We can well believe this. * * * * * "'Wild Foods of Great Britain,' with 46 figs. 1s. 6d. net."--"_Times" Literary Supplement_. With fruit at present prices the figs alone should be worth the money. * * * * * HINTS TO GROSVENOR HOUSE. Mr. Punch is not more free from correspondents who know how to solve the food problem than other papers are. The following six letters have been selected with care from some thousand and three received during the week. The others are at the service of any enterprising editor, or Lord DEVONPORT can have them if he will send a waggon to take them away. They should make pleasant week-end reading. AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION. SIR,--What we plain men want to know and what we are entitled to know is--What does Lord DEVONPORT eat? What does Mr. KENNEDY-JONES eat? What does Mr. ALFRED BUTT eat? It would make a vast difference to the success of the food campaign if each of these administrators was visible at his meals, doing himself extremely ill. I suggest that a prominent shop window should be taken for each, and they should have their luncheon and dinner there in full view of the public. Yours, etc., COMMON SENSE. THE POWER OF BRITISH HUMOUR. SIR,--If the Food Economy posters were more carefully thought out the trick would be done. I suggest, for example, something really pithy and witty, such as-- IT IS NOT ENOUGH FOR ONE OR TWO DAYS TO BE MEATLESS DAYS. YOU SHOULD SEE THAT ALL DAYS ARE EAT-LESS DAYS. Something like that would soon drive the fear of England into the [unprintable word] Germans. Yours, etc., DOWNRIGHT. TO MASTER THE ROLLS. SIR,--My experience is that all rolls are too big. I personally can get through a meal comfortably with only half the fat roll that is automatically put before me at most of the restaurants. Let Lord DEVONPORT decree a roll just half the size, and the difference both in consumption and waste will be enormous. At a dinner-party which I attended the other evening, not, Sir, a hundred miles from your own office, the excessive size of the rolls was the subject of much comment. No one should be given the opportunity of leaving any bread. It should be doled out in the smallest doses. Yours, etc., OBSERVER. THE USE OF ABUSE. SIR,--The real trouble with the food economy campaign is that ordinary people, who perhaps, not unnaturally, have got into the habit of not believing the daily papers, do not realise what their enemy and the chief enemy of the country at this moment is--I mean the German submarine. In order to get this fact into their intelligence I suggest that free classes in objurgation are at once instituted, in which, instead of the common "You beast!" "You brute!" "You blighter!" and so forth, the necessity of saying nothing but "You (U) boat!" in every dispute or quarrel is insisted upon. The young might also be thus instructed.