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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.

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     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.

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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.

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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 amateur in the gentle art of self-advertisement:  he would be the first to admit it.  But the advertisements have resulted undoubtedly in a very large number of people taking the first steps towards food reform, people who are repelled by the out-and-out “vegetarian” propaganda.

There are those who view with disfavour the introduction of manufactured or artificial foods into the health movement; they think it hinders simplicity.  There is a truth in this; but, on the other hand, it must be recognised that the great majority cannot be reached save by meeting them half-way.  This applies to the flavours of foods, the digestibility of foods and the convenience of foods.  Few can go straight from beef to nuts.  After generations of abuse the human digestive system has to be humoured if the ideal is to be approached.  And in this invaluable work of meeting people half-way and of humouring their tastes and digestions, the restaurant in Chandos Street, London, the specially prepared foods made and sold there and the strongly individual, thoroughly sane and pleasantly straightforward advocacy of Mr. Eustace Miles have been a very important factor.

The idea behind “Emprote”—­the Eustace Miles Proteid Food—­is that, being