Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-01

s9Eae.GJ after reviewing prodlglouS numDer OF
mothers, uncles, cousins, aunts, sweet
hearts and grandfathers, has figured out just
how much time the average woman spends in
front of her mirror during the course of her life.
These statistics show that little girl from
six to ten years of age remains on average
seven minutes each day before the mirror. When
the child reaches the period between ten and
fifteen years of age the length of time each day
is greatly increased, averaging about a quarter
Of hour.
From fifteen to twenty the time averages about
twenty-five minutes. still further increase takes
place at ages from twenty to twenty-five, when 1t
reaches twenty-five minutes. However, it is from
the period of twenty-five to thirty years that
woman spends the maximum of time in front
of the looking glass.
From thirty to thirtyfve the time diminishes
to twenty-four minutes; from thirty-fve to forty
the time dimnishes to eighteen minutes. During
the period from forty to fifty years twelve mn
utes are spent; while the ladies from fifty to
sixty consider that six minutes is sufficient time
to devote to the mirror
Calculations have shown that the total time
spent in front of the mirror amounts to 349,-
575 minutes, or 1926 hours. To put it into
days the total works out to more than 242 days
of solid vanity, the bachelors would term it.
Investigations have also been made dealing
with such subjects that relating to women
with boards. When this question of bearded
women was looked into i was discovered that
out of every 1000 females 200 are bearded.
| OF this number 239 have only light down,
| 40 have visible beard. and ten were adorned
with an unmistakably fine hirsute appendage. In
insane women the percentage rises considerably,
out OF every 1000 insane women examined
491 had slight boards, while 56 had boards well
grown.
Triplets and twins are also coming in for con-
sideraton by the new school, When the calct-
lations were made as to the relative proportion
of multiples of births the ratio was found as
follows: Twins once in 80 births; triplets once
in $4,000 births; quadruplets once in $4,000
births quintuplets once in 40,960000 births.
The mortality of triplets is four times that of
single child while that Of twins is about double
| the normal
Another set of investigations has shown that
suicides chiefly consist Of married people. It is
fact that the favorte age is between thirty
and forty, married people being much in the
majority. Also it has been discovered that Mon
day, between and ~ P. M, is the day on which
| most suicides take place.
Inquiries have also been made regarding the
amount of brain and nerve work required in
| piano playing.
In the present state of piano playing the plan
ist has to cultivate his eye so as to see 1900
| signs in one minute The fingers make some
2000 movements, and the brain has to understand
! all these signs as well to direct these move
ments Thus it is that the brain has to receive
and understand separately 1900 signs, while it
issues 1000 orders.
In playing Weber's "Moto Perpetuo" the pi-
anist has to read 4541 notes in less than four
minutes. This is at the rate of nineteen per
second, but the eye only receive about ten
consecutive impressions per second
Thus it appears that in very quick music
player does not see every note singly He sees
them in groups, probably bar or more at one
view.