- "Two-thirds of all the patients that come to my office come because they drink tea and coffee. When I can get them to give up tea and coffee, they can get well."-Dr. Foote. Omaha.

- Tea and coffee hinder the digestion of all the food elements, both nitrogenous and carbonaceous. They cause extreme nervousness and irritability.

- "To a certain extent, tea produces intoxication."

- "The second effect of tea drinking is headache, wakefulness, palpitation of the heart, indigestion, trembling of the nerves and many other evils."

- "The influence of coffee is in a degree the same as that of tea, but the effect upon the system is still worse.'

- Theobromine, the essential element of cocoa and chocolate, is identical with the thein and caffeine of tea and coffee.

- "Some of the best authorities claim that the quantity of theobromine in chocolate is greater than that of theine or caffeine in tea or coffee, and also that in equal quantities, theobromine is a stronger drug than caffeine or theine."-Dr. George.

- A. B. Prescott, Ph. D., M. D., for many years Dean of the chemical department of the University of Michigan, says in his "Organic Analysis," published by D. Van Nostrand Co., New York City in 1892, pp. 77 and 513: "Coffee contains 1 per cent. of caffeine.' "Dry cacao seeds contain 1.5 per cent. of theobromine.' "The physiological effects of theobromine are like caffeine but are obtained by smaller doses."

- The increasing use of chocolate and cocoa in and with everything is alarming, and we feel that we must raise our voices in warning against this "habit," since many are innocent in regard to its nature.

- "The use of unnatural stimulants is destructive to health and has a benumbing influence upon the brain, making it impossible to appreciate eternal things."

- As our bodies are made up so largely of water it is necessary to take a sufficient amount to keep the tissues bathed and built up, but it should not be taken with our meals, for solid foods cannot be digested until the liquids have been absorbed, and when retained in the stomach too long food ferments, making an inebriate of the water drinker.

- Fluids also dilute the digestive juices so that they lose their power to act. Do not drink for a half hour or more before meals, or within 1 to 3 hours after-persons with slow digestion or subject to acidity, 3 hours.

- If very cold or hot drinks are taken, the temperature at which digestion is carried on is affected, causing another delay.

- As a rule, the body gets the greatest benefit from water taken early in the morning.

- Pastor Kneipp recommended the use of small quantities of water (1 teaspoonful), often. If one is situated so as to be able to take a few swallows frequently, it is better than to deluge the stomach three or four times a day; as a steady, gentle rain is more beneficial than a torrent.

- Hot water, at one time the great panacea, is responsible for many cases of serious indigestion by causing the muscles of the stomach to relax and become weak. A cup of hot water occasionally, when one feels that he has taken a little cold, will help to ward off the cold but it should not be often repeated.

- The advice of one doctor of great sense and considerable reputation was "Drink cold water when thirsty."

- Pure Distilled Water is unquestionably the best drink. Mineral Waters sometimes have a beneficial effect when used for a short time, but that is lost by their continued use and after a few weeks the individual begins to suffer with serious stomach and kidney difficulties.

- "Very Hard Water is not only unpleasant to the skin and difficult to make into a lather, but, what is more important still, it exerts a more or less harmful influence upon the digestive system. Constipation is not infrequently the direct result of the constant use of hard water. Wherever possible apparatus should be used for the purpose of distilling hard water. If this is impracticable, boiling the water will materially reduce the hardness. The flatness of boiled water is easily and quickly remedied by aerating it. Pouring water back and forth from one glass to another will speedily restore its oxygen."-English Good Health.

- The liberal use of Fresh Juicy Fruits helps out in the amount of fluids. I have known a few people who ate no meat and almost no vegetables, but did use juicy acid fruits in abundance, who never felt the pangs of thirst, and they were in exceptionally good health, with great powers of endurance.

- The change of water in travelling affects many people unfavorably and often it is difficult to obtain pure water. The substitution of juicy fruits at such times banishes the difficulties.

- "Food should not be washed down. No drink is needed with the meals. Eat slowly and allow the saliva to mingle with the food. Hot drinks are debilitating. Do not eat largely of salt; give up bottled pickles ; keep fiery spiced food out of your stomach ; eat fruit with your meals, and the irritation which calls for so much drink will cease to exist. But if anything is needed to quench thirst, pure water drunk some little time before or after a meal is all that nature requires."