How can we help admiring that open and cheerful brow which, as yet, no care or sin has furrowed; those light and active limbs, full of health and vigour; the eye so quick; the ear so undulled; the memory so ready; the young curiosity so eager to take in new knowledge; the young feelings, not yet spoiled by over-excitement, ready to admire, ready to love?

Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins.

The 2.3-square-km Longshuihu village in the Shuangqiao district of Chongqing municipality, also known as women's town, was based on the local traditional concept of women rule and men obey, a tourism official told Reuters.

The oil acts as a moisturizer to the wood.