Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-04

a student of romance languages). just
multiplied it by decimal 5, the result
being 80. That's the way you reduce
inches TO centimeters. His height being
5 feet inches, which is all the same as
GS inches. the intelligent young thing
multiplied again by rs, and got 10.
(Thank goodness, in the metric system.
10 centimeters and 1 meter 20 centime-
tiers are the same thing-just as in our
own dollar system why do we not apply
it to all meaSures?)
See how Fatty turned out. We are
proud that he is an American-the French
artillery surgeon did not find a single
zero! Adding 80 to 50. Fatty gave 40.
subtracting ITO from 10, he gave zero
or, in other words. perfection!
But. dear child do not try it on papa
1t might make him vain, and might
mislead him.
If papa be forty-f1ve years old, he
might easily make a zero, being fat and
heavy enough to throw this exquisite
formula out of gear.
On the other hand, If papa gets
twenty or twenty-five with big chest
measurement he is sure to have begun
with remarkably resistant constitution.
and has kept lot of it.
Let even the youth of twenty-one be-
ware Of getting too much below zero.
would have come out a considerable
minus quantity. In general, unless the
minus is due to a phenomenal chest plus
solid meat and bone. have nothing to do
with such young men, says Andree. 1t is
the chest measurement that most decides
for the fortunate. With a low chest
measurement you cannot obtain good
numerical value, young men being built
as they are.
So, I repeat again. this rule applies to
young. men only, between twenty and
twenty-four AS such. it is wonderful
After applying it to the 1.51O conscripts
already mentioned. the French artillery
surgeon-judging them by the best of his
arts convinced that each will furnish a
greater number Of days in the hospital.
the higher be his numerical figure.
Has Andree rule for men between
twenty-five and thirty, thirty and thirty
Ave and SO on? The whole thing seems
genius soar? The insurance companies
would give her almost any salary to
scrutinize their life applications.
Andree says she has it. And she says
she has more complicated stuff. too.
1.-The whole world is run by hidden har-
nonies.' says Andree. in reality there
are no incommensurable quantities OF
numbers. 1 could tell you something
about the relationship or clrcum1ef-
ence and diameter and the square
root of two that would make you gasp!
Pythagoras is with me, also Gtordano
Bruno who reduced the whole system OF
the universe to a matter of numbers.
She looks up with an ineffable smile.
He hath placed all in number. weight
and measure" she says. Il quote from
the books of Solomon
Her good husband calculation. which
would fill a long-felt want in European
countries. is known most imperfectly. 1
have heard all kinds of disputes about
It However. kind of makeshift formu-
la, which gives rough approximations,
is current in circles which she honors.
1t Is not the real thing, but short cut,
useful when 1t comedies with mothers
natural judgment.
Add his age to his numerical value fig
ure. and subtract his income In thou
sanos of francs per year plus the number
of times per month he takes you out to
tea.
Taking one out to tea is an algebraic
expression, because there are girls who
don't enjoy it, and cities where gregari-