3 APRIL 1897, Page 15

DR. JOHNSON ON HIS DAILY FOOD.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "Srscrkroa."] SIR,—The sentiment quoted by your correspondent, Mr. Howell, from Ecclesiasticus, in the Spectator of March 27th, was expressed by Dr. Johnson in characteristic, if less decorous, language :—" Some people," said he, "have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously and very carefully; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else." (Boswell's "Johnson," I., p. 449.)—I am, Sir, &c.,