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A COLONY IN THE MAKING 
CHAP. 
first two or three years there seems to come a time 
when the settler feels used up and longs for a change. 
If, however, a change is impossible, after a year or so 
this feeling wears off and the customary health 
and spirits are regained. The case is probably 
on all fours with the visit to the sea which is 
prescribed for the children of the rich. Thus the 
millionaires children in Park Lane look a little peaked 
and run down ; so do his chauffeur’s children in the 
mews behind the house. To the former comes the 
family physician, and after the usual formalities of 
looking at the tongues and patting the tummies of his 
little patients, prescribes a change at his favourite 
watering-place. No one looks at the children in the 
mews. After a month back come the rich man’s 
children fully recovered, and the doctor receives the 
congratulations of the parents on his advice and its 
effect, also incidentally a fat cheque. Oddly enough, 
however, the children in the mews have also recovered 
their normal health and spirits, either with no treat¬ 
ment at all or with the assistance of perhaps one 
unsavoury bolus. Some of those who hold the view 
of the majority that there is no necessity for a change 
are for that reason against the periodic holidays 
received by the servants of the Crown, such as 
District Commissioners and others. I cannot be in 
agreement with this view. Not only would the Pro¬ 
tectorate be served by an inferior class of official were 
they deprived of the inducement of the holiday in 
England, but the complete rest and absence from 
worry enjoyed at home means that they will return to 
harness with renewed zest, and more than make up by 
their zeal for the time that they have missed. 
As to the sterility or otherwise of the third genera- 
