THE INFERIOR GENTLE.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 7730, 2 July 1903, Page 4

THE INFERIOR GENTLE.

Under the above heading, the London Mail says : —

'lbs Leeds doctor who has been comparing the physique of Christian and Jowith schoolboys, to the detriment of the former, has extended hirf analysis to the girls, with similar results.

Dr. Hall has weighed, measured, and examined 150 school girls— 7s Jewish, taken indii-criminately from iheir classes in thoir Jewish schools, and 75 Christian girls, taken from three board-schools.

Compared wi>h tho Gentile, he found that the Jewish girl averages :—: —

Al ten years of age, 31b more in weight, 2m in height.

At eleven years of ago, 7lb more in weight, 2in in height.

At twelve years of age, 13lb more in weight, 3in in height.

The Jewish girl at twelve year 3of age has upon the average better teeth, is less rickety, and is perhaps 1< ss amemio than her Gentile sister, at the same age.

"My statistic-, 11 says the doctor; 'Umdoubtcdly demonstrate the superior physique of JowUh children from infancy upwards. The cause is manifest— proper food and plenty of it.

v Moreover, the Jewish mother is mindful that her child takes its food.

" I have often seen a number of Jewish women waiting at the gate of a Jewish school, and, indeed, it iv quite pathetic to watch the little oiie run a ross the playground to their mothers to be fed during the mid-morning play" lime. I have noticed, too, tho fare these poor women ' bring — 0000 a, or tea ami milk, or broth, and a piece of wholemeU bread, with butter, or a sweet bun or a fish cake."