Soup

Oxtail from 10 a.m. - From a Restaurant Menu.

What it was in the early morning it would be indiscreet to inquire.

I learn that a serum for mumps is now being made at the Pasteur Institute. "A number of monkeys were inoculated with the serum," says The Times (30th July), "and a mild form of the disease was produced." It is an age of scientific progress, so we may expect news shortly of sera for toothache, hiccough, and the hump. It will not be necessary to inoculate camels for the last.

You will say - with Mr Arnold Bennett, the distinguished playwright and novelist - "the tonic effect of ********* on me is simply wonderful." - From an advt. in Punch.

You may join in the chorus if you like, but you mustn't all expect to be simply wonderful playwrights and testimonialists.

A Strange Shampoo.... "I make my chemist get the stallax for me," said she. "It comes only in sealed packages, enough to make up twenty-five or thirty individual shampoos, and it smells so good I could almost eat it." - Secrets of Beauty column in The Daily Sketch.

Which only shows how careful one has to be.

In The Days To Come Every Army Will Fight On Bloodless Food

Herald of the Golden Age.

When every army fights on bloodless food, we may be just as far from the Golden Age as we are now.

I am told that an obscure practitioner who sent up an account of some interesting discoveries, addressed to

MEDICAL CONGRESS,
DIETETICS SECTION,
LONDON.

has had his communication returned by the Post Office, marked Not Known.

There is no truth, it is said, in the rumour that a secret meeting was held during the Congress to discuss the proposed raising of the rate of commission payable by surgeons to physicians.

Peter Piper.