Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1937, Page 93

June 6, 1937 .® Here's Why: American college boys and girls are growing taller by DR. IRA S. WILE OLLEGE boys and girls today are heavier and taller than their parents were at the PS same age. This has been . proven by several surveys, notably one made by Professor Lawrence B. Chenowith of the University of Cin- cinnati. In measuring college fresh- men of 1936 he found that the boys were, on an average, two inches taller and eleven pounds heavier than fresh- men of the same college twenty years . ago. For girls the increase was one and 4 \ ahalf inches and two and a half pounds. 4 It’s all because we are eating more @ sensibly. We used to think that height « was wholly hereditary, and that if a child gave promise of growing into a short man, there was nothing much we could do about it. Now we kfiow that healthy habits of living and ‘a carefully planned diet, including the right proportions of meat, milk, fruit juice and vegetables, may help Johnny become a taller man than his father. A dramatic proof of this is the fact that Japanese born in this country are, on an average, two inches taller than their relatives of the same age who grow up in Japan, where the poorer classes have a very limited diet and frequently not enough of that. We may in time develop a race of giants in the United States. No Sense of Humor Continved from page seven Edna shook her head. ‘I don’t, but { some of my friends do. They've seen him around with her. They tell me | she’s a common little thing, hard- boiled, painted. Gawd knows what he { sees in her. Oh, I'll get ahold of her, some day —"' ' “Then what'll you do?” “Then?”” Edna waved the iron around wildly. “I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll get her in a chair, just like I got you here, and I'll get an iron hot, ¥ just like this. And then — then — I'll mark her for life. She ain’t going to get another woman’s husband when I'm through with her. Maybe I'll burn her eyes out, too, just so she can't go making eyes at men again. Maybe rn—- “Ouch, you're hurting me,” Daisy in alarm Edna recalled to the task in hand. P “Pardon me, dearie,”’ she said, apolo- getically. “‘I didn’t mean nothing, only cried when I think about that girl it gets me. You want brilliantine on your hair?"’ “All right, put some on.”” [ BRIDES’ SPECIAL pictured above. Give a lifetime of happiness. Edna reached out for the brillian- tine bottle and set it down before Daisy, but her hands were so unsteady with the nervous excitement she always felt when she thought of ‘‘that girl” that she overturned it. She tried to rescue Daisy’s bag from the spreading stream, but there was only enough time to push it to safety. She pushed, but the push was a little too hard: the bag fell to the floor, the faulty clasp opened and the contents " spilled all over the place. For a moment there was tense silence. The odor of the brilliantine rose in waves and engulfed Daisy. It almost paralyzed her; still she realized she must do something quickly, for Edna, her face flushed with embar- rassment, was already bending down, and on the floor, luckily face down, was the picture that she and Will had taken last week! Daisy fought her arms out from under the enveloping sheet and bent quickly, but she was too late. Edna was already on her knees picking up lipstick and compact and reaching out Electric Table Model, a $5.75 valve for a limited fime ot $4.95 Kitchen Model for wse on eleciric range or over open gas Hame, special, $9 95 It's beautifully & Sikhistyy Thrill the bride . . . and the Yroom also. This present brings better tasting coffee . . . protect- ed by Pyrex brand glass, guaran- teed against heat breakage. And there's a special this spring — « The Silex Company, - - Dept. embellished with a decorative shell of red or black Moldex, handle and cover to match, with handsome stove with handles. This special offer expires soon; buy it now at your favorite store. Brewing completed without removing glass from stove. FAREX TRADE MARK RIGISTERED V.S PAT OFF. 2, - - Hartford, Connecticut THIS WEEK for the picture. “I'm so sorry,” she was saying, “‘I'll pick up everything and clean it off.”” Her hand was already touching the picture ‘post- card. Daisy’s heart almost stopped beating. She quickly planted her foot on the card and kept it there firmly. ‘“You're stepping on something that dropped out,” Edna was saying. “It looks like a picture. Here, move your foot. You'll ruin it.” It’ll ruin me, Daisy thought. She said: ‘“Never mind. That’s just an old postcard I've been carrying. Leave it lay, I don’t want it any more.” Edna stood up and mopped up the brilliantine with quick little dabs. She efficiently put the finishing touches on Daisy’s coiffure. Now she held out a hand mirror and began to swing the chair around so that Daisy might admire her back, but Daisy refused to budge. She kept her eyes on the hot curling iron and her foot planted on the tell-tale picture. “It’s all right,” she said nervously. “It looks good enough, 1 can see from here.”” She wished fervently she hadn’t thought of giving Will's wife the once-over. While Edna ran a razor over the back of her neck for good measure, Daisy went through agonies. It couldn’t have been pure accident that Edna had knocked down her bag. Did she suspect — At last Daisy had to get up out of the chair. She stood up gingerly, be- tween the picture and Edna. “Ah, let me pick this up for you now,” Edna was saying, but Daisy shook her head and didn’t give way. *“That’s all right, I told you I don’t want it no more,” she said. ‘“Now, what do I owe you?”’ “Funny thing just happened,” Edna told Mabel a few minutes later. “That girl that just dashed out, did you see her? I was telling her what I'd do if I found the hussy Will’s been travelling around with. Well, she couldn’t take a joke. I musta scared her. She hands me a two-dollar bill, and here I come back with a dollar and a quarter change, and she’s gone. Well, I'm in a dollar and a quarter.” “I guess she didn’t have a sense of humor,” Mabel said judiciously. But that was not the only thing that happened to Edna that same evening. 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