THE TROUBLED TALL.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 257, 30 October 1929, Page 7

THE TROUBLED TALL.

THEIR TERRIELE TRIALS. LONDON, October 25. On cold winter nights, when he needs all the warmth he can obtain, his feet stick put of the end of his inadequate bed: when he goes to a restaurant, his knees bump against the too-small table and he overflows from his doll's house chair; when he goes to the theatre, he has to sit aslant to prevent his knee digging into the back of the person in front.

He is the tall man of to-day—and, according to a letter in the "Times* - ' from Mr. Arthur Spottiswoode, during the last two generations the average height has increased. He bewails the fact that furniture has not increased proportionately—restaurant chairs and tables would seem to be adapted for men of oft liin —but he gains consolation for the tall man by pointing out that he no longer feels like an emu amongst his fellow men. He advocate a Tall Man League to see that six-footers "et their rights.