ally stimulating influence, if thoroughly chewed and ful aids of digestion. If, then, a glass of beer or wine to induce moderate eating. But such food as is taken This is quite aside from the nutriment supplied by mixed with saliva which is an essential condition in The Rule of "Not Too Much/' not take up anything in moderation. Temperance is their physical condition, under these premises, are the beer, and the direct stimulating effect of the alcohol on the digestive apparatus. of equal digestibility. Their chemical composition and 13 all food and without which it should never be swal- lowed will so satisfy both appetite and hunger as should appeal to the eye, the touch, the smell, and I am not advocating gluttony. Quite the contrary. The anti-alcoholists will now charge me with en- serves to heighten the pleasure of eating, it thereby the taste, in order to produce the most beneficial re- sults upon the system. All the ordinary foods, proper- the virtue farthest removed from them. tion. food itself on the palate and tongue are most power- performs a highly important function in aid of diges- Savory food, not seasoned so as to exert an abnorm- couraging gluttony. That is their way. They can- ly prepared, masticated and insalivated, are practically