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where we are confronted with the necessity 

 of moderation. While on this theme of sports, 

 it is useful to bear in mind that it hurts in the 

 long run to discard your hat or cap while 

 playing games when the sun is well above 

 the horizon and can still sting. Meals should 

 not be partaken of in "starch" and "stiff 

 tucker," as is only too universally the tendency 

 in the East. The planter, to whom this volume 

 is mainly devoted, is happily 'in a position to 

 indulge himself on most occasions the year 

 around, in the matter of loose and easy 

 raiment in his own bungalow, when feeding 

 his inner man. Let the man in the cities and 

 trade centres stick to his " boiled " shirt and 

 collar ; he has probably an opportunity at 

 frequent intervals to take recuperative trips 

 home. But he will always be eager and 

 willing, for all that, to receive an invitation to 

 your wide and intense life, O Planterman ! 

 to don a flannel shirt and spread his loosely 

 clad legs under your ample and hospitable 

 board, spread probably with healthier fare 

 than the more pretentious tables in town. 



Epidemics of sickness are still of somewhat 

 frequent occurrence, and among the most to be 

 dreaded are cholera, plague and small-pox. 

 Fortunately, modern medical science has been 

 able to take the worst features from these 

 scourges, by sanitary measures and by invent- 

 ing and applying; serums which, if inoculated 

 promptly, considerably lessen the death-rate. 



