Boiled milk, if set on one side, in warm weather, speedily becomes alkaline and putrid or putrefactive.  It is in this condition that, when babies take it, they are made dreadfully ill with diarrhoea and inflammation of the stomach and bowels.  Hence it is the chief cause of the appalling mortality among infants in hot weather.

Mrs F.K.J. need have no fear of any harm coming to her as a result of eating cottage cheese, but she should not take the whey unless she has decided to undergo a whey cure and take nothing but whey; in this latter case, there being no other foods taken, there will be no germs to act harmfully upon it.  If there is much flatulence and stomach or bowel trouble sweet milk or whey will simply feed the germs which are the cause of the digestive trouble, or self-poisoning, and are thus far better discarded.

 DIET FOR OBSTINATE COUGH.

Miss N.S. writes:—­For the last three weeks I have been troubled with a very bad cough It started in the first place with a cold in the head and then it got on my chest, and do what will I cannot get rid of it.  I have been having honey and lemon juice, and also each morning have taken olive oil and lemon juice beaten up together, but without (apparently) any effect.  I have bad coughing fits in the night and the next morning I do not feel up to much.

     I may say that I have not taken meat for about six years, and I
     try to follow the kind of diet advocated in The Healthy Life.

I am 23 years of age and a typist in an office, which is about 4 miles from my home.  I try to get out in the fresh air as much as possible to counteract any bad effects which may arise from my work.  My people at home are very much opposed to my food reform sympathies and efforts.

This correspondent should consult a sensible doctor about this cough and thus be on the safe side.  It is unwise to allow a cough to become chronic without ascertaining the cause of it.  Coughs are often due to stomach and liver trouble, as distinguished from lung trouble.  In either case a salt-free diet will greatly help.  Thus

 Breakfast.—­All fresh fruit, nothing else but fruit.  Apples best.
 (Not stewed fruit).

Lunch.—­Boiled or steamed rice, done without salt; about 2 oz. cottage cheese or a poached egg; a little raw carrot, turnip or artichoke, finely grated, with dressing of fruit-oil beaten up with a raw egg.  The grated roots must be well chewed; as a change they may be cut up and cooked in a casserole with very little water.

Dinner.—­Potato baked in skin, with fresh butter, a little cheese, or flaked nuts, and a few plain rusks, or a saucer of P.R.  Breakfast Food, dry, with cream.  The honey and