Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1891 — HAVE NO NERVES. [ARTICLE]

HAVE NO NERVES.

That Mm «Im l*un Why tWUn.sa Wwk Mm Oe.Mas.aUy. An English physician residing la China points out that the most characteristic difference between theChfei* man and the Caucasian of Europe lies in the former’s laok of nervousness. We in America, who have seen the Chinaman working incessantly in Ub little laundry, shall find no difficulty in believing the statement of the English physician when he says: “The Chin* man can write all day, he can work all day, he can stand for a whole day in one position, wearing, hammering gold or cutting ivory, without enee being attacked by nervousness. This peculiarity makes Itself apparent in early youth, The Chinaman can beat any kind of bodily exercise. Sport and play to him are unnnecessary labor. He can sleep anywhere and in many positions—amid thundering machines, deafening noises, the cry of children or the wrangle of grown people; on the ground, In bed, or on a cjiair.” In his own innocent vray the Chinaasms it almpft $ Sybarite-