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and other pleasures; and the early age at which many 

 children insist on joining the wage-earning class on their 

 own account. When we speak of children as the best farm 

 crop, we are not thinking of their value to their parents in 

 the work they do; we think of their value to the nation as 

 future citizens and workers and men and women. Espe- 

 cially do we think of the better chance for developing a 

 good and useful man or woman out of a country child as 

 compared with the chance for a city child. 



18. Country Children and City Children. Professor Gillette 

 of the University of North Dakota recently investigated 

 the height, the weight, and the head circumference of a 

 number of city and country boys and girls with the follow- 

 ing results: 



COUNTRY 



CITY 



It will be noticed, so far as these few individuals can 

 show anything, that the country boy excels the city boy in 

 every point considered, and that his sister falls below the 

 city girl in but one point. These results are interesting; 



