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HOW TO MAINTAIN HEALTH IN HOT CLIMATES.

The question of health in hot countrica practically resolves itself in the over-i coming of the difficulties due to extremes

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRE'S, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 281H, 1912.

THE SICCAWLI OBSERVATORY.

HOW FRENCH FATHERS SAVE HUNDREDS OF LIVES.

In every port on the length of the const

of temperature, dryness, moisture and of Asia-from Japan to Tonkin, seafaring miasmate. These, in their turn, are affected by questions of food, drink, cloth, whether of steel-hulled cruisere, triple-screwed and turbined pawenger ing, lodging, exercise and recreation.

ships, or picturesque Chinese junks, are Tight woollen underclothing is cardinal point in health, and a so-called guided in typhoon times by signals in cholera bolt" is often of great value. which they place the implicit trust of the Exposure to the direct solar heat or telling of danger in the open sen rises mariner in his compass. When the signal high temperature in the shade should be like a warning hand, they obey and halt, avoided, and so should stimulating or rich food and alcoholic drinks, the latter and when the signal, moving with perfect being taken in extreme moderation, ifechanism as a hand on a dial reade favourably, they proceed, confident of safety,

used at all.

The diot should be plain and simple, and an excess of animal food should ho rigorously avoided, with the view of ob- viating dyspepsia, congestion of the liver, interference

with assimilation and plethora. On the other hand, it does not do to imitate ton closely the diet of the natives, for the European stomach can no more obtain from the native diet all that is necessary for nutrition than it could, in other circumstances, from the blubber which the Eskimó finds sufficient.

Every authority states that people in tropical countries ent more than they can assimilate or is needed for their nutrition.

The result is they get deranged digestion. disordered liver, howel complaints, and their power of assimilation is greatly re- duced.

HOW TO AVOID LISTLESSNERA,

The enervating nature of the climate makes most people imagine they need an alcoholic stimulant. They do not; but there is absolutely no need for people to become eranks on the subject of teetotal ism, although doctors everywhere are preaching the value of complete absten- tion from alcohol.

For people who desire to give themselves the best chance and who does not Beience has pointed the way by which animal food on the one hand can be large ly omitted and alcohol on the other, with- out causing that feeling of weakness, that "all gone Bousation which are so

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stantly complained of, especially before the system has got accustomed to doing without these articles on which the in dividual used to rely.

The means by which this can be done is by the use of Sanatogen, that wonderful preparation which has such revitalising and re-creative powers that it is univer- sally admitted to be the greatest tonic food in existence. It owes its unique qualities to the fact that it is a chemical | combination of the body-building portion of pure cow's milk with that salt of phosphorns which

found in the brain and nervous system. The consequence is that almost immediately after it has been takon it is assimilated, and exercises its beneficent effects on the brain and nerves generally. As a result, the majority of those who take it experience the same sort of feeling of well-being, of being strong and able to do anything, which they habitually oxperienced after the use of their favourite form of alcohol.

ENTHUSIASTIC MEDICAL TESTIMONY. More than this, however, Sanatogen has the power of satisfying hunger to a mark ed degree, and, by supplying the body with a highly nitrogenous food, it enables those who take it to work harder and go longer hours without the desire for food. The immediate result of this is that the stomach and the digestive organs general- ly are rested. They are, therefore, able to regain the tone which they had lost, and thus recover their power of dealing efficiently with the ordinary articles of diet,

The band that warns of danger, that invariably rises in time to rob the re the dreadful toll it gathered when the typhoon gave its own warning to the hapless ship-too late-is guided by a sensitive and delicate instrument mort intelligent than the keen brain that con ceived it--the magnetic register of Sicen- wei Observatory. And back of the magnetic register and the perfect system of weather signals in us here to-day, is the romantic story of Siccawei and the Jesuit Fathers, why muy be found with their meteorological observatories, where

ever a flag flies.

The history of Siccawei Observatory has never been written. Unless somewhere in its archives lie records that have not come to light for decades, the facts of ita early existence here died with the founders. To-day it stands as one of the six or seven "great observatories of the world from a and magnetic equipment. It employs a standpoint of meteorological system of weather signals in use only on the Asiatic coast-and which the world The magnetic must eventually learn.

servatory, established in 1876 by Father Marc Dechevron, was the first in history, and was followed by the introduction of its success interested the French scientist, similar registering instrument in the great observatory of Paris.

ENGQUALLED FOR RESULTS.

The Siccawei Observatory exists under a system which is perhaps without an equal for results it is conducted by a half dos Jesuit priests who receive an

compense for their work-in has inter- national agreements which allow the free. transmission of hundreds of telegrams daily, no oficialdom hinders or inter fores with the Fathers: it was establisheri purely for the help of humanity and is bound by no outside ties-it is a thing apart from the world except for its co operation with the Maritime Customs. The presence of Siccawei Observatory saves the Government of China bundreds of thousands yearly; its value to the world

inestimable, and the number of lives and millions in property which have been sayed by the few Jesuit Priests who ask for nothing more than to be allowed to do their own work in their own way will never be known.

Centuries ago the Jesuits were expciled from China, but they returned in 1842 and established missions in Nanking and Peking, taking up their meteorological observations in south-west Chibli, at] Chan-Chiachua, where the work went ahead slowly for some years without recognition. The Jesuits established at Biccawei a small mission and made it their headquarters, receiving reports from other stations of weather conditions. The first real results were obtained in 1873, when the Siccawei observatory began the publication of meteorological reports. Even then the work of the Fathers passed unnoticed, the typhoons wrought their havoc yearly on the China Coast, and little attention was paid to the Jesuit

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FOR THE BENEFIT OF HUMANITY. "We are established for the benefit of humanity," continued Father Froc," for the good of semen.

Nearly all of us Erst used in Europe for the benefit of shippers, and while we first came here merely to give information to mariners we have developed under pressure. don't know what good we have done, we are a sort of prevention hospital. Our best results, we think, are that the application of the system of signals makes

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to Singapore. At the same time there of an approaching typhoon-it was dis

was a typhoon near the Caroline Islands. regarderi. Vessels left the harbour un- "The signals we raise on the French it is going to cross the Philippines and warned, were caught helpless at sea and Bund are repeated all along the coast by enter Tonkin. Nobody is going to signal the coast was strewn with wreckage. That the Customs. Without their aid we wero the captain at Tientsin, but when he was the last time the warning of the helpless. If we were not here, someone reaches Formoss he would be told of the Jesuits Fathers went unnoticed. One would have to pay for a central typhoon, and know where and when he skipper who had felt the lull, and the observatory, but we find the expenses was to meet it. In any other country the of the sea which told of the little, having private arrangements with he would know nothing. They would say approaching typhoon, bad, reeived the Russia, Japan, France, Germany, the perhaps

cyclone at the Azores.' signal from the observatory. When he United States, Great Britain and Spain Our system would say cyclone going felt the quickening of the wind which was for the transmission of our telegrams, north-west. A captain leaving Hamburg the forerunner of the storm he put back In each of these companies the cost of would know that after three days he was into port in all haste, and his vessel transmitting our telegrams would be to expect a fresh gale. In addition we was saved. Other captains did not heed nearly T14. 14,000 yearly. It is all done show local siguals, of course, for the the typhoon signal and paid sally. But for nothing. Two hundred messages benefit of fishermen and other small ship- the captain of the vessel which avoided come from our 65 stations throughout, men. The new system has been adopted the storm was loud in his praise of the Cains daily, and are sent along the coast, in part in Japan. yph signals, ship after ship heard of Each station sends in two messages &. day, it from him, and gradually shipping men sometimes three, and in typhoon times developed the custom of enquiring of many more. We transmit them to Siccawei observatory of the state of the Vladivostock, Antung, Newchwang, to a weather autaide" before leaving Woo--station-en the Gulf of Chibli, Tientsin,have had scientific study. The system was sung.

Taku and others on the Pei-ho, Chefoe, The basis of the present observatory was the government station at Weihaiwel, laid at Napking by Father Colombel, who Taingtau, where they use only our was succeeded by Father le Lee in 1873, signals, Hankow, Chinkiang, Wocsung, and the latter brought the instruments Gutzlaff, Ningpo, Chinhai, Wenchow, to the mission here. At that time its Sharp Peak, Fouchow, Amoy, Swatow, to observations were meteorological, but in 1870, Father Decehvron, who succeeded Father le Lee, set up the wonderful Ho-ku in Formosa, and to Toky, for the scientific education of coasting magnetic observatory. His place at the head of the mission was taken by Father Japan. You see, we cover a good deal of captains. It helps the companies, too, of courae, for there are fewer ships lost than Pin Boomsous in 1888 and in 1899 Fatber

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for the fishing craft, which will probably Observatory, took charge, until 1800, when "We have a system here, only in use

on the coast of Asia, which we are trying always be in use, and the new one for he was succeeded by the present head, Father L. Free. The four observatories to introduce throughout the world. It is large vessels, we now have to expect a at Siccawei are under the charge of the very simple, made up out of a small code third system, that of wireless telegraphy. following at the present time: Father and developed by Father Chovelier and Two years ago we received from 100 to Froc, meteorological; Father H. Gauthier, myself. In other countries, they use only 200 messages monthly from war vesela seismological, Father S. Chevelier, local signale. For instance-a ship from many ports-Foochow and Tientsin astronomical and Father J. De Maidrey, leaving Hamburg will be advised of fair asking for advice on the conditions at Now the cruisers in the barbour magnetic.

weather in the vicinity of Hamburg, and 50%. We exist under a union of good not told that that he is to meet a gale here repeat our signals. wills,"

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"We receive little, or nothing," he Press, "we are not hindered here, and by Humburg would be "expect a gale here. concluded, from the outside, and sup our agreement with the Maritime Custom That is all. Each one of our signals is port ourselves on our past economies. We are not hindered here, and receive are able to carry out our work. Captain sant out to each station on the coast, Tyler, the Coast Inspector, aide us a good whether it pertains to that locality or excellent co-operation from Captain Tyler deal. He is a man of many ideas and not. Instead of running up a signal here, and the Maritime Customs. With this

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