While summer-time suspends for 2 while the pursuit of the pneumenic plague germ, Dr. Wu Lien-teh's energy has di d him to seasonable experiments with the heat-resisting qualities of different of headgear, In_all he tested nds—we had no idea that man, as distinct from woman, had- so large a choice at his disposal—from Peitaiho native straw, through which "heat appears to go direct," to heavy woollen winter caps "seen often in Shanghai even in. summer," and comparing quite favourably with felt hats and what. dealers, but no one else, call "heaters." The pith helmet, covered with khaki and lined with red and' green, wins by half a degree Fahr. from the Chinese-made white helmet made of old rags between two coverings. And now, perhaps, if Dr. Wu has time he might push' his researches a little further into the efficacy of sun glasses. There was formerly a very well known resid-dent, whose business kept him continually about open fields and yards, who never, we believe, wore anything but one of the old-fashioned Jlat-topped bowlers, even on the hottest day, but alw added a pair of dark sun glass: And in this connexion what is really the right colour for cun-glasses? For a good many of those now in vogue, though no doubt very pretty, are, by practical experience useless in really fierce sunlight.
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