Mastication, Reading, and Hope
THE design of the Creator is that we should prepare our food for the stomach by grinding it to a paste, and saturating it with the juices of the mouth; and, as digestion is the pivotal function of the animal economy, and the only direct contribution we can make to it is in the mouth, it follows that the importance of thorough mastication can hardly be exaggerated.—Dio Lewis. RESOLVE to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.—Horace Mann. HOPE never affords more joy than in affliction. It is on a watery cloud that the sun paints those beautiful colors in the rainbow.—Gurnall.