In prolonged cases of seasickness, there is often a craving for acids and fruit juices. The continued absence or diminution of the acid contents of the stomach, and the privation from normal food, accounts in part for this, and it is highly proper to satisfy such a craving--providing due care is taken not to add to the stomach's distress by taking too much juice, or the juice of unripe fruit, or by swallowing the fibre of the fruit, which is allowable only when recovery is complete. HEREWARD CARRINGTON. IMPORTANT. If readers who possess copies of the first number of _The Healthy Life_ (August 1911) will send them to the Editors, they will receive, in exchange, booklets to the value of threepence for each copy. A SYMPOSIUM ON UNFIRED FOOD. _In the November number we published a letter from a reader containing the excellent suggestion that readers who had experimented to any fair extent with unfired diet should be invited to contribute to a conference on the subject in _THE HEALTHY LIFE_, and that the symposium should be gathered round the following points_:-- (1) The effect of the diet in curing chronic disease. (2) Its effect on children so brought up--_e.g._ do they get the so-called "inevitable" diseases of chicken-pox, measles, etc., and _especially_ have they good (_i.e._ perfect) teeth? (3) The effect of the diet in childbirth. (4) The cost of maintaining a household in this way, as compared with the cost under ordinary conditions. (5) Is the diet satisfying, or is there a longing for conventional dietary (often found amongst food reformers)? (6) Is the diet quite satisfactory in winter? _Two letters were published in the January number. Two more in February. Others will appear in future issues. We are anxious to receive a large number of personal experiences, but they must be brief, and classified under the above heads as far as possible._--[EDS.] ST ALBANS. In response to your invitation I am sending you my experience with vegetarian dietary. Although, as you will see, this has not been altogether "unfired," I think it should be of interest to many. (1) I became a vegetarian at the time of my marriage, nearly three years ago, my husband being already a vegetarian of eleven years. I considered this a good opportunity to commence. Previous to this I had for some time suffered from indigestion, which continued for a few months after marriage. I attribute the cure to the change of diet, and drinking hot water after meals. (2) We have one child eighteen months old, totally breast fed for twelve months, and another four months: on breast and Ixion Food and some fruit juice. She has never had any disease whatever, and so far her teeth are perfect and she has cut them quite easily. She is a bonny, sturdy little girl, and very intelligent.