1.0HappyCowhttps://www.happycow.net/blogJohn Edmundsonhttps://www.happycow.net/blog/author/johnnysensible/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="3PHl7cdp3R"><a href="https://www.happycow.net/blog/joys-of-the-simple-life/">‘Joys Of The Simple Life’ – By Dugald Semple – Now 100 Years Old</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.happycow.net/blog/joys-of-the-simple-life/embed/#?secret=3PHl7cdp3R" width="600" height="338" title="“‘Joys Of The Simple Life’ – By Dugald Semple – Now 100 Years Old” — HappyCow" data-secret="3PHl7cdp3R" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); /* ]]> */ </script> https://www.happycow.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Joys-mini.jpg639226Ernest Bell Library items – ‘Joys Of The Simple Life’ by Dugald Semple. Published by Ernest Bell in 1915. Happy 100th Birthday to ‘Joys Of The Simple Life’  1915 – 2015 Dugald Semple (1884 – 1964) was a co-founder of ‘The Vegan Society’ with Dorothy & Donald Watson in 1944. Donald Watson wrote about Dugald in the first ever issue of The Vegan News – “Our friend and fellow member Dugald Semple tells us he has never tasted cheese, therefore it cannot be considered as an essential ‘binding agent’ for body and soul! “ – The Vegan News No.1 November 1944 – links below. A 1916 press note about Dugald & mentioning the book “Joys of the Simple Life” – from the –  London Standard, Tuesday, February 8, 1916 Mr. Dugald Semple, the Scottish Thoreau, who has been living in a caravan at Bridge of Weir for about nine years, has accepted a position as secretary of the London Vegetarian Society, and in the meantime, will turn his back on “the simple life” in Scotland. His career was sketched in The Standard of September, 15, 1910, in an article “The Simple Life.” Thoreau’s “Walden” and other similar books started him in his battle for freedom to […]