GOOD ADVICE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4739, 2 September 1893, Page 3

GOOD ADVICE.

Take time for pleasant conversation at the table ; it is not only improving to the mind, but a great auxiliary to cheerfulness and to bodily health. Never bring your troubles or anxieties to your meals. Half the nostrums and quack medicines for the cure of dyspepsia, headache and neuralgia, would disappear from the market if this rule were followed. Silence and grumpiness on the one hand, and faultfinding on the other, are bad "aids to digestion and often sources of disease. Those who have read Southey's "Table Talk," and other works of the kind, may realise how greatly agreeable and intellectual conversation can be mads to conduce to physical benefit, and how a ready reply or happy repartee may convert a meal into a " feast of reason," as well as a moral agency for permanent mental and physical improvement. Try it. There •is nothing like acquiring a habit in such matters. And if you do not find a rich return in improved spirits, appetite and general bodily and mental comfort, the whole science and theory of hygiene is a delusion. Mr Pecksniff's belief that in setting his wonderful digestive machinery in motion, he was a benefactor ef society, wa3 not a very had idea after all.