Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1906 — People Who Never Sneeze. [ARTICLE]

People Who Never Sneeze.

“Africans never sneeze.” said a glob* trotter, “and their descendants, ths colored people of our own land. If they are pure blooded, don’t sneeze either. A cold, damp atmospheric condition is the cause of sneezing. Since it is practically never cold and damp in Africa, no man sneezes there whether he be native or foreigner. The natives, because they have never sneezed in Africa, can’t sneeze when they leave Africa—for the same reason perhaps that one who has never been in the water can’t swim when he falls overboard. At any rate, be the reason wh£t it nlay, the fact remains that the African, either in the jungle or on Broadway, never rends the air with a keechoo.”—New York Press.