4. Less Expensive. Possibly my favorite benefit of eating a clean, vegan diet is that itâs less expensive than buying processed vegan foods. You can buy a whole pound of sweet potatoes and lentils for less than what you can buy a bag of frozen sweet potato fries or a box of veggie burgers.
In 1881, Dix moved into the New Jersey State Hospital, Morris Plains. The state legislature had designated a suite for her private use as long as she lived. Although an invalid, she carried on correspondence with people from England, Japan, and elsewhere. Dix died on July 17, 1887.
Dorothea Dix. A voice for the mad, Dorothea Dix did more than anyone else of her generation to improve the lives of mentally ill people in America. Dorothea Lynde was born to a circuit-riding Methodist preacher, Joseph Dix, and his wife Mary Bigelow Dix, on the Maine frontier.* She left at the age of 12 to live with her grandmother in Worcester, Massachusetts. Dix was merely 14 when she founded a school for little children.