We are still reading strictures on irl and her cocktail drinking habits, A famous doctor, whose ideas of what io a satisfactory diet for good not be called expense press representative a day or two ago that he thought a little alcohol in one form or another before a meal was by no means to be con-sinned. "Women persist, however, in going too far," he said" One cocktail is quite sufficient for one, but some women I notice think nothing of taking half a dozen." Another doctor who has made a special study of the dietary needs of women, said girls began an evening at a night club feeling rather out of sorts because they had not retired to bed until three, four or five that morning. "They do not feel that they want anything to eat" he added "but some one persuades them to take a cocktail, and in the end they take three or four on an empty stomach, Cocktails act as an artificial stimulant, the desire for food is created, and something Ike a six-course dinner is eaten, probably with dancing between the courses and plenty of champagne to help it down. There is more dancing and, later, tupper is eaten. Champagne is again the probably accompaniment. Next—evening Lerins with the same lack petite, and again stimulant of the gastric juices called for. The whole procedure is a thoroughly tele, and the practice is responsible for a long train of illnesses."
The Modern Army The minimum height for recruits to the Grenadier Guards has been put up two inches from ft. 10. to 6 ft. It was explained this week that the Grenadiers are now nearly 20 per cent. over strength in one battalion. There is no dearth of recruits, and as all the Guards regiments are popular the Army Coun-e'l can pick and choose among the applicants. The heights required in order Guards regiments a1
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