Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1895 — By Measurement. [ARTICLE]

By Measurement.

It is often supposed that boys in growing keep ahead of the girls; but recent measurements disapprove this. The boys, up to their eleventh year, were found to run about a quarter to half an inch taller than the girls. They were then overtaken by the girls, who surpassed them in height till their sixteenth year, when the boys again grew faster than the girls, and came to the front.