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observed that for acceptable colored recruits the age of twenty-five or 

 twenty-six is practically the maximum, because after that they are 

 liable to be physically stiffened and mentally dulled."' ( The limit of 

 thirty- five. is the extreme for recruits under ordinary circumstances.) 

 The negro does not seem to have been improved physically by free- 

 dom. 



To sum up in a single sentence, I would say that the man of to- 

 day does not have better teeth than the man of forty years ago ; and 

 the negro of to-day does not have as good teeth as his grandfather 

 had in slavery. 



