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just as is the boy's; but her curve stands on a lower level, for the 

 little maid is putting on less weight than the boy (b). Later on, 

 her rate accelerates (c) sooner than does his, but it neyer rises quite 

 so high {d). After a first maximum at eleven or twelve her rate of 

 growth slows down a Httle, then rises to a second maximum when 



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Fig. i: 



Relative weight of American boys and girls. 

 From Simmons and Todd's data. 



she is sixteen or seventeen, after the boy's phase of quickest growth 

 is over and done. This second spurt of growth, this increase of 

 vigour and of weight in the girl of seventeen or eighteen, Quetelet's 

 figures indicate and common observation confirms. Last of all, 

 while men stop adding to their weight about the age of thirty or 

 before, this does not happen to women. They increase in weight, 

 though slowly, till much later on: until there comes a final phase, 

 in both sexes ahke, when weight and height and strength decline 

 together. 



