The morning call., 1892-12-31
JUICY AMERICANS.
They Beat the World as
Expectorators.
KIpLINd ON OUR cUsPIDoRs
what DIR. 1cNu,t Says on a Very
Curious if Not Very Nice -
Subject. -"

DO Americans expsetorate more than
other people2 .,o.o
Kipling says they do and DICKENS "IO'o
as down as astonishing splitter
P,it ts there really sny founoatiOn for the
fneory that excessive expeetoration is
u- .oual characteristic with US?
sYbea Rudyard K Kpling threw his power
fal fashlight upon San Frane SEQ ms great
audience beheld nost eonsp cuously the
glqans.c sp'ttoons which re enc3untered In
vorld-rencwned hotel here.
So ne remain a people pted for our spit
sIlry.
we may comfort ours IS th the rehec-
ION that ii is ut least mois masly tc be spit
fHi than spiteiu. Ct"
We are also accused 81 being an aban-
6ened nation Of swsil9W 5: But one can
,st swallow everything sast of all the
9n1radlciory charges that " are both In
ees utly expectorating an .incessanily
nted for opinions yeste day.
sr old woman and a girl with baby
auac, sat ia DI. +. w. svelyns walt
ms ON. A conspicuous : ;Td over over IheiI
als read, "Do not smok They were
aet aoking, and /. also ". hing to comply
uta ne request, looked f. somewhere TO
s3r nv cigar without llking down a
uiE ~ stairs and along passage TO the
street. But there was no spidor.
.Ehere was no notice huge up against eX-
3ee.0ration, and so both babies drOoled
eely at the mouth while waited till was
ast admitted into the d ctor's Sanctum.
There is no doubt that 4 leTicans eXpec-
tCrzes far iD excess OF any ather people In
tRc orld.' said Dr. d'Eyelyn.
he bes. proof Of that Is il the array Of
eU id0rs which you jH6 at every turn in
p; giic places iiks Hoteis. State buildings
ara so on aud semi-pEblic places, like busi-
ness Offices. Outside of the [ nited States
you only find such articles iB special smOk-
tng-reons 10 hotels, Gibbs or Or steamships.
81 do not attribute this habit Of eXpector-
alton 20 either smoking or chewing tobacco,
The latter, by the way, being distinctly
Bat onsl American peculiarly. The lnyet-
crate tobaceo-C CheWeT doesn' teXpectorate as
aIale.
q prev enee Of catarrhal complaints, a
form Of sickness more common TO the
UniTed States thau any other part or the
8oTld. 1t is simply the resi- of the geo
logical disposition of The untry. 1he
great III jsye Desert ana Bha is known as
The alkaline belt are respOus ele for the
accumulation Of catarrhal matter, which
induces constant clearing Of cnests, throats
and nasal organs. Ia San Fra cisco the IT.
ritation Is augmented by INV BILE sawdust
around out 3f ogr wooden s ewalks and
GG6thE iN AlS ar We 5Iea'ffSs
DR.. McN ltt entered in sus -ues u0n with
laterest.
'sThe excessive use Q tobacco, especially
IN the form OF chewing tobacco IS the chief
reason that there is so mpeh sKpectoration
snd such q display OF elspidors in the
Gsited States" said the doctsr.
II CO not hiEE catarrhal affections have
anything 10 with The habit OF eXpect0ra-
.tIOB-taat j., universal extent. as ii Is
prsciicsG over 7ere.
England. tlaGl nd lie northern parts
81 German register fer greater percentage
of deaths from Fonchitis and consumption
than does TIE United States, and We don
Gnd CuspiGors or people eXpectoratlng TO
any motto sble extent il tHe countries
named. s. is simply owing 10 the fatal
tobacco hafif and q o other cause.
PT0fesscT Bass9n thought silently for q
while. rs 30 mentally repeated his travels
Sd over he world.
81 must admit we do expectorate freely
as nation EeH I MAKE comparative
analysis, 5e said.
The japanese Dc good deal in that
line. but then they sader from colds and
eataTTh 3 great deal. Ineg have little
bamboo Teceptscies for l0gace0 ashes in
every rOoIn, aud Eness are always used as
euspiGors. They couldn't do without some
Elnd Of cuspider in thaE climate.
tblBk re are very cafeie IN our hapit
IN THIS respect, AID / attribute good deal
70 the dirty anu ilLkept eoaG tion of cur
sfFeets. man thinks nothing OF eXpectO-
rating IN the streets here OF r. most other
american towns. IL London Or Paris, on
fhe other hand, If man expectorated on
tae trim and elean-kept Dagements he
would make himself and bis work so un-
pleasantly conspicuous as - check him
ffain ali future earslessness. | should at
tribute our national bRbi. 20 all three
eaases-eatarrh, tobacco ana dirty streets.
Splitting Is great deal q matter of ha Bit.
There Is no doabt Of il. / had been q
smoker Tor twelve years when l visited
Caina and stayed at the AstoT House foT
ever three months. but / never exDector-
ated.
'-It was an America hotel In the mid
die Of the great biliiaIG-T0om was a monster
American stove. and around II every night
gathered sOeiable circle OF American
residents. sitting 10 back-tiltsd chairs with
feet resting o. fhe steve.
Whenever conversation tagged every
member al that party would apparently en-.
joy s8e greatest depths of philosophical
comfort by apparently doing nothing more
Mac sxpeclorating on the stove and watch
stsizzle'
.'At drst I marTele5 and then mimicked
and behold became firm believing con.
vert to what was graYely assured was Z
gfeag 4 Americsn instutitio1. For MANY
weeks wheceger I was bored or weary
came 10 The siove az almost Instantly wa:
lest IN soothing expectorasio and reyere
Then went To India aai aos the habit
Ne sas expeeserates Ia Elala They arr
always too thirsty.
Three years ago J retained 70 San Fran.
cisco 50 stay. The first thing ! Noticed were
the enormous sptioous in the Palace yesti
Bule, But there were so many other inter.
sstiHs things 70 notice II California tina
tEey passed out OF my mind
hare lived here three years-town ant
country
smoke ten cigars a day, walk a gooC
MAI miles week over oHr dirty streets
but don't expeetorste.
Nhen doctors .sagfes and a scientis
minis something else ! laii back on m,
esn opinion. ] think Americans expecto
rate y The extent CT a national character
tstle bey0nd all peoples & T ne earth.
think they 90 lt because Il is ire,
country and they choose to-