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Rh into the body thereby only that which is good for the body.

"If a bloated, pimpled, bilious tramp, sorely afflicted with two or three internal and intestinal diseases which have been declared to be chronic, can be brought to normal weight, purified in complexion, cured of a craving for drink, and put in possession of natural manhood and an energy for work, without use of medicines, but only with attention to mastication, and all within three months, what may not be the possibilities involved."—Horace Fletcher.

Hygienists and physicians everywhere commend the mixing of conversation, and of other social diversions with the pleasures of table. If eating and masticating, as suggested here, there is no need for such diversion. In fact, conversation is liable to seriously interfere with the proper mastication of the food, and distract the attention from the pleasures of eating, which should be all absorbing for the time being. Of course, I will admit that the entertainment afferded by pleasant and