New-York tribune., 1903-11-29

.he moor have each their domestic heaps or
nal sometimes alongside, sometimes beneath, the
n :sed floor which never removed but Kept ripe
by daily additions and by the constant rootings OF
the pariah dogs, the vultures, the raZorDackeo
hoss and the other members of the beast ana pro
creation that attend to scavenger duty IN the
C.ient. The markets. too, are great Dreeui"s
around for epidemics, and in the Philippines riot5
were almost prcciptated in various towns ana VII
taces by the insstence the part of the American
authorities that the accommodations OF centuries oi
r,ttin- fish meat, vegetable and fruit matter
s. ould be carted away and destroyed ana the va
ri.Ls market booths burned and new ones uuilt
b, ore any further buying or selling was aHo"eu
there.
e is a favorite agent of publication employed
b, ;hn white man in the Orient; one, too, that
u,,-l with ruthless hand, especially curing the
vs.,a:ions of the cholera and OF the plague mas
served to intensity the hatred with when, IN Splte
Of all that is said the contrary the foreigner 10
teL.rded by the Asiatic. Convinced that the diltS
49, i ions of the native dwellings were responsible
fr much of the spread of the disease the torcn
las been freely applied to them But II mas Pio'eu
= no usa For experience has shown, among
,..bar rlaces recently at Hong Kong, that the IN
habtants of the houses which had been Destroyer
- tho health authorities had carried into their
rewly constructed abodes the Infection OIL inc
plague by means of the insects harbored Oh 'ileii
,oIsons and in their clothes. Fleas' IN lac'' are
Pronounced responsible for the latest outbreak OF
,ta n1arue in native quarters that had been care
fully disnfected and pronounced wholly Tree from
contagion. -
rbis shows that clothes-in the case of the ORR
ental-are almost as disastrous in the spread OIL
disease as is water Some natives VINO mFaridoiE
wear the cleanest raiment Will never WASH iiiie
otbers who perform numerous daily apluuohS III
sist on resuming and wearing their cio.Ies' 60
pec.aly those concealed from VleW un'ii my "
infested with vermin and drop to pieces from ou
ara In the end the result is the same ana uh-
IN he
self obliged by his sense Of propriey to insist upon
The use Of clothes, his prejudlces on the scoie -
secency manifestly predominaunS SANITARY coHStI
eratjons Wherever the white man mas Indue 1I9
appearance In the East he has endeaVoreu u Sc
c,re the enactment of ordinances forcing the hA-
,,ves to wear clothes. In the Siamese capital. at
SINGAPORE In other cities OF the ORIENT even 'ne
very children that in their bronZenke nuulty coh-
stituted such picturesque feature OF the PuOhc
thoroughfares have been obliged by stern law 70
garb themselves "decently," much TO their dlsmay
and amazement, being wholly unable to compre-
hend that they had been guilty Of any lmpropl-
ETY.. In fact, it was long before they understood
and at Bangkok, especially, the youngsters, When
she clothes laws were first enacted, seemed TO be-
reve that the statutory lon cloth could be worn
a ound the neck or turban fashion, or hanging
gracefully down the back-in any way, indeed, eX-
cert in the manner demanded by our Western no
uon' Of decency
Nowhere has, however, this question Of clothes
worked more disastrOusly than in South Africa,
where the decline of the KafTir population is as
,Tibed according to the recently issued reports,
,ased spOn the testimony Of officers, missionaries
md traders of experience dwelling among the
natives 40 the wearing Of clothes. which is like
wise decl,red to be responsible for the prevalence
of a number Of diseases previously unknown among
the blacks The latter in his naked state would
often bathe But when clothed he ceased to bathe-
never strps indeed, until the last shred of his gar
ment drops off Of its accord. In his wild state
rain and damp scarcely caused MIN even discomfort
But the cloehed Kafir seldom possesses a Change"
On reaching a hut wet through he cTouches close
to the fire. and So after few days months
learns by sad experience of those strange malades
from which the white man suffers-rheumatism and
pulmonary affections. and especially consumption.
EXATTACHE