Children also have new dresses 10- day and three coloured pieces of silk with Chinese characters painted on them are seen dangling from the back of their necks. What can this mean? There is superstition among the Chiese that if children wear—these Pieces of silk they" are protected against all kinds of insect centipedes, snakes and the like. Besides these three pieces of silk the boys and girls wear little silk bags Alled with incense or smelling salts, Supposed to be obnoxious to insects, also the time when weeds vipening at this @ime, are carried leto the cities in large quantities and after /grinding them into powder or wrapping them into coloured papers are burned to ward of mosquitoes. This.
old Chinese Public Health measure and does keep some mosquitoes away but does not exterminate them.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.