PLAIN commonplace people, whang wot long to be original or: to order their lives according" to. their' bwii" special fancies, must be grateful to "Br. Henderson for the address. on:-Health in 'Shanghai which he: delivered tothe members of the Shatighai'Literaty and Debating Society on 'Friday last. "The great merit of the address is the: wholesome common sense that jailes it. Rigid religious disciplinariahs' condemn all forms of atnuseméht "becatise' they are apusing; and as mau, is aiatprally and congenitally wicked, everything that, amuses him must be' wicked. So Hgid sanitary diciplinarians' condéuin summer especially—everything that the natural man enjoys: his body..like. his mind is full of original sin, and totem the fact that he likes a thirty isa proof that he ought to put it' away Troni him. He likes iced drinks in hot weather.and therefore they must' be wholesome for him; he likes cool salad, and' tlrerefore he must not eat it; lie'likes'a little alcohol now and then to pick him up, and therefore he is destroying: the coats of his stomach.' He is reminded'that the Chinaman, who intust' know' whist is avoids iced drinks and.coo) galad,-.and the proper regimen for this. climate,
he humbly contends' that' he'is'nélther that the vig takes: tio. alévhil; and sit a Chinaman nor a pig, he is; told, that he is a frivolous person' from. whom it.is ridiculous to expect 4'reasonable answer. By this time he is tdt vinsHedl to ask ledge of the- proj climate is p by lus consumption' of unripe' peaches and watermelons. If he di he would be told that those are the means by which a' wise Providence "prevents. the
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