A DIET OF FLOWERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 31, 6 August 1934, Page 15

A DIET OF FLOWERS

I am told th'at a new cult is arising, the chief temple of •which, is Soho, and its raison d'etre is a somewhat neglected phase of vegetarianism, states an English writer in the ' 'Ohristehuich. Star." Devotees confine themselves, at all events officially, to a diet of flowers. It sounds very romantic, but there is no medical ruling as yet on the vitamin properties of. such, sustenance. Most of the dishes are stews-^----floral in substance, but hardly distinguishable in taste from common vegetables. One item of the menu, of which I have heard glowing account, is pickled rosebuds. It strikes one as the sort' of food society debutantes might inhale. And yet I should not feel really comfortable if I knew1 I were dining on rosebuds. It is almost as bad, in its vandalistic way, as the nightingales' tongues that used to be such a delieaey in Bome of the Caesarian epoch. , But even staid Victorians^ of course, drank dandelion beer.

Only three clays after the French Government had bestowed on him and hla wife the insignia of Knight of the Legion of Honour, Mr. John Jaffe died. Mr. Jaffa was a great friend of France, to winch he had made many generous .sifts, notably Napoleon's library, which he secured when it was about to be purchased by another country, and presented it to Malmaison.