanitarium in 1875 and changed its name.  He 
promoted it and his ideas vigorously.     His work was widely known 
and he had a very large  following.

  "By 1901, there were seven hundred guests at the famous and 
influential Battle Creek Sanitarium. Five years later, there were 
7,000 patients, who were cared for by almost as many staff, including 
30 physicians. Kellogg introduced such health programs as morning 
calisthenics and open-air sleeping arrangements."

  "The San(itarium) continued to prosper until a 1902 fire consumed 
the entire main building, Only 15 months later the new fireproof San 
was dedicated, ready to receive several thousand guests a year. A 
staff of 800 to 1,000 °© including 30 physicians and 200 nurses and 
bath attendants °© stood ready to serve their patients' needs"

"By 1928, further expansion was necessary and a fifteen-story 
addition was built, incorporating the latest in fashion and luxury to 
accommodate the hundreds of patients waiting to take the cure in 
Battle Creek. Unfortunately, the stock market crashed the next year 
and the rich patrons who had patronized the San no longer could 
afford to come."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wellville

http://www.ivu.org/history/adventists/kellogg.html


There are references to vegetarianism at the world's fair.  Just a sec...

Bekah


At 8:07 AM +0100 7/7/07, Paul Nightingale wrote:
>On the vegetarian restaurant, cf. Reef to Frank when they arrive in
>Nochecita: "You might like it, Francisco, why there's a church, a
>schoolhouse, any number of those back-east vegetarian restaurants." (200)
>However, we never actually get to see a vegetarian restaurant in Nochecita.
>For whatever reason, Reef connects church and schoolhouse, signifiers of the
>small town community, and tradition, to restaurants that are used here to
>signify a kind of modernity; and in the current section that connection is
>made also.
>
>
>Cf. the image of the slaughterhouse, which pre-empts everything when the
>novel first arrives, in the company of the Chums, in Chicago: from ". the
>smell and the uproar of flesh learning its mortality" down to ". the
>killing-floor" (10), an exemplar of capitalist rationalisation.
>Subsequently, Professor Vanderjuice refers to the stockyards as "where the
>Trail comes to its end at last, along with the American Cowboy who used to
>live on it and by it" (53).
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