After weaning, however, it appears that the diet of the Oriental child is ordinarily less satisfactory than that of the American or European child. This is due in great measure to the lack of milk, of which the Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos have never had a supply until within recent years when canned milks have been introduced. There is some definite evidence to which one can point in support of this view. Fifteen years ago there was a great influx of "picture brides" from Japan into California and other Pacific coast cities. We have, therefore, a large number of children in this country of Japanese parentage. Both boys and girls are larger at all ages than are Japanese children born and reared in Japan (7). Who would doubt that it is the superior food which they receive which makes them outgrow their relatives across the ocean? The Chinese are smaller in the south than they are in the north, where wheat and millet replace rice in the diet. In southern China polished rice is the most desired cereal. This use of a degerminated and decorticated cereal makes a very important difference in the satisfactoriness of the mineral content of their diet, and is probably sufficient to account for their relative physical inferiority as compared with their northern neighbors. There is but one explanation for their liking for polished rice, and that is custom. Polished rice is inferior in every respect to the unpolished grain, but since it is fashionable to eat the former kind, those whose diet is much simpler, as is for example the poor laborers, who derive their sustenance largely from rice and fish and a few vegetables, take pride in feeling that, however hard their lot may be in other respects, their rice is as white as their more fortunate neighbors'. The ease with which a firm and established demand for bolted flour, polished rice and other degerminated cereal products has been created through advertising, shows how unsafe is appetite as a guide to the selection of food.