| Show 41 A S alry try baa bargain th it fin 4 are sometimes wonder ful is 14 illustrated by the follow ings ing a anal murrence in a nearby college to torn u A tin of years ago A student in the university was a member of an eating eat in club of 12 members which regu barly patronized a certain little hostelry he was lucki lack enough one day to become the recipient of a legacy amounting to about 1 and showing the sum to the hotel keeper agreed to give it to him on condition that the be accepted as payment for meals eaten by the students until every possible poe sible combi nation of the seating arrangements of the boys had been exhausted the order of seats occupied by the boys to be changed at each meal the hotel keeper thought it a most profitable deal but a friend of his with a mathematical turn proved to him thatis that it really would mean ruin aano asno as no leea lees than it 49 arrangements were possible bible or a total of f 5 01 9 individual meals which at the rate of I 1 10 0 cents per meal would represent a value of the tidy sum of the contract was carried out for the four years of the boys student life when it really drove the hotel man from business busi neEs as reckoned on a basis of 3 per week per student the hotel man had lost f 8 3 while the students had only eaten 52 individual meals and bad had still a credit of 5 meals or enough to give them three meals a day for years philadelphia rec ord |
