if we altered our habits in these
ways, we should add very much both to the duration and to the
efficiency of life. This is not a question of dietetics only. The
issue is of the most practical character. What an addition of five or
ten or fifteen or twenty or twenty-five years to the average duration
of life might mean to this people and still more to the people of the
whole globe is unpredictable by mortal man. But it is evident that it
would be of the very greatest import to humanity. This is the great
issue of the discussion of this subject. It seems to me that illness
might be enormously diminished and health and efficiency and happiness
immensely increased. But I think that these boons might be obtained,
not by indulging the body and its appetites, but only by the exercise
of a wise restraint and government over it. It is at least very much
to be desired that more agreement might be manifested in the opinions
and practice of qualified physiologists so that the public might have
clear guidance, and not as at present, be advised in ways so
conflicting that they do not know what or whom to believe.

A. RABAGLIATI, M.D.

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_To Tourists:_

Every little village has a little shop where you can buy nasty little
sweets.

PICKLED PEPPERCORNS.

He was a native of Liverpool, but had liver for many years in the
Isle of Wight--_Edmonton_ (Canada) _Journal_.

Funny he didn't go to Poole and leave his liver behind him.

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REAL FLESH FOOD FOUND AT LAST.
--From an advt. in daily papers.

Evidently we have all been vegetarians and knew it not.

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Nothing can replace salt.--From an advt. in _Punch_.

Many food reformers advantageously replace salt with nothing.

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The golf craze has been greater this autumn than in any previous
year. Nobody is quite safe from the fever. It seizes those who
mocked at it, and pays no respect to sex or age.--_British
Weekly_.

By the time the next Medical Congress comes round it is expected that
at least three distinguished bacteriologists will have discovered the
golf-fever microbe. They will probably agree to call it _Mashilococcus
Caddes_.

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Between lunch and dinner take another tumbler of water cold. Take
a glass of cold water