like. That is true only to a certain extent, for the tendency
to cauliflower contraction is there in the back of our brains
influencing our stomachs all the time, until we have actually used our
wills consciously to drop it.

Edwin Booth used to be troubled very much with indigestion; he suffered
keenly from it. One day he went to dine with some intimate friends, and
before the dinner began his hostess said with a very smiling face:
"Now, Mr. Booth, I have been especially careful with this dinner not to
have one thing that you cannot digest."

The host echoed her with a hearty "Yes, Mr. Booth, everything that will
come to the table is good for your digestion."

The words made a very happy impression on Mr. Booth. First there was
the kind, sympathetic friendliness of his hosts; and then the strong
suggestion they had given him that their food would agree with him.
Then there was very happy and interesting talk during the whole time
that they were at table and afterward. Mr.. Booth ate a hearty dinner
and, true to the words of his host and hostess, not one single thing
disagreed with him. And yet at that dinner, although care had been
taken to have it wholesome, there were served things that under other
conditions would have disagreed.

While we should aim always to eat wholesome food, it is really not so
much the food which makes the trouble as the attitude we take toward it
and the way we test it.

All the contractions which are made by our fussing about food interfere
with our circulation; the interference with our circulation makes us
liable to take cold, and it is safe to say that more than half the
colds that women have are caused principally by wrong eating. Somewhat
akin to grandmother's looking for her spectacles when all the time they
are pushed to the top of her head is the way women fuss about their
eating and then wonder why it is that they cannot seem to stand drafts.

There is no doubt but that our food should be thoroughly masticated
before it goes into our stomachs. There is no doubt but that the first
process of digestion should be in our mouths. The relish which we get
for our food by masticating it properly is greater and also helps
toward digesting it truly. All this cannot be over-emphasized if it is
taken in the right way. But there is an extreme which perhaps has not
been thought of and for which happily I have an example that will
illustrate what I want to prove. I know a woman who was, so t