Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — Ask His Mother. [ARTICLE]

Ask His Mother.

A medical Journal fills several pages with scientific jawbreakers, trying to explain why It is that tne percentage of bowlegs is eight times greater among boys than girls. The reason adduced is purely scientific, and altogether unsatisfying to a mind accustomed to browse around in search of herbage of a common sense nature. Any mother who has ever turned a boy’s pockets wrong-side out can throw more light on the question than all the doctors.—Horn’s Horn.