TALL MEN
THEIR GRIEVANCES ENUMERATED. 'The tall man is sometimes the 'envy of persons >of short stature on account of Ms ahilli'ty ito see over the heads of a .cr'oiwd. ißut he suffers from handicaps of his own, and a 'programme for thleir redreiss is put forward by a Tall Men's Association just foiin'ded in Chicago. ,I(t.s demands include relief from low iceilings, .silisort beds, shojrt Pullman berths, and short (bathtubs. In 'commenting on these proposals thja .'S)piringfield Republican, 'while recognising thaft 'they have a humorous B'ide, thinks the time has come for reconsidering the ' standard measurement's of variolate acc'ommodations for the public. In this atfeletic age, it points out, thb average sltature of the race is materially increasing. This Washington University criew, which won the recent inter-coMegiate race at Poughkeepsife, averaged six feteit three inchs, and! in the la'test Harvard-Yale boat race ithere was only one man out of the sixtieen who stood less than six feiat two inches. One would iHke to hear, isome testimony on the subject from tailors and s'hirt-makers..
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Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1926, 26 October 1926, Page 6
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174TALL MEN Waipa Post, Volume 32, Issue 1926, 26 October 1926, Page 6
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