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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XV, 15 April 1899, Page 498

A lady who seems to know something of the matter says it is an undeniable fact that the majority of men prefer short women to tall ones. Perhaps, she adds, this is because they like to be looked up to— at all events by the fair sex—and it is only natural for them to prefer the girl who, in her little caressings and fascinating, love-like ways, has on account of her shortness to look up to him for the. purpose of peering into his love-lit eyes. Tall women are usually dignified, and appear to scorn kittenish ways, and although they manage to draw admiration, it is rather of the awe-inspiring kind. No doubt owing to smallness of stature and pretty, playful ways, mien give to little -■omen more petting than the tall, dignified woman demands.

Burnett, the Havard football player, is a son of Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett. and is the original Little Lord Fauntleroy. Since that time he has developed into a man of muscle, with a stout arm and an accurate foot, but he still retains some of the peculiarities of the little lord.