Ten years later he became a Town Councillor, opened several Institutes for the Care of the Poor, and sent his second son to join the eldest at the same kind of school at which he (the father) had been so well trained.  About the same date he bought a new edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and carefully compiled a list of facts and figures showing that idealists and all new-fangled ideas were the greatest danger to the increasing trade and expansion of the Empire.

At the age of fifty he took a house at Surbiton and was continually congratulated on his hale and hearty appearance.  His opinions were known and respected by all who met him.  His sons were models of what the children of such a father should be, and they supported him in every argument.

 At the age of fifty-two he retired from business.  A month later he had
 an idea; and it so interfered with all his opinions, and so affected
 his general health, that he died.

 EDGAR J. SAXON.

 A SIGNIFICANT CASE—­II.

He stopped smoking tobacco on the second day, and does not mean to resume its use.  Of course he had no alcohol in any form during the fast, but he never has taken much alcohol, although he was not a pledged abstainer.  The temperature was taken many times and seems to have been almost always subnormal, about 97 degrees Fahr., but this is not so unusual a condition as to call for comment.  The chief cause of a subnormal temperature, in my opinion, is blocking of the body with too much food.  No doubt in prolonged fasting the temperature may fall also; but sometimes a fast will be the cause of raising a subnormal bodily temperature, as happened in a case of mine in which on the twenty-eighth day of the fast there was a large elimination of urates by the kidneys and a rise of temperature from 96 degrees to 98.4 degrees.  Subnormal bodily temperature has not received the attention which it deserves.  It is usually one of the forerunners, or prodromata as they are called, of the onset of incurable diseases like cancer, Bright’s disease or apoplexy.  The commonly accepted view that the heat of the body depends upon the food, and that people eat blubber in the Arctic and Antarctic regions to keep the bodily heat up, is one of the chief causes for neglect of the study of subnormal temperature.  And it is quite surprising that physiologists have not thought it necessary to explain why nature has provided sugar and palm oil and cocoa-nut oil and ground-nut oil in the tropical regions, as well as abundance of olive oil in the warm temperate regions of the earth if these foods keep the bodily heat up.  They ought to have been more abundantly supplied in the Arctic and Antarctic regions if the accepted view is correct.  Besides, if we must eat blubber to keep bodily heat up in the Arctic regions when the outside temperature is 50 or 100 or more degrees lower than that of the body, what ought we to eat in the tropics