Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1917 — Whan Strength Begins to Go. [ARTICLE]

Whan Strength Begins to Go.

A medical authority states that the muscles, In common with all organs of the human body, have their periods of development and decline, our physical strength Increasing up to a certain age and then decreasing. Tests of the strength of several thousand Individuals have been made, and the following figures are given as the averages derived from such tests—the lifting power of a youth aged seventeen years Is 280 pounds; In his twentieth year this Increases to 320 pounds; and In the thirtieth and

thirty-first year, respectively, It reaches its height, 885 pounds. At the expiration of the thirty-first year the strength begins to decline, very gradually at first. By the fortieth year It has .decreased eight pounds, and such diminution continues at a slightly increasing rate until file fiftieth year is reached, when the figure la 330 pounds. Subsequent to- this period the strength falls more and mors rapidly until the weakness of old age. is reached. It la found Impossible to obtain trustworthy statistics after tba fiftieth year.