TROPICAL CLIMATE ANT) THE TEMPER. 
resident proprietors first arose, and why resident 
proprietors, as a rule, were short-handed. 
The extreme and somewhat absurd picture of Mr. 
Perean is quite true, not as repre-euting one solitary 
instance, but many. If there a<'e any old planters 
of “thirty years ago,” who read this, there is no 
doubt that this description will recal to their 
recollection some Mr. Perean or Per ans, and some 
fellow who, like Meek, was so dull and slow as to 
be incapable of acting up to his employer’s instruc- 
tions, not so much from incapacity, as a sort of 
feeling of dislike we might almost say shame, at be- 
ing the means of enforcing orders, which even to 
the meanest capacity amongst the coolies must have 
evidently appeared ridiculous and impracfci cable. A 
good many of the Messrs. Perean, before very long, 
began to open their eyes, and inwardly come to the 
conclusion to let the working of est des a-lone, that 
it was better to get a l ood practic l 1 superintendent 
and not needlessly and heedlessly interfere ith him. 
If such a proprietor chose to live on liis estate, 
it did not by any means involve the necessity of 
constantly meddling with the manageme’d and work ; 
not that we go so far as many, who say a proprietor 
has no business to meddle with his superintendent. 
“Just as if,” as an esteemed superintendent of the 
writer’s once said to him, ‘ ‘ a proprietor had no right 
to issue an order or express an opinion on the culti- 
vation of his own property.” Now, the objection 
is not in the issuing of orrlers or expressions of opinions, 
but the way and manner in which they are given 
and expressed. Whatever a man’s ii^sitiou and call- 
ing in life may be, if he is a gentleman, he is most 
certainly entitled to both expect atul receive treatmeut 
as such, A good many disagreeables sometimes arise 
from temper. It is a fact the climate of Ceylon has 
a strong aetion on the nervous system : after a long 
residence, the nerves get unstrung, one easily gets 
irritated, so that, as would naturally be siippposed, 
after a long residence, one having got used to all 
the troubles and vexations would treat them with 
indifference. Not so : the longer yon live on a coffee 
estate, the probability is the more irritable you will 
become, and less able cooly and calmly to carry on 
your work. A very good plan after a vexatious day’s 
work is to order yonr horse and take a good fresh 
gallop, even if it was for only fifteen minutes. You 
will feel great relief, and if on dismouuuing you get 
under the bath spout, so much the betlar ; the re- 
mainder of the evening will be eoeit. m. a pleasant 
and cheerful manner, in a very different way from 
what it would have been, jja clirowu yours fff 
