_Lunch_ (12.45).--Nut or cheese savoury and one vegetable; baked pudding by preference for second course, or simply a nut and fruit cake; no dates.

_Or_ salad with grated cheese or cream cheese, or flaked pine nuts; followed by a piece of the excellent wholemeal cake supplied at the restaurant this correspondent frequents.

_Tea meal._--One cup of Salfon cocoa (unsweetened), preferably without other food.

_Supper_ (6 to 7) (This meal is at present far too mushy).--Cream cheese, Veda bread with fresh b.u.t.ter or nut b.u.t.ter, salad, tomatoes, cuc.u.mber, etc., with dressing of pure oil and lemon juice.

_Or_ simply fresh ripe fruit, with dried fruit and cream; no cereals.

_On retiring._--Cupful of hot unsweetened lemon water, or weak barley water; no milk.

H. VALENTINE KNAGGS.

CORRESPONDENCE.

_All Correspondence should be addressed (and all contributions submitted) to the Editors, _THE HEALTHY LIFE_, 3 Tudor Street, London, E.C._

COTTAGE CHEESE.

WILDERTON, BOURNEMOUTH.

BOURNEMOUTH.

_To the Editors_,

DEAR SIRS,

_Re_ Mrs C.E.J.'s letter and the reply thereto: I should be inclined to doubt the wisdom of making this from unboiled or uncooked milk unless one had it from one's own cows and could supervise the dairy oneself. The average milk that comes into towns from country farms is--well, it's unthinkable. There's a saying that what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve over, but that doesn't alter the fact that the average cow is none too clean, the average milker's hands and clothes (to say nothing of his face, hat and head) none too clean, the milking-place none too clean, and the circ.u.mstances of transit such as don't make for cleanliness. I have put it very moderately, as those who know country dairy farms will admit.

Those who particularly want clean cheese from uncooked milk should buy it from a County Council dairy farm or similar inst.i.tution. Yours truly,

B.C. FORDER.

WILL OTHER READERS DO LIKEWISE?

Mrs E. b.u.mPUS writes (7th October 1913):--

I am ordering two copies each month from my local newsagent.... I thought he might be induced to show copies of your publication in his window.

[An attractive blue poster is supplied each month free by the Publishers to all genuine agents who apply for the same.--EDS.]

_THE HEALTHY LIFE_ IN THE LIBRARIES.

Mr C.H. GRINLING writes (25th October 1913):--

I note the suggestion on p. 580 of the October number of _The Healthy Life_. A friend enables me to ask you to send _The Healthy Life_ regularly for one year to the Woolwich Public Library, William Street, Woolwich. I enclose 2s. The librarian will see that it appears on the magazine-room table regularly.

[There is every reason why _The Healthy Life_ should be known and read in every public library in the United Kingdom. In this we are entirely dependent upon those readers who are ready to follow the excellent example of the above and other correspondents. A year's subscription--2s.--is a very small price to pay for bringing the message of this magazine before the public in this way. We should like to hear from readers in all parts.--EDS.]

FRUIT-OILS AND NUTS.

WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, 22nd Oct. 1913.

_To the Editors_,

SIRS,

With reference to the last paragraph of "Phosphorus and the Nerves" on p. 579 of the October number, I should be obliged if I could be informed through your correspondence 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 advertis.e.m.e.nt pages should be studied for further details.

(2) Suggestions were given on pp. x.x.xiii and x.x.xv 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 b.u.t.ter, or "Protoid" Almond b.u.t.ter.--[EDS.]

PICKLED PEPPERCORNS.

Lady Cheylesmore was wearing a magnificent c.o.c.k 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 showcases on the ground floor, and represent the latest arrivals from Revillon's Canadian outposts, where they have special facilities for securing these rare skins.--_Daily Chronicle._