subjecting themselves. I do not mean only the con- tion, overeating, gluttony, or whatever they might wish ounces of potatoes and a few ounces of vegetables, and conclusions as to the use of fermented beverages does 16 it justify? bread and butter galore, and some pickles, and sweet- of the man who does not feel right and doesn't know preciable amount of poverty and crime is due to the I should like to see a Committee of Fifty send out ment, consisting of a thousand influences. call this wretched being, I mean the chronic "grouch" firmed dyspeptic or hypochondriac, as they used to the alimentary canal to which nearly all people are the glutton, it is the man, and,.of course, his environ- why after eating half a pound of meat and eight to call the protean forms of that constant abuse of But, be the percentage large or small, let us admit, showing the percentage of crime, poverty, insanity, factory hands, the whimsical discharging of faithful Irrational Betting. a few hundred skillful observers to gather statistics etc., that ought to be charged up to dyspepsia, indiges- for the sake of the present argument, that an ap- intemperate use of liquor. What does it prove ? What for two days the ill temper vented on office help or meats, and cheese, altogether enough to sustain a man