Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-08-09
Tho Sense of Touch,


There is nnthiDg." said ii philo ophrr,
";lbout which there is more general
misappr. hcneion among all classes Of
people than in regard to the relative
-nnsitivrncss Of the mentality of man
and wumaukind. Gou would say, prob
ably without an, hesitation, that the
sense of touch of the eentler sex was
mach more acute than that of their
brts hers; bat that is a very great error.
Take. for example, the employees of
This government vino enlnt ont the gold
loin in the treasury, AM by an almost
magic faculty, as il We're, are enabled
by IL supersen~iiive refinement of the
sense of touch to Immediately separate
the lightweight coin from that which
abrasion has not vet affected. They are
all men, and the faculty which they at
tain in their work is really something
simply amazing. Do you ever hear of n
woman being employed in this work:
Not one; and ii is undoubtedly because
they do not have the sense of touch to the
same degree of refinement lis men do.
There i, another line Of work afforded
lana-thc opc,lnS Of safes Of which tho
combinations have been lost. Men are
employed by the manufacturers to do
this, and big salaries are pad 10 those
who have the sense al touch developed
to such II degree that they can feel the
siight lar that tells when to turn the
lock back in iis"li to tine next nUmbcr IN
ii. fIhIrx fa1,-
who can do this, and SO il happens that
u time lock alone is absolutely safe; hut
no woman, - far rs | know. has ever
developed the faculty. Now, I'm an adj
mircr of women, my boy and don't
say what do in criticism, but simply rs
Il statement of strange phenomenon. =
New York Mail and Express.
Corrective. the slant of Japanese Eyes.
The japanese are not only adopting
American social and business customs,
bat they are also trying to conform their
physical textures t" the appearance of
Americans" said II. ID. Ncuniann, of
San Francisco. Il was in Yokohama
recently and | met there several Amer
lean and German doctors who were get
ling rich by strajg hteniug Tie slant in
the .Eaplnc.e eye to make IT look like
the beloved Caucasian's optic. The Jap
ane4c. y0u know, show the traces Of
their Mongolial origin more plainly in
the shape of their eyelids than i'll the
color of their skin. and those who can
afford it are Kidding themselves of this
unmistakable evidence Of their ancestry
by submitting to a simple and compare
lively painless surgical operation which
consists in the surgeon splitting the outer
rim If the cyelids in n straight line for
the harest iniinitesimal part of an inch.
Tho wound Is thea covered with thin
piece of chemically prepared sticking
plaster, the faithful subject of the Mi
ka,lo goes on about his business as if
nothing had happened, and in few days
the wornd is healed and he looks on his
ervious fellows through lids as straight
as an Americans, 1t is contended by
st icutisi3 that thsracial physical defect
in he japanese cyclid will entirely dis
appear in ID few generations if each sue
ccading generation continues to undergo
the surgical operation described. The
experiment is of especial value to the
student of evolution. st. Louis Globe
Democrat.