HABITUALLY eating soft foods, even soft bread, to the exclusion of everything that is hard or crusty, is not only weakening to the digestive organs, but it leads to the rapid decay of the teeth. When they are not used in the mastication of harder foods, the teeth become covered with tartar, and sometimes loosened in their sockets, or the gums bleed. The use of hard bread and other substances requiring thorough mastication will do more to preserve the teeth than all other things put together. It will also tend to keep them clean; and by insuring good digestion it will help to make the breath fresh and pure. Those who suffer from indigestion seem instinctively to reject the softer, sloppy foods, as they are apt to make disturbance almost as soon as swallowed.—Selected.