Show Wiry WE COMMENCE DINNER WITH SOUP Tli3 rationaile of the initial soup has often been discussed dis-cussed some regard it as calculated to diminish digestive power on the theory that so much fluid taken at first dilutes the gastric juices But there appears to be no foundation for this belief A clear soup disappears disap-pears almost immediately after entering en-tering the stomach and in no way interferes with the gastric juice which is stored in its appropriate cells ready for action The habit of commencing dinner with soup has without doubt its origin in the fact that aliment in this fluid form in fact ready digested soon enters the blood and rapidly refreshes the hungry hun-gry man who atter a considerable fast and much activity sits down with a sense of exhaustion to commence com-mence his principal meal In two or three minutes after he has taken a plate of good warm soup the feeling of exhaustion disappears and irritability gives way to the gradual rising sense of goodfellow ship with the circle Some persons have the custom of allaying exhaustion exhaus-tion with a glass of sherry before fooda gastronomic no less than a physical blunder injuring the stomach stom-ach and depraving the palate The soup introduces at once into the system a small instalment of ready digested food and saves the short period of time which must be spent by the stomach in deriving some nutriment from solid aliment as well as indirectly strengthening the organ or-gan of digestion itself for its forthcoming forth-coming duties Sir Henry Thompson Thomp-son |