Why over-stimulate the physical, and reflexively degrade the mental and spiritual, by indulgence in tea, coffee, beer, wine, liquors, opium, tobacco, etc.? Over-stimulation will bring on indigestion; and prostration will follow that. Remember that Nature does not carry long credit accounts. A suggestion for the selection and preparation of physical foods is here given; this book being hardly the place for a corresponding list of mental and spiritual foods. FOODS EASY OF DIGESTION. ARTICLES OF FOOD HOW PREPARED TIME OF DIGESTION Venison steak Broiled 1 hour 30 minutes Pig's feet soused Boiled 1 " 00 " Brains Boiled 1 " 45 " Salmon, tripe or trout (fresh) Boiled or fried 1 " 00 " Eggs, fresh Whipped 1 " 30 " Rice Boiled 1 " 00 " Sago or barley Boiled 1 " 45 " Apples, sweet and mellow Raw 1 " 30 " Tomatoes or lettuce Raw 1 " 30 " Melons or watercress Raw 1 " 20 " Peaches, plums or pears Raw or stewed 1 " 30 " Oranges or bananas Raw 1 " 30 " Asparagus or dandelion Boiled 1 " 30 " Onions or apricots Stewed 1 " 30 " Mushrooms Boiled 1 " 30 " Cereal coffee Boiled 1 " 30 " Blackberries 1 " 30 " Grape-nuts 1 " 00 " Lemons 1 " 00 " Watermelons 1 " 00 " Doxsee's clam juice and little neck clams 1 " 00 " Milkine, Horlick's and Mellin's food 1 " 30 " Cereal milk 1 " 00 " Armour & Co.'s Vigoral. 1 " 00 " Valentine's or Wyeth's beef juice or Wiel's beef jelly 1 " 00 " FOODS NOT SO EASY OF DIGESTION. ARTICLES OF FOOD HOW PREPARED TIME OF DIGESTION