xtail from 10 A.M.--From a Restaurant Menu.

What it was in the early morning it would be indiscreet to inquire.

* * * * *

I learn that a serum for mumps is now being made at the Pasteur
Institute. "A number of monkeys were inoculated with the serum," says
_The Times_ (30th July), "and a mild form of the disease was
produced." It is an age of scientific progress, so we may expect news
shortly of sera for toothache, hiccough, and the hump. It will not be
necessary to inoculate camels for the last.

* * * * *

You will say--with Mr Arnold Bennett, the distinguished
playwright and novelist--"the tonic effect of ********* on me is
simply _wonderful_."--From an advt. in _Punch_.

You may join in the chorus if you like, but you mustn't all expect to
be simply _wonderful_ playwrights and testimonialists.

* * * * *

A STRANGE SHAMPOO.... "I make my chemist get the stallax for me,"
said she. "It comes only in sealed packages, enough to make up
twenty-five or thirty individual shampoos, and it smells so good
I could almost eat it."--_Secrets of Beauty_ column in _The Daily
Sketch_.

Which only shows how careful one has to be.

* * * * *

In the days to come every army will fight on bloodless
food.--_Herald of the Golden Age_.

When every army fights on bloodless food, we may be just as far from
the Golden Age as we are now.

* * * * *

I am told that an obscure practitioner who sent up an account of some
interesting discoveries, addressed to

MEDICAL CONGRESS,
DIETETICS SECTION,
LONDON.

has had his communication returned by the Post Office, marked _Not
Known_.

* * * * *

There is no truth, it is said, in the rumour that a secret meeting was
held during the Congress to discuss the proposed raising of the rate
of commission payable by surgeons to physicians.

PETER PIPER.

HEALTHY LIFE RECIPES.

SOME "EMPROTE" RECIPES.

Exaggeration is popularly regarded as one of the vices of food
reformers; but it is certainly no exaggeration whatever to say that Mr
Eustace Miles and the restaurant associated with his name have had a
large share in bringing about the more sympathetic attitude towards
"food reform" noticeable on all sides to-day.

Mr Miles is no