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DO YOU
OW tall are you? And do you wish you were taller? Most people do. Not only men but women too, for to be tall. now is to be fashionable.
If you've reached the atop- growing stage, then there's very little to be done about it. But,
if you want to give your small son a chance of becoming a six- footer, if you want your young daughter to grow into a lissome young thing about 5ft. 6in., then there is something you can do.. You can
see that he and she get plenty of good, body-build- ing food.
"Given a chance," said Sir Joslalı Stomp in his presidential address to the British Association, "science could raise our average height by 2in. and our weight by 7ib."
ALREADY experiments have
been made
proving that schoolchildren who are properly fed, grow taller and have better phylque than those children whose dlet la deficient in the proper body-building foods.
To quote from the Medical Re- search Council's report on the results of Dr. Corry Mann's treatment of selected groups of boys:
WISH
YOU WERE
TALLER?
alme stoomba
poorer, is 4ft. 10in..
morning, therefore, many children
Al 21 the average student are in need of something to help them is 5ft. 8 3-5in., the average through, some form of nourishment
that is easily digested... working man ft. @ 4-5in.,
So it was of immense value to the the average un- children-and therefore to the na employed man tion-when the Mik Marketing 5ft. 1-5in. Board's proposal for a service of milis in schools was recognised by the true authorities.
r
ta
Check
That
Cold
Before It Gets A Grip.
A sneeze or two, a fit of coughing, and you feel you are in for a cold, but Respiroids, promptly taken, will check it. These pleasant-tasting throat and chest lozenges, dissolving In the mouth, emit highly venecient
and vapourS which essences
circulate through the entire respiratory system.
.
To ward off a cough, cold or sere throat which is threatening, there is nothing more effective than Respi-
that the Now there are about 2,500,000 rolds. Keep them handy for im- human TRCE is schoolchildren receiving milk at half-mediato use and you will be provided with a constant safeguard. Respirolds already growing price. There is still much room for
are obtainable at all chemists, taller and hea- an extension of this service, however, for this number is little more then vler-and height half the total number of school- and weight pro- children, vido a fairly
at
WHILE they are still good clue to
W school the teacher sees to health. The int that the children have an oppor- crease is proba tunity of getting their milk regular- bly due to the ly. When they leave, however, and keener Interest
interest start in their first job It is not always
now taken In dict and
So ODSY, especially if the firm has not to the yet got the milk-service habit,
fact that school- hildren are now
And it is at this time that children better cared for specially need to have good and than they
were nourishing food. The new work is n' 20 yearr o go. bit of a strain, hours are longer-but Medical and den- the children are still growing and tal treatment is need every possible ounce of body- provided and ne- building food if that promising censitous cases
receive free growth is not to be stunted. in, to 2.63in,” --
aften meals and sometimes clothing. But And here are some more Agures, the Increase is not enough.
So tell your son and daughter to ask if it's possible to buy, milk dur- In 1927 fifteen hundred elementary
ing the morning. If it's not, and for
schoolchildren were given extra UN
¡NTIL very recently there some reason cannot be arranged, ther
milk over a seven months' period.
was no general rule that encourage them to buy a carton and Result wus
nourishment was that they grew 20 per the three or four hours stretch of "It is startling to learn that the
necessary during tnite it in with them. addition of one pint of milk per day cent. more then the other children. morning lessons. Teachers had rea- hold half a pint and can be bought These cartons are hygienie packing. The average height of a 14-year- lised for some time that children nlmost anywhere. old publfe schoolboy is oft. 3in. The often went to school hungry, either If we want every Briton to be average height of a 14-year-old inadequate or badly-plan- physically fit then we must see that ned breakfast. And it is bad for the children and young people are council schoolboy whose parents are children to go hungry. By mid- adequately and properly fed.
would convert
average annual pain of weight of 3.85lb. per
boy into one of 6.981b. and an annual average increase of height from 1.84
'ANZAC DAY,
holiday in Australia and New Zea-") At lo-morrow's ceremony, which land, and it is hoped that all Aus-is timed to begin at 10 a.m. buglers IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY FIXED trallans and New Zealanders in the from the Seaforth Highlanders will
Colony will attend.
play the "Last Post" and "Reveille," | FOR TO-MORROW
Among the many wreaths to be pipers from the Regiment will en- Observance of Anzac Day on a tald is one in memory of fallen com- and a two minutes alience will be circle the monument playing a lament
scale never before made in Hong-rades by former members of the observed,
Members of the, pubile who desire
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After the ceremony local Austra llans and New Zealanders will attend a special Anzac Day service at the
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