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factory about an English egg, after the miserable 

 apologies for the same laid by the native fowl. These 

 latter are very little larger than a marble and are 

 generally bad — almost invariably so when brought 

 as a gift. 



One of the first questions which any woman 

 going out is sure to ask is to what extent the 

 climate is suitable to European children. Well, 

 Colonel Roosevelt laid down with the utmost 

 assurance that children would thrive and flourish, and 

 on the whole most people seem inclined to agree with 

 him. One thing is certain, and that is that young 

 children up to, say, seven or eight do remarkably well. 

 Chubbier and healthier babies and infants than are 

 seen in the streets of Nairobi and on many a settler's 

 farm it would be difficult to imagine. After that age 

 it is not safe yet to speak quite so definitely, if only 

 for the reason that there have hardly been enough 

 children of that age and upwards to make positive 

 proof. There was undoubtedly a fear that the 

 altitude combined with the heat of the sun would both 

 tend to develop children too young, would render 

 them nervous, and might be prejudicial to their later 

 mental progress. Experience, however, does not bear 

 this out, and I am certainly of opinion that, provided 

 they be properly housed and clad, no one need be 

 afraid of the progress of their children from a health 

 point of view. 



In nearly every settled portion of the Protectorate 

 there is a doctor, and a good one at that, within hail. 

 In Nairobi itself there is a beautiful European 

 hospital fitted with every modern convenience and 

 improvement. Still, naturally, every farm will have 

 its medicine chest of ordinary remedies, and more 



