know all about salad dressings) is added and the whole allowed to stand some little time, so that by the time the meal is served there is a complete blending of all flavours.

 Not everyone likes this method; but it is certainly better than the
 customary method here, which too often leaves a little puddle of water
 at the bottom of the bowl.

There are many ways of preparing good salad dressing without resort to vinegar, salt and pepper.  The two prime necessities are (1) really good oil and (2) some kind of fresh fruit juice.  Most people prefer lemon juice or the juice of fresh West Indian limes, well mixed into either olive oil, nut oil or a blended oil such as the “Protoid Fruit Oil” or Mapleton’s Salad Oil.  The ordinary “salad oils” obtainable at grocers are seldom to be recommended; they almost invariably contain chemical preservatives and other adulterants.  It is better to have the best oil and use it sparingly if need be, than take any faked product just because it is cheap.

 With most people the addition of pure oil assists the digestion of the
 salad, as well as serving other purposes in the body.

 Many excellent salad recipes and suggestions for novel yet simple
 “dressings” will be found in Unfired Food in Practice, by Stanley
 Gibbon.[2]

 [2] 1s. net; 1s. 11/2d. post paid, from the office of The Healthy
 Life, 3 Amen Corner, London, E.C.

 PICKLED PEPPERCORNS.

 This, which is a regular feature of THE HEALTHY LIFE, is not intended
 as a household guide or home-notes column, but rather as an
 inconsequent commentary on current thought.—­[EDS.]

     An interesting booklet by Raymond Blathwayt with samples of Bath
     Mustard will be sent free on application to J. & J. Colman, Ltd. 
     (Dept. 49) Norwich.—­Advt. in Punch.

Rumours are also afloat that G.K.  Chesterton has written a brilliant booklet on Eiffel Tower Lemonade, and that the Attorney General has been commissioned to write a highly interesting brochure on American macaroni.

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“I enclose you a photo of my baby, Willie, aged fifteen months.  He was given up by two doctors, and then I consulted another, who advised me to try ——­’s Food, which I did, and he is still having it.  You can see what a fine healthy boy he is now, and his flesh is as hard as iron.”—­From an advt. in Lady’s Companion.

 Evidently a case of advanced arterio-sclerosis.

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HEALTH BISCUITS.  Nice and Tasty, handled by our 55 salesmen
daily.—­Advt. in Montreal Daily Star.

One reason, perhaps, why both the public and the sales have
declined.

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WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE FOR A PERFECT SKIN? 
Is 3d. too much? 
Many perfect skins to-day are traced to a single sample. 
—­Advt. in Lady’s Companion.