dence columns (1) what
are the "fruit oils" recommended therein and (2) how they are to
be taken. (3) Is olive oil good to take? (4) Is it good for
children? If so how is it to be administered? (5) What nuts are
richest in phosphorus? I enclose my card, and remain, yours
truly,

W.W.

(1) Any olive oil that bears a thorough guarantee of purity (such as
"Minerva" Olive Oil, "Creme d'Or" Olive Oil, etc.); also any pure nut
oil (such as supplied by Mapleton's or The London Nut Food Co.); also
the pure blended oil sold as "Protoid Fruit Oil." Our advertisement
pages should be studied for further details.

(2) Suggestions were given on pp. xxxiii and xxxv of the November
number.

(3) Yes, excellent.

(4) Yes, they usually take it more readily than adults, for the
latters' palates are generally spoilt. For its use see _Right Diet for
Children_, by Edgar J. Saxon, 1s. net.

(5) Almonds and walnuts. If the nuts are found difficult to digest try
them in a finely prepared form, as in Mapleton's Almond Cream, "P.R."
Walnut Butter, or "Protoid" Almond Butter.--[EDS.]

PICKLED PEPPERCORNS.

Lady Cheylesmore was wearing a magnificent cock pheasant's plume.
The eagle eye of the customs official caught sight of it and
handed her a pair of scissors to help her detach it.--_Daily
News._

Now we know what a really well-trained eagle eye can do.

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Perhaps the only remnant of the awful sameness characteristic of
the typically English kitchen is the bacon and egg breakfast to
which the average Briton clings with wonderful tenacity. The mere
possibility of infidelity to that national dish is enough to make
one shudder. No one could be such an iconoclast as to suggest a
variant from the traditional breakfast; it would be table-treason
of the worst kind.--_Daily Telegraph._

A middle-aged Briton named Leary,
Of bacon and eggs got so weary,
That for no other reason
He committed high treason--
But whether he shuddered's a query.

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Silver-fox furs are rapidly becoming more and more rare, and this
fact lends a special interest to the wonderful collection of
these skins now being shown this week by Revillon Freres at 180
Regent Street. These beautiful silver foxes, to the number of
over a hundred, are grouped in eight large showc