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Conversation at the Table

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 14, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 2.

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Conversation at the Table.

A CHEERFUL temper charms the stomach. Pleasant, social companions will help us to digest what might otherwise prove unmanageable. An Englishman, without observing the laws of exercise or sleep, will digest an enormous dinner and preserve his stomach. It is his two hours of chatting and good fellowship. Let him eat the same quantity in the rapid restaurant fashion, sitting alone, and he would soon be a wretched dyspeptic. The influence of a quiet, social temper upon the stomach is one of the curious facts about digestion.—Sel.