The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1906-06-21
PUSH BETTER THAN PULL.
Fact That Has Been Demonstrated
in the Customs of Various
Races.

Queer as IL may seem, the relative |
value of push and of pull is plain fact |
or nature. II anybody doubts it, let him |
consider the following details, In which |
the Statesman shows the difference be-
tween the Asiatic and the European:
In India, man digging In the gar
den does not throw the earth from him.
as the English gardener does, but pulls
1t toward him. The carpenter saving
wood does not drive the saw, but pulls
| II, in token of which fact the teeth of an
| Indian saw are set in the opposite way
| from those of an English saw. Even
when the Indian workman has been in
| duced TO adopt the labor saving ma
chinery introduced from Europe he
shows a strange perversity in sacrifc-
ing part Of the benefit through his habit
of preferring to pull rather than to
push.
Thus. in turning a wheel, as in rails
ing water from a well or working a
crane. instead of pushing the handle
down and so getting the benefit of the
weight of his body, he pulls it up, and
so sacrifices that natural advantage.
For the same reason the wheelbarrow
has never become naturalized in India,
although specially suited for a couu-
try where roads are still comparatively
few, but footpaths abound. The Indian
drill works in the opposite direction
from the European bit and brace. aA&,
the pot is stirred not from left to riaizt
as in the west, but from right to lGl(. "
rEl ~.
of warfare. The Indian sword f9X1af
for cutting, not for thrusting. H64 tEn
common daos and daggers GS& ~ IT.
same principle. = ~ !.
; The Indian, in the use 4 ~ 6rdS =
nature has provided for. 0<gr6f nm ~
/ fense does not hit out sfF111@ Il lJom ne
, shoulder like the European Ba4%kf kes
from above downward2ar frem riaht to
/ left with sweepings y y16nt5 Nor
r is the backhanded s1Ap - Nhteh most
4 English school boys NJ h6d personal
!, experience known n fhdNA6t
e Kicking out is a1nDfNsy. altnongh it is
3 coming in with fa0lb<d ak66ther phys
: ical exercise iaAwlfon skhesxa Inference is
a very marked lssgItlBpasas I'm India the
n arms are nor e1tsIfe6 Qutward, as in
Europe, Ogt y downward and
f1Ghsor does the fndian Nike header into
% ser with arms extended. Those
ua> 'seej rthe famous divers at
have eshere diving from the
i and els, v into adjacent tanks
; Of mosque. they came down feet
,emember that . sd squatting atti-
most and assum. We water
NJ, Satore reaching tl'rIINdian horseman
hen in riding the ,I,Is.@.he European
ps n,s NO ON by the extenAN u inward,,
ho, .s,an with toes directeSNt Nth the
nv srasping the saddle Nc x3,kalves
us that is to say, with the 2ut.
I s,s legs, the toes being dire''s swesis "
ms An indian scavenger ~.
ard, s,,nse,f not away. ike n" u
rother in the west. come one to r
when the Indian beckons ST. spn nalm OF y
."roach he does so with .he p In
~ ppi nand downward; the Eulo p,mun-
&c an"rrssponding act turns the pam .a.a ~ :.
ne ~ Even in Indian writing me- n,on
saro- 80 Of movement of extehsion
IN avoiaan an anparent in the case VI
Ten which is written IRON, II,nsia and
re. hut it also holds good III Yearly all
le .s.r sanskrit languages "a. the
other 80 ore written downwaru'
the seoh asns common in hhsh'"
rr,ting are very rare.