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HINTS FOR A WOMAN IN B. E. AFRICA 91 
factory about an English egg, after the miserable 
apologies for the same laid by the native fowl. These 
latter are very little larger than a marble and are 
generally bad—almost invariably so when brought 
as a gift. 
One of the first questions which any woman 
going out is sure to ask is to what extent the 
climate is suitable to European children. Well, 
Colonel Roosevelt laid down with the utmost 
assurance that children would thrive and flourish, and 
on the whole most people seem inclined to agree with 
him. One thing is certain, and that is that young 
children up to, say, seven or eight do remarkably well. 
Chubbier and healthier babies and infants than are 
seen in the streets of Nairobi and on many a settler’s 
farm it would be difficult to imagine. After that age 
it is not safe yet to speak quite so definitely, if only 
for the reason that there have hardly been enough 
children of that age and upwards to make positive 
proof. There was undoubtedly a fear that the 
altitude combined with the heat of the sun would both 
tend to develop children too young, would render 
them nervous, and might be prejudicial to their later 
mental progress. Experience, however, does not bear 
this out, and I am certainly of opinion that, provided 
they be properly housed and clad, no one need be 
afraid of the progress of their children from a health 
point of view. 
In nearly every settled portion of the Protectorate 
there is a doctor, and a good one at that, within hail. 
In Nairobi itself there is a beautiful European 
hospital fitted with every modern convenience and 
improvement. Still, naturally, every farm will have 
its medicine chest of ordinary remedies, and more 
