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labour and materials, no set or formal plan that must 
be adhered to even if found wrong, the work could be 
done slowly and carefully, altered or rearranged as it 
went on, everything primarily designed for present and 
future generations, for use rather than for beauty, 
although as in all designs of a sterling and permanent 
kind, beauty in due proportions, and in the proper place, 
always stole in and made its mark. Built for use, 
and well built, practically without the draftsman, or 
‘our young man” in the office, and what is the result ? 
The present-day architects and landscape gardeners are 
copying or modelling all their new houses and gardens 
on those of the past—building in the main for beauty, 
which as well as sterling domestic conveniences inside 
the outer walls, very often evade them despite the plans 
and estimates and contracts so carefully prepared and 
signed. 
Tue SMELL OF THE [Town 
All tropical towns have a peculiar odour or fragrance 
of their own, Colomba and Manilla being quite different 
in this respect to each other, just as are Penang and 
Singapore. 
Arab Market at Marrakesh—<‘ A smell of spices, 
mingled with horse-dung, hung in the air, as from the 
shops the bags of asafoetida, bundles of cinnamon, attar- 
of-roses, tamar-el-hindi, and the like gave out their 
various scents to mingle with the acrid odours of the 
crowd.” —From ‘‘The Mouth of the Sahara,” R. B. 
Cunninghame, in “ Success,” p. 64. 
In ‘‘ Naples, Past and Present” (Norway), p. 327, the 
author points out that the arms of the ancient city of 
Majori consist of a sprig of Marjoram on an azure field 
—a token of the deep blue sea that laves the cliffs which 
in springtime are from top to bottom one fragrant field 
of aromatic and deliciously scented flowers. Myrtle is 
