Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1912 — Literary Comment. [ARTICLE]

Literary Comment.

The November Chautauquan lish as a leading article “The Problem of Sweating in England and the United States." Without dipping into the article wej might say offhand that perspiration. Is the same the world over. It may be that the United States! being the land of liberty perspiration!, is manifested more freely than ia| England. However, It Is a subject, we should think. Uncle Sam is usually represented! as a slender man, while John Bull w always pictured fat and red-faced.; The latter type of man is generally; supposed to lose flesh more rapidly because of perspiration. However, the skinny man is said to suffer more from the heat. We don’t know yet what the problem is, but we should say that if an American citizen wants to sweat in England he can appeal to his diplomatic representative if he is forcibly restrained. We are in favor of granting the same right to an English subject In our land. Fair play all around; we say. There need be no problem at all. Let each man be a law unto himself, especially In hot weather. Maybe the problem in England is to make the average British hotel clerk move fast enough to induce perspiration at all.