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glasses of " bub " as they are dispensed to patrons who in the 

 now remote past used to Hne up ten deep before the counters 

 of the rumshops. The spirit dealers Hke not the outlook, and 

 only in the assistance of the Government, whcm they assume to 

 be their ally, do they hope to obtain relief. 



It occasionally happens that a planter whose estate is far 

 distant from the conveniences of town or village must perforce 

 be emergency guide, friend and doctor — not to mention minister 

 and priest — to his peasant employees. Bearing on this fact I 

 recall that I took into dinner, on one of the islands, a very 

 attractive young woman who, from her war experience in 

 France, acted in a medical capacity to the ignorant employees on 

 her husband's plantation. 1 asked her how she managed the 

 eye diseases. " Oh, I have had very few of them, and they 

 generally yielded to treatment in a short time. My last case 

 may interest you. One morning, bright and early, a coloured 

 man, after trying — as they generally do — all the domestic 

 remedies at hand, came to see me with a badly swollen eye and 

 face. I diagnosed the trouble as an abscess of the eyelid, and 

 thought a poultice might help. As I had run out of linseed 

 meal 1 wrapped up for the man a large slice of white bread 

 soaked in milk and sent him on his way rejoicing, with directions 

 to apply the remedy for one day and then to report. To my 

 surprise he returned the same afternoon evidently much 

 improved; it seemed as if the abscess had " broken." Asked 

 how long he had kept the poultice on his eye he confessed that 

 he thought it was to be taken internally. ' Berry good; berry 

 good; me like him; me eat him,' and in view of its miraculous 

 effects I soaked him another slice which completed the cure, 

 and established my reputation as a doctor of wonderful healing 

 powers." 



Almost every island in the Antilles has its Botanic 

 Gardens, each one of them presenting attractions all its own ; 

 and none should be neglected by the tourist. E. and I liked 

 especially the lovely little tropical park at St. Lucia, and were 

 greatly impressed by the much larger and better kept Gardens 

 of Dominica where especially abide not only everlasting spring 

 and never withering flowers but also pretty nearly every curious 

 tree and shrub under the tropical canopy. 



