Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — The Difference. [ARTICLE]

The Difference.

A member of the Anglo-Saxon race seldom discusses his emotions with a stranger; he would consider it indecent to do so. To the Frenchman, on the contrary, lore, with its joys and pains, forms one of the most ordinary subjects of conversation. When it comes to the torments of indigestion and kindred ills, the Anglo-Saxon waxes eloquent, but then the Frenchman is silent. It would be indelicate, he believes, to talk about any physical disorders with which he may chance to be afflicted. This may be the reason why the French are popularly believed to have little experience with dyspepsia.