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. SUCCESS ON THE SOMME. \
SUCCESS ON THE SOMME. 0- GERMAN LINES STORMED BY FRENCH AND BRITISH. OVER 2,000 PRISONERS. A further notable advance 1)y French and British on tho Somme is announced in the official dispatcher sent out on Sunday night. Sir Douglas Uaig'^ report is as follows:- "In co-operation with the French on our immediate right, we attacked the enemy to- day (September 3) at .s-everal point*. We have captured part of Ginchy and the whole t of Guilleinont. Our Front now runs some 500 yards east of Guillement from G-inchy to near Falfcmont. On the east side of Mou- i quet Farm we have also gained ground. Wo have captured several hundred prisoners. "Between our right and tho Somme the French ha"' mibst-antial progress, and captured a considerable number of pri- soners. Fighting "Oiy aircraft did mrst useful wcrk in co- operating with the artillery and infantry. The enemy's aeroplanes which made des- perato attempt. to interfere were success- fully engaged in many aerial fight, and e'1 I driven off with a Jers of three machines de- stroyed and at. least fonr others damaged, whilst we lost throe." The French communique «tatofi that, co- operating on the British right wing. our Allies have occupied the villages of "Forest and Clery-sur-Somme and the German trenches along tho route from Forest to Combles, as for as the outskirts of the latter place. Between Forest and Cler v-.siir-Srninit, the. French Allies have tilmo carried all the enemy positions, nnd have crowed at many points tho road which connects these two placcs. A German counter-attack, conducted with big forces to the south of Forest, was broken, the enemy leaving numerous dead on the ground. The lo.tc-t official reports state that the French have captured over 2,000 prisoners, 12 guns, and over 50 maehinc-guns, whilst the Briti6h have taken "several hundreds of prisoners." HALF-MILE ADVANCE. Tho following further despatches from Sir Douglas Haig have been issued by the Press Bureau:— Monday, 1.50 p.m. j The fighting yesterday between the Somme I and tho Ancre was very severe, our advaneo being stubbornly contested and tho enemy making repeated determined counter-attacks, supported by very heavy artillery fire. Our advance was Hlmost everywhere suc- cessful at the outset, and moat of the enemy's counter-attacks, which cost him very heavy looses, completely failed to shake the hold of our troops on the ground won. The result of the fighting itl that we have v captured the enemy's defences on a Front of I 3.000 yards to an average depth of 800 va-rde, including the .strongly-fortified vil- lage of Guillemont. In Ginchy, the whole of which was at first r captured by us, we were compelled to give I ground, but have retained our hold on part of the village, despite heavy counter-attacks J several times during the night. Our linc, now runs as reported in last night' communique. Over 800 prisoners have already been brought in. CONTINUED FIGHTING. Monday, 10.2.1 p.m. This morning the enemy made a counter- attack against our newly-won position north- west of Monquet Farm, but was easily re- pulsed. North of Falfemont Farm our troops gained further ground during the afternoon, and heavy fighting continues in this portion | or our Front. j Beyond heavy artillery actions between the I Ancre and the Somme there is nothing [ further to report.
ANTWERP SHIPYARD'S BOMBED.
ANTWERP SHIPYARD'S BOMBED. BRITISH NAVAL PLANES' SUCCESS- FUL ATTACK. The Admiralty announoes On the afternoon of the 2nd inst. the ahip- building yards at IIohokn. near Antwerp, were successfully bombarded by naval air. planes. On the 3rd inst. the enemy aerodrome at Gistelles was also bombarded with effect by a large squadron of our machines. All machines returned safely in both cases. -0
"GERMANY IS BEATEN."
"GERMANY IS BEATEN." "We ape not going to have Germans I dumping their goods in this country any more," said Mr. C. B. Stanton, M.P., at Dowlais on Monday. "We will have no Ger- mans in our midst if I can help it," he de- clared. "In spite of their poisonous gases, their so-called Kultur, their Zeppelin raids, and their thousand-and-one atrocities, we have been able to beat the Germans, and we have them dropping in the corner. Germany was beaten months ago, and is hanging on like a rat in the corner. 1.
WOMEN PREFER WAR WORK.
WOMEN PREFER WAR WORK. A dairyman whoso appeal for the condi- tional exemption of his brother was refused, informed the Spring-gardens eoction of the Appeal Tribunal on Monday that it was im- possible to secure women af*;i.stants for milk rounds. He added that they would not have a milk ;r>b if they could obtain munition work. The Chairman: You do not suggest that women prefer munition work to driving about in the open air, do you? The appellant's solicitor remarked that he t was Diablo to engage a woman clerk. The Arsenal was taking all the women it could obtain. —o-
LIQUOR BOARD AND TEMPERANCE.
LIQUOR BOARD AND TEMPERANCE. Mr. Arthur Henderson, Paymaster-General, speaking at a. meeting of the National Tem- perance League at Birmingham, pad a tri- bute to the work of the Lienor Control Board. Their policy, he said, hid been con- structive as well as restrictive, and had done something to reduce the sale of liquor and mitigate the evils of drink. Although their policy wa.s not all that temperance people wished, gratifying results had been obtained. ) Mr. Robert Williams, of the Transport Union, said on Monday, at a special meeting ot the National Council for Civic Libert KS, that if the war lasted another year they were bound to have industrial conscription. »
SEVERAL VESSELS SUNK.
SEVERAL VESSELS SUNK. The steamer Swift Wings has been ¡,JIll,- Phe was formerly named the Watermoulh, I was of 4,465 ton* grois, and was owned by the Wing Steamship Company, Ltd. (Messrs. N. Hallett and Co., managers), of London. The French barquentino General Archi- nard (461 ton.-?) ha.s been sunk. The captain and crew were landed at Newhaven. Other vessels which are reported as having been sunk are the Gotthard and the Sefcesdal, both Norwegian, and the Dutch motor vessel Zeearend.
RESCUER DROWNED.
RESCUER DROWNED. In catching a box of matches thrown to her by a companion a young woman fell into the river at Reading on Sunday night. Jack Bacon, of Little John-lane, Reading, suc- ceeded in rescuing her, but was himself drowned. .8
ZEPPELIN DESTROYfD
ZEPPELIN DESTROYfD .:0 BROUGHT DOWN IN FLAMES NEAR LONDON. RAID BY THIRTEEN I AIRSHIPS. The greatest air raid on thw country yet recorded took place late on Saturday night and early on Sunday nurning. Thirteen airships were engaged, and one of them did not get back. It was brought down at CuffL-y, near Cnfioltl, a masa of flames. The I wreckage, a heap of twisted wfrw, tubes, and woodwork, fell in a :fi,'d, and from it were taken the charred and unrecognisable remains of the men who had formed the J I crew. It is hoped that certain portions of tho I Zeppelin's framework may be reconstructed. Tho intention of the raiders wn.s evidently to visit London and the industrial districts The intention of the raiders w--is evidently to visit London and the industrial districts of the Midlands, but, as it wa.s the greatest raid in the number of airships employed vet recorded, so it was one of tho most' futile. Tho casualties numbered fifteen—two killed raid in the number of airships employed vet recorded, so it was one of the most futile. The casualties numbered fifteen—two killed and thirteen injured, and no military ï damage of any sort was caused. "GROPING IN DARKNESS." The story of the raid is told in jilt" ing official announcement which was issr.ed on Sunday afternoon "Last night's raid was carried out by thirteen airships, and was thus the most formidable attack which has been made on this country. "The principal theatre of operations was the Eastern Counties, and the objectives scrm to have been London and certain in- dustrial centres in the Midlands. "The new measures taken for the reduc- tion or obscuration of lights undoubkdly proved meat efficacious, for tho raiding squadrons, instead of steering a steady course, as in the raids of the spring and last autumn, groped about in the dark-ess I looking for a safe avenue of approach to their objectives. I "Three airships only were able to ap- proach the outskirts of London. "One of them appeared over the Northern districts at about 2.15 a.m., where she was I at onco picked up by the searchlights airl heavily engaged by anti-aircraft gnns and I aeroplanes. After a few minutes the air- I ship was seen to burst into flame and to fall J rapidly towards the earth. The ship was destroyed; the wreckage, engine", and the I half-burned bodies of the crew being found Cuf&e.v. 1102r !?,Wl,J "Our experts hope to be able to recon- struct certain portions of the framework. t. The large amount of wood employed in the framework of the Zeppelin is startling, and I would seem to point to a shortage of alu- ininium in Germany. "The other two aliipe which approached London were driven off by the defences without being able to approach the centre of tho City. "A groat number of bombs were dropped promiscuously over tho East Anglian and the South-Eastern Counties, but complete reports of casualties and damage have not yet been received. Thoso to hand indirato • that the damage and loss of life arc not heavy, considering the number of the fhips engaged, a great nnmlier of the bombs j dropped having fallen either in the sea or in remoto country dintrictll.. "It is hoped that any persons who hare picked Tip fragments of "tlio wrecked airship | will submit them to Genial neadquarifi-K, Home Forces, the Hor.o Guards, Whitehall, without delay. If of no valuo in the recon- I struction of the airship they will be re- turned to the owners. "It should be remembered that the reten- tion of such articles constitutes a contraven- tion of the Defence of the Realm Regula- tions, Section 35B. A statement of casualties will bo issued to-morrow." CASUALTIES AND DAMAGE. In the evening the following further an- nouncement was issued "Careful inquiries show that the casualties and damage caused by the air raid last night were quite disproportionate to the number of ships employed. "The number of casualties which have been reported are as follows — "Killed: One man, one women. "Injured: Eleven men and women, two children. "No casualties occurred in the Metropoli- tan Police District. "The latest reports show that in the Metropolitan Police District twenty-five houses and some outbuildings were slightly damaged, two water mains were cut, and three horses killed. "Elsewhere the damage was very slight, a certain number of cottages being damaged, as well as a church, while a fire occurred at some gasworks. "No military damage of any sort was caused."
V.C. FOR AIR RAID HERO. ..-
V.C. FOR AIR RAID HERO. MAN WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE I ZEPPELIN. ANOTHER AIRSHIP ATTACKED. On Tuesday afternoon the Secretary of the War Office issued the following state- ment through the Press Bureau: With reference to the statement issued in a communique last Sunday to the effect that a hostile airship had been brought down at Cuffley, near Enfield, the following an- nouncement will appear in to-night's "Gazette": War Office, 5th September, 1916. His Majesty the King has been graci- ously pleaded to award the Victoria Cross to the under-mentioned officer: Lieut. William Leefe Robinson, Worcester Regiment and R.F.C., for most conspicuous bravery. He at- tacked an enemy airship under circum- stances of great difficulty and danger, and sent it crashing to the ground as a flam- ing wreck. He had been in the air for more than two hours, and had previously attacked another airship during his flight. AN ANGLO-INDIAN. Lieutenant Robinson has become a national hero jit twenty-one. Bern at Polli- hetta, in Southern India, in the year 1895, ho camo finally to-England in 1909, and went to a school in Cumberland. Continental travel followed, and at about the time of the outbreak of war he entered Sandhurst. On December 16. 1914, he received his com- mission, being gazetted to the Worcester- shire Regiment. Early in his military career Lieutenant Robinson turned his attention tn. aviation, and, after active service as an observer in France, he secured his pilot's certificate on Seote.mhfti 18.. 191,5. For some time he has r been stationed at SorncfiurcH, arffHas TMSen up on the occasion of previous rads. One of Lieutenant Robinson's brothers— Lieutenant H. L. Robinson, of :he Indian Army—was killed in the advance on Kut-el- Amara, and another brother, Cictain E. L. Robinson, also in the Indian Army, is on active service in Mesopotamia. THE FIGHT IX THE 1IR. The story of Lieutenant Rohiniúll's feat is told by an officer of the Royal Firing Corps, who says :—■ "The Zeppelin was travelling rt top speed, first diving and then ascending and appa. rently Lieutenant W. L. Robinson, who was the officer piloting the biplane which had first attacked the raider, ant cipated the manoeuvre. "Tho commander of tho airship threw out tremendous black clouds <f smoke, which completely hid him from oir view, and in which he managed^ to rise. A frw seconds later we tho airship a couple of thou- sand feet above us, and at tic sano altitude VMS Lieutenant Robinson, although a matter r <If perhaps half a mile awa; Immediately Rooinson headed his machine for the raider, nd flying at a terrific sjwl. it appeared that ho was going to charge the monster. 1 shall never forget the sight; of the blazing I airship rs it Ml. Away up above Iho clouds, twelve thousand feet fron the cirtli, the -w-iio va* terrifying in its prandotrr. A huge ¡.;J¡"0t of flamo cast a brilliait red glow over the blaeV ;ky above, tinting to a vivid pink tho clouds beneath. "As the Zeppelin took fir? a second air- ship was seen approaching, aud this now occupied our attentions Th< coninandcr of thst craft, however, seeing iho fate of the first Zeppelin, ovidertly considered that dis- CTotion was the better put of valour, for lie I turned tail and rev.rrWl ofi as fast as his engines would enable him to travel. At such j o hHght and in the darksevss it was im- j possible to pick him up. He kad a good start, and made the most of it. MONETARY REWARDS. At various times monetary revards havo boon offered by private persons :or tho first airman to bring down a Zoppelii on British *ci!, and it would *cem that, in addition to having won tho V.C., Licutenait Robinson bnt become entitled to a sun of £:3.;300. j Following are the details of the offers made: — Mr. Joseph Cowcn, of Newcastle £ 2,000 (Mr. Cowen's original offr of £ 500 was subsequently twice increased.) Lord Micholham, for every Zeppelin hroug-ht down, up to the num- ber of ten < £ 1,000 Mr. William Bow (of Bcw, Mcuach- lan, and Co., Paisley) £ 500 The Lord Mayor of London, in an inter- 1 view, said that his origina' offer of X500 to those who first brought down a Zep;>elin in England had already been claimed and awarded in_ connection wit} the destruction of the L15 in the Thames t'.tuart on March 31 last, but he was in consultation with the War Office as to whether he inigit be privi- leged to tender somo similai recognition in t relation to Sunday's fine aciievcment.
PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE.
PASSENGER TRAINS COLLIDE. ONE KILLED AND MANY INJURED AT WARMINSTER. One passenger was killed and teveral more or leas seriously injured in a railway acci- dent which occurred about 10.30 on Saturday night nt Warminster. A Great Western up parsengex train which left Salisbury at 9.30 dashed into a station- ary train which had been shunted on to the up line to allow the down mail to proceed. The engines met with a terrific crash, and the front carriages attached to both locomo- tives were telescoped. The fron: carriage on the stationary train contained several pas- sengers, and amid the. wreckage a fire broke out, adding to tho general confusion which prevailed. The military wort speedily on the spot, rendering valuable assistance. One man died shortly after being removed from the wrecked carriage and a woman proceeding to Bradford-on-J. von was badly injured and cut about the hmd, The driver of the Salisbury train was very badly in- jured. Very many people on both trains were bruised and cut about the face, hands, and | body, but most of them were able to proceed to their hoiues. I
BRAVE NURSES DECORATED.I
BRAVE NURSES DECORATED. I KING AWARDS MILITARY MEDAL TO SIX LADIES. A supplement to the "London Gazette" announces that the King has awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field to the under-mentioned ladies: Lady Dorothy Mary Evelyn Fielding.— Member of the Monro Motor Ambulance. Has driven the Monro Motor Ambulance and attended the wounded for over a year with marked devotion to duty and contempt of danger. The Monro Corps is a Red Cross unit attached to the Belgian Field Army, and also works for the French. Matron Miss M. M. Tunle;, Q.A.I.M.N.S. —Served in the South African War in Prin- cess Christian's Roeerve, and has served with B.E.F. in France frince mobilisation. She was mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the decollation of Rjyal Red Cross. She was wounded, but is stil at duty. Sister Miss Beatrice Alice Allsop.JoinM Q.A.I.M.N.S. Reserve,B.E.F.Prance, August, 1914. War. wounded, but is still at duty. Sister fisfl Nora E1.c,-by, Joined Q.A.I.M.N.S. Reserve, B.EF. France., in September, 1914. She was rounded, but is still at duty. Staff Nurse Miss Ethel rfittebin.oit. Joined Q.A.I.M.N.S. Reserve from the Lon- don Hospital, August 28. 1914. Has forved nt the Royal Victoria Hoppital, Netley, and with the B.E.F. in France. Staff Nurso Mips Jean Strachan Why to.— Joined the T.F.N.S. On active seri-icfi nbroad sineo May 16, 1915. Was wounded, but in still at duty. [The letters Q.A.I.M.N.S. s;and for Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Ser* vice.] The "Gazette" also contains a list of men who havo been awarded tlio Military Medal.
ITALY'S CAMPAIGN.
ITALY'S CAMPAIGN. ALPINE TROOPS ENGAGE THE ENEMY. On Sunday the Press Bureau issued the ) following Romo communique: On tho Trcntino Front hostile artillery activity continues. During yesterday the I villages of the Astieo Valley and our posi- tions on Cauriol (Avisio Valley) in particular were shelled. On the northern slopes of Cauriol our Alpine troops engaged the enemy, inflicting considerable loesea on them. More than 100 dead were counted and thirtyfollr prisoners were taken. In the Upper But our artillery broils down tho e-K.ny's trenches and set some hutments on fii •. In the hilly area east of Gorizia somc, ''ctaehments of our infantry pierced two wijo entanglements and bombed the enemy' linos, causing supports to be rushed up. Theso were effectively shelled by our batteries. On the Carso there was working and bomb- ing activity. A hostile* aeroplane dropped bombs on Auronzo, in the Anziei Valley, without causing any damage or casualties.
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---"-----SUCCESSFUL SURPRISE…
SUCCESSFUL SURPRISE ATTACK. Tuesday's Italian official communique, cir- vJatcd by the Press Bureau, is as follow. The usual artiilcry activity took place on tho Trcntino Front. Enemy artillery was cspccially intense against our positions on 3iount Civaron (Sugana Valley) ,nd on Mount Cauriol (Fieinme Valley). At tho head of Rio Felizon Valley (Upper Boite) during the night of Sejjtember 2 de- tachments of infantry, Alpini, and i-oliiii- i teers succeeded by a daring surprise attaek in capturing several commanding- positions on Punta del Forame A violent enemy counter-attack was decisively repulsed, a company being annihilated by our fire. In the Upper But and Upper Chiarzo val- leys enemy artillery shelled several villages, killing three wounded soldiers in a field hos- pital besides a few civilians. Our artillery replied by shelling some billets in Ko.schach (Gail Valley), where destructive fires were observed. On the Middle Tsonzo and on the Carso there was only intermittent artillery ac- tivity. Our batteries destroyed an enemy Dracken balloon near Sella (Selo). During' the evening of the 3rd hostile air- craft cropped bombs on Marano, and yester- day on Lucinico, Sdraussina. and Gorizia. Three dead and some wounded are reported in the town cf Gorizia th.3 roof of the church of Saint John was seriously damaged. A seaplane squadron during the night of the 4th dropped twenty bombe on Venice with- out doing any damage.
RURAL LIFE. -
RURAL LIFE. BY A SON OF THE SOIL. THE OLDEST HORSE BRT. Never again, let us hope, will any British breed of horse come as near to total extinc- tion as the Cleveland Bay has done at least twice within the past century. Neither time was it through lack of interest, though it has known periods of very serious neglect, and but- for the devotion of a, few breeders then also would have been in danger. It was most seriously threatened by the extraordinary demands of foreign buyers, willing to pay big prices for oo(fiaiiim,al.s, and each time a considerable proportion of the best breeding stock left the country, while animals which should have survived only as geldings were used at stud. There may be truth in the statement that, unlike the thoroughbred, the Cleveland has not improved, but has actually deteriorated in the past 100 years. Perhaps the appear- a-nce of white hairs in some of the best exist- ing specimens is an indication of some de- teriora-tion, for the Cleveland Bay blood is probably the oldest breed that is pure in these islands, a-nd recent instances are on record of crosses with ithdrotiglibreds, of long pedigree retaining the former type, while the bay is an extraordinarily prepotent characteristic even with greys The Cleveland Bay makes its claim for existence and renewed popularity as a general 11 ul utility horse, "combining all the most useful and ornamental equine qualities-beauty with CLEVELAND BAY MARE. strength, courage with docility, stamina and speed—and there is no better base or founda- tion for cro "ding to obtain hunters, cavalry horses, and harness horses." The pure Cleve- land has often formed a. beautiful four with a fashionable coach in Hyde Park, and it may he seen equally happy and hard at work 011 the light-rsoil farms of Yorkshire, where it de- velops such energy that the labourers have been known stolidly to refuse to work with it! For coaching, the Yorkshire coaching horse is more commonly used, chiefly because it is easier to obtain. It is very closely allied, hav- ing been evolved from Cleveland blood early last century. The differences between the two breeds are slight, and it has been suggested many times that they should reunite. But I fancy the owners of the few existing old and pure strains of the original type are too jeal- ous of them to tolerate anything of the kind. n PIGS IN WOODLANDS, The advantages of utilising waste wood- lands for tliA Ureediu?, a .n zie thus sum- marised by Mr. S. EcIge, in tii-c Journal of the Board of Agriculture Breeding pigs are more prolific and much hardier than sty-bred pigs. The simplicity and cheapness of the system makes it commercially better than permanent housing. The cost of housing, fencing, and apparatus is as follows: Wooden house, 8ft. by 8ft., bolted together in. sections to facilitate mov- ing, £ 6; eight old railway sleepers to stand house on and make floor, 12s. fencing wire, including posts, &c., 6d. per yard; home- made wooden troughs, 2s. 6d. each; one 40-gallon barrel for soaking food, 5s. one barrel will provide for up to forty pigs daily. Against the pig accounts 0s. per acre 1* charged for waste woodland. No charge is made for pasture, as the pigs run on this only from November to, March, when it is not in use for anything else except poultry, and tli4 pig manure is considered a fair equivalent against rent. Straw, fern, or other bedding must be used from September to May. The pedigree pigs arc sold at a price re- presenting not less than ki. Is. per month of their life, viz., a six-months-old pig realises I £ 6 6s., and so on. On an average most pigs ) are sold by the time they reach six mcnths. I The aim is to cull most drastically and keep only the really first-class pigs. Pigs not good enough for pedigree sale, when put into styes to fatten for the butcher, put on weight for a given amount of food at least 20 per cent. more cheaply than mongrel pigs, were ready for sale two or three weeks earlier. MULBERRY CULTURE. Though the mullberryis not grown to any great extent in this country, specimens are to be found in most districts. The prejudice sometimes found against it probably arises from the fact that some varieties only pro- duce an inferior fruit, and not much of that. fc j BLACK MULBERRY, I If the tree is to be grown, it is important only to plant a variety well known to be of a productive and large-fruited kind. It is easily propagated by cutting and layering, and this should be done during the autumn, though it is sometimes left till the spring. To layer a branch, simply bend a low branch down to the soil, cover a portion of it with a few inches of soil, and peg it down firmly. By the following autumn, this branch may be severed from the parent tree. Cuttings can also be taken from shoots of the current year's growth, about a foot long, with a "heel" of two-year-old wood about 3in. long attached. They should be planted out- doors in a shady position to a depth so that only two or three of the upper eyes show through the soil. Though this tree is generally grown as & standard, it is sometimes trained and grown as an espalier, and in uncongenial districts on southern walls. The soil needed for suc- cessful culture of this tree should be a rich and deep but rather moist loam, on shallow soils or heavy or wet ones it is usually dis- appointing. Standards are usually grown over grass, as the fruit falls very readily. But it should be pointed out that, as is the case with other fruit trees so with mul- berries, trees can always be depended upon to mature much more quickly and fruit more freely if grown in cultivated soil rather than in grass. The fruit should be gathered as soon as it assumes a blajckish purple colour, and if it begins to dtrop before one can start gathering, it is best to spread, cloths on the ground to catch the fruit and prevent it from becoming soiled. The fruit is borne 011 the previous year's growth and 011 spurs formed on the older wood. All the pruning necessary for standards is to remove overcrowded branches and dead wood. Another method of growing this tree is in orchard houses in pots or tubs, and the very I finest fruit is produced in this way.
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FOR FAT AND THIN.
FOR FAT AND THIN. A leading authority on hygiene gin-es the following advice regarding the diet which should be adopted by thin persons, on the one hand, and corpulent folk on the other. For the lean. he highly recommends bacon, and also pork if the digestion is good. Chicken, veal, turkey, duck, and rabbit are not recommended. Potatoes are classed as beneficial, and eggs and butter are also pronounced as suitable. Butter, indeed, should be used liberally, and a glass of milk drunk night and morning. Fat people, however, are far more prone to disease than the thin, and require a more rigid dieting. They are admonished to avoid cakes, muffins, pastry, puddings, chocolate, cider, liqueurs, and malt liquors. If wines are taken, claret is the most suitable. Amongst fruits, apples, apricots, bananas, oranges, peaches, pears, and plums are to be avoided, as being fattening, a fact which conveys a useful hint to the thin folk. Pork in all forms must be avoided, as also must pota- toes. As regards fish, salmon, fresh her- ring, and trput are forbidden. Coffee is less suitable than tea, while bread should be eaten sparingly.
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