=ADVICE FOR BEGINNERS.= The following suggestions will prove helpful to those who are desirous of adopting the reformed dietary:-- 1. Give up flesh meat _at once_ and _entirely_--replacing it by dishes made with eggs, cheese, macaroni, peas, lentils, nuts, and nut-meats. Later on you will be able to do without fish also, but it is best to proceed slowly and surely. [Illustration] 2. Eat _less_ rather than _more_. Fruitarian foods such as the above are more nourishing than butcher's meat. 3. Try to like _simple_ foods, instead of elaborate dishes that require much preparation. Avoid 'frying-panitis.' 4. Eat dry foods rather than sloppy ones; they are more easily digested. Take toast or Granose biscuits with porridge to assist proper salivation. If porridge causes trouble, use wheat or rye flakes (Manhu or Kellogg brands), with hot milk or cream, instead. 5. Do not mix stewed acid fruits with vegetables and legumes; take the former with cereals, cheese, or eggs. Green vegetables should be taken very sparingly, and with savoury dishes alone. If eaten with sweets they are apt to disagree. 6. Persons of sedentary habits should let at least one meal a day consist of uncooked fruit only--or of fruit with brown bread and butter--the bread being _well baked_. 7. Dried fruits, such as figs, dates, prunes, raisins, sultanas, etc., are very easily digested; and if blended with nuts or almonds they make a perfect meal. Such fruits may be taken freely and with advantage by almost everyone. 8. Nuts should be flaked in a nut-mill to aid digestion; cheese can also be made more easily assimilable in this way (or by cooking). Many nut products are now sold which are malted and partially pre-digested. 9. Give a few hours' thought and study to the important subject of your diet; learn what to do, and what newly-invented scientific foods are obtainable. 10. Do not make the mistake of attempting to live on potatoes, white bread, cabbages, etc., or merely upon the ordinary conventional dietary with the meat left out. Obtain and use well made and well cooked wholemeal bread every day. Take sufficient _proteid_, 1-1/2 to 2-ozs. per day, to avoid anæmia--indigestion often results from _lack of vitality_ caused through chronic semi-starvation. 11. If you feel any symptoms of dyspepsia, and can trace it to _excess_ in eating, or to dietetic errors, reduce your food, fast temporarily, and take more exercise. Consider what mistakes you have made, and avoid them in the future. Eat only when hungry, in such cases. 12. If you are not getting on, obtain advice from a Doctor who is a _fruitarian_ or from an experienced Food-reformer. =Commercial Dietetic Inventions.=