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Hie Rule of "Not Too Much." True Value of Alcoholic Beverages. Moreover, we have here an additional point to ap- preciate the statement of physiologists that while no doubt alcohol is a food, it is an expensive food. This is doubtless true, and if the nutritive value of alcohol were its only, or even its most important claim to recognition as a proper constituent of beverages, we should be obliged to admit that it did not compare with other foods from the point of view of economy. But, as I have insisted in these columns, the nutritive value of alcohol is the least of its claims. Its condimental value, the fact that the beverages into which it enters are relished, that they heighten the enjoyment of the meal, promote the social functions of food, animate the psychical forces which are of dominant importance in the act of eating while lacking in the act of mere feeding these are the considerations which lend to alcoholic beverages their permanent and solid standing, the security of which is being continually fortified as science opens up more the obscure domain of the sus- tenance of the human system and its maintenance in a healthy condition insuring the highest physical and mental efficiency and happiness. The Truth About the Recent Statement of British Physicians Concerning Alcohol. While discussing what is partly connected with the