Important To Workers

Dr. K. Al. Hunt, of Metuchen, N. J., in a paper rcad beforo the Sanitary Association, thus genoralizes the faets of digestión : - "Food should pass into the stoinach in a finely divided state. The rapidity with whieh digestión is performed, dependa upon various cireumstances. Strong emotion, as anger or grief, will retard it ; moderate gxercise hastens it, and thus the state both of body and inind influences it. A usual meal ib gonerally digested in a healthy person in from three to five hours. A mixture of food is not especially objectionable, except as by variety it encourugns the appetite, and often leads us to consume more than is needful. Anima] food is digested more quickly than vegetable, and solid food more speedily than soups. Oily food is more quickly appropriated by the system than muscular fibre, when agreeingjwithstomach. Uncooked oil is more digestible than cooked. Cream and butter are the purest of oils. Boiled meats aro the most digestible, roasted next, broiled and fried tho least so. Bulk is necessary to digestión. The people ol cold climates, who live much on fat meats mix crude matters - sometimes even sawdust - with them, and thus find them more readily digested. Milk is among the most nutritious and digestible of foods It is considered coustipating, but the chief rcason is that it is almost entirely taken up by the system, and no residue left. With tho same exertion, we need richer food in cold weather thau in warm. Never eat between meals, unless extra exertion or exposure require it, and then select hearty and quickly digestible food. As a rule, ripe fruits or vegetables are more digestiblo than green, and green fruit stewed moro digestible than whon eaten in the raw state. Smoked meats are less digestiblo than fresh ; and oí sinoked or salted meats the inner portion is more easily digested than the outer part. Tbc inner part is preserved as much by tho saltpetre and the exclusión of the air, as by the salting and smoking process, and is in a state more allied to preserved fresh raeat. Dried fruits, as prunos raisins, apples, etc, are unfit to eat unless well cooked, and all unbroken seods are indigestible. Alcoholic stimuli, orcondiments of any kind, are not necessary in healthy conditions of tho stomach."