The best macaroni is made from the red wheat grown along the Mediterranean Sea, a hot summer and warm climate producing a grain, rich, as already mentioned, in nitrogen, and with a smaller proportion of water than farther north.

The intense though short summer of our own far North-west seems to bring somewhat the same result, but the outer husk is harder.

This husk was for years considered a necessity in all really nutritious bread; and a generation of vegetarians taking their name from Dr.Graham, and known as Grahamites, conceived the idea of living upon the wheaten flour in which husk and kernel were ground together.

Now, to stomachs and livers brought to great grief by persistent pie and doughnuts and some other New-England wickednesses, these husks did a certain office of stimulation, stirring up jaded digestions, and really seeming to arrest or modify long-standing dyspepsia.

But they did not know what we do, that this outer husk is a layer of pure silica, one of the hardest of known minerals.