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Show BAOIAIi PEOULIARITIM. Five feet Is the minimum height of the Russian and French conscript. Tbt average Japanese soldier Is not mor than five feet four Inches high. Hhcumatism Is almost unknown in Japan. The Japanose escape the malady mal-ady to a great degree by avoiding the txcessfve use ot alcohol nad tobacco. In fasting feats the sect known as the Jains, In India, is far ahead ot all rivals. Fasts of from 80 to 40 days are very common, and once a year the. people abstain from' food for 75 days. Japanese women are seldom physically phys-ically weak, a fact that is ascribed to' tho very general adoption by them of a scientific system of bodily training. Curiously enough, the average Jap anese woman weighs about as much as the average Japaueee man. |