TALL MEN IN LONDON

Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 84, 7 January 1928, Page 22

TALL MEN IN LONDON

Some discussion has been begun in London by the statement of Mr. John Miller, a visitor from St. Louis (U.S.A.) that London seemed to him the one city that was designed for the comfort of the tall man—that was to say, that of a man of his own height, which is 6ft. 3in. He found the tubes, omnibuses, telephone kiosks, and theatre entrances designed as though the architect had tall men in mind. Also, he found in London beds long.enough for tall men. He thought from his own observation that London was a city for tall men. London has always (says a “Manchester Guardian” correspondent) had more than its share of tall men, and the number of tall men in both Houses of Parliament probably exceeds the number in any other Legislature in the world, not excepting that of Sweden. Victorian statisticians gave the North of Scotland as the location of our tallest average, but I think things have changed in that respect. The new methods of education and training and hygiene for the young, particularly in the allowance of sleep, have probably had more effect in the South, where the population with most leisure resides, and where there is most opportunity for experiments on a large scale.