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Every reader of Robert Louis Stevenson will remember Sir still hold one's Constant supervision is possible, or intelligent super vision by sp. but it is difficult. for the Bond, "that punctili "Avoid tea, made) doubtless heard him orage man to be both constant ud intelligent. Think what it means in daily application about the house: milk and wat fried liver, antimonial bakers' bread. Retire nightly at 10.45; and clothe yourself (if you please) throughout in hygienic flannel. Externally, the fur of the marten is indicated, Do not omit. to procure a pair of health boots at Messrs. Dall &" Crumbie's." And he has probably called you back, even after you have paid your fee, to add with stentorian emphasis:
had forgotten one precaution: avoid. kippered sturgeon as you would the very devil."
In forty years (it is all that since that inimitable book "The rong Box" was published) doctors have grown kinder. No less verify and the exact age of tonight's fish;'a servant has a pain and must be persuaded to see a foreign doctor, to which he probably has a rooted objection; and when the has subsided and he returns to work, he must be coaxed into seeing the doctor again, to make sure he is not a yarm carrier, The boys' bedrooms must be inspected for accumula:
ions of rubbish, which, says Health Hints," "one must be an authority than the treasurer of the British Medical Associa-speaking appropriately, at a banquet, tells us is good for a man to eat and drink and do what, he ruthless into putting into the page can; the latter is probably in the state depicted on page 17 of the pamphlet and one must ring up the gaol for another; and when all else is done, Further reproduction prohil hibited without permission. there is the architect to consult because the house has been built without a back yard to pluck chickens in, without a serving room wherein to arrange the dishes and, worst of all, with endless drawers in the kitchen to harbour moth and rust. The pamphlet gives us two attractive pictures of the ideal kitchen and serving room. If only it would show us how to get the money to obtain such delights!
A man, says the proverb, is either a fool or a physician fifty. Under which heading, ome wonders, should he come asa fatalist, which so many of become as time passes? Thei was a family we knew who, for business reasons, had to Li many years ago, in the country outside Shanghai, There they ate and drank what they liked with breezy indifference to its and a healthier lot could ave been found. Another case comes to mind of a mission ary who, after thirty years of the most hygienic abstentions, yielded to the lure of a pear on a river steamer and promptly got cholera, Yet another _instance of a lady, who used to say that the efforts imposed by her husband to keep the family well during the summer brought her, at least, to the verge of a nervous breakdown by autumn: all the bananas were boiled in Condy's fluid in that household and the children bathed in distilled water: and then one them got blood-poisoning from running about with bare feet and very nearly lost his leg.
athing in excess". said the Wise Men, which is, after all, the root of the matter. Heaven forbid that we should appear to make fun of anything which teaches us how to steer clear of summer ailments: those who know what these may be, will applaud,—The Health Depa ment has produced a raully admirable manual, for which deserves all thanks, And, as it own health tributes to the w whole communi note to strike, "they I-being of the Phot is the We are all ale _Titose who gave their liven for King and country were honoured by their colleagues in Messrs. Jnrdine, Matheson & Ca, on November 10, wreaths were placed in the entrance hall The Rev. T. W. Hall vend 8 few sentences, after which he plac-fed a wreath on the memorial, Floral likewise were placed in by members of the private ice and by the senior members of the various departments, 'The cere= many' was quite brief and simple and speeches were made.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.