Being rather tall and rather elderly I feel some personal
interest in two announcements that happened to come to my notice on the same day this week. One is addressed to Tall Men, and comes from a lady who has already founded the Association of Tall Women (A.W.L.F.)—to be interpreted, I take it, as the Association of Women with Long Feet. She endeavours to arrange for their benefit the manufacture of super- outsizes in clothing for all portions of the human frame— torso, limbs and extremities. Now this valuable assistance is to be extended to Tall Men. On the whole I find myself adequately catered for as it is, but I hope the relevant circulars have been sent to Lord Reith and Mr. Julian Snow, M.P. As for the elderly, they are rather pointedly referred to in a hotel- advertisement in The Times—" No elderly residents," as you might say " No coaches," " No children," " No dogs." Lord Amulree has just been saying that the old should not be molly- coddled. Quite. But they might be allowed to exist. Still, I can understand the hotel's point of view.
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