Show SIZE NOT RELATIVE MATTER scientific exola explanation nation of why small men seem to possess abnormal appetites lecturing ht at tile the sol sat bonne il 31 louis I 1 La the eminent french list li ti st has endeavored to explain the mystery of why little men often eat cat touch much more proportionately than ii big ig cheri it is is well known that the tin nn der sized E Esqui maux eat cat enormously more thau thao the tall hindus sri small aall ant trials cat more inore in pro than large lareo ones and in everyday life we will often see a little man cat a bis big steak and trimmings in it a restaurant while at the nd adjoining joining table a six foot glant giant weighing pounds finds satisfaction is in crackers and mill milk professor Lapic La clue says that the quantity of food consumed i is s riot not determined ter mined fied by the relative effi efficiency clericy ol of the alige digestive etive organs on the contrary the digestive organs ire arc more inore efficient in dinall animals because they are more ore urgently ly seeded with smaller furnaces aud boilers inside them and a relatively larger cooling surface auriac e to provide for the smaller auli animals nals enuse attend to 10 their stoking ind and maintain their rood food supply with catich more care than their larger companions pan ioas ions proportionately to its ilg weight a pigeon requires five as minli min li nourishment ns as a inin inai a lenal a aind kind of orien orienta Or ionta tit finch six ti limes mes as much as a pigeon that is to tb edyt say a i bengal must eat cat thirty times ns as fast as a man or dio die ot of hunger if lie took to meat eating by way ol of saving saling time lime and energy he would require his own weight of underdone beefsteak each eacek clay JA u the tha same rate and allowing eight hours for sleep a man wo il haves have to eat a meal every sixteen minutes isi |