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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL

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We extract the following Items' of Sandakan and Kudal news from the Herald of the 111 inst.:

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The month at Kudat was remarkable for the number of steamers that called there, clearly showing the growing importance of that central port

From Sandakan the lemon carried a large arg of timber, consigned by the China Borneo Company to their agents in the Flowery Land. Next month she may take some Tobacco.

The Suar.lamba Tobaccq Company, Limited, has been successfully launched to take over part of the land and undertakings on the Segaliud River belonging to the Trading and Planting "Company""

The weather during the month has been des lightful, the North East. Monsoon, has been blowing fresh and strong greatly to the benefit of the residents at Kudat; with the exception of a few sick coolies at Bandow, Maruda Day seems wonderfully healthy just now.

Mrs. Beeston met with an accident whilst put riding a few weeks ago which might have proved serious. An Australian cob she was riding stumbled and gave her a nasty fall. Her face was cut, but beyond this there was nothing

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› very small particles, else it may cause 4-indigestion and passoutofthe system unabsorbede Good butter, cream, olive oil and nuts are rich in fat, and in a form agreeable to take. Potatoes, corn, oatmeal and eggs, containing starch, are all fat producers. We once advised n boy who rejected every form of fat usually found on his mother's table, to eat freely of hickory puts, and it proved to be very good advice for him. That popular nyt, the peanut, which even many physicians condemn as indigestible, has been of like service to others,

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1889.

THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

“OF-WOMEN-

Co-day's * Advertisements.

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TAMAKICHI TROUPE. THIS EVENING, SATURDAY, the zoth.

THE CELEBRATED TOKIO & OSAKA- COMBINED ACROBATS,

consisting of EIGHTEEN PERFORMERS,

The principal characteristics of general form that distinguish women from men, according to a writer in Scribe's Magazine, are smaller muscles, sloping shoulders, broader hips and shorter legs. Of these characteristics the smaller, muscles and Whorter legs may be said to be embryonic, while the superior breadth of hips indicates a greater evolutionary advancement in this part of the body than has taken place in man. The constricted The conditions of perfection are several, and

waist we must regard as a deformity artificially may be mentioned here. The first is perfect produced, and it may be likened to the mastication. If this is not accomplished much of the food is not brought under the influence cramped feet of the Chinese and the flattened of the digestive juices, and is 10 list, Count-heads of the Peruvians-In women of the Rumford, calculated, that one fourth less food is primitive ages there could have been no required if it be perfectly masticated. The object waist, and in some of the Indian tribes of of mastication is to break up the particles into the present. time there is no evidence of a condition in which the digestive juices can be What, then, is the primary cause of the narrow

the slightest bodily constriction in this region. M brought into immediate contact with them.

contracted waist as seen in woman throughout It has been stated that Mr. Gladstone is so impressed with the importance of perfect mastica. the civilised world today? At the time of the tion that he makes a practice himself, and has worship of the beautiful by the Greeks, women taught his family to do the same, of giving each quickly discerned the harmonious curves and mouthful thirty-two bites one for each tooth in asymmetrical lines that received the approval of perfect mouth. It is no wander that he is able the men of that age, and they fashioned them. to perform such an amount of intellectual labor at that time have been transmitted to us in marble selves accordingly. The ideals predominating

At the Mixed Court on the 15th, before. -money-;-but for some reason she rivied to give

the Chinese Magistrate. T'sai - and W. R. bin the $50 lie demanded. He then painted a six-chambered revolver at her which he had Carles, Bkq British Assessor, the prisoner concealed up his sleeve. Two amahe and a girl was up for examination, and some of the attendance. The sged 11 years were in the room at the time and witnesses were also in

Magistrate questioned on seeing the revolver they rushed forward to.

prisoner and protect the woman when the boy fired, shooting di cantonese girl but no new facts were one of the amaha in the chest, the bullet entering elicited, except when the Magistrate asked one of her langs It is supposed that this woman he prisoner whom be intended to shoot when then opened the window and was about to jump he took away his master's revolver, he said out when Texo Ab-hong fired again, the bullet he did not intend to shoot anyone, adding shattering her arm, and she fell or jumped, out hit he was drunk and did not know what he of the window into the road. The other amaḥ was doing. "He got drank, he said, at five o'clock must have been attempting to follow her. whes in the afternoon. The Magistrate ordered him Taao Ah-hong fired a third shot which struck n be taken int the city. He also told the ber in the back, entered her heart, and she fell Cantonese girl she would have to go into the backwards a corpse. Not content with his city to give her evidence before the Che-hsien diabolical work the murderer fired another shot he did not like this, "but the Magistrate"said"

he would have to go. After the Che-helen bas which struck the tie girl in the chest inflicting what is feared will prove a mortal wound, How Felda preliminary inquiry Into the matter, it bis intended victim escaped" is a mystery which would be well if he would hear the case in the beiself cannot explain, nor can she explain the Mixed Court, the prisoner being in foreign when or how the maderer made his exit from the play and the offence committed in the settle room as it was full of smoke. The first intimationment.-Courier, the police had of the occurrence was at 3 minutes "to.7 o'clock when Mr. Dzonk reported at the Central Station that he was passing along the Houan Road about 6.30 pm. when a woman jumped from the top storey window of a Chinese house and nearly fell on top of him; he looked "up and saw Ah-chan preparing to jump-out of the name window. When she saw bin she cried would kill herself if she did not out as she so thinking the house was on fire, burst open the door and rushed upstairs. On entering the top-room he saw a woman lying on the floor near the window and a little girl lying on a sofa, bath bleeding profusely; seeing that a murder had been committed, he hastened, to the Station to give information Inspector Howard and Detective Keeling proceeded at once to the scene of the tragedy, and on the way met Captain McEuen who accompanied them. On arriving at the house they found the woman who had jumped out of the window lying in the road and apparently dying, and entering 1,200 000, 700,000 of whom app.led för relief along the lines of road from the Segalind to the, the most important source of food, although regarded by Galen as the cause of many of

CORRESPONDENCE,

We do bot necessarily endorse the opinions expressed by Correspondents to this column]

THE FAMINE IN NORTHERN CHINA. TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Hoscuong Telegraph,"

DEAR SIR-Seeing that the Chinese and lo eign communities in the British colonies, in Hongkong and the Straits Settlements, at the Treaty Ports and in several foreign colonies bave subscribed pretty liber lly towards the North China Famine Relief Fund, and supposing many of them would like to know something concerning the distribution of relief in these. parts I venture to send you the following few notes on the subject

In Lu Chou-fu, the Prefectural city of which is in Lat 31 deg, 50 min. N. Long, 117 deg. is m. E., Ho-fei Hslça is the only district in that Prefecture requiring relief. The total population of that single district is over ard over 400,000, of whom were not only destitute of food but also of fuel. There being neither coal nor wood in the whole country straw. is the only fuel, and the crops having failed straw

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serious.

The first arrival of the month at Kudat, was the Rance bringing, coolles for the estates and a general cargo she left the same day for Sand kan, taking the South Banguey Channel whic. Captain Griffia prefers to Mallawalle, and arrived on her due date, February 4th.

The demon called at Kudat on tier way down from Hongkong before going to Sandakan, to Innd Chinese coolies, and some Hakka imml grants who came to settle amongst their friends and relatives at what is called "The Cleavings," extending from one to five miles from Kudat town.

Mr. E. Kortman on behalf of the Arenburgs Tobacca Company of Deh has applied for 18,000 acres of land on the Kinabatangan river and Segams. Mr. Kontman is of opinion that the Segalund river and Sandakan bay will be the future outlet for the lands towards the Lokan.

Three Chinese prisoners who aliarked the Sikh sentry at Gaya and made their escape were recaptured and sent by the Kimanis to Sandakan for trial. One of the prisoners, a powerful and ruffianly looking fellow, jumped overboard somet time between 1 am, and 3 aim, on the 7th ulto, while the launch was under steam in the Mallawal e passage. His fate is not known but As he were heavy 1. g irons, it is not likely that

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which he hoped His xcellency would prohibit and suppress, the Governor stated that, ab he shared the Pangeran's view as to th lessness and folly, he feared he coull much to prevent them as it was not usual in British Colonies to interfere with customs of this

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kind, however superstitious or foolish they might be, provided they did no material injury

o any section of the community.

A new company is announced - The Borneo Hotel and Stores Company, Limited " its purpose "to supply the want of an European managed Hotel for Visitors, Planters and

visitors nor residents, pd.), on a site of 1150 square feel "in the best part of the town the manager of the Hotel, Mr. F. ilayley-its capital. $50,000-its first Directors, Messrs. E. E. Abrahamson, A. H. Michelson, and W. Rigby, M.BC.M., and its Hankeis, the Hongkong and Shanghai 'Bank,

the top-room they found the girl on the sofa and the dead woman lying on her back with her feet towards the window. Detective Keeling carried the gul downstairs and had her and the injured

became very scarce; few woman taken immediately to the Shantung Koad Hospital. As an instance of the abject fear, or people could afford to procure a sufficiency inhumanity, of the Chinese lower class we may wherewith to cook, their food fast winter, nention that when the girl was brought down The Prefect of Lu Chou Fu, however, foreseeing nct one of the large number of natives who had what was about to happen applied to several sscnbled outside the house would volunteer to distinguished natives of that Prefecture for fake her on his knee and convey ber to the assistance and actually succeeded in obtaining hcapital in a 'ricksha, and it was not until a nearly Tik. T00,000 and over 500 piculs of rice, Canton woman, with more heart than courage, whereupon he caused the distribution of rice to

In reference to the Pangeran s representation offered a dollar to any one who would do so, the natives near the Prefectural City, at the rate that the poor creature was removed. The of one bushel and a half to each adult, about 20

that some of the people were addicted to incan house was then searched but nothing but a days' rations, and half that amount to children.lious, exorcisms and other heathenish practices belle, was found, for it is needless to say the To those further off, he gave money at the rate murderer had disappeared, and it is conjectured of 300 large cash to adults and half that amount that on hearing Mr. Dzunk orcing the door he to children. In this inner all the rice and rushed downstains and secreted himself in one over Tls. 65,000 were expended before, the of the lower rooms until Mr. Dronk went upstairs, Chinese New Year Soup ki.chens were also when he escaped through the open door. The started where rice gruel, was doled but to all who cared to come for it, that is, those persons revolver with which he had done bis bloody work is supposed to be one he had stolen from who were entlicly destitute of everything they his master who, for the last ten years, kept it needed. Thus the people were tranquilized and loaded in five chambers, between the mattresses felt grateful for what they got. Another, dis- of his bed. The bullet found corresponds with tribution is now about to take place and that, it those used by Mr. Ruff and his revolver is miss-is hop d, will carry the people on until the ing, but strange to say, on examining his stock Spring crops are ripe. of cartridges he found them intact, so the I have just come from Ying Chou Fu, the Prestesidents"-guere, Planters then are neither murderer evidently thought that five shots would be sufficient to acconiplish his diabolical work.

Though the police made every effort to trace the murderer they were not successful, but it was the opinion of the Chinese that if he was still in the acttlement he would soon be captured as no cliss of natives would harbor him. This proved correct for about 3 o'clock in the Afternoon of the 13th Mr. W. Lamond's boy sent word to his office that Trao Ah- bong was in Mr. Lamond's private residence In Siking Road. This information Mr. Lamond speedily conveyed to the Central Station and Detective Keeling and a native detective were cent to arrest him. Arriving at the house Keeling stationed his man at the back to cut off all possi bility of escape in that direction and himself entered the house from the front and arrested the murderer in the boy's room. The revolver, with one chamber still loaded, was found in his possession. He made no resistance, but stated that he had taken some medicine and requested to be allowed ja lie down on the boy's bed and die. This request, it is needless to state, was not complied with, but as he seemed very ill he was taken to the Shantung Road Hospital and the stomach pump applied. The native doctor, however, stated that the prisoner hd not laken any poison, Prisoner did not deny that he shot the women, but stated that he bad been drinking and that he met one i the amahs in the street last evening and the insulted him, and he then went home for the revolver and on returning fired the four ehots. After that he wandered about the streets all night and at g o'clock this morning went to Mr. Lamond's hou e as the boy there was a friend of his. He denied that he had demanded money but admitted having received By on a previous occasion, When being taken to the hospital be was very anxious to know if he had killed anyone. He was detained in the hospital for about an hour and was then taken

to station and charged,

On enquiry at the hospital, it was reported that the two females were still alive but little hope was entertained of their recovery.

fectural Cuy of which is in 1 at. 32 der 58 min. N. Long. 115 deg. 57 min. E. There, the Prefect told me that relief had been granted to all the sufferers in his Prefectural jurisdiction, several times since they had been flooded out of their homes by the rupture of the Yellow River banks in 1887. Ho had just issued proclamations warning the people that another distribution of funds amount. ing to 1,100 large cash to adults, and 550 to children, was to take place immediately and that was the last they were likely to get, as the waters having subsided many people had been able to sow wheat and other spring crops all of which was coming on finely. Ho, the Prefect felt very thankful for all that had been done, and the people were grateful, for the relief afforded theas; no more was aceded, as the funds in hand were ample for the present requirements. In various parts of this Feng-Yang Fu Prefecture, the Prefectural City of which is in Lat. 32 deg. $1 min, N. Long, 117 deg 35 min. E. things are not exactly so satis factory in the matter of relief afforded. At Ting Yü4D Hies, the county seat of which is in Lat 32 deg, 33min. N., Long. 117 deg. 33min. E., I was told that the people were suffering immensely, at least two-thirds of the population required relief, yet the newly appointed magistrate was forcing the people to pay up the taxes that bad been remitted by Imperial decree. A lot of cash went up from Shanghai had that day arrived for distribution amongst the sufferers by flood and drought. The people I saw said that they had little hope of receiving anything seeing the manner in which they had already been treated by the magistrate. There were over 500,000 souls in that country and it would require a lot of money to afford even a small amount to two-thirds of that number. The people begged me to stay, as they wished to petition the Viceroy and Governor against the Magistrate; they had already sent a deputation of fixie Fang Yang Fu,their Prefectural City, but without effect. I told them that I could not interfere in matters of Government; "all I could do for them was to inform the relief Committee of Shanghai In the report of this tragedy in the Shes of their necessities, and recommend a further Pao it was stated that the murder had been dispatch of fande for distribution amongst them. commited by a foreigner, Such a misstate-—At Feng-tai-Halen, another-county-in-this- ment as that is clearly attributable to gross Prefecture, the county Scat of which is in Lat. carelessness and likely to work, an incalculable 3a deg., 41 min. M. Long. 116 deg., 50 min. E., amount of mischief, and we trust the mistake I was told that a former Magistrate, Member will be at once corrected and that our contem- of the Imperiat Clan, had been degraded for porary will be mie accurate in cases of this his shortcomings in the matter of relief distribu- sort in future.Marcury.

tion last year. The present Magistrate had The Che-hsie, from the city, arrived at the caused some distribution of funds to be made at house in Honan' Road shortly before 5 o'clock the rate of 400 cash to adults and half that on the afternoon of the 14th and opened an amount to children. Another distribution of funds inquest on the body of the dead amah, The was promised to take place soon. (The Junk bdy was brought from the house into the carrying the cash for that distribution is actually sect, and there examined and measured in in this Port of Hual Yuan Hsien, weather bound) nithodox Chinese style by the native doctors, They had received one distribution of Tir., the Che-tied watching the operation seated each, over a year ago, and were, grateful for on a low bamboo chalt, beneath his umbrella, what had been dong. The waters of the Yellow and smoking a bubble pipe. A larga crowd River having now receded the Spring Crops of natives assembled, and the police had worn coming on finely, and it was believed no some difficulty in keeping them back. The more relief would be required after this last wound having been probed, k., &c., the body distribution. was dressed, put info a coffiu, and conveyed Here at Hual Yüan Heien a distribution of away by deceased's friends. Then the Che- 60 crab, only was made yesterday to farmers, halen, Captain Superintendent Me Ewen, and for weed grain, to enable them to sow the lands others went to the Shantung. Road Hospital, from which the waters of the Yellow River had and in the prisoner's presence, the amab made recently receded. I heard some people say that a statement and recogalzed the prisoner as the sum of 504 cash to each person had been man who had shot her. It was a peculiar sight promised but only 60 cash each were given The ash was in bed. The Che-halen stood on funds may be insuficient. Wheat and rice had boy (the prisoner) was knocking at the foot of and 4-1oths to each adult, and half the amount to the bed, and Interpreters of different dialects children. The information obtained at the Yamen were crowded round, each one chipping in now was corroborated outside", "We have now been and then, to enable the Mandarin to better here, two days, wind bound, but hope to reach understand what was passing, neitherthe prisoner Feng Yang Fu City, to-morrow, if the weather is nor the amal apparently understanding the fine, whence I will supplement this beform for dialect of the Che-haiuseppigence how dem warding it, if possible.

The investigation was over a few minutes before 6 o'clock, and at the quest of Captain Superintendent McEwen, the prisoner, being In foreign employ, will be detained at the Central Police Station and taken before the Mixed Court Magistrate, and then, in all probabl. lity he will be sent into the city, and that will be the last foreigners will hear of the case for min' hs to comenta

Sunkes have been plentiful since the dry weather commenced. On the morning of St. Patrick's day, Mrs. Daly went out to pick some clover, which is the nearest approach to sham rock attainable out in Sandakan in order to wear the "bit of green so dear to Irish hearts on that day. On her way to the verandah she met a small poisonous snake coming into the passage which seemed perfectly oblivious of the tradition that St. Patrick had an animosity to its species. The snake was cleverly caught by the butler and placed in a long soda water tumbler from whence it went to its last home in a bottle of spirits.

FAVORABLE CONDITIONS. Digestion is favored by the proner selection of food by the beat treatment of food as regards cooking, flavoring and serving; by proper variety of food, with, occasional changes of diet; by moderate exercise, warmth and a genial state of mind; by good sleep. Persons who suffer from sleeplessness lose their appetites and their diges tion becomes impaired. Steep, on the other hand, is promoted by good and suitable food; by pleasant social surroundings at the table and by regularity in eating, with proper intervals between meals.

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and, bronze, and illustrate the highest ideals” of feminine beauty and loveliness of figure. Assoon as the moral fibre of the Greeks grew lax the courtesans set the fashion, and in order to make the hips more prominent the graceful-curve of the pelvis was gradually increased by constricting the waist with a many-layered girdle. This custom was then carried to such an extent that, according to Cerviette, Hippocrates vigorously reproached the ladies of Cos for too tightly com pressing their ribs and thus interfering with their breathing powers," The custom was Cintitated by the Romans, and the works of Martial and Galen frequently allude to the unnaturally small waists of the women of theirTHE times. In fact, stavs and breast-bands" "Wett the evils attributed to them at the present day. This art of constricting the waist has urished at different periods in different ages for the past three thousand years.

From an anatomical point of view, the tissues of a woman do not differ materially from the tissues of a man. The bones, muscles, arteries, and nerves Are similarly constituted, and are governed by the same laws in their development. So, alsh, vre the heart lungs, stomach, and heain. Any- thing that will impair the function of an organ in one sex will certainly interfere with its nation in the other. If you put a tight bandage around the waist of a man, the physiological functions of the abdominal and thoracic SIMPLICITY IN LIVING,

organs are for the time impaired, and the What examples of simplicity were those of

man is unable to make more than two-thirds of Sidney Smith, whose society often attracted the wealthy to share his single dish; of Isaac News the mental and physical exertion of which he is capable When we reflect that woman has con- ion, who lived in the plainest way when thinkingtricled her body for centuries, we believe that out his greatest works; of Franklin in his early taught that "men should abstain from meals life; of. William Wadsworth; of Socrates, who

In temperate latitudes the vegetable world is animal food is also extensively consumed.

It is true that there are some difficulties in adopting a fleshless diet. Ore is that the habits and customs of society are not built upon a plan for it, and these are not easily changed. Our present dietetic habits are formed on the rude experience of generations and they pretty nearly, on our best arranged tables, provide the requisite quantity of fats, carbohydrates, proteids and alts; but the moment flesh is omitted there would be a great deficiency of proteids, unless it were arranged for in other articles of diet. It would be necessary to use, for instance, more oatmeal and bread made from whole-meal flour, also beans and peas-all very rich in protcids,

which might cause a man to cat who had no need for food, or ta'drink without thirst.". His

'o this fashion alone is due much of her failure to realise her best opportunities for development, and through natural heritage to advance the mental and physical progress of the race. We are the more firmly chavinced of this fact from wife, like many before and since, expecting the rapid advancement that women make in vision for them. guests, had made, she feared, inadequate pro-health, strength, and physical improvement

He replied; "If they be

under favourable circumstances. This would honest men it will be enough; if not, what need seem to indicate that their bodies had been held we care for them? These are cases of simple in arrears and were pining for freedom of move- living but high thinking, "Read the lives of ment and exercise. our great men," says Professor J. R. Mayor. $read the story of their greatness; rend of Hannibal and St. Paul, of Luther and Newton, of Wesley and John Howard, and you will find temperance (simplicity) at the root of all their

virtues."

A 'DIET FOR RHEUMATISM.

In chranic or semi-acute rheumatism depend on a vegetable dict, especially brown bread, spinach, colery, salads, cresses and all sorts of acid fruits

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Drink pure soft water, hot or cold, in abundance. Avoid fried fish, cooked oysters and clams, park, real, turkeys, potatoes; all gravies and made fishes and fried dishes; excess of nitrogenous food; beer and all malt liquors, wines, etc.

In order to ascertain the Influence of tight clothing upon the action of the beart during exercise a dozen young women consented last summer to run 540 yards in their loose gymna sium garments, and then to run the same dis- tance with cortets on. The running time was at each télal, and in order that there should be two minutes and thirty seconds for each person no cardiac excilement or depression following the first test, the second trial was made the followig day. Before beginning the running the average heart impulse was 84 beats to the minute; after running the above-named distance the heart impulse was 152 beats to the minute, the average natural waist girth being 25 inches. The

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next day corsets were worn during the exercise, In rheumatism, a vegetarian diet will, in most and the average girth of waist was reduced to cases, give great relief, and other hygienic 24 inches. The same distance was run in the measures will complete the cure, where a cure is

same time by all, and immediately afterwards The Company's Jack was hoisted at Padas possible. A most persistent case of semi-acute the average heart impulse was found to be +68 Damit on 23rd ultimo in the presence of His theumatism, which had defied the medical skill

beats per minute. When I state that I should Excellency The Governor, Captain Smythies, and Terkish baths combined, coming under my feel myself justified in advising an athlete not care as a last resource, has been entirely cured by to enter a running or rowing race whose heart RN, Mc. Daly and other officers and Pangeran Shab inder. His Excellency informed the chiefs diet, with one bath each week. and people that the Penal Code of India was the The bill of fare prescribed wast. For break-impulse was 160 beats per minute after a lule exercise, even though there were not the slightest law of the Company's territory and would now be fast-calmeal porridge, whole-meal bread and

the wear and tear on this important organ, and the law of P.das Damit, and all well established butter, fruit, coon or weak tea; for dinner evidence of disease, one can form some idea of customs that were not contrary to law would be whole-nical bread and butter, fruit and vege the physiological loss entailed upon the system in observed. It was, he said, the first duty of tables, especially ice in every form, and baked

women who force It to labour for over half their himself and every other public officer to apply potatoes; for supper-whole-meal bread, butter lives under such a disadvantage as the tight corset the law without fear, favour, malice or it will, and tea, and fruit if desired. Flesh was lot imposes. In order to ascertain the effect of light and he assured them that as far as it lay bidden; also, all spirituous-drinks Aun clothing upon respiration, the spirometer was in his power to do so this would be done. In bath, with massage and the rubbing of oil on

tried. The average astaral, girth of the chest reply to the Chiefs he stated that severe penalties the affected paris, was advised daily and a

over the ninth nb was 28 inches, and with were provided in the Penal Code for adultery Turkish bath weekly. Of course, exposure to

cafiets 26 inches. The average lung capacity and abduction and assured them the law regard-cold and damp were to be avoided, and medi- when corscis were worn was 134 cuble Inches ing there and all other crimes would be rigidly cines given up. Treatment was to be continued when the corsets were removed the text showed enforced and that the religious observances of six months at least. In that time the patient an average lung capacity of 167 cubic inches a no class would be interfered with. After the became well and strong Avery large propor- gain of 3 cubic inches. Who can estimate its fag had been hoisted and the salute fired, the tion of sufferers from rheumatism may cure value to the entire system? Why preach, the

of fresh alr to women, who for after which the Governor walked to Gadong only requires perseverance and good hygienic throw away 20 per cent. of it by the use of tight where Mrs. Creagh had been waiting on board conditions. It is essential to have the best of slays and corsets? Why waste so much time the Kimanis.

whole-meal bread Thorough mastication is and energy in talking about the physical develop also essential. Over-eating must be avoided.ment of women? Do they not already out. THE FOE TO STIMULANTA. Seraknumber the men in the civilised world ; and are Every nutritious and healthful meal, nestly they expected to engage in occupations requiring spread and partaken with thankfulness in a great muscular strength or exertion) My first temperance lesson. Every well built house with | answer would be that, for their own sakes, they "THE HONGKONG DIRECTORY AND conveniences for doing work easily and without"|" ought to have an equal chance with men for wase of force, with well-arranged kitchen, bath realising the full perfection of their being. If

HONG LIST FOR THE FAR EAST Toome, sunny windows and good ventilation is a physical training is necessary to secure the best

FOR, 1889 temperance sermon. Every vegetable garden,types of men, it is equally important-au- en agent | ach with quiritous food, and every fruit farm towards securing the fullest development of THIS Valuable Werk, with many NEW abounding in apples, grapes, peaches women, and pears is a foe to intemperance. Every school where there is no overcrowding, where the brain is properly taken cared of, so that it How 20 GAIN FLESH AND STRENGTH.Take after each meal about a tablespoonful of Scott's Emulsion of Pure Cod Liver Oil with Hypophos phites. It is almost as palatable as milk and

weakness and wasting disease, improve and early digested. The rapidity with which deli mate children and sickly people suffering from thrive upon this diet le truly marvellous. As a remedy for Consumption and Throat Affections and Bronchills it is unequalled by any other pre paration in the world. Any Chemist can supply S. Watson & Co. (Limited), agents in Hongkong and China [Adve,

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Swatow, 9th April, 1889. The steamship. Woosung arrived to-day from Shanghal. When passing Sugar Loaf Island, the steering gear by some means-at present uneately towards Double Islands the engines, immediately were put full speed astern, but as the vessel went astern, she sheered, causing her to touch a rock. The steering gear was got in order and the vessel came up to Swatow. Her bottom isshall not be deranged, promotea temperance. On damaged, and the cargo is being discharged as the other hand, everything that, tends to lower quickly as possible to ascertain to what extent. human vitality-over-work, over-study, too little tears that of wel-san cellson with a junk in prolong the time waves beh perak was prepares The Chintung arrived this afternoon, and 1leep, too little work and especially bad foodall the vicinity of Wel-bai-wel.-Mercury.

evil effects. Every bad cook who prepares unsavory, Indigestible meals, creates a demand for stimulants.

Good cooking is one of the most effective means of stifling a craving for drink, which is the root of so much evil. Drink craving, lu ingib, depends as often as not on causes of a purely physical nature,

FOOD AND WORK. -

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