Show The Height of Mnn M Donlker a wcllknown French anthropologist hns recently shown that while the individuals vary In height the average or mean height for the came people remains fairly constant con-stant The lowest statures occur among the IVIonhutto of Africa the Negritos of the Philippines Asia the Caribs of Guiana and Venezuela America and the Lapps of Scandinavia Europe The Tenggeras of eastern Java the Jews of Russian Poland the Snlchcs of British Columbia the Mozabltes of Africa and the natives oC New Britain Oceania are not much taller All these peoples are below the mean of 1 lGO meters Above this mean come the Aderbaldjani of Persia and Transcau casia the Kahards of the Caucusus Europe the negroes of the United States the Maoris of New Zealand and the Ottawa Indians All these are below be-low 170 meters Finally the very tallest tall-est people are the Cheyenne Indians of the United States 171 molars the Peals of tho French Soudan 1741 meters me-ters the Tslgans of Russian Turkestan 1719 meters the Polynesians of the Marquesas Islands Oceania 1745 meters me-ters and above all the Scotch agricultural agri-cultural class of Galloway L702 meters The finest men according to our authority au-thority are the Galweglans while the smallest are the Akkas of the Mon bulto country The real Brobdlng nagians then are Scots and the Lilliputians arc Africans London Globe |