14 MARCH 1931, Page 18

POINTS FROM LETTERS

THE BRITISH " WIRELESS FOR THE BLIND " FUND.

After distributing over 7,500 sets the fund still requires the sum of £15,000. Sympathisers are requested to communi- cate with the Secretary, 226 Gt. Portland Street, London, W.1.

A CANDLE LIT BY AN. ELEPHANT.

Apropos Mr. J. B. Morton's poetic suggestion in your last issue it might be of interest to your readers to know that such an exhibition of animated posters paraded the streets of London about ten years ago, and in the parade was an elephant bearing on its back an emblem of illumination, not a candle, but a large model of an Osram lamp.—H. W. LEONARD, 54 Harrow View Road, Ealing, W. 5.

• UNIVERSITY OF LONDON ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY.

We arc informed that this Society, which has recently issued its report for 1930, will hold a public discussion on the subject : " Is the Steel Trap Necessary? " at.. .5 p.m. on March 17th, in King's College, Strand. The Chairman is Professor Julian Huxley. Admission is free.

CAROTIN AND VITAMIN A.

As a child in Switzerland forty years ago, when no one had heard of Carotin or Vitamin A, I remember my mother taking a cure which was very popular. Several carrots were grated, and after squeezing these gratings through a muslin 2 to 4 ozs. of the liquid was drunk, each day, as a blood purifier. Are we so much wiser to-day ?—" CARROTS." -