The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-01
THE TROPICS AND WHITE MEN

5 cruelty. After all. it is only the fee
: that are squeezed out of shape in China
but your girls, your sisters, your wives
throw the body out of it's natural axis
and so dispose it to train of bad con
sequences Thus it is quite plain to un
derstand how and why the Registrar.
General of Queensland, in his vital sta
tistics for 1888, has the melancholy state
ment to report: by far the most fata
cause of death) to childlife was enteri
tbs; the next was premature birth. He
remarks: This is more properly speak
ing the cause of death rather than dis,
ease
Give me the carriage of the aboriginal
woman, who, shoeless in every land, full
fills the familiar words of the nature
loving old poet, Vera incessu patuit
dea-" This amendment of the frame
work with its reduction in space is OF
more serious import TO the female than
Of the blood depends primarily on the
supply of oxygen, that diminished
lung area which is air surface, means
impairment of blood-in popular lam
guage thinness of blood. Our women
therefore are pale and suffer exhaus-
ton from the demands upon their vital
energy. And it requires no argument,
surely statement is enough to gain your
adhesion to the proposition that a wom-
| an to be a mother should not be amaze
mic, hstless, jaded, Offering, some
| body has neatly said before me- the 81
| lent plea of a spiritless non possumus.
People, who in the South complain of
the excavation induced by the oppres>
siveness of the two or three days that
precede your southerly buster, may try
to imagine weeks, months of such
weather. Sick women lie sweltering in
hot beds, pale children make CHASTITY at
tempts at play, men expose their per-
spring chests to feel the air they make
by their own motion; for often no move
ment is in the atmosphere itself dense
with moisture that one may almost col
lect between the palms; this atmosphere
rests provokingly, while the great sun
shines drowsily through the haze with
smile of a conscious power directed to
those helpless against his mood. For
seven months in the year, on the coast,
this is the true condition every day I'M
til the breeze reaches the shore during
the southeast monsoons; and it is true
of all day and all night, when the winds
come from the north and the rainy sea-
son is established.
Is this fair field of motherhood, for
most of our mothers are good natural
women, who nourish their babies to
their own injury, risking, L might almost
say FORGETTING, thereby any attractive
freshness they might have had an at
Il dStiNehSSS WHICH II Is the IOI u lHelr
more favored dusky sisters in the same
latitude to possess and retain for a
span?
The children, however, who live, thrive
in their first years until the influence or
the climate overcomes that of race.
To minimize the glare, and with IN
stinct to protect the eyes from the fierce !
rays of light, we get face and forehead
wrinkles, making the young look old |
and knowing.
We get freckles which are merely pig !
mentary changes; some more, some less, |
according to the degree of exposure and
individual susceptibility. But individual
susceptibility may be considered a minor
factor only, for all skins change to the F,
exposure, and all parasitic barred arms
of the bushman. the uncovered legs of
the beachcomber-stain under the influ-
ence of the tropical sun. l firmly be-
lieve that the coastal inhabitants, If
fenced off from benefiting by the intro
duction of fresh material. would darken
ton which 1 do not present as a sensa- |
tional random opinion, and L offer you
in support a few comprehensive SEN |;
fences that tell very much in its favor.
Sir Joseph Fayrer, Bart, K. c. S. l., ,
NJ D., F. r. s., has spent the greater ,
part of his honorable life in distinguish :
ed service in India. On the 30th of May !
and Genealogical Soci- /
ETY. an address in which he states: Past !
history shows however, that colonial
ton by the unmixed European races in /
the plains of India is impracticable In
the very rare instances in which the /
third genera ton has been reached it had
evidently attained its utmost desirable !
limits, whilst to the Portuguese who ,
preceded US no descendant unalloyed by
native blood can be said to exist"
India lies between the eighth and thir
ty-ffth parallels of north latitude; North
lies between ten and thirty
one degrees-thirty south. There may
be a special intervention of Providence
to favor the white North Queenslander.
doubt it.
The everlasting suns heat makes peo-
pie selfish, les fainantes alment leurs
a:ses In the tropics man to be a nice
man should sit down under shady tree
all day and eat fruit. /
Contrast the pleasant, good tempered
Hawaiian lover of flowers dilletante con
sumner of vegetables. with the Dyak OF
Borneo, who nervously rushes through
:fe hunting for heads; or the eguaole
kanaka Of the New Rebrides WITH me
'estless Solomon Islander who raids ms
:eighbor to devour his flesh. 4
1t is apparent-the stern, rapaclous !
,agerness in these nen-eaters. these
ropical beef-eaters. 4
Good fighters. Yes! cruel quick, ful! !
# nerves. So if we want endurance we s
must have beef l borrow TO say the
,ale clerk who eats meat twice a day
will Outright and outlast and outstarve 7
he turly agricultural laborer whose Dig I
hews and sinews are mostly compound I
d OF potatoes, corn AMI watet. And as 7
ur climate resents activity, we eat
much beef to yield energy and DEFY ell
nate. We eat beef very young and we
-et energy-nerve energy-and so we go
o school early, very early, voluntarily
,ur children love school with an uinat- 7
raI liking-it Is morbid. G