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Of all the evils which the inhabitant of the torrid zone is called upon to endure, the greatest are, perlays, the doudly debility and nervous depression which are the forerunners of the more serious ilis so rife in warmer latitudes. Physical fitness should be the constant watchword; boalthy nerve fores must be the abject of the most carnest consideration. Happiness, nay life itself, hangs in the balanco.
When exhausted Nature fais readily to respond to the extraordinary demands made
FASHIONS AND FANCIES,
THE N-WEST, EMBROIDERIES.
The smariest tailor-madas, even when in dark hues for morning wear are all ornamented with embroideries, wherever there is a corner to fit thom in. On short coats these corners are n-
the fronts,
two or plenty; two at the bottom cuffs in addition. Those embroiderics are gram. the revers; and then there are the collar and fug Bolder and bolder; some of them are rather like sections of wallpaper intended for baronial halls or public-dinaer rooms. Very large con- ventional flowers and leaves are carried out in braid or ebonile, and on lighter dissos few are soon without silver or gold introduced somewhere in the design.
VEILED TRIMMINGS.
protection as possible, Still, they keep away
little dust, and each garments de luxe re sally wood by people who can well afford to play tricks with their clothes, and only play at protecting them--X, and Z. in the Globe,
a
MIXED MARRIAGES.
WARNINGS FROM PAKING,
The Grand Council of China has just mads rule which will command itself to thinking people all over the world, writes Mr. Charles Lorrimor, in the Argonaut (San Francisco). It No Chinese diplomatic, naval, or army commissioners, or diplomatic, deputies, shall wives". be allowed to contract, marriagos with foreign
Say's:
say,
Of course, such a rule should not lo genes- White woman should feel instinctively are not suitable for husinde But, dinco that Chinese gentlemen, Lowever stimable, not bo depended upon their instincts an and since our laws are framed on the principle that every individual shall have full liberty. thankful for the sousible view token by China lan herself if she pleases, we can only bo
and
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A charming feature of dress just now in the and subdued, and yet whole offect is upon the system by the oxigencies of climate, way in which rimmings no vallol, so that the Stience suce more comes forward with precisaly rotains all its richuesa. For instance, a rose- the neoden ramy, Fantages, the ionic food, coloured silk blouse, trimmed with silver is the means discovered wheroby impaired embroidery, will be voiled with a single thick noss of mole-coloured chiffon, atebing the mola.caloured velvet skirt. Or the garment vitality may be safely and rapidly restored.
Samatogon has a singular effectiveness. It is itself will be unveiled, but tas upper part, not as a tonis only that it stands unrivalled; it bearing the trimming, will be softened with a is, besides, a perfect food, extremely rich in just thickurss of chiffon. A very pretty green dress, in the shade of young willows, has a those properties necessary to the perfect nourish yolto anil vest heavily embroidered in ments, the depleted system. The basis of inmortal with cruzy now and outlined to wish that other Eastern countries-Japan Baustogen is the coin or card," the aites-querely with lines of gold incu. A film of likely to do so, however, locanso she is pocularly genous principle of milk. Nitrogenous foods Tech chiffon over it all makes the whole xansitive about the slightest suggestion of io Fuen on a very large proportion of the terbarry with white nations essential to equality, are our body-building ones. They are demanded thing dreamy and postie. This charming ides inferiority, and she considers the right to in The Lark does not go eoarting the nightingalo constantly by the body for the formation, and gowns of today, particularly those for after-whareas it has really nothing at all to do with it. for the repair of its tissues. United with the noon wear.
There was the well-known case of the Japanese casein, we find glycero-phosphoric acid, which is
yes both aro estimenle birds.
an all-important constituent of the brain and
"baron" who married in English lauly in in. norvous system. This is the reason, then why
Australian inn, where he was acting as "Boots" Sanatogen has obtained its high reputation. It
Ho assured bor that he was a bond fide baron typo, beloved lii. Accordingly they married LANE, CRAWFORD & CO., repairs the wor and tens of the most vital parts
in disguise, and she, being of the confiding aristocratio tendency appeared in a dislike for work. He opont most of his time hiding to avoid military dufy, as war was going on, and ho found himself within the ago,
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THE ORIGIN OF FASHIONS,
sud from ALL WINK MERCHANTS. 146 of our frames, and above all it gives to brain and 1 :ion on the right side would tavs impeded the and went to Tokyo, where the baron's first
merve thair abantial food in precisely the form in which they are expable of readily receiving
Doctors in tropical climates have not been slow to see the wonderful advantages in the use
A recent lecture has drawn attention to the curious origin of many of our fashions. We wear trimmin. on the left sile lause, in the days when inop's dress was adornod with the use of the sword was frequent, and ornaments ousanuts we have now copied from them, the out and thrash. The heary stitelings which apparently deer so the size of the hand when old in gloves, are only survivals of the day when loves were clumsy things of many seams, which were more or less disguised by stitchery.
remote, has been discovered! F..BITIONABLE OOLOUR NAMES,
For our
Hand-made Drawn Chinese Linen and Sanatogen among their patients, and a great excuse, how hats, however, apparently no idleness, he kioked her so bratally that she
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Finally, when his wife upbraided him for had to be taken to the hospital, in a Afterwards she SD- dangerous condition. palet to the police for protection. Bat they to advertise in the papers for another husband said they could do nothing, and advised her
candidates at the Imperial Hotel twice a week which she did, Ironiember she received for some months.
Sand-colour is the latest desiguation of a many of them have written setting out the success that has attended the use of this pro-shade always more or less in favour, but needing paration. They have used it with the greatest oconsioual freshening up by a new title. The
that name, bat Nattier blue is old blna. suceons in Malaria, Dysentery, Entaric Forer, soft Empire groen of lust year is still known by eason of Plagne and Cholera, as well as amongst Elephant gray retains its name and station, doll those who are suffering from ailments due to Parma violet is extraordinarily fashionable, sad disordered livar, spleen or digestive system, in Paris a picturesque tone of all bone is known Reynolde." Encalyptus" is the name of a grey to the brownish-green which was known two years ago as petrol." Champagne pink, Madeira brown, atmosphoric blue, night blue, Spanish tobacco, old red, vaulla brown, are names which speak for themselves, while our old friend the mushroom appears under the grandiose galerie guise of amudou." Challengement of the household and even of her groy, dawn blue, and flag blno, sre a few ethor tints whose names it is imperative to know if one bas sartorial pretensions.
Thus Dr. H. H. W. HART, Hapur Ramount Depot, Babugarh, United Provinces, India,
writes:
PANELS AND PLEAT9.
"I have much pleasure in certifying to the value of Senatogen in cases of Malaria, Enteriu Fever, Dysentery, and other I have used it exhausting diseases. regularly now in my practice for the past two years, and in no single instance have I
All smart tailor-mades have a more or less been disappointed with its results. I can honntly affirm that many of my worst cases plain breadth in front, without fulness or in owed their recovery to Banatoyen. I could terruption, and frequently without orna quote bumerous cases whore the administramentation. This plain front is accentuated in tion of Sunatogen was followed by immediate all but the celebrated narrow gowns by the and marked amelioration of the symptoms, arrangement of plents at the back and sides. I cannot speak toe highly of its value, and I In the afternoon and evening dresses the same certainly consider it the best of artificial comparative plainness is outlined on ti her side by embroidery, or is simply revealed by foods."
the over-dress, or takes the form of a definite panel of inserted lace. Pleats are a salient feature of outdoor dress; but they are still there more as shading thus as outline, for they must be kept so rigidly fat that only the stripe-like offest of their edges proves their prožunco,
Whilat Dr. C. R NAYLOR, Bangalore, South India, writes
In
It was through my influense that your excollent medium of nutrition-Sanatogon -was introduced into South India, and I have reason to be proud of my success in doing so, for I consider that I have thereby conferred a benefit opon suffering humanity. "I have found it unequalled by any other food when the internal arrangements of the body (whether in children or adulis) are in want When milk, of a stimulating nutrient diluted to any degroe cannot be digested, Sanatores
will be greedily assimilated. many almost hopoles cases of plague, where I Lave heart failure has been threatening, found Sanategan helpful in getting the patient to turn the critical corner, and it has admirably aided my treatment of this fell disseso. I have no hesitation in stating that by the discovery of Saustogen you have added a most powerful weapon to those already in the possession of every physician." And Dr. F. BOWERS Baptishi, P.O. Bongal and N. W. Railway, N. Rhagolpore, India, writes
THE OVER-DRESS UP TO-DATE.
Ima ine for a moment the position of a white woman when she is first set down among her husband's clan. She finds herself suddenly blood relatives stand highest in his regard- face to face with the grim fact that all his his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother, brothers, and sistors while she, as what Japanese call an artificial relative," is con sidered last, and has the least say in the
childron, “
Westera young women who know nothing about life in the Far East would, Mr. Loreinor continues, do well to read the famous Japanese and The Golden Dragon' novels Namiko
both lately translate. The first, by the Zola utter dreariness of the "daily round" of a of Japan," gives a most excellent picture of the Japanose lady. Feeding the tamo gold-fish or arranging two branches of flowering cherry in a thru Enaired-year-old vase are supposed to amuse the wife of an aristocratic Japanese, and to fill her afternoons-an
The white woman who marries à Chinese auflers just as much from the family system, and is still more out off from the society of her own kind, because the prejudice against mar- riages between foreign women and Chines mon is stronger in the foreign communitise of China
in Japan. then the prejudice against mixed marriages
in
There have been two or three Anglo-Chinese The pelisss and tunio effects are very definite householde in Poking and all failures. In one oase the husband and wifo did not actually 1ho position impossible for just now, but they oad sooner than has been the cast, being usually about as long as a half-length disagres, but they soon found that their coat. They nearly always open in frant, ent are anlon made edged with embroidery.. A charming example both, and parted with some shreds of of this is in an evening-dress of pansy purple mutual respect still left. He, as an official, was soft satin, with an overgown, or polisie, of grey hampered in his career by the incongruous chitou, or thickness, lust with single film of partnership; she was shunned by her own peoplo far club membership, was denied the pale pink talle. The polisse is bordered within and, as the wife of a man ineligible because of his embroidery in grey and purple pearls, with a majorad by all the other white! touch of pink and silver introduced in winding threads of these colours. The polise turns back on the shoulders with a little collar of purple and silver shot tissue, embroidered-in grey, black, and pluk pearls, and the little rost of confined at the top by a twist of bleak relvet sewn with waife pearls, tied in a bow at one side, and ending in fringes of small white pearls.
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