The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-01-31

LADIES' Automatically a Confirmed Bache-
ior-Ladies have quite different system of calcu-
lation TO what men have. Look at the peculiar
way in which they calculate ages. Why they
are quite an age behind the present generation-at
least, the generation of mentor man is, figura-
lively, said, he grows Older to approach into his
second childhood, but a woman does so literally.
lnasmuch as she becomes every year one year
younger-a rejuvenating process, by which, if she
lived long enough, she would Ultimately reach lhe
happy period when she was carried about in long
clothes, and took tenacious delight, peculiar to
baties, in pulling gentemen's Whskefs. In fact,
wonder that, carrying out this retrograde move
msnt, married lady, as she advances in years,
dos not appear on The stage of life as the ball
room girl, and throw off the matronly title of Mrs.,
to put on the more tlowery sautaton of Miss. 1t
would be more consistent with the representation of
fgaes-we mean, arithmetcal fgures-though it
might be little at variance with the appearance of
personal ones.
My belief is that the female mind has no correct
sense of numbers. Ii belabors and rolls out figures
as cooks do paste, making them as thick or as thin
as pleases to fit the object required, l have no.
tced largeness or liherality of measurement in
most of their calculations, which rebounds greatly
in his calculating age, to the generosity of the
1t quite opposite to the selfmeasurement which
they apply to themselves Whereas the latter is
distinguished by narrowness of result which al
most makes us suspect that subtraction has been
largely at work the former is crowned with a
roindness of figures which leads us strongly to ac-
cuse the sum total OF having been gained by the
corrupt agency of addition. In fact nv s,spcions
are SO violent on this head that always adopt the
following plan when am at loss to know:
Hoe to correctly ascertain tbs age Of a Lady
first ask the Lady accused her own age then
inquire of her dearest friends" next ascertain
the difference between the two accounts (Which
frequently varies from five years to forty0 and d-
viding that difference by 2, add that quotient tc
the adys own representation and the result is the
ladys age, as nearly as a lady's age can be ascer
tanned .4' n.,
Example,: Mrs, Wellington Seymour give.
herself out to be 2S Her friends, Mrs. McCabe
Mrs Alfred Stevens, Madame Cornchon and
Miss Jenkins, Indignantly declare that they will
their respective heads off if she is day younge
than 46, Now the disputed account stands thus
Mn s.vmoD,,s .vs \, ,.,....,,., Years
Mrs. seymoors age as represented BY herself. .."."s
Difference between the accounts
That difference has to be divided by Q, which
believe, will give 9. If that is added to Mrs
Seymour's own statement, the result obtained will
be the answer required. Accordingly Mrs Wei
iington Seymnur's age is ga fact which, upol
Consulting the family Bible, find to be perfectI,
correct-and only hope Mrs. S. will some da1
forgive noe for publishing it. There are many othe
eccentrcllies IN female arithmetic, such increas
ing fwo-fold the amount Of gsntleman's fortune
and diminishing ffty-fold the amount of lady's-
and general proneness, besides, to magnif
figures, leading thems at times, into strange error
OF exaegeration. which would debar them fron
following the profession of liner, or writ
ing works Of numerical fidelity like " 4 ,Cuoch'
Commercial Dictionary" But as Iddf,ot love tn
female mind particularly for its eccentricties. bu
rather for its beauties, will close the door on tbi
ungallant subject, for If woman is good and beau
niul, 1t matters but little how old she is.
The following interesting article was clppe
from one of our Texas exchanges = a Houston ma
per, We think: sI 5.,i5.f.r-.-. r
Isxas Grapes.--Mons. Matrat, French gentle