People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — How Do You Perspire? [ARTICLE]

How Do You Perspire?

The greetings of the divers people who congregate on the Midway Plaisance at the Columbian exposition are said to be deeply interesting to those who are sufficiently acquainted with the language to understand them. The Arabian observes to his fellow-Arab “Thank God, how arts you?” The Swede asks the rather in< onsequential question: “How can you?” The Frenchman solicitously inquires: “How do you carry yourself?” Germans want to know “How goes it?” or “How do you find yourself?” The Russian’s formula is: “How do you llye on?” But the Egyptian's is the salutation which appeals most strongly to the broiled sight seer in his cosmopolitan reservation He anxiously inquires: “How do you perspire?” There is a wonderful affinity between this greeting from the land of the Nile and the crocodile and the familiar question put by Americans, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the lakes to the gulf: “Is it hot enough for you?”—Pittsburgh Chronicle. valuation of thirty thousand dollars is given to two vases which the Spanish commissioners keep under lock and key. These vases are of iron, four feet high; one Etruscan, the other Grecian, ornamented with gold hammered into thaiion so as to show vines, cupids and figures of women in flowing drapery. A Spanish woman did this highly prized work. A few years ago she was a poor working girL