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MANNER PER SE.
“social glue,"
(Daily Press, 22nd March .) The Chinese are very particular about what * Japanese interpreter calls that is, good manners; and most of them, if asked to express an opinion on the manners of foreigners, would say (unless politeness forbad") that the foreigners have
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impervious to the of pigment which barmful actinic rays." A thorough staining of the whole body with walout juice would seem to be the correct thing for those who de irs to be in the tropical fashion; then they could wear anything. White is coǝl,
respect to an older man he knows, will not move an inch to make room for a stranger on the sidewalk or in a tram. The nature of this kind of politeness to order is therefore at once betrayel; it is no part of character: it is worthless; it is worse; it is hypocri- tical and offensive. The Hongkong taipan
our Doctor admits, because it refl xt, the who snatches his hat off at sight of a lady | long heat rays. That is why generations of he knows, and marches by with nose in air white men have worn white, because they i:noring the salutation of one of his juniors | felt cool in it (all they wanted) and knowing no manners. Writers
World in the
discounts his own c'aim to be a gentleman, nothing of the actinic attempts upon their and XIXth Century have recently
We could Good manners have to be permanent | health, did not worry about it. discussed this point, particularly the
and generally applied, or they are Dot frequent suggestion that we are less
genuine. The real gentleman of the courteous and considerate than our forellen time and the real gentleman of now bears. The XIXth Century writer is cer- fain that we are socially degenerate. The World commentator is not so cocksure. It is perhans not unnatural fat his
verdict, should be more or less an open one. He does not think we are ruder than our ancestors, but if we are, it must be because we have less time than they had for practice. He remarks:
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bave the same manners--time does not change that kind of manner. There is no need to lament the decay of good manners. The apparent decay is merely a good riddance of had rubbish; good manners rightly motived and rightly practisel are eternal. and are not affected by fashion. It is true they might be more e minan. but then, so might virtue, or wealth, or many other things.
CLOTHES IN THE TROPICS.
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have wished that Dr. SAMBON had taken us more iɑto his confidence about the noxious- ness of actinic light, for, inexpert as wè are, there still seams to uɛtɔ be need t› convince us of tais important point. At present ho leaves da nt this stage; that a tinio cause pigmentation, and that pig. mention 16 a protectiou against actinio
We rays. can hardly advocita rel orange clothes the strength of that. White outer garments and black, red, or yellow underclothing will do, but to lessen "We live in other times, aid consequently
the number and weigh' of our clothes, Dr. bare other manners. I am no defender of
Samnos has invented a fabric so woven that discourtesy, but when I hear modern manners
while it presents a white reflector for the being unfavourably compared with those of
long heat rays it is opaque to short raya, other days I often think that had our grand. fathers and great-grandfathers lived under the
Dr. Castle, the “ 'charining fa·Idiat,“ ́as (Daily Press, March 23r 1.) conditions of modern life they might have noted
With summer coming, we presume that
one of lus admirers has called! him, heartily Accordingly People have less time for the small conrtesies in which it was possible to questions of summer clothing will not be approves of his colleague's thesis and indulge in as bustling days, but, on the other
matters of indifference to most readers just invention, and declares that he has dealt hand, I do not think we are quite so incon
now, and that they will consuler a couple with the matter in a "truly scientific Tropical spiry" It was hirdly scientific to neglect siderate in many ways as they were aforetime.” of articles in the Journal of
to show that solar actinisu: is malefisot, n Trains an steamers and the telegraph Medicine and Hygiene as sufficiently topical have certainly done away with much of the In the last number to band, dated Fehru cry | point which (while it may be a truism to deliberation and repose that
such 15th, Dr. Louis W. S、MBox, lecturer to scientisto needs proving for men who bask Dr. CanTLIE important ingredients of what are called the London School of Tropical Me livine, Į and rejoice in the sunshine.
damaging effect” and “ørıl good manners, but probably something writes on "Tropical Clothing," and Dr. | speaks of th-
effects of netimi rays, bct he also omita alse-and possibly something Itter- CANTLIF, formerly of Hongkong comments
to iustane vany spoiti : examples. We fanoy has come to take their place. It editorially on the artic. The wiity man
Are eminent scientists who doubt inust have been. pleasant for ad. from a temperate zone leging his life in the there mirers of gentility to note with what tropics under certain disadvantages which | that the sun is entirely responsible for all Nature at once starts to remove; but as the dark skis in the world, and it is grace a bygone gentleman could sink into a drunken sleep beneath the dining room Nature is a slow workinu, and takes tim- | certainly odd that the Innits of the Arctic circle should be a dirk as or darker than table; or with what punctilious politeness over the physiological changes which adapt
the Indias of the tropic bit.
But apart one would tell another that an hour before
new environment, the medical
shows that if from Diat, Dr. SACBON breakfast would be a convenient time t experts come to the rescue with some ad
In the case of Dr. Nature hurts. Nature also remedies, and push a sword through his vitals. The interim suggestions.
considerable | la- has not satisfied us of the necessity for bowing and scraping with which these SAMBON's hints, these have
If men forl col ju white, all murderous and licentious gentlemen academic interest if they have not prutical | meddling
in the world won't convert usefulness. arranged their day's performances was
Like most other natural phe the science
dours. them to e the coloural skin has its reason tromena, always typical of the best if good manners;
It is not a but we cannot avoid the suspicion that it
The actine mere accid •nt. was shoddy. PAMELA ANDREWS was fuli | light from the sun is s id by Dr. SAMB N
noxiou....” to ba of admiration for her SqUIRE B., hut it
He does not show this is not hard to see, especially with FIELD but we will assume that he knows it to be ING'S mordant
that assistance,
the other sides elegant gentleman had to his character. There is probably niore sincerity in the business-like curtness of to-day, and more genuine consideration for others, than in all the elaborate formulism of yesterday. We do not, out here, depend altogether on history. We may study precisely the same thing at first hand. if we care to observe our Chinese neighbours. The guest makes a great do with his tea-cup, bandling it gingerly with both hands, and gazes at it with awe and admiration before presuming to treat it as a drinkable. He remarks, truthfully, although he does not mean it, that he has
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We know that it is or has a
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FINANCIAL PANICS.
(Drily Prem, 25th March.)
What is the cause of monetary panics. ? pable of inducing chemical changes, and | Why should a nation in the course of a few days, without any visible shange in its it inay be that its effect upon health is ac
We may important as its effect upon a photographie external conditions, find i self praction/ly plate or film. Its the short or actinic reduced from wealth to pe jury? rays that tan our white volunteers and couple with these questions another, the sportsmen. Brunette experimenters with | reply to which seems equally qusatisfactory: X-rays do not suffer as blondes do. There. Why should certain regions, as for example fore we bave to consider Dr. SAMBON'S the region about Lake Baikal, in the advice with these two presumptions, that northern hemisphere, aa | the Indian Ocena sunlight (actini») is injuri»a«, and that 'about 30 deg. mouth, have permanently bigh pigmentation is a protection agains it. ¦ ¦arometric pressures; while others, as for Helped by Mr. BALY, lecturer on spectro ¦ insauce the extremity of the peninsult of made A number | Alaska, should as constintly have low? We scopy, Dr. SAMBON
say that mateorology and fuancial of experiments and investigatione jato may
of pigment in or un the economy have this much in common that the effect * trouble the host, who, fully | skin
were sufficiently technical! bith are event ally founded on the basis warrant bin? tak n for grantei Polcirculation, and that for neither have we conscious of the trouble, will not hear of it, | to and accuses the other of being too polite. | here. The result of this consideration of any concrete vilu 4, but that what we bare are merely compaentire. That the wind The visitor may have come to collect a pay-the relations of light and colour is that ment, but this is the last thing he mentions "the white man in the tropics should wear bloweth where it listeth is an old and truie He pretends he called to pay his respects. ! black, red, or orange clothing, breinse these | mying, yet with all our modern science we The host casually admits that he is are the colours which exclu la the short rars ! have sciroely advanced far enough to be the When reminded of the general native custom able to pred et where it will blow six hours quite unworthy
respect. If meeting happens to be in a public res'aurant, f wearing white in trop cal countries, Dr. heure, and -uch as is our knowledge of which suits our purpose as observers, there ¦ SAMBON replies that it is dontal-ss wise to | nusteorology, such is likewise our knowledge but of the inner workings of tiuagcisi more- are other details of table manners not to be follow the dictates of long experience,
Som few days ago the financial specified which are certainly far from polita | those who borrowed this custom overlooked | mønt.
was in ita ngual condition; · com- or pleasing to us. The young Chinaman the all-important fact that the natire is | world who takes off his spectacles as a mark o already fully protected by a natural armour' modities were bought and sold, and no-one
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