Who knows anything about this West Indian product ? A writer in the Saturday Review says : "In the great old times of the West Indies, men boasted the age of their pepper-pot as warmly as the age of their madeira; in a rough way they calculated the increase of value at five dollars a year, and trade was brisk at the price. The basis of this perennial dish is casaripe. It may be hoped that the Berlin exhibition will be the means of introducing kassareep to European commerce. It is seldom to be found in London - indeed only so far as we can learn, at a shop in Leicester Square".

If the problem of nutrition is how to get the greatest enjoyment consistent with sound health and length of days out of the bill of fare that nature has provided, and if the gratification of taste is as laudable within the proper limits as any of the admitted ends and aims of existence, this casaripe is worth looking after, and the pepper-pot competition might prove as lively, and almost as profitable as the crazy-quilt mania. - EmeLie Harris.

[The pepper-pot or mandram is a West Indian appetizer composed of several ingredients, of which red pepper and ochra are the chief. - Ed].