PRACTICES, GAMES, DISPLAYS, Etc., IN CHIVALRY.
BOOKS TO READ.
ENDURANCE FOR SCOUTS.
HINTS TO INSTRUCTORS.
HOW TO HELP IN A GREAT NATIONAL WORK.
Recent reports on the deterioration of our race ought to act as a warning to be taken in time before it goes too far.
One cause which contributed to the downfall of the Roman Empire was the fact that the soldiers fell away from the standard of their forefathers in bodily strength.
Our standard of height in the Army was 5ft. 6in. in 1845; it was FOUR INCHES less in 1895. In 1900 forty-four men in every thousand recruits weighed under 7st. 12lbs.; in 1905 this deficiency had increased to seventy-six per thousand.
This year our recruits were two inches below the standard height of men of their age, viz., eighteen to nineteen, and six pounds under the average weight.
Three thousand men were sent home from the South African War on account of bad teeth.
Reports on school children, made by the London County Council, show that out of 700 examined only twenty had sound teeth, 323 had more than five teeth decayed.