The evening world., 1894-04-11
VEGETABLES AND STATURE.
DR.. Elliott Answers the Claim that
Meat-Eaters Are Small.
Comparison of Elephant and Fox
Knocked Out by Facts.

"Drcs eating vegetables make the big
| man. asks George II. Elliott. M D.
AMI then he proceeds to poke fun n,
Mark l. Knapp in Tine Medical Record
Tor advancing that proposition In al
ar tel" on the "rhysiDlogictl and Path
illogical Influence OF Vegetables Upon
Man, br. Elliott Is IA lecturer Of the
faculty II the College II Physicians and
Surgeons, a microscopic Of note an In.
strurtive writer on medical science AMI
II buy practitioner as well. Here Is
what h" SAYS IN rei.y 70 Mark |. Knapp
proposition;
The first part Of the article shows
scientific suunln"ss anG much care, and
the statement that both vegetables and
meat are of like Importance to sustain
our equilibrium Of health and life IL, ]
believe. for the fin de steele individual,
generally accepted.
After laying II very good scientific
founlauon upon food In general the
writer makes very bod statement.
calling Paoln Riccard to the rescue" who.
III substance, has said that vegetables
bring forth tail men. while animal diet
produces short people, The writer fol
t''' ''li' 'f anu FflNIfs Int lIlt Nl'T, as
ne believes, So GO lclusivCly that one
might be led to feel that Darwin, H"r-
bert Spencer, Huxley and Wallace had
wasted much time trying to fathom II
subject so easy to understand. ITS not
climate says the writer. mo, nor hill.
nor valley, nor heroIity that makes the
hS man big and the little man little. hut
h'It @hiy' IT. Is Vegetables that produce
In animals we are told the proof Is
easy, anG we have but to contrast the
vegetarian elephant and OK with the
iln'h-oating lion and fox, to be con-
WINGED at once that 1t is diet alone
which determines the size of these quad
rupeds. our attention Is further calle ed
nortionately built. the height eIualling
the length of the body. while the car
nivora are destitute Of all proportion.
having short legs. The writer here must
greyhound. or dreaming of the fine pro-
PORTIONS Of the herbivorOus rhinoceros or
giraffe, When he tells us the herbivora
are larger, and larger on account OF
food only, he may have been dwelling
upon our ancient friend the ichthyosaurus,
or on our more modern type of carnivo-
rouS hreNity and comprehensive
balaona mystiCetus or whalebOne whale.
Regarding the latter, however. he may
wish to limit his remarks to terrestrial
Carnivora He may even wish to think
with those of our biologists who ques-
tion a place for these monsters among
Carnivora at all notwithstanding the
fact that our halaena mysticetus de-
YOURS immense quantities of crustaceans
and rtsropods, and in modern times has
never been known to hunt watermelon
patch or tread down n COrnheli.
Having settled the point that the size
OF animals is due to diet alone. by
contrasting the big herbivurous elephant
with the little Carnivorous fox, we are
led "A step further and told that "the
cthnography Of man proves with Ger
tnnty and posItivencss the same thing"
a. ~ tod l.ty Nt-tW tttF.
pie who have not been civilized by the
railroad ana telephone. Look" says
She writer ~. the Esqnimaux and
nni Polyncsinns ~ the south. What n
difference" of diet in those EXTREMIST
Will" telling us that tn" EsduimauS
eat animal food and are small, he Leads
us to infer that the Patngonians are
large because they are vegctarians. Thai
the latter are large is Correct-they ar,
very large. Will" the older voyagers
exaggerated somewhat when they uset
to say that when Pataronian stood
with his legs apart an ordinary man
could walk between them without stoOp.
ing, nevertheless they are known to com.
par" in stature favOrably with pickle
English life guards.
lut, alas! these same PataEonians are
not veg"tnrian7. ON the contrary. they
sIh list almost entirely upon the guam
AGO, one the llama tribe. Ths is the
Crcatur" they spend their time in hunt
Ink. This Is the creature that supplies
the big ntagonian with food. clothes
ana dwelling; our writer must also
Indian in his wanderngs for short
legged ami primitive animal feeders
II Is IA fact that the majority Of print
tive men were small Notwithstanding
the fnct that the majority Of them We're
V,egetarians. The mass of evidence
shows some connection between barbar-
ism and inferiOrty in size, @. g.:
south. American races: Guiana Indian
Is mostly below feet inches; Arawaks
seldom more than feet inches
HHnnrnnis rarely feet;
3 inches.
Southern Asia: familiar aboriglncs Of
India are described as smaller than tn,
liin'oos PuttOoas do not exceed 6 feet
inches; Lepchas average about feet
Juangs less than feet.
Many Fuegian tribes are not NOR,
th%n . feet; Andamenese men vary from
Neddah is 4 feet inches; the ordinarS
height of the Bushman is feet inches
MS diminutive stature, too, in spite OF
ne faIt of diet Of nuts and fruit or
upon tish and mollusks.
Why. then look no further than to con
net net IN" small size Of the Esquima,
| Does not the severe climate entail ply
sinloEical cost? Is II not as unreason
able to attribute the small size of tn,
Esqulmnu and Lnpp to their animal die
! q
! d!rt?
| The Bushman, On the other hand. haf
| 10 fNGe a barren ana arid territory
/ scarcely inhah!tahle by any class of hi
| man beings a lower standard OF growth
/ Is N" natural outcome.
| Mr.. Knapp also Directs our attention
| - IN" short legs of the carnvora an,
| primitive flesh-eat!nE tribes like the Sa
| moy"irs. Ohnngos. KenllOhs.
We may state that this shortness o
! legs Is ny no means peculiar to flesh
"LtiNg tribes II T. m established s,Iru
/ tue fact that small lower limbs charac
/ tern" carly types of humanity irrespar
tiH" OF Let f.. =, bstvakS, kamschaialv S
/ ~ 'kl,' among the I'm tribes Of India
! cum puks and GuarlNlS among the Amcri
! San races So. to-, We find short band,
! logs In y" Fuerions .lkkls," sc. Rela
| uy'N short logs prclomnatcl in on
| : m''n ancestors and still persist Il
! carly man.
/ Again, IN primitive man we find lnrE,
/ laws AN tooth and a large digestive an
4 lHru'us This * clearly put forth l.,
such authors rs Barrow. SChwcInfurth
. T"uu'Dt, Gallon. Dr, Hooker Anciru
. llriNsh skUlls show large massive Jaws
/ Tn" h..' Jews ard stnmurhs clearly puir
. to ~" true V,goturD - Net OF thrs" en- RI
| people and plainly tell MS that they at
| coarse Good. filling their bellies with tn
| h..Ns that tn, swine did eat or, Xix
! CWNsustum uf old. eating the grass q