The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-01-13
so WAGS THE WORLD"
SOME PHASES OF IT.

There is an English rhyme which says
OF sleep: Nature requires five. custom
gives seven, luxury takes nine, and wick
edness eleven"
Il Is curious to reflect how very differ
emily people are constituted in this re-
spect. Some nervous persons can't keep
well and attend properly TO their Affairs
without at least nine hours regular sleep
in which 10 knit up the raveled sleeve Of
/ care" They DO without food. they cal
take very little exercise, but they can't
do without several hours Of good. sound
untroubled sleep. Napoleon could perform
his prodigies Of fighting. lawma kiug. con-
qucring. and kingmak!nE on FIVE hours
out OF the twcnty-four. Not 500 with
other men OF prOdigi0us brain power
though it is true OF most celebrated men
Theirs. fer example, never required more
than four hours rest only two OF these
did he spend in bed The other two be
took In a chair. on a coach, wherever he
might drop down. He could sleep Just as
well in n noisy crowd as in his own room
alone. BY o'clock every morning he
was up and In his sitting-room reading
and writing and debating. lie adored
work. He abhorred the idea OF dying. b.
cause it put IN end to h.s work. not feel
ing with the Isracl!te WHO said: 1T is
sixty times sweeter than sleep"
Theirs started IN Paris as secretary 10
the Duke de Liancourt. The duke told
TaIeyrand that ne needed one. The
prince wrote him this note. i have ut
/ this moment two that would suit you
two friends just arrived from the country
One is tall. good-looking. distinguished
with a cultured mind and a face full or
I intelligence His name is Aiignet The
other is not so MISUNDERSTANDING
+ but brlmful II intellect. Which shall !
sendZ'' Send tAe second" the duke re-
piled But very soon his secretary was
writing his celebrated political articles on
I historic subjects for the Constitutional.
clearinghouse Geometry
/ This is a city OF innumcrable boarding
I houses. and some Of the dwellers therein
may enjoy the witty geometTicaI PROPOSE
tons recently formulated by q clever
+ Eng-ishman:
DEFINITIONS.
Il All boarding houses are the sam"
/ boarding house.
go Boarders in the same boarding-house
+ are equal one 10 another.
g. "a single room is that which hath
20 parts and no magnitude.
-. The laadlady Is a parallelOgram-
I that is. an angular, oblong figure that
cannot be described, and is equal to any
thing.
.. A wrangle is the dissemination Of
I two boarders to each other that meet at
every turn but have nothing in common
s. All the other rooms being taken in
the house, a single room is said TO be Il
double one
PUsTULATEs AND PROPOSITIONS
I. A pie may be produced any number
I Of times.
- The landlady may be reduced to her
/ lowest terms by a series OF propositions.
3. A Decline may be made from any
/ boarding 10 any other boarding
/ house.
- The clothes Of a boarding house bed
stretched ever SO far both ways will not
meet
% Any two meals at boarding house
/ are less than a square feed
IS On the same bill. and OF the same
+ side u II, there should rot be two charges
+ for the same thing.
II. II there be two boarders on the same
+ floor. and the amount OF side OF one be
equal 20 the amount OF side % the other,
and the wrangle between the one boarGer
and the landiady be equal TO the wrangIe
/ between the lsndlady and the oth.F
! bOardeT. then shall the weekly bills Of
! the two boaTders be equal"