The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-27
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

sort of Turkish bath ir the little town live in that l wanted, and so crowd of us got together and decided to order one of those vapor baths, uaianteed to be as effective as the Turkish bath. When it came we installed 1t and tried it first. I got locked up in the cabinet anu couldn get out. anu then lne Ascohol stove exploded, and it was awful-so 1 st opped.
 1 nope you didn't bring any of those pine needles and oat-strsw baths that you were so enthusiastic about the last time I saw you,' I suggested. ''Tho plumber charged me s to unstop the bathtub after you left; said it was filled up with excelsior but knew, of course, it was just plain pine needles"
 Don't you hope on this visit that Peg gy is not following any new-fangled re- lgion or isn't under the wing of some uaeer body of ethical cuiturists?" remarked.
 Indeed I do.' said the woman who was to be Peggy's hostess. She thought she was particularly exempt on the last visit, since she had reduced her daily life to strychnine tonics, headache waters and a few pink tablets. I believe she did have some breakfast foods along, and some sort of patent instep arches, which sne sad the shoe clerK sad she had needed for years Her visit was really very free from fads (for her), and we were getting along famously when one day she came home from an art ex- hibit and told the most marvellous story. She had met Mrs. Blank, an eminent biologist, and this kind lady had told her she was going to make her live lU years and ue happy ever afterward! Peggy was wild-eyed and garrulous. She didn't care for any dinner; she wanted only some nuts. She could find them about the house somewhere, and needn't bother-which I didn't. She explained that the lady biologist had said that nuts were the natural food for man; medicines, she sad. were ruinous to the stomach and strychnine above all was the deadliest thing she could take. and to think she must have taken quarts or it. Headache wafers, the lady biologist put ner ban upon, and she said medf- cines. besides wrecking ones const'tu- tion would absolutely destroy ones mind if she persisted in taking them."
 Instead of drugs, the lady biologist said a sip of hot water every IS minutes would help immensely, and with the nuts would rejuvenate her powerfully.
 ..The rest of Peggy's visit" continued the woman who was telling the story, was taken up with sipping hot water at intervals of 15 minutes and munching nuts which she declared were delicious We had a lovely time of it-Peggy es- Lpecially with brand new falkland when tbe morning came for her to leave, ana we had said our fond farewels. she de- parted but no sooner had she left 1t seemed to me, that a phone message came from the Union station saving she had left the box of nuts and please 10 tell her the name of them. The name was on the outside of the box, but she had forgotten to look at it, and she couldn't get any more nuts like those untll she knew. 1 hustled a0out the house trying to find the wonderful nuts that were so full of nourishment, but nowhere could the box be found. I flew back to the phone and told her I'd write her ny the next mail the name. and then pro- ceeded to make thorough search or every crack and cranny in my house.
 Lilly Belle,'' said, calling to my coai black cook, find that box with the nuts in it that Miss Peggy had while she was here.''
 Lilly Belle couldn't remember ever having seen a box with nuts in 1t, ar,i I was really very unhappy over the O. incidence, until all at once looked Tn the writing desk, and there was the much desired box, and what do you sup pose I discovered?"
 Haven't an idea,'' I replied.
 Peggy hadn't been eating nuts at all, was the surprising answer, but she had devoured a pound of my best Brazilian morning glory seeds"