A "FIVE-FOOTERS" REGIMENT.
[To THY EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Devon recruiters are in despair at the raising of the standard of height to 5 ft. 6 in., for the average height of our West Country men is apparently low. To the non-military mind it seems difficult to understand why the man of 5 ft. 6 in. should be expected to fight better than his brother who is 5 ft. 5 in. One suspects that smartness of appearance on parade has something to do with the reissue of this regulation. If so, why not form a separate regiment of short men to be known as the " Five-Footers "? They would come to be known as the "Little Uns," and most of ua would be apt to add to "little un " the title "plucky." Such a regiment if formed would have a ready-made character to maintain, and I doubt not they would worthily hold their own with any regiment of six-footers, except, perhaps, when it came to
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