what in the same direction as my remarks. One pap says: Bad cooking was held responsible for much of the drunk- enness in the country, and wives were urged to attend cook- ing schools in order to avoid driving their husbands to drink by their culinary experiments, in an address by Dr. J. J. McLaughlin, of Chicago, before the annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of Illinois. "I believe that bad cooking brings to men the desire for alcohol and other stimulants when otherwise they would not feel the craving for them," said Dr. McLaughlin. 'Many a man has been driven to drink by the doughy bread and soggy backwheat cakes set before him daily by his better half.' Recently a movement has been started to establish popular cooking schools. Let us further the movement by getting the women interested, for it is certain they will be popular with the men. Many a crime has been committed by the victim of cold coffee and burned beefsteak." This is from the Chicago Record-Herald: "No girl should marry a man with the quick lunch habit, for their life is sure to be unhappy. "The barbarism of a South Sea islander can't be com- pared with the hurry-up idea some people have in restau- rants." Secretary E. R. Pritchard of the city health department thus observed yesterday, and reached his conclusions by this system of deduction :