for the richness and health of the country to have, by the laws of a draconian protectionism, spurred the French agricultural population along the road to the breeding of cattle, thus turning it away from cultivation?  These laws are the cause, on the one hand, of the high price of wheat, owing to the abandonment of its culture and the barriers opposed to its entrance, and on the other, of the dearness of meat, owing to the stock and the land which the cattle require.

Under these facts economists have indeed a direct responsibility, as for more than fifty years economic orthodoxy has presented meat as a necessity, whereas it is the least advantageous particle amongst so many others.

In conclusion, let us hope that future distinctions of “Vegetalists,” vegetarians or flesh eaters may be completely abolished. In medio stat virtus. The dietetic regimen, the general adoption of which must henceforth be desired, must reject all preconceived and hereditary ideas, and unite in one harmonious use all foods with a hygienic end in view.  The place of each one amongst them and its predominance over the others should be determined only by conforming to reasons at the same time physiological and economic.

 H. LABBE.

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 HEALTH AND JOY IN HAND-WEAVING.

 This article gains additional interest from the fact that it has been
 written by one who works her own loom and teaches others the ancient
 and healthy art of hand-weaving.—­[EDS.]

Hand-weaving is an art, a handicraft, one aspect of which we are apt to forget—­namely, that it is a splendid health-giver.  Indeed, all who have felt the rhythm of the loom, as they throw the shuttle to and fro, and in blending colours and seeing the material grow thread by thread, can witness to the power of the work to banish both the large and small worries that eat away our health of mind and body.  The hand-weaver learns to look upon his (or her) loom as a very good friend.

 The possibilities in weaving are immense, and the great difficulty
 that always confronts the weaver is the impossibility of letting
 gussets into the day:  the end of the week comes all too soon.