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The Truth Tester, Temperance Advocate and Healthian Journal Volume II, London 1848 First article by Charles Lane. In the same issue: The Vegetarian Table – author not given. A rare use of the word ‘vegetarian’ to describe anything other than a person. The text of the article still referred to ‘the vegetable diet’. THE LATE CONFERENCE The various reports of the Conference, both of a private and public character, which have hitherto reached us, have been of the most favourable kind. We had designed giving some extracts from letter received previously, offering suggestions, as well as subsequently, making remarks; but press of matter will not allow us. We therefore must content ourselves at present, with some short extracts from two of our contemporaries. The People’s Journal, in its ‘Annals of Progress,’ after giving an account of the preliminaries, dinner etc., observes :- ‘These various dishes were set out with extreme good taste; and although there were many persons present not convinced of the truth of vegetarian principles, they found no difficulty in giving a practical support to vegetarianism at the dinner-table. The plainness of these viands presented a striking contrast to the Fricadeau de Veau, à la Sauce Tomate, and Les Filets de Soles à la Hollandaise, etc., set out at the Cambridge dinner, upon the installation of Prince Albert.’ A list of the names of abstainers from flesh is then given, several of whom had been faithful for 38 years. ‘The day proving beautifully fine, the afternoon meeting was held on the lawn, - appropriate place for a Vegetarian Conference! – the green grass outspread as a cool carpet underneath, and the overhanging trees, laden with fruit, sheltering the groups assembled from the rays of the sun. It was a sweet picture: the silvery locks of veteran age, and the rosy cheek of blooming youth, were there!’ The People’s Temperance Journal regrets that space prevents it from giving more than the pith of the arguments by which the