When cauliflower has been passed to us and we contract against it how can we expect our stomachs to recover from that contraction in time to digest perfectly the next vegetable which is passed and which we may like very much?
It may be said that we expand to the vegetable we like, and that immediately counteracts the former contraction to the vegetable which we do not like.

That is true only to a certain extent, for the tendency to cauliflower contraction is there in the back of our brains influencing our stomachs all the time, until we have actually used our wills consciously to drop it.
Edwin Booth used to be troubled very much with indigestion; he suffered keenly from it.

One day he went to dine with some intimate friends, and before the dinner began his hostess said with a very smiling face: "Now, Mr.Booth, I have been especially careful with this dinner not to have one thing that you cannot digest." The host echoed her with a hearty "Yes, Mr.Booth, everything that will come to the table is good for your digestion." The words made a very happy impression on Mr.Booth.First there was the kind, sympathetic friendliness of his hosts; and then the strong suggestion they had given him that their food would agree with him.
Then there was very happy and interesting talk during the whole time that they were at table and afterward.

Mr..

Booth ate a hearty dinner and, true to the words of his host and hostess, not one single thing disagreed with him.