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Show HUMAN STATURE. iwloo. .!. About "- ' r'"tM lo Add lo ! HaHbl. J I do not think It It possible to add mora than an Inch or to to human ttature. aald a well-known physician In antwer lo a question of the writer This Is one respect In which nature Insists on having her own way, and I am quite sure thnt under no conditions would It be possible to raise a race ot giants Nature It olwayt at work correcting cor-recting any tendency to extremes, though here nnd there torceono escapes es-capes her notice and grows Into a giant or dwindle Into a dwarf You might think tho tall parent would have taller children than themselves, but n little observation will provo that this la not . so. Nature always seems to bo striving . to reach and maintain a medium j height, so thtt as a rulo tall parent j have shorter children than themselves. and short parents raise Liller children, the two extremes meeting In a few J gencratlona at th average height. ' Hut something can certainly be done K the attempt bo mado early Practically Prac-tically a man doet nil his growing before be-fore be Is eighteen and a woman before be-fore the Is sixteen, although I have known cases where a man has grown perceptibly In stature until long past thirty. ! After all, stature It largely a question ques-tion of length o( legs 1( rou take three men, one of six feet, another of five (eet six Inches and a third ot flvo feet, there will be only tho smallest dlf- , rerence In tho length of the body, and Jn (act the short man may have the Wf longest body of tho three. Hut the long man will hale an advantago ot tea JK Inches In length of leg over the short jm man. BJ Tho margin tor growth In the legs Is jfl t6 per cent more than In the body. ,W This mesnt that the legs ot an adult W nre Ave timet as long as when he wo n born, his body three timet, and hit XI head twice Its original length. 'S It Is thus, you ace, very largely a H question of legs, and to the legs w 9 must look (or any great Increase In fl stature Aa you may know, each lee 9 bone la In early outh In threo distinct M pieces, which later unite Into one bone. flj If you could devise any means ot pre- fl venting thla unison or delaying It for 9 a few years, there la no question that BJ although you would destroy th pro- H portion and symmetry of the body. at Nothing checks growth more than Illness, and by avoiding It you help growth very substantially, especially In H tho very early years I think you wilt , And that most men and women who flj aro dwarfs have suffered from repeated, jjj Illnesses In tho first tow yeara ot their W lives, and hac been unable to make H up the Icaway I Anything which promotes health promote growth, and tho only royal road to stature and symmetry Is In th direction of (rcsb air, nourishing food and Judicious exercise. You see what the emancipation of our daugmer bad already done for their stature. In th old days, when girls wero shut out (rom almost every (orm of outdoor ? erctse, It was unusual to aee ono higher high-er than five (eet alx Inches, Now that they cycle and swim, and play golt and tennla as unrestrainedly aa their brothers, broth-ers, they shoot up like young saplings to five (eet nine Inches, and even tlx (eet. I quite believe that In another generation the average height o( women wom-en will bo quite two Inchea more than In tho last generation. It It curloua to observe how the average aver-age height of men varies, with th class to which they belong Tha wealthy and professional classes aro qulto threo Inches to four Inches taller than tho poor, working classes, and tho Intermediate Inter-mediate ttaget are marked by tho degree de-gree ot prosperity ot the class to which n man belongs, so that while an average aver-age (actory worker Is about flvo feet Qvo Inches, n skilled artisan will b five feet six Inchis; a laborer, flvo (eet I seven Inchet; a tradesman, flvo feet eight Inches, nnd a lawyer or doctor, I fho feet nlno Inches, 1 Drleriy, then, my ndlce Is, If you I want jour children to bo tall that la, to attain their full natural growth-guard growth-guard against Illness ot all hinds, lot them bo In the froth nlr and sunsblna at much as poulblo, encourage every kind ot open air cxcrclso In moderation, modera-tion, with a courro ot gymnastics to make them straight nnd supple, teed them on plain nnd nourishing food, and tend them to bed early Human science can do nothing mora than this to mako them tall, although H "cleatort" may add a fraudulent Inch H or two Tlt-nits B |