The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-04
Andree de Taverny.

the grouping of the non-homogeneous
The great thing Is that 1t works.
She gives the following table:
Numerical Value. Indication.
Below lr.......... Very strong constitution.
Between II and -. Strong constitution.
Between l. and 20. Good constitution
Between u and %. Average constitution.
Between &c and 80. Weak constitution.
Between 81 and IS. Very weak constitution.
Above S5..........Not worth mentioning.
Hyacinthe was all but not worth men.
t!oning. His figure, 81. was on the very
edge Of complete inapt.;ude for military
service. So tall and slender poet. rich,
influential. who had lodged the service
up To - years. hunted up all kinds OF
schemes to escape it completely, it being
too rude and vulgar for him.
Andree made her calculation and said:
Don't you worry" He was a trihe
over 81 inches round the chest as emu,
weighed trine over IA pounds $50
kg) and stood feet 10 inches Il m.
15). Adding 81 centimeters to 80 klo-
CRANES gives 1870 subtract it from
, 175. and We obtain "A numerical value
of As! As fact, the army examiners
rejected him OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES that
at Lyons. where Andree's rule had
never been heard of!
Any girl can do this sum while wait
ing in the cleaning. To reduce pounds
To kilogrammes YOU have only to di-
vide by 80. Take the art student boy
! In the Latin Quarter whom they called
Fatty-but he wasn't. lie weighed 116
/ pounds, which Il girl who was inter-
ested in him divided 10y 20. The re-
| suit was 50 Kilograms. eight times
% is l76, isn't il? Remember your zero
and decimal polnt)
| Fatty measured 80 inches round the
chest. The Latin Quarter girl (she
was student of Romance languages)
just multiplied it by 2.5, the result be-
| Ing 80 That's the way you reduce
inches to certimeters. His height be-
| ing D feet inches, which is all the
same as Is Inches, tho intelligent young
thing multiplied again 10y 20 and got
| 40. Thank goodness. In the metric
system 40 Centimeters and I meter 20
centimeters are the same thing--just
as In our own dollar system why do
We not apply it 10 all measures?
See how Fatty turned out. We are
proud that lie is an American The
French artillery surgeon did not find
a single zero! Adding 30 to So Fatty
gave 10. Subtracting 40 from 10. he
gave zero-or, in other words, per-
lection!
But, dear child do not try It on papa.
IL might make him vain and might
mislead him.
/ II papa be 40 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 a 20
or 20 with n big chest measurement
he Is sure to have begun with a re-
markedly resistant constitution and
has kept a lot of it,
Let even the youth Of u beware of
getting too much below zero. Had Fatty
weighed 200 pounds he would have come
out considerable minus quantity. In
general. unless the minus is due IN n
! 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 IA low chest measure
ment you cannot obtain good numeri.
cal value, young men being built as
they are.
! So. | repeat again, this rule applies
to young men only. between 20 and "A.
AS such 1t Is wonderful. After applying
! II To the l,blO conscripts already men
toned the French artillery surgeon
Judging them by the best of his art
Is convinced that each will spend "A
greater number of days in the hospital,
according as his numerical figure is
higher.
Has Andree rule for men between %
and 80. 80 and 80 and so on? The whole
thing seems impossible; yet where will
not feminine genius soar? The insur-
ance companies would give her almost
any salary to scrutinize their life appl-
| cations.
Andree says she has 1t. And she says
she has more complicated stun too.
"rhe whole world is run by hidden
harmonles.' says Andree. "In reality
there are no incommensurable quanti-