Show SULLIVAN S SECRET how ilow he lie could tell whether it wae was a boy or a girl when john L Ej Quill van was in wash ington less than a ear bear ago he amused a crow crowd d of listeners who happened to be of a variety intellectually superior to the average crowd of hangers on who worship the great man s memory for what he was with an exhibition of attainments in which according to john s ideas brain instead of brawn and prowess plays the better part says NV ah agton post he told the age of any man in the crowd who was learned enough to add sub tract and divide a series of compound figures which john furnished and nine times out of ten hit the marh mark but one feat which he performed and in which he believed with the fervor of an idola tor goes into the marvelous it involved the telling whether the first born of a given couple was a boy or a girl the way that this teat feat was accomplished was a profound secret with the pugilist but in a burst of confidence he disclosed the method to the ariter to solve the problem the only necessary data are the full maiden name of the mother and the full name of the father according to mr air sullivan s formula if after counting the letters in both names the sum Is an even one the first born Is a boy if odd the issue of the union is a girl for example all the letters in mary jane bro n and hiram smith form a total of twenty three an odd number result a girl it if this formula Is reliable it will serve forecasting pur poses as well as the esta establishment blish ment of pot poet facto but no editorial guaranty goes with the prescription cuba has twelve varieties of toes and varieties of butteri butter i |