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Show VERY EASY FOR HER. Problem Presented No Difficulties to This Woman. A "woman's reason," with all Its traditional tra-ditional lack of logic, crime out In nn amusing fashion at a recent dlnnor party In Brooklyn. i In tho course of tho evening tho conversation con-versation drifted nround to those odd little mathematical bits of tho How-old-Is-Ann vnrlety, when ono cf tho company, with explanations that tho not problem would not bo a vory dlfllcult ono, questioned as follows: "If n bottle and a cork together cost $1.10, nnd tho bottle cost a dollar moro than the cork, how much did the cork cost?" I Almost Instnrtly ono of tho ladlea was ready with tho answer: "Why, tho cork cost tlvo cents and tho bottlo $1.05. That's too easy." Tho lady's husband, familiar through years of oxperlenco with her woeful lfck of skill In figures, looked up In nstonlshmenL "Heavens!" he exclaimed. "How did you como to got that so soon?" "Why, my dear," was tho reply, "corks alwnys cost flvo cents, don't I they?" New York Times. |