Show NATURAL CAUSES ONLY The World V orI in New York ga gave ye sonic some of Dr Bonns Bonn's measurements of Yale athletes and students from which the inference is direct that tha American men are arc becoming greater physically than almost any other known race and it seems that in Yale from 1903 to IDOS men have increased an inch and a half in height and they have gained twenty seven pounds and there is a long stor story along that line showing how American college men Ire are improving in weight and height and nud strength samples s s are given from several several several sev sev- eral universities to show that the students are aro steadily steadily steadily stead stead- ily increasing in stature and weight and the general inference is that the race is increasing in body bod and in mind All of which we presume is true but hut we cannot cannot cannot can can- not understand why achy so much wonder is expressed over the fact A great proportion of the students in iu inthe inthe the universities in the east arc are farmers' farmers boys bos or mechanics mechanics' me rue- boys Fifty years rears ago those boys bos at home worked fourteen or fifteen hours a day and most of them had for food foo a little salt pork potatoes bread and such stews as their mothers could make Now the same class work perhaps eight hours a day and go idle when they please and they have rich foods The whole mystery can can an be explained if those learned editors in the east cast will go and purchase two six old calves and will feed one calf all all he wants of rich food giving the other about half what he ought to have and have hove a boy drive dr e him around the yard five fhe hours a day It will not take any fifty years to demonstrate dem the difference It can be learned in thirty days das One calf will double in and weight the other will have hard work to hold his own The money mone of this world has 1135 doubled twice in fifty years rears the homes have doubled in their comforts com coin- forts and an in their sanitary arrangements in lieu of the old weekly newspaper of fifty years ears ago ever every home has its library Brains are aro being worked more the bodies less the food is vastly better and more abundant and it does not need any deep reasoning rea rca sonin to find the cause of the difference in the bo boys s 's sand and girls that come conic out of those homes |