"How can you?" That's Swedish.
"How do you perspire?" That's the Egyptian version.
"How is your stomach? Have you eaten your rice?" That's the rather medical way in which the Chinese people express their morning salutation.
"How do you have yourself?" That's Polish.
"How do you live on?" That's Russian.
"May thy shadow never be less." That's Persian.
And all mean much the same thing—the natural expression of sympathy and friendly curiosity when one human being meets another.
Little Glimpses of the 19th Century.
The Great Events in the History of the Last One Hundred Years, Assembled
so as to Present a Nutshell Record.