YOUTHFUL GOLIATH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 8, 25 August 1911, Page 5

YOUTHFUL GOLIATH.

TWO-YEAR-OLD LAD AS BIG AS A SMALL MAN. A normal-sized couple in Mount Airy, Georgie, are the embarrassed owners of a remarkable child, whose dimensions and appetite are almost civ/ogh to bring Mr Barnum from his grave. James Adolph Cody is two years and three months old, but he already cats as much as both his father and mother together. The physician and nurse, as well as the mother, have done their best to make the infant restrain his enthusiasm for meals, but he constantly howls for more. Ho weighs 8i stone, is 14 in round the neck, 3oin round the waist, 16in above the knee, and 13m below. When not crying ho sleeps well, seems perfectly healthy, and is strong enough to knock children down thrice his years. For breakfast be oats biscuits thickly spread with bacon gravy, butter, and syrup, and drinks two glasses of milk. Ho grows quarrelsome if not permitted a couple of cups of coffee. He relishes light refreshments between meals, while for dinner and supper be enjoys, a big plate of boiled bacon and vegetables—the whole pie if be can got it.

The family physician -recommended v starvation diet, but owing to the ,’onngstor’s lusty pair of lungs and the tender family heart the recommendation is not being carried out.