ion) to eat salad, or cooked vegetables, and stewed
fruit at the same meal; also, do I do right in eating bread and
butter (preferably crust) or hard biscuits with stewed fruit or
soft vegetables, etc.? Would you please inform me the best Still
that I can obtain--preferably one that does not require much
attention, and is fairly portable, and that does not cost much to
work?

I do not believe that it is right to mix salads or cooked vegetables
with stewed fruits. It is better to take them at separate meals.

It is, in my view, equally bad to take cereals (_i.e._ bread,
biscuits, etc.) with stewed fruits. The reason is that cereals call
for an alkaline form of digestion in the mouth which the acid fruits
or the added sugar greatly retard.

I believe strongly in the all-fruit breakfast or all-fruit supper,
when fresh, dried, or even stewed dried fruits (possibly with some
fresh cream) can be taken alone, without either cereals or vegetables.

Cereals go best with salads and cooked vegetables, because of the
alkalinity of the latter which harmonises with the salivary secretion
intended for the digestion of grains.

The Gem Still is the best to buy. It is well made and does not need
much attention. The large automatic commercial size is, however, the
best if any quantity is needed, as it works throughout the day with
practically no attention when properly adjusted.

DIFFICULTIES IN CHANGING TO NON-FLESH DIET.

F.C.W. writes:--I shall be glad if you will inform me from your
experience whether, after one has broken from the customary meat
diet and adopted a "reform" diet, there is any real difficulty in
reverting to the former state. I have seen it stated that
vegetarian diet did not call into action all the natural powers
of the digestive organs, and, this being so, the tendency was for
them to become weakened so that the food reformer eventually
found himself unable to digest meat. I believe some health
culturists make practice of taking meat twice a week. I have been
about seven or eight weeks on reform diet, and though better in
some ways have to confess to a feeling of deficient energy and
nerve power. I was once told by a doctor that I could not afford
to do without the stimulating effect derived from meat. I
propose making a test of the two methods, but should like to hear
from you in reply to the above query. Another new feat