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Rh perfectly logical, for it to drift to the corner saloon.

Overeating permanently distends the walls of the stomach, and lessens their muscular vigor. It often actually strains these muscles permanently, and the churning process so necessary to perfect digestion, which the muscles involuntarily perform, cannot be properly accomplished. They become weakened just as would a muscle in the arm if unduly strained, or overworked. Their efficacy lessens under these circumstances to a similar degree. It would be well for every reader to remember that the entire digestive process is brought about largely by involuntary muscular action, and when the muscles are unnaturally strained as they are where the stomach is habitually overloaded, all the muscles are weakened and their functions greatly impaired, and in the end destroyed.

"There are two ways of putting a limit to a meal—to eating. One—the wrong one—comes in the shape of a protest on the part of a too full stomach while the appetite is yet