The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-04
By Weights and Measures
You Can Judge Your Beau
Mile. de Taverny, Young
French Woman. Has
the Secret by Which
Value of Man Can Be
Determined
. HERE Is a young lady in Paris
whose boast II IL that no man
l. aityo coo v,,islood her Judgment

IT HERE Is a young lady in Paris
whose boast II IL that no man
L alive can mislead her judgment.
And she does It all by working out
a sum in figures.
BlufYing broker. shrewd banker. canny
clerk or clubman, II is all the same to
Andree de Taverny. She Just looks
him over. asks his weight, waist meas
urement and other details, makes a CAL
culation with her pencil and ne gets
the answer. Fifty dollars, please.
II you think II IL dear, consider what
she does. Will II seem dear to parents
OF a marriageable heiress to pay $50 to
know that the youth she dreams OF will
turn out to be all he should be or to
find motives to persuade her to give
him up II otherwise?
Won't you be glad to try a simple
test on Wilbur? 1t Is only the begin
ming of her transcendental science; but
it's great. In a moment will give you
her short method to reveal his consti-
tutional resistance.
All her work begins with this sum.
called "the value Of a man.; but, going
on, she calculates II he will pay his bills
or IL a trade mark will succeed in busi-
ness.
have II from partial friends Of Mile.
de Taverny that a wholesale shirt house
OF the Rue du Sentier pays her to look
In twice a year. when the retailers come
to Paris to lay in their stock. They
get them in weighing chair on the
pretext of recommending a slot novelty
that also gives the measurements Of
height, waist. chest, &C. Other data
are drawn out In conversation. Andree
listens and she makes her calculations.
Such a customer will lose his health
and business. Another will get all his
towns trade. This one will have divorce
troubles and take to drink And that
one will succeed by side investments.
The shirt maker doesn't care how she
does 1t. All he thinks IL that this girl
beats Bradstreet's.
or take Guerlain, foremost perfumer
Of Paris. No one would call him cred
ulous. Court perfumer OF Napoleon III.
and friend OF Edward VII, he breeds
racehorses on his stock farm and dis
puted with his two sons over two new
perfumes and six names. Which should
they launch, which name would be sue
cessful? With ambergris at 500 and
rose essence in proportion modern
launchings are serious AFFAIRS.
As usual she demanded weights and
measures. She did sums with them.
She smelled the perfumes. She did
calculations with the six names. AT
last she said: This one. Call 1t the
third name on the list" and picked the
ambered background with points of
honeyed sweetness now known as
"I.'Heure Bleu." Yes. the Blue Hour;
few in Paris know this story OF 1t.
You answer that she had taste.
You say that she has intuitions;
many women have them
You judge she has cultivated her i'm
pressions and that the calculations are
all blum.
"All right" say the partisans of An
dree, take insurance companies: they
deal in facts and figures. Take the
French army"
And this is the thing that you can
try on Willie.
The patriotic heroine has lifted aside
Just enough of the veil to permit the
French military service which drafts
in all young men at some period be-
tween 20 and "a TO determine the pro-
portional number OF days which each
will pass in the hospital
NOW YOU why thN iShN'
insurance companies are all upset. II
Andrec can give them rules for calcu-
lating In advance the physical value Of
other categories, men between % and
30. between 80 and 80, and so on, why,
the actuarics and examiners will buy
her cherries. az the FYench say. The
thing Is absurd--but here 1t Is.
Or. Pignet OF the artillery having
applied her system TO 1910 men just
entering the service. admits that II
gives n rapid and exact measure OF the
natural physical stamina of each.
Put out Of your mind all objection to
subtracting apples from turnips or add
ing inches to pounds. You were taught
at school that II cannot he done: but
we know better now. The problem is
the numerical value of a young man.
by which Is meant the natural strength
of his constitution.
There was never n way to find II out
before.
You take three numbers, Andree says.
Add his chest measurement to his
weight. and subtract the sum from his
height.
II Is a pity that you have to do It in
| the metric system, but there is no help
for 1.-THE mystical relation does not
tNlSt III aTDltTdTy RUE Oh tfuHlD pOuIluS
and inches. Besides. everybody ought
to use the metric system ANYWAY. it Is
so practical. Why. a French copper
cent on desert island would enable
you to reconstruct every weight. meas
ure and capacity. even liquid!
Suppose that your young man has
chest measurement OF 32 inches $50
| centimeters). weights 1872 pounds go
kilogrammes) and stands feet inches
q meter 60 centimeters). You add
| eighty and sixty. which are his chest
measurement and weight Then you
| subtract the sum. which Is 40, from
his height which is l6O The result
is 20; and it shows that your young
friend Is of good constitution, better
than the average.
A French boy who fancied himself a
lot was brought to Andree by the
girls mamma. The girl herself waited
| In the anteroom. of course. though
| there was no need. Hyacinthe having
brought his weights and measures on
piece of paper Andree gave her a
good talking to afterward.
what would you do with that pie
face?" she whispered. His good hus-
band calculation comes out something
frightful!"
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