TEACHING THE JAPS TO GROW.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 62, 10 September 1904, Page 13

TEACHING THE JAPS TO GROW.

The Mikado of Jnpan hns, or had, just ono fad. Ho longed to create a taller race of soldiers, and concluded that the best means of accomplishing his purpose was by means of a carnivorous diet, such as is followed by the soldiers of Europe whose btaturo ho desired to emulate in his own army. Accordingly, he ordered numbers of snwll boys in tbe Government schools to be fed for six or seven yeara in the European way. Alas for his theories; not only did they never becomo reconciled to it — for it poiwstontly disagreed with them — but they never grew any twller than their comrades who lived on a vegetarian ciet. The physicians ki chargo of the experiment sent in their report last your. They admitted the failure of tho long tried experiment, and could suggest, no bettor way of scouring toller solmcrs than by encouraging Jivpuiicse to intermarry with Europeans, a* plau which, it is superfluous to say, met with little l»*peri»l favour. Perhaps, after tiw tforaHs so far obtained this y&w by the Mflwdo's little warriors, he will be convinced that his soldiers axe tail enough for all practical purpose*. If they grow to be am big ns they fool, they will aH be giant*. — I Now York Tribuua, A