lecturing in l/oudon recently before the Order of the (ioklon Ago on the value of fat in ii fruitarian dietary, Dr Josiah Oldfield said that Mr Asquith. as a Scotsman, was feeding like i,n Englishman, while he was trying to solve Irish problems. If ho could only lw induced to take up again his simple Scottish fare of "broso" and "parvitch " and cake he would be better lit tod to deal with abstruse legislative problem*. Declaring that the larger use of fat in food tended towards gentleness and courtesy in habits and speech, Dr Old field regretted that ho had not the power to diet legislators. "If only I had the, power to put Mr Lloyd freorge on his unlive diet of leeks,"' ho "said, "with a high proportion of fat, for a few weeks licfore ho went on to the platform, we should have no more Limo--1 lowing-" (It was at Luiiehouso that "the Welsh'attorney" lashed tho idle rich.) Mr Spurgeon's sermons vsed to be printed in twenty-three different languages weekly. South American theatres all have galleries to which ladies only are admitted. Burial in Westminster Abbey now costs £IOO or less, as against £l6O a century ago. Fever and other disease germs, sewer gas, foul smells should be guarded against in this weather. The best preventive is the free use of K.P. Fluid in flushing drains, sinks, closets, etc. Bottlw 6d, etc. Chemists and storekeepers— [AdH4
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Evening Star, Issue 14575, 25 May 1911, Page 6
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