Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1890 — HAVE NO NERVES. [ARTICLE]

HAVE NO NERVES.

That la the Reason Why Chines* Cm Work So ConttauouHly. An English physiemn residing in China points out that the most characteristic difference between the China man and thfe Caucasian of Europe lies in the former’s lack of nervousness. We in America, who have seen the Chinaman working incessantly in his little laundry, shall find no difficulty in believing the statement of the English physician when he says: "The Chinaman can write all day, be can work all day, he can stand for a whole day in one position, weaving, hammering gold or cutting ivory, without once being attacked by nervousness. Thia peculiarity makes itself apparent in early youth, The Chinaman can bear any kind of bodily exercise. Sport and play to him are unnnecessury labor, lie can sleep anywhere and in man* positions—amid thundering machines, deafeping hoisos, the cry of children or the wrangle of grown people; on the ground, in bed, or on a chair ” In hig own innocent way ths Chinais almost a Ssrhuriu.