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Show Strength Tests Tests of stmngtb have been made, and the following are given as the average figures for the white race: The "lifting powers" of a youth of seventeen is 2S0 pounds; In his twentieth twen-tieth year this increases to 320 pounds; and In the thlrtie.ii yern' It reaches its height P.Co pounds; at the end of the thirty-first year the strength begins to decline, very slowly slow-ly at first. By the fortieth year it has decreased SI pounds, and this diminution diminu-tion continues until rl"1 liiMeth year is reach?;!. '"n the figure is C."0 pounds. Aftfr this perin.t the strength falls more and more rapidly until the weakness of o'd a"e is re:e i:ed. 1 |