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THE CHINA MAIL.

`PICTURESQUE CITY

OF

SATURDAY AUGUST

RANCE

SOUTHERN FRANCE

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IN CENTRES

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Brilliant with sunshine and flowers, radiant with happy faces, merry with all manner of Carnival nonsense. The refuge of thousands of people who flee the fogs of England and the sleety rains of Paris. A city of enormous hotels, wide promenades, palm gardens, beaches, casinos, clubs, theatres and splendid shops.

[BY LILIAN HAYDEN HIESTON.]

below, of tiny, clinging villages, so much like the rock itkelf in colour that they are scaredy distinguishable, of grim fortress-castles perched high on sume crag, of rushing torrent or cascoile. In su pince the road itself is

overhung

are of "LOVELY KAPAS

TOT the least among the attrue tions of Nice is that it is within a few minuter end ride of Slonte Carlo, (and with all the added advantages of a: Jorge city. There are a dozen or more wory Inxurias clubs, which entertain curstantly, giving elaborate halls, con- by huze masses of rock., seemingly erts and exhibitions. These with the

about to fall. One asks ir it is not

I NICE RIVERÄTILLON numerous ensinos, einemas, operas, į dangerous and is told: "Yes, the raid theatres and swimming-pool sports give complete torn away sometimes! drivers. I feel like shaking hands wii † feet, but this same ebédren give it a, sinhabitrate than all the wares. There of thousands to Paris and are also are much to do. The high mountains when some mass of rock falls, but we them after such a trip and thanking wide horta in time of tod -kre so very neur to Nice that año has build it up agitin."

places.

One breathes them.

beri

I retires nerve and sell.

The River Paillon.

The

C'intis. A fashionable subar of Nico is Cimies above on the hill. Here are A queer river, one mys, in whose untie hotels with every known women dry their clothes and luxury?" One bas ruins of Roman baths children play. It always reminds me and temples and slentres. It was in of a remark by Charles Dudley Warner fact the town and Nire was unimport about the rivers near the Bay of Fundyans and hat the port of Cimiez. that are simply bods of mind at low only part of Nice, which in those war- cartidele sald-he-rever-realized before like thner was of "mude value was the how much water added to the elfeet of high rody promontory which is now This was a cive. This stream at Nice in time known the Chateni

dres of flood overflows a banks and

always fortified and lubi against foes. much damage. Wait here till the mat. It even survived when Cimiez fell. It ing snows in the high mountains fills was scardly ever knawh to yield to un channel and you will see very enemy. Once it was conquered through Niagara of a torrent. There is another treachers, but this was in the middle little

river, the Vár, on the other side

uges after the use of powder, when a of Nice and this is scarcely a tricks,supposed friend gave away the secret of the petition of its powder magazine, a baby brook would make more show,

raging, whirling the garrison. but this too ie

which was blown up, killing nearly all The enemy took little dangerous stream when the season fer

One wonders åt Aave the remnants of ruined fort. its activity comes. the precautions taken and, the high It is really tragic to apte the number walls about a river with not enough af terrible plagues and sicknesses that water in it to wet the wading children's killed off many, more thousands of the

Ali the shaw one wants for every kind-more-free-hen-que-haa-passed-such control_and_a_cool_head of fun within two hours' motor ride.

far have gone over these Here is

an hourly aute service to all

rands Lens of thousands of times and manner of famous spots. One enn ser

from Switeland down, to Nice and I *rges and mountain scenery that take

have heard of hut twn accidents and ore's breath, away, and even in the most

both were due to the failure of the insecessible places there i always a

brakes to hold. The cars now bove good restaurant for lunch or dinner.

two sets of brakes and some patent The huge touring curs meet with acciderier that is supposed to stop drats once in a while for brakes do not and prevent an accident. I have been always hold on those territic curves and up all the trails in our own Yosemite de-cents but considering all things they valley in the early spring andy these a surprisingly few. ind the best

are the only much worse and vy is to cking everything with the with much higher mountains and erin reflection time one enn die but once steeper stecipices and far more acute angles. One has not a safe and sere The rond in these trips are really fected mule but an immensely heavy azing. They are cut on the side of ear with twenty people in it that perpendicular walls of rock and turn gathers momentum very

quickly Inde, dn shume horrible down grades. wori arute angles zippussing along up atrust above the clouds. In some places To enjoy it one must, as I nay, consider they are heb spor supported by that it all in the game and will be hundreds of feet of missary. One gets, the same a few thousand years if magnificent gimpses of snow-covered wp are smashed up. It's great fun Alps, of the blue Mediterranean fur They have a remarkably fine set of

anyway.

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Skin Troubles Now Invite the Attention of the Bacteriologist, Who Cures Them By Inject- ing "Cultures" of the Very Microbes Which Cause the Mischief.

[BY ARTHUR BUDD.]

EVERY beauty parlour before long of bacterial germs into the vase-shaped will be obliged to employ a trained "follicles" from which the hairs sprout. export in bacteriology. This for the The smoothest skin, oven of a young resion that some of the most disagree-child, is covered with a perceptible fuzz ablo skin troubles are caused by germs. of hairs. Indeed, the entire human Perfection of feature-especially body, save only the palms of the hands mouth, nosa and oyer- greatly to and the soles of the foot, in covered ba desired; but, there is no real beauty with hair. For each individual tui: without a good complexion,

there is a follicle, which contains ifı It is true that a mottled or otherwise root. pour skin may be covered up and

When one

of these follicles is camouflaged with powder and paint, invaded by septic germs, the latter Women to-day, particularly young girls proceed to feed upon the tissues and (who least need such adventitions aids kick up an inflammation. It is to beauty), paint and powder their inflammation that nature seeks to get faces so berally that the artifice is rid of them, and a pustule is thereby distressingly manifest. In the aub- formed-in other words, a pimple

The pus, however, is produced by the dued light of the, boudoir they look all right, as they see themselves in the germs themselves, of which there are

number mirror, but on the street their make-up

of different species. · Collec- often suggests that of the circus clown. tively, they are called staphylococci" Of all skin defects, pimples are most long name which, being translated dreaded, and a tendency to eruptions into plain English, means that they of that kind is most liable to develop are tiny round bacteria which gather

Orly

Hitherto there had in bunches. youth.

Making A Germ "Gultar,” Feemed to be no cure for the troublo. Physicians, when consulted, Have Ordinarily, in the cass of a person looked wise and given one modicinal suffering from pimples, a single apocina prescription or another, or have of these germs is doing the schlaf. recommended a change of diet. But in The cure les In preparing a wire reality they have known no remedy.

Now, however, it is different. It has come to be known that pimples are Jocal Infectbas caused by the intrualon

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for the first interference of Rome in affairs of this part of Gaul. During the Middle Ages Nice, was besieged and explured in turn by the Counts of Savoy and Provence, the leading Italian cities such as Pisa, Geron, Florence, by the House of Aragon, the French kings, the Sardinians and others.

Finally by the treaty of Aix la Chapelle there, was peace for a time but it was not until 1800, by a vote of the inhabitants, that Nico was finally handed over to France.

Many famous men have been börn in Nice, among them Garibaldi, and Napoleon's brave general, Massena.

Promenade Des Anglais... Perhaps the most beautiful street in the Promenade des Anglais, built during a time of unemployment and were visilationy tuo of all sorts of bugs made into pertumes for all, the world. great suffering, by the foreign resi and focusis sund hope that ate Every inch of possible terrace, facing dents, chiefly English, to provide the all the gaps over and over again and the south, is utilisel with laborious poor with work. It is the favourite ↑ even bussy game and famine The toll Steep slopes that in America walk-us-it-in-on-the sea.front_facing the peuple sectors to have more than their would not for a moinen be considered the south and is always warm and are of vile to contend with, but they as possessing any value are here care-lovely. On this promenade are survived and Nice became ever more fully ruded and held in place by finest hotels. Here, on a pleasant day masonry and tilled, Some of thear famous and populous.

aro. to be seen. many thousands

and Villefranche, The Harhpur Of Nice. terrace shelves are but two or three strangers, sunning themselves

Moder Nice is far from any good fees in width with steps leading from rejoicing in the clear, dazzling beauty harbour, but the old town climbing one to the other and all carefully of the sea, the distant mountains and

the picturesque line of coast. around the "Chilean hill by way of watered by hand-

of

merry

stract known as the "Rubber of The old part of Nico is extremely In spring the carnival is held and Hats," so windy is it, pospesses a very | pleturerque and is very Italan in its then the whole city is mad with excite- The streets are full of gay gund harbour in which as I write is high walls, Ito narrow pages and ment. one of Uncle Sam's men-of-war, the steep steps. All this part of France maskers and the air full of confetti. Pittsburg, and innumerable yachts and arborged ca long to Italy that even now One is caught and entangled in tissue is petted with This is protected by the people speak Italian with far more paper streamers, one is walling vessels,

and embraced by two-rocky headlands and forms, one of Euency than they do French. The dowers. the few good harbours on the Mediter-name Nice came from the Greek word, dancers. There are long processions ranean. Mest harbours here are arti- victory, and was given by the Greek of gay floats and grotesque figures ficially made by jetties,

calanists from Marseilles when they towering above the heads of the crowd. All along the hillsides are terrées conquered the tribes inhabiting this Nice is thronged and thousands come-

These Greeks from all the country rotind. part of the country. on which the great array of carnations and other fowers are grown which give, were friends of Rome and asked nid and gatety and tumul all every nook Nee it reputation as the city of of Rome when the natives again and corner of the town and happiness. Bowers. These are sent by the tens attacked them. This was the occasion, reigns supreme.

Beauty and the Bacterial Germ

But

ONE

REAL

"vaccide." Though the germs are eli dead and therefore harmicas, the duld, contains quantities of poison which they have excreted. Introduced into the human body, it starts the body cells to manufacturing an anti-pohon deadly to germs of that particular spaciosf

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believed that bolla were caused by some mysterious impurity in the blood, of which nature, by this disagreeable means, was trying to get rid. Now it is known that boils, like pimples, aro local infections, attributable to speci- ally vicicus "staphylococci.” A boil on. the back of a man's neck-not an uncommon place for such a mischief to start-may be invited by an irritation. due to the scraping of the collar.

Most people must be naturally im mune to bolts, else everybody would be afflicted with them. For the tribe of pus-forming germs called "stophy- lococci keeps company with us every- where.

Sometimes they get into the sinuses the hollow places in the skull-renching them through tha lymph channels, and kick'up most pain- tul and dangerous inflammations. One of those sinuses is an elongated cavity that runs across tho Torehead behind the eyebrows. There is one in each cheek-bone (the so-called "antrum of Ilghmore"), and others located clsc- there.

many

There is another tribe of pus-form- jag germis much worse than the race herotofore mentioned. It is called

collectively, for there are apecles-the "streptococci." Which menns that they are little round bacteria that (au Been under the microscope) arrange themselves in chains. When they start breeding in any part of the body, they are liable

produto "general" infections.

A pimple, obviously enough, is a local infection; so likewise is a boil, No danger from either is to be appro honded.

But suppose that pus-form- Ing germa get into the blood stream, and are carried, through the body. Under such circumstances. they are likely to set up a general infection--a. literal poisoning of the blood-which may terminata fatally.

The chief danger in scarlet fever is not from the discssa itself, but from following infections by streptococci, which, even if the patient recovers, · may cause permanent constitutional Impairments. They may find their way into the brain, end by preying upon Its tisanes, make the sufferer a hope- less idioti

Fifty years ago people were begin- nine to, talk about what was thời

of as the "gorm theory of dis spoken

hold of the responsible germ. that is easy enough, Inasmuch as the pus of a pimple will furnish it in number Introduced with a sterilized platinum-needle into a glass tube con- taining some gelatin, a few of the vicious microbes, feeding on the gelatin, will soon breed millons, forming

Hence, in the case of a person suffer- whitish patch. The colony thus brad is called a "culture"

Ing from a tendency to pimples half-a- The culture ir ao propaved as to dozen hypodermic injections of the make sure that it contains germs of specially prepared "vaccine"

Tho diphtheria, etc all of them prepared, were caused by impurifica in the blood; case. no species other than the one which plishes a oare of the trouble. it is desired to brood. Then a little of species of germ that has been caning by the same method-depands And and the doctors, when consulted by that it is put into a glass vessel filed with the mischief can no longer muccessfully the boat of it is that the body calls, auferers, Lave prescribed accordingly.

to contend.hich mankind is obliged sterilized boof boollen, in which the invade the hair follicles and, breed in having the started to manufacture the Or they would suggest a light, diet, to te

But we have found out, how to fight microbes, anding it good food, multiply them, because the anti-polson destroys anti-poison, keep on with the business with not too much meat and a strict

for a long period, so that the trouble, avoidance of fat. But the motions them with fair degres of succes of that ancies, making from ittre billions. When they have had time it a banda Mp

purely empirical: they had no Having become acquainted with them, to zaultiply anfficiently, the bouillon is The principle is exactly the same as does not return, at man

basts in real knowledge" par racine, and administering the tider banted to bolling point, killing them all that on which the effectiveness of

we are abla to deal intelligéntly withe to the patient by injection.

Until within very recent years it was the sicknesses they cause. taus prepared Is the "necinos prevently of pneumonie, as bouillon

The first thing nocensury in ta get

accom

* Blood Unjustly Blamed.

It uied to be supposed that pimples

were

Eince then we have learned bacteria gorna are the worst