The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-19
HOW TO MAKE TALL MEN
PROCESS OF A FRENCH PHYSI-
CLAN IN FORMING GIANTS.
DR.. Springer's Idea That Height De-
ponds Upon Bony Structure-Kai-
ser Is Feeding His Boys On Dope.
(Chicaco Trib,lne.O

The kaiser has stolen a march on the
French: yet his joy on that account is
not unmixed with wounded personal
pride.
That the imperial princes are out
growing, or promise 10 outgrow, their
august papa, as all Berlin observes, is
due to the recipe of French savant,
DR.. Springer. So far, so good. But his
majesty's self-love is all the same
rudely shocked because his boys in
cIeasing height emphasizes his own
want of heroic stature.
The crown prince, Frederic William,
who viii be IL years old on May 8, is
already shade bigger than his father,
who claims 10 be five feet four inches,
though people who profess to know ac-
cord him only five feet three and half
inches, which is three and a half inches
more than the lowest standard measure
for service in the Prussian army.
Eitel Fritz, Williams second born.
who is fourteen months younger than
the crown prince, has reached the
height of five feet five inches. OF the
kaiser's four other boys, Adalbert and
Augustus are hulking big fellows for
their age, while Oscar and Joachim,
tional diseases, are, nevertheless, re-
markable for their growth of bone and
body.
These young war lords of the future
are said to owe their extraordinary
physical development to DR.. Springer's
recipe, which the empress acquired
from her aunt, the,Countess Waldersee,
nee Miss Lee of New York.
Countess Waldersee's Discovery.
1t appears that Countess Waldersee.
who was Auguste Victoria'S confidante
during the first ten years of her mar
ried life, became alarmed at the report
of the spread of the degeneracy in the
Fatherland, which had obliged the mil
itary authorities to lower the standard
measure of soldiers three milimeters
Her imperial niece, then Princess Will
liam, was having children in quick sue
cession, all boys, but none OF them big
or promising children at their birth.
While on a visit to Paris in 1884, the
countess met DR.. Springer, and in con-
versation with him learned that there
was way of making children grow
tall.
Il will pay you any price for the
recipe" said her ladyship.
Il ask only 500 francs to repay my
outlay for experiments.
The countess paid the 500, promising
to send another 500 for the benefit of
the Paris poor if the scheme worked,
and forthwith returned to Potsdam to
begin operations on little Frederick
William and Eitel Fritz, then in their
second and first year, respectively.
for Springer had said that bonemaking,
TO insure success, must commence in
early childhood.
This is the method he advocated:
Take barley, oats, wheat, rye, dried
sugar corn, bran, mix together, and
boil two tablespoonful in four pintS
of water for each person to be served.
Cook for three hours. When cold let
the extract pass through a hair sieve
and add enough water to make a full
pint extract for each person.
The extract has yellowish color, and
is quite palatable. If children will not
take it pure. a little lemon, milk, or
pure fruit juice may be added.
Tried 1t On the Dog.
When Countess Waldersee submitted
the recipe to the physicians of the i'm
perial children, DR.. Bunker, he laughed
and wouldn't hear of it. He said he
might as well feed the little ones on
pure phosphates. In this opinion Prince
William concurred, but the princess
and Countess Waldersee were deter
mined to give the French doctor a
chance.
AS some little time before Car Alex
ander had sent to Prince William four
greyhound pups, which, despite the
good care they had. were progressing
slowly, the princess ordered that two
of the pups, the weakest ones, should
be brought up on Springer's extract,
while the rest were to be fed as be-
fore.
The result was remarkable. The sick
ly pups soon began to pick up, and
Prince William, who is fond of animals.
was overjoyed.
That as bonemaker the extract has
fulfilled the inventors promises is now
acknowledged by the highest German
medical authorities, and is especially
noticeable in those princes who re-
semble their father most. especially
Frederick William, Adalbart and Au-
gustus. As Eitel Fritz is the alter ego
of his mother in physique and tempera-
ment, and as the empress is large
woman standing five feet five in her
stockings, his robust stature is, per-
haps, not surprising. But that the other
boys inherited none of their fathers
weaknesses is as extraordinary as it is
satisfactory, considering that the en-
peror was sickly youth, and is even
now apt to suffer acutely in conse-