The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-03-16

In a letter to the editor of the New
York Post "Sensei' writes as follows
on the lack of endurance Of the Japa-
nese:
A returned traveller, Ban Yai, re-
Dorts some wonderful muscular stunts
performed by servants of the pack
horse class of Japan as an evidence
of physical endurance of the race.
Those jinrikiSha and "gO-dOWn' push
cart men, who take the place Of horses
in that enlightened country, have an
average length of professional life OF
exactly five years, as determined by
the statistics of 10000 patients whom
7 attended. They died Of cardiac ven
ticular dilatation or aortic aneurism,
diseases produced by overeXertion ev-
crywhere, but nowhere arc they so
frequent as in japan. Those men or
Japan have not the endurance of tissue
cell to withstand the bad effects of
their excessive muscular work except
for a very short time The percentage
there Of damage to the vascular cen-
trail system by oyereXcrcise is five
times that of ours.
Besides, tho rice diet constituting the
exclusive food of the common herd, is
especially to be held guilty of Japa-
nese muscular weakness for any endur-
ing work 1t not only by its ingesting
lDass destroys ussimilating faculty for
other substances which should feed
IL &c
to furnish good Authorization or to re-
generate the blood adequately. The
trldes Of food which are introduced
with the rice, such rs cheese, beans
and fish, are insufficient, and fat is al
together lacking In the national diet
table Now, in muscular exercise there
Is the greatest elimination OF urea by
the eXcrctions, especially Of the kid
neys and skin. An enormous amount,
as / have time and again determined
with Professor SasaN in the labora-
tory, is evolved by these human
stneds" of Japan after long trips on the
gallon. 1t comes from the broken down
muscular tissues. l have wondered
how nature could restore this loss and
finally concluded that she never did
completely Pernicious diseases Of an
anTnic kind are the consequence, put
the victim out Of his race, or long con-
fInuous dropsies supervcue. The eX-
haustion of such exercises is well
shown by the mutilated appearance Of
dinrikisha mems backs and legs, where
they burn moXa on the tired flesh to
restore temporarily the muscles. The
endurance even Of those japanese is
limited.
Naturally in all Japanese fish and
rice eaters there is a predisposition to
weakness of the vascular system, due
TO fatigue of the skin exposed to the
not. damp temperature Of the rainy
season, June, July and August, and by
the influence Of facilitating agencies.
Oriental RIGHTEOUSNESS, growth and in
heIlectual or physical overeXGrtion be-
yond their natural capacity of mind
and muscle, not to mention the weak
ening effects of one or two hot baths
every day of their existence. To per-
Spire in q climate like Japan uses up
the last remnant of positive vascular
pressure, which, with the extreme hui
mildly Of the air, requires such strug-
gle as is apt to end to the disadvan-
tagc of normal excretions. Much great
er vascular pressure is therefore neCes-
Sary to maintain normal compensation
in those climates, without which equi-
aibrium endurance is impossible. Thus
violent transudation must occur, and
pernicious symptoms are observed ear
Iier in life than with US. The endur-
ance of the evil physically is not as
great as with US.
The Japanese is above everything
else, physically, Malayan Chinaman,
and nothing else. All his diseases of
nutrition must be referred to his being
a rice eating Monaghan. His Malayan
ancestors brought him only his mar
TOW thorax, the physical root Of some
OF his shortcomings, an endowment he
has today, from those prehistoric an
-cestors The influence of other ma
tions as had intimate intercourse with
Japan helped to form his physical
character.
With what avidity the japanese APP
propriated the treasures of Chinese
science! Like a porous mass, they
sucked in a deluge of Chinese knowl-
edge with impatient greed without
even waiting for the impurities to set
tie down Their language became i'm
pregnated with Chinese words and
characters; their ideas were dominat-
ed by Chinese worship and supersti-
tion; their thought accommodated it.
self to the ways and methods which
had become inveterate in the Chinese.
But later on physically they kept