The recruiting officers took his measure, which is six feet six inches. His weight is 203 pounds. Then the officers shook their heads. They could find no record of a tank large enough to house such a bulk. He was rejected.

STENOGRAPHERS MAY WIN WAR
Wonderful Work Being Done by American Women on Duty Overseas.
LIKE HARDEST JOB BEST in All Ways Woman Is Doing More Than Her Share to Make World Fit Place In Which to Live.
Paris.—Stenographers may win the war. At least the last battle of the Marne which turned the tide against Germany was won by stenographers, reasoning along the same lines as were made famous by the celebrated recall to the effect that "a throne was lost all for the lack of a horseshoe nail." For if the French say the American soldiers saved Paris, and the American soldiers say the big war welfare organizations saved them with hot chocolate and other supplies when the commissary couldn't keep up with the moving troops, the welfare organizations have said more than once that the girl clerical workers have more than once saved the situation.
"I sometimes think that this war is going to be won by the stenographers," is the view of Miss McCook, head of the women's department in Paris.
Are Doing Their All. 