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Show The Weakness of Tall Men. Tall men, as a rule, have bodies out of proportion to their lower limbs that is, smaller than they ought to be with the natural result that they are unable to bear fatigue, or to compete in the struggles of life with lesser men more harmoniously proportioned. Army experience ex-perience bears out these observations. In a long and fatiguing march the tall men usually fall out first or succumb to campaigning, cam-paigning, unless, as is very rarely the case, they have well knit and symmetrical symmetri-cal frames. A soldier between five feet five inches and five feet eight or nine inches is usually the man most capable of bearing the strain of life. New York Telegram. |