When "The Nameless One" was called upon to explain the reason for thevermin that abound in China he said: "Some sort of good is opposed to every evil." Mosquitoes.
Tu the eatly days the Chinese people slept in the open air during the summer months. As this produced (malarial) fevers, mosquitoes were sent to drive the people indoors, and those who used nets or curtains to their beds, escaped both the mosquitoes and the malan Lice.
The first beggar in Chi that ho would not work; so lazy did be become that he never bathed or changed his clothos. The louse was sent to make him and go to work. It is still in evidence that beggars are infested with this parasite.
Chinches.
Owing to their fear of the dark the bugs came to compel each person to have his own bed. It is still 2 fact that where people crowd together as in cities, towns, and villages, bed-bugs bound. The polite term for this pest Hangchow Guest," probably because that famous city was once so crowded that this pest abounded to excess and became distributed elsewhere by travellers.
Dress and Fashion, Said "The Nameless One:" The malo lion wears the mane, the peacock
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.