Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1901 — Growing Youth. [ARTICLE]

Growing Youth.

The laws of child-growth are curious. It is stated that boys do more growing in the eleventh than in any other year; girls in the fourteenth. Girls usually reach their full height at fifteen; boys at eighteen or nineteen. From the eleventh to the sixteenth year the average girl is bigger and stronger than the average boy. From November to April children grow very little. From April to July they gain in height most rapidly. From July to November they gain in weight. In hot countries children of both sexes mature much more quickly The winter cold seems to retard the growth of children just as it does of plants.—The Presbyterian. A kitten has been brought up on an exclusively vegetable diet by a* family of vegetarians. The result is that it will not touch animal food, and pays no attention to rats or mice.