Show NOT degenerating mankind in no of a C race of dwarfs it appears from the results of scien-tific measurements recently made in aerance that the average stature of man is neither increasing nor decreas-ing the skeletons of the men who inhabited france at a period when eu-rope was the home of lions elephants rrhhiinnoocecreorsoesess hyenas and reindeer are of very nearly the same as of the french people of ttooddaayy yet says youths companion the surroundings amid which these early men lived were remarkably different from those enjoyed by their suc-cesssoorrss their best abodes were caves and to hold possession of them they had to wage warfare upon such fierce beasts as the saber toothed tiger and the cave bear without our modern weapons it would seem that they should pos-sessed superior bodily powers but there is no evidence that they did they had human cunning however which always prevails over brute strength later came the ancestors of the gaula and franks and they seem to have slightly exceeded the cave men in stature and also to have been a trifle taller than their modem descendants one interesting fact shown by the measurements is that there has been a perceptible gain in the stature of women as compared with that of men since the days of the tiger fighters in france taken as a whole this evidence shows that there is no danger that mankind will become a race of dwarfs and no likelihood of their developing into |