Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1894 — There Are No Chinese Cripples. [ARTICLE]

There Are No Chinese Cripples.

Nobody ever sees a deformed or crippled Chinaman. When a deformed Chow is born he is promptly put out of the world. When an adult Chow is crippled he is generally put out of the world also. No one save the other Cnows knows exactly,how it is done, but the general impression is that he is persuaded to hang himself or induced to fall into a waterholo. When anything serious happens to a Mongol he generally kills himself shortly afterward, which probably moans that a deputa’i n of his countrymen sit persuasively on his head until ho is extinct. Chinese suicides are curious things, and are often worth investigating. _ Sir Frederick Leighton, the great English painter, is a stalwart, longnoted man of pompous manner, with curly hair and a 1 flowing gray beard, and always wears a voluminous silk tie, loosely knotted, tho ends flowing sii» perbly over his shoulders. He is a profoundly ornate speaker, but his periods, like his paintings, smell too strongly of the lamp, and the art students, whom he addresses with immense suavity once a year, find him a bit of a bore.