A gentleman, in the San Francisco Examiner, tells us how greatly he was benefited by giving up sugar. It is doubtless true, as he says, that too much sugar is eaten, that an unnatural appetite is formed for it. But the writer’s improvement was doubtless due to another cause, and he seems to half suspect this after all. He was a tobacco-user and coffee-drinker. In giving up his sugar he gave up also coffee and tobacco. He says: “Giving up coffee was the hardest trial, and, as coffee without sugar had no charms for me, it amounted to giving it up when I stopped using sugar in it. It is possibly for this reason that sugar does much of its harm.” But the harm is largely in the coffee rather than the sugar. And in his closing he urges us: “Stop eating sugar a few months. And mind you do not smoke.” After all, his article may have been a shrewd way of attacking coffee and tobacco. They are a hundred-fold worse than sugar.