diet on 4d. a day, I have often had two unfired meals for less than 4d., and two meals a day are sufficient for anyone.  Of course to do this one has to buy the food which is in season and therefore cheap.  Dried fruit and nuts, followed by a cress salad with oil and lemon dressing, does not cost more than 2d.  An unfired rissole made from grated carrot and flaked peanuts cost at most a penny, and if followed by dates or figs would be a sufficient meal, and 2d. would cover the cost.

    In conclusion, I have no difficulty in producing a “two course”
    unfired meal for 2d.—­but perhaps I should have left the subject of
    cost for Dr Bell to deal with.  Yours faithfully,

    ALFRED LE HURAY.

 MORE ABOUT TWO MEALS A DAY.

With reference to my article, “Two Meals a Day,” which appeared in the May issue of The Healthy Life, several correspondents have asked me to give more particulars about my life and diet.  I do so gladly; but I must be brief, as the demand upon space in this magazine is now very great.

 Resolved into a single sentence, what all my correspondents wish to
 know is this:  Is a two-meal dietary best for all?

To this question, however, a definite answer cannot be given, for the simple reason that scientific experimentation with respect to food quantities and times of meals, etc., has gone such a little way, so that it would be presumptuous to set a limit in regard to meals and food reduction.  To my mind, apart from the question of the quantity of food to be taken, there is a great and important field of inquiry open with respect to the effect of rest upon the stomach and the intestines, upon the digestive and assimilative powers of the body.

Now the whole purpose of my article was to show that a reduction of one’s dietary was a matter of training, of gradual adaptation, but also—­and this is the important fact-of gradual strengthening.  My theory is that the two-meal plan is possible owing to the immense economy in digestive energy that is effected through giving the stomach adequate rest, and also through keeping the blood stream pure and unclogged, almost absolutely free from surfeit matter.  A rested stomach will get more nutriment out of a small amount of food-stuff than an overworked stomach will get out of a much larger quantity.  But experimentation which is sudden and covers a few weeks only, is worse than useless, as it tends to disprove the very principles that a saner method of experimentation would probably establish.  And if I can impress this fact upon the reader I shall have performed a good service.

Carefully undertaken, and properly graduated, I believe there are few people in these days who would not greatly benefit by a reduction in the number of meals and in the quantity of food they take.  By means of a healthy and cheerful habit of introspection—­not