article, the subject of which was the fact that at the I have not read of any sermon being preached on Club of Chicago two of the guests were seized with fessor Henry W. Farnam, of Yale University, said Washington's birthday banquet of the Union League to get out of it by blaming it on "liquor." eating so as to bring on a state of health that would critical condition, and this happened before they had had much to eat. lead to collapse at such a time. Had a man collapsed The Rule of "Not Too Much/' habitually abused himself by over-eating and irrational in a barroom, there would have been eloquent tirades February issue of the American Brewers' Review, Pro- apoplectic symptoms, one remaining for a while in a 31 No, gentlemen, it is not liquor. It is just plain foolish eating. perance," viz., the "Psychic Influence of Food and "Death's Head at the Feast." Under this ghastly In his very gracious letter which I printed in the zealots may yet discover the liquor dealer on whom to lay the burden. No doubt, both men would be glad headline the Chicago Chronicle printed an editorial that the subjects of my first "Talks on Beer and Tem- against the use of alcoholic drink. And, possibly, the this subject, or anyone being rebuked for having