[There is every reason why _The Healthy Life_ should be known and read in every public library in the United Kingdom. In this we are entirely dependent upon those readers who are ready to follow the excellent example of the above and other correspondents. A year's subscription--2s.--is a very small price to pay for bringing the message of this magazine before the public in this way. We should like to hear from readers in all parts.--EDS.] FRUIT-OILS AND NUTS. WESTCLIFF-ON-SEA, 22nd Oct. 1913. _To the Editors_, SIRS, With reference to the last paragraph of "Phosphorus and the Nerves" on p. 579 of the October number, I should be obliged if I could be informed through your correspondence columns (1) what are the "fruit oils" recommended therein and (2) how they are to be taken. (3) Is olive oil good to take? (4) Is it good for children? If so how is it to be administered? (5) What nuts are richest in phosphorus? I enclose my card, and remain, yours truly, W.W. (1) Any olive oil that bears a thorough guarantee of purity (such as "Minerva" Olive Oil, "Creme d'Or" Olive Oil, etc.); also any pure nut oil (such as supplied by Mapleton's or The London Nut Food Co.); also the pure blended oil sold as "Protoid Fruit Oil." Our advertisement pages should be studied for further details. (2) Suggestions were given on pp. xxxiii and xxxv of the November number. (3) Yes, excellent. (4) Yes, they usually take it more readily than adults, for the latters' palates are generally spoilt. For its use see _Right Diet for Children_, by Edgar J. Saxon, 1s. net. (5) Almonds and walnuts. If the nuts are found difficult to digest try them in a finely prepared form, as in Mapleton's Almond Cream, "P.R." Walnut Butter, or "Protoid" Almond Butter.--[EDS.] PICKLED PEPPERCORNS. Lady Cheylesmore was wearing a magnificent cock pheasant's plume. The eagle eye of the customs official caught sight of it and handed her a pair of scissors to help her detach it.--_Daily News._ Now we know what a really well-trained eagle eye can do. * * * * * Perhaps the only remnant of the awful sameness characteristic of the typically English kitchen is the bacon and egg breakfast to which the average Briton clings with wonderful tenacity. The mere possibility of infidelity to that national dish is enough to make one shudder. No one could be such an iconoclast as to suggest a variant from the traditional breakfast; it would be table-treason of the worst kind.--_Daily Telegraph._ A middle-aged Briton named Leary, Of bacon and eggs got so weary, That for no other reason He committed high treason-- But whether he shuddered's a query. * * * * *