27 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 26

We do not know why the author of Native Diet

says that Jerusalem artichokes are a neglected food in England. In many households they are avidly enjoyed. However, as Sir Arbuthnot Lane says in the preface, we can learn a great

deal about our diet from natives, who enjoy a complete freedom from the diseases of the gastro-intestinal tract which abound in civilization. Published by Heinemann at 6s., this work by Ettie A. Rout (Mrs. F. A. Hornibrook) is recommended to all who would take thought for the inner man.

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