, 1888-07-22
HOW TO GROW LONGER.
BY Taking Turkish Baths Ie Can Be Ac-
compIished-A Doctors Testimony.

BY Taking Turkish Baths Ie Can BE Ac-
compIished-A Doctors Testimony.
80 you were rejected, Ell? Pm awfully
sorry, old man. Thought you'd pull
through if any one did, and even hoped
you'd be sent into our precinct. How
did it happenH Too heavy for your size2
Nonsense. Under stature, too? Oh, come
off. How is it they rejected you and
passed your brother2 He is even shorter
than you and weighs-well, ten pounds
heavier at least. Turkish baths; well,
that's a new one on me-"
Thus 1t was that a member of "the
finest" recently received the intelligence
that a friend of his had been denied a
place on the force. The writer, who had
been an unintentional listener to the
conversation, after trying for n week to
solve the question unaided, called on DIR.
Charles T.. Ryan, to whom he put the
following query:
"How is it that men who are under
size and over weight can get on the po-
lice ~force7''
"You know" he replied, ''that the
police and fire department, too, for that
matter. require all applicants for posi-
tons to be of a certain height and
weight. Some are of a height necessary
to appointment, but lack weight. These
men can increase their weight by a GER
tain attention to diet and by exercising a
certain mount of care as to the kind and
amount of manual labor they perform.
Others are up to the standard of weight
required, but oftentimes lack q trile of
the regulation height, or if tall enough
they are perhaps too heavy. 1t is this
class who are benefited by the Turkish
bath. To make you understand how a
man of the necessary height but of too
great weight can be brought to a condi-
ton that will enable him II pass the ex-
aminers, it is not necessary to say any
thing, except hat we do it. What you
can't see through, however, is how a
mans height can be increased; is that SO?
thought SO. Well, it can't be done,
that is permanently, but temporarily the
Turkish bath can stretch a man, as it
were, for an inch or perhaps more. Es-
pecially is this so in cases where the men
operated upon nave been used to desk or
bench work.
"a result of sitting at a desk or q
bench for years, as you well know, is a
stoop or rounding of the shoulders. Be-
sides this, the cartilaginous cushions that
lie between the vertebre become settled
as 1t were, and a mans original or nor
NAL stature is lessened to a marked de-
gree thereby. That exposure to the in
tense heat of a Turkish bath, followed by
rational exercise in the plunge and a
thorough manipulation at the hands of a
skillful operator, should straighten a man
up, stimulate the cartilage of the spinal
column and relax the muscles, especially
of the extremities, is only natural, and it
is men OF the class l have just named
that, anticipating a physical examination
for positions on the police force, have
profted by the baths to the end that you
have just mentioned. Being a trife
short of the stature required, they
have gone to a Turkish bath and linn
bered up, as it were, for examination.
But for transportation you might call
it-many wearers of service stripes to-
day would never have passed the re-
quired examination. New York Mail
and Express.