Show belief that sugar confers strength great russian wrestler says the more sweet stuff one eats the stronger lie will grow seems to be true various reasons have been assigned for the increase in stature and strength of the modern maiden who has most certainly grown uncommon ly tall and proportionately muscular during the past few years it cannot be that outdoor sports gymnastic ex and so on have stretched her out and made her as strong as she Is because her brothers have had pre ackely the same advantages and they have not developed at the same rate it seems to me therefore that the se cret lies in the fact that of recent years girls have become far greater consumers of sweetmeats than ever were their mothers and grandmothers time was when we should never have dreamed of having sweets on our luncheon dinner and tea tables now it would be quite extraordinary were one not to offer these dainties and what is moie we are not merely con tent to eat sweetmeats at our meals but we consume them at all times and in all places between meals it was recently said that boxes of bonbons pay a s part in modern lovemae ing sweet to the sweet be ing apparently the text by which ev ery yo ng man of the day guides him self through the devious paths of courtship the great russian wrestler who is shortly to enter again into contest with the turk maddali tells us that the more sweet stuff one eats the stronger one grons sugar is the secret of strength he declares |