Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — No Question In China. [ARTICLE]

No Question In China.

You must not ask too many quest ions in China. If yap do you will only make yourself miserable. A prominent example of intellectual torpidity is the prevalent habit as announcing for a reason for a fact the fact itself. “Why do you not put salt into bread eakes?” you ask of a Chinese cook. “We do not put salt into bread cakes,” is the explanation. “How is it that with so much and such beautiful ice in your city none .of It Is stored up for winter?” “Na, we do not store up ice for winter in our ictty. ” If the Latin poet who observed, “Happy is he who is able to know the reason of things,” had lived in China, he .might have modified his poetry so as to read: “Unhappy is the man who essays to find out the reason of th ngs."