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first two or three years there seems to come a time 

 when the settler feels used up and longs for a change. 

 If, however, a change is impossible, after a year or so 

 this feeling wears off and the customary health 

 and spirits are regained. The case is probably 

 on all fours with the visit to the sea which is 

 prescribed for the children of the rich. Thus the 

 millionaire's children in Park Lane look a little peaked 

 and run down ; so do his chauffeur's children in the 

 mews behind the house. To the former comes the 

 family physician, and after the usual formalities of 

 looking at the tongues and patting the tummies of his 

 little patients, prescribes a change at his favourite 

 watering-place. No one looks at the children in the 

 mews. After a month back come the rich man's 

 children fully recovered, and the doctor receives the 

 congratulations of the parents on his advice and its 

 effect, also incidentally a fat cheque. Oddly enough, 

 however, the children in the mews have also recovered 

 their normal health and spirits, either with no treat- 

 ment at all or with the assistance of perhaps one 

 unsavoury bolus. Some of those who hold the view 

 of the majority that there is no necessity for a change 

 are for that reason against the periodic holidays 

 received by the servants of the Crown, such as 

 District Commissioners and others. I cannot be in 

 agreement with this view. Not only would the Pro- 

 tectorate be served by an inferior class of official were 

 they deprived of the inducement of the holiday in 

 England, but the complete rest and absence from 

 worry enjoyed at home means that they will return to 

 harness with renewed zest, and more than make up by 

 their zeal for the time that they have missed. 



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