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especially such things as quinine, asperin, phenacetin, 

 castor oil, boracic, and some good disinfectant such 

 as lysol ; also all necessary antiseptic and other 

 bandages. A good grounding in " first aid " is almost 

 certain to come in handy. 



Finally, any woman going out to East Africa need 

 no longer feel that she is going into a strange, wild, 

 unhealthy country. Those days are all past. She 

 will find friends new and old, occupations and 

 amusements of all kinds, and if she be one of the 

 modern out-of-door, practical girls that are fortunately 

 becoming so common, may look forward to a 

 thoroughly good time. 



