KETUENINO AFTER A HOLIDAY. 
is shoving off time enough however to be informed 
that our old boy friend has come from Bombay to 
try and recruit his shattered health, and he is bound 
for ISTuwara Eliya. He had also said, on his way back, 
which would be in about ten days, he would visit 
us, and have a talk over old times. But we never saw 
him again. I^uwara Eliya somehow has often proved 
quite the contrary to a beneficial change to visitors 
from the Indian presidencies in search of health. We 
have known a good many who, after giving ISTuwara 
Eliya a fair trial, have become worse, instead of better, 
and eventually left the sanatarium in a much worse 
state of health than when they arrived at it. Our 
own experience and opinion is that it is a very nice 
change for those who are in good or fair health, and 
if the climate agrees with them it will soon make them 
stronger and more robust, indeed so well “patched 
up,” that not the semblance of a “patch” will be 
left upon them. But it is not exactly the sort of place 
suitable for an invalid or for certain sorts of complaints, 
such as pulmonary, sciatic, or any sorts of rheuma- 
tism. This never used to be taken into consideration, 
and it used to be, perhaps still is the constant cry, when 
one required a little patching up, “Go,” or “Let us go, 
to Nuwara Eliya. ” Personally we don’t believe in JSTuwara 
Eliya, and dislike both it and the climate, but as it 
has become a very fashionable place, the less said of 
this opinion the better, being quite certain, that, if we 
don't believe in Nuwara Eliya, nobody else will believe 
us on this point. ^ These remarks are only “by the 
way. ” The clima* e made our friend worse, he hurriedly 
left the place, and of course did not write us. Thes e 
is an old churchyard in Edinburgh called “Old Gray- 
friars, ” and we sometimes go in and look at a grave 
in a peaceful cpiite corner ; green grows the gr.iss over 
the small mound, and, as we gaze upon this mound, long 
past memories spring up. It is nearly thirty -two years, 
since we waved an adieu, for a few days only (we thought), 
at the Gampola ferry, to our old friend ; little did either 
of us think then, that, after such a long peii^^d of time, 
I should stand over his grave, and that that grave 
would recal the memory of our last meeting at the 
Gampola ferry. He had hurried home to be “ patched 
up,” and was “ patched up,” but patching up seldom 
makes one sound again, always liable to a relapse. Our 
friends may ask “ Are patched, up ?” Yes, patched 
up once more is P. D. Millie. 
For persons run down by the heat of the low-coun- 
try and needing a change, as also for persons debilitated 
by fever uncomplicated with liver or dysentery, the 
climate of Nuwara Eliya is exceedingly valuable. — E d. 
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