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 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 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