TABLE 6--_Cost of Proteins._ Milk (Grade A) 20.0 13.0 (1 quart) Roast beef (rib) 23.4 26.0 Buttermilk 26.5 9.0 (1 quart) Lamb chops (loin) 32.7 43.0 Lamb chops (rib) 34.9 38.0 Young codfish (fresh) 38.6 12.0 Chicken (roasting) 41.3 32.0 Eggs 44.7 45.0 (1 dozen) Beefsteak (round) 50.4 34.0 TABLE 7--_Cost of Fruit._ Fresh (in season): Bananas 23.0 6 Apples 23.7 5 Oranges 65.0 10 Dried: Prunes 8.4 10 Apples 11.1 15 Peaches 12.5 15 Apricots 15.5 20 TABLE 8--_Cost of Syrup._ Cane sugar 4.5 8 Karo corn syrup 5.7 8 A British scientific commission has reported to Parliament that if the workman be undernourished he may, by grit and pluck, continue his labor for a certain time, but in the end his work is sure to fail. It makes no difference what the nutritive condition of the person is, if a certain job involving muscular effort is to be done it always requires a definite amount of extra food-fuel to do it. Rubner, the greatest German authority on nutrition, excited grossly inappropriate hilarity in the comic press of his country by showing that a poor woman who waited several hours in line in order to receive the dole of fat allowed her by the government actually consumed more of her own body fat in the effort of standing during those hours than she obtained in the fat given her when her turn to receive it came at last.