20 
LAND & WATER 
November 8, 1917 
WINTRY WEATHER 
Hot 0X0 is an inestim- 
able boon to the fighting 
forces at this time of the 
year. 
It aids and increases nutrition ; 
it stimulates and builds up 
strength to resist climatic 
changes, and is invaluable for 
all who have to undergo exer- 
tion either to promote fitness or 
to recuperate after fatigue. 
0X0 takes up little space, is 
easily carried, and can be con- 
verted quickly into a hot nour- 
ishing, drink which, with bread 
or biscuits, will sustain for hours. 
Be sure 
to send 
9X9 
Names and addresses of sJiops, where the articles mentioned, 
can be obtained, will be forwarded on receipt ol a postcard 
addressed to Passe-Partout, Land & Water, 5, Chancery 
Lane, W.C. 2. Any other information will be given on request. 
A Christmas 
Catalogue 
It is not a moment too soon to turn the 
question of Christmas presents over in 
the mind, especially where " our far- 
flung battle-Fne " is in question. Presents for the men at the 
Iront have at last shaken down in the way they should go. 
Tne rubbishing superfluities have vanished in all the better- 
most shops and in their stead are things men really want and 
will welcome when they come. 
A small catalogue has just been issued called " Things a 
Soldier Needs," and it is nothing short of invaluable just now. 
It is the result of expert inquiry into the matter, the result 
being all that can be wished. With this at hand anybody can 
choose the psychological thing a man on active service wants, 
one or two particularly novel ideas being not the least inter- 
esting propositions. 
A specially light suit case for billet or camp arranged to 
take a man's own fittings is one of the capital suggestions, 
this being the sort of thing that simplifies packing. Then there 
is an admirable writing case, a new design, perfectly adapted to 
the peculiar needs of the moment. 
Men in the trenches should send for this catalogue also, it 
being as useful to them for Christmas present suggestions as 
for those at home. All sorts of things a woman likes are 
illustrated as well, and special arrangements have been made 
by which orders from over the water are carefully dealt with. 
This catalogue, indeed, which will be sent anywhere on request, 
makes shopping the easiest and most interesting thing in the 
world, eliminating as it does all undue bother. 
Substitute for 
Milk 
Without a doubt the wise amongst us 
will prepare as much as possible for 
several eventualities this winter, amongst 
them the fact that there may be a shortage of milk. Even 
if it is — as it is hoped — avoided, it seems fairly clear that 
there ^«'ill not be an over-ibundance of sipply, and any w:'y 
in which we can we should decrease the demand. It is only 
patriotic to do so. 
Substitutes but rarely approach the thing they substitute, 
it is foolish to claim that they do. Without any fear of 
exaggeration, however, any amount of good points can be 
allowed to Solac, the synthetic milk in powder foim. With 
a tin of this in the house a lack of milk does not so much 
matter ; it can be used for cooking, as a drink by itself, makes 
a capital cup of cocoa, and can, at, a pinch, be used with tea 
or coffee, though with the last it does not colour in the samj 
way ordinary milk does. 
People accustim d to drink a glass of milk the last thing 
at night should try Solac ; they will find it particularly nourish- 
ing and wholesome. The best way to use it is to mix a proper 
quantity of Solac to a paste with a little hot water, and then 
add either cold or hot water as the case may be. Properly 
mixed, it is quite impossible with the naked~eye to detect it 
as anything but milk. 
A quarter of a pound costs eightpence, half a pound one and 
two pence, one lb. two and threepence, and there is the plain 
as well as the malted variety, the latter being capital for all 
liking a malt flavour. 
A Cold Weather 
Drink 
0X0 Lti., Thames House, /London, E.C.4. 
Tlie s: me people also are selling an ex- 
celluit drink for the cold weather, this 
having the effect of cocoa and milk com- 
bined and sweetened. To call it milk, however, is a misnomer, 
it is not milk, but Solac in another and a most useful form. 
Its many conveniences, indeed, would work out to a lengthy 
tale ; but suffice it to say that here at hand is a most readily 
prepared drink, and a \'eiy nutritious one into the bargain. 
It has a very pleasant m'lted flavour, and is the easiest thing 
in the world to mix. Putting some into a cup, adding boiling 
water is all that is required. And there it is ! A capital drink 
for a cold day. 
This also is in powder form and put up in quarter, half and 
pound tins costing eightpence, one and two, two and three 
respectively. At any fm^^ this cocoa and " milk " combined 
in powder foim would p. ohablymake a stir, but at the moment 
its very considerable impoitance is ten times enhanced, taking 
the place as it does of things the times "Sre making uncertain 
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