persons may feel grieved that they cannot allow themselves to indulge in this luxury any more, but they should have been reasonable in an earlier day, then they would not feel a necessity for complaint. Some writers claim that minced pies are bad, only, when eaten just before retiring. Such a plan with any food, to be made a habit of, is bad. The stomach needs, and must have rest, as well as the body, or it will sooner or later make a complaint, never to be forgotten, She says: " I feel moved to say a word in defense of not only the pie in general, but the pie in particular—the symbolic mince pie, which the people who have abused their stomachs until they have become dyspeptics unite in abusing. The mince pie is a