| Show IN A YEAR 8 bow the ufa of the ordinary M I 1 divided up A man with a mania for figuring and not enough to do to keep him out ot mischief has been making calculations regarding the manner in which the life of the ordinary man who both works and plays is divided up when such a man has reached the age of 60 he will have spent his time as follows according to the statistician twenty years in sleep three years and nine months in eating seventeen years six months in working seven years and six months in the pursuit of pleas ure six years and tree t ree months in walking and other exercise two ye irs and six months in making his toi et and six months in doing absolutely nothing the item for toilet he sub divides into seven months shaving eleven months washing and one year dressing persons inclined can and flaws in these figures it there are any most people will be content to take them on faith this remarkable dissector ot human life by the mathe process has also discovered he says that the average man speaks 11 words a year and shakes hands 1200 times thereby using up energy enough in fifty years to lift 2 tons the amount of force a man uses up in winking is truly appalling our calculates that the average man in a single year opens and shuts his eyes ro less than 95 times and in doing this uses force enough al together to raise an electric car filled with passengers consequently in 60 years he develops enough force to wink sixty trolley cars off the track this is the moderate average sober re spectacle spec table man mind you not the triv olous person who winks at all the pret ty girls he sees the wink power developed by a flirtatious man probably Is enough to run the new subway gys tern new york press |
