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Show , , " EASY TO INCREASE HEIGHT. Apparatus That Will Accomplish Task Recently Patented. Tho UortSllon systom has received a sad blow in tho demonstration of tho fact that a person may to a very great extent chango his physical proportions. pro-portions. Postal Inspector William WllllamR, nttnehed to the Denver ikjsI. oince, has taken It on himself to show how this could bo done, and some tlmo ngo he subjected hlmsolf to an examination and then started In on a systematic Bchemo for tho purposo of bringing about such changes In his genoral shape and nppearanco as to i mako It difficult to identify him by tho measurements previously made by tho Uortlllon systom, which wore thought to bo Infallible At the tlmo of tho first examination Mr. Williams weighed 100 pounds and measured G feet 2 Inches, and nfter going through a somewhat prolonged course of training train-ing ho weighed ICO pounds and measured meas-ured 5 feet 4 Inches in height. The system of physical culturo taken up by Mr. Williams In his experiment was that of loosening tho bones in their sockets and allowing tho space Tt'horo they wero pulled apart at tho Joints to fill with cartilage. By this method tho body is lengthened without with-out over-development of tho muscles, such as Is tho case in physical training train-ing adopted by athlotes. Then In order to effectually prove his ground that tho Dertlllon systom wbb worthless, Williams submitted himself to arrest In sovoral different cities whoro tho syhtom was mado use of in tho identification of criminals crimi-nals nud in no case was he recognized by tho original record. Tho ability to lncrcaso tho height was tho one thing which hroko dpwn tho certainty of tho Dertlllon system. An apparatus to produce this Increased In-creased holght was' recently awarded a patent nnd a drawing of tho instrument instru-ment is shown herewith. In a few words, tho subject is placed on a sort of a rack, with tho head nnd feet so-curoly so-curoly fastened, and by tho application applica-tion of a scrow tho subject Is literally Btrotchod. By undergoing this operation opera-tion nt regular Intervnls it is said to ho posslblo to mako ovon greater additions ad-ditions to tho holght than Mr. Williams Will-iams succeeded In doing. |
