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Show Laughter and Digestion. (Success Magazine.) That a moral mind is really a basis of good digestion is shown by the remarkable re-markable sensitiveness of the digestive processes to mental conditions. Sudden sorrow, bad news, disaster, great losses of property or friends, great disappointments disappoint-ments or worry not only arrest all the digestive processes, but even suspend the formation of the gastric juices. It has been shown that when the" gastric gas-tric follicles are distended and the gastric gas-tric juices flowing freely from them when one Is hungry and eating with gieat relish, the sudden receipt of bad new? completely reverses the digestive I processes. The gastric glands immediately immedi-ately become parched, dry. feverish and food will remain in the stomach for many hours with the digestive processes pro-cesses absolutely suspended. The digestion seems to be dependent upon the condition of the mind. Often our passing moods hasten or retard digestion. di-gestion. We often hear people, especially delicate deli-cate women who have nervous dyspepsia, dys-pepsia, say they do not understand how-it how-it is that they can go out to late suppers sup-pers and banquets and eat heartily all sorts of incongruous foods without f ; Ing any inconvenience afterward. ' ' They do not realize that it is the change in the mental attltu They have had a good time: they n enjoyed themselves. |