The Washington times., 1935-11-20

Health
Sturdy Body
Essential
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, M. ]

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What kind Of a person will
make the most intelligent school
childP Is there any way to CORE
late the physical health Of the
child with his work in school?
Well, a number Of school ply
sicians seem to think so. Working
on the basis of anthropometric
studies, these lead us to the com.
nonsense conclusion that the
more Stocky and normal the body
is, the better the mental capacity
of the individual.
Many years ago Porter found
from a study of st. Louis school
children that Children who pos
sesS more than ordinary power of
mental labor, as measured by their
progress in their studies, are heav-
ier, taller and larger in girth Of
chest than their less gifted COM
panions of the same age"
Francis Galton, in his book,
Hereditary Genius" pointed out
that men Of genius tend to be well
developed physically. "A collec-
ton of living magnateS in various
branches of intellectual achieve
ment is always a feast to my eyes:
being, as they are, such massive,
vigorous, capable looking animals"
Interesting Study
An interesting study is that Of
GOWN on a number of Ameri-
can executives. He found, for in
stance, that bishops were 1.8
inches taller and II pounds heav.
ier than preachers in small towns.
The study of school children is
based on the anatomical fact that
the normal healthy adult chest is
nat. The chest of tuberculosis,
contrary to commn belief, is deep.
These determinations of the tho
racic index are made by meaSur-
ing the depth of the chest and
the width. At birth the chest is
almost round, but by the age Of
five 81 per cent of the flattening
out process has already taken
place. Children from better en-
vironmental districts are not only
taller and heavier, but have a
flatter type of chest.
Conclusions after studying near
ly $4,000 Minneapolis school chill.
dren are:
/. The flatchested children are
taller and heavier than the deep
chested children.
2. There appears to be a definite
correlation between the shape of
the chest and intelligence in chill
dren.
3. The flat-chested children
have, on the average, better
school grades.
4. Therefore, it is evident that
the flat-cheSted children are, on
the average, taller, heavier, and
display higher degree of tntelli-
gence.
Salisbury Steaks
We appreciate letter from r.
w. R., as follows:
Il am particularly interested in
your article in recent issue; and,
may 1 be permitted to say the
Salisbury Steaks originated many
years prior to 1895.
I'm the spring of 1888 I was the
victim of several severe hemor-
rhages, which our family ply
sician attributed to the rupture Of
a blood vessel in the stomach, as
I recall it. In the fail Of that year
I consulted the late Alfred <.
Hills, M. D., Of New York city, an
eminent homeopathic physician,
who put me on a diet similar to
'SalisburyS' which had attained
much notoriety at that time.
"For all of IL months my daily
program was about pint OF hot
water half hour before breakfast;
midforenoon, midafternoon,
and upon retiring; for the morn
ing, noon and evening meal ONLY
beefsteak or chopped beef.
"As I have passed my seventy
ninth birthday, may I not be justi-
fled for having the feeling that
this treatment was most beneficial
to me?"
EDITORS NOTE: Six PAM
phlets by DR.. Clendening can now
be obtained by sending 10 cents
in coin, for each, ard a self-ad-
dressed envelope stamped with a
three-cent stamp, to DR.. Logan
Clendening, in care of this paper.
The pamphlets are: Indigestion
and Constipation" Reducing and
Gaining" Infant Feeding" In
structions for the Treatment OF
Diabetes" Feminine Hygiene"
and "The Care of the Hair and
Skin"