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FEBRUARY AS AN AID TO DIGESTION. There are little aids to comfort, little aids to digestion, and little aids to general health. There is, for instance, the luxury of music at the dining table. The custom of having music during meals has pre- vailed from time almost immemorial. In the dining hall or the Highland laird the piper still plays, and his wild music is deemed as essential as the wine or dessert. People enjoy music better at their meals than at any other time. Why ? Because it then has a more soothing effect. Not only does it serve to fill in the little breaks of conversation, but it has a powerful effect upon digestion. The stomach furnishes the nourishment for the brain, and if the latter draws too severely or too constantly upon the resources of the latter (especially when, at meal times, it is busy grinding up and preparing that nourishment), the result will be alike disastrous to both organs. Music helps both the stomach and the brain. We cannot all afford to have hired musicians, playing on expensi ve instruments, to cheer us at our meals. A daily orchestra is above the means of the average man. A harp or a violin will not go of itself. . The popular demand for music at a reasonable cost has had much to do with the perfecting of such automatic instruments as the Phono- graph, and the better styles of music-boxes, which, being well within the reach of persons with a moderate income, are fast supplying a much-needed want. Music at meals is fast becoming a general custom. It makes us better in every way.—From Culinary Topics.