Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1917-05-18 | Page 11 | Lodging-House Geometry

Lodging-House Geometry. Learning is one thing and wit Is another, an-other, but that does not prevent them from meeting at times In the same brain. One of the most amusing of those jests, which It takes a certain amount of scholarship to mnke or en-loy, en-loy, was the collection of Euclidean xioms that Prof. Stephen Leacock of UcGill university wrote some years go for Truth. Here is one of the Severest of them: If there be two warders ou the same flat and the Jniount cf U(le of the one be equal to the amount of side of the other, each to each, and the wrangle between one boarder and the landlady be equal to the wrangle between the landlady and the other boarder, then shall the weekly week-ly bills of the two boarders be equal, each to each. For, if not, let one bill be the greater. Then the other bill is less than it might have been, which is absurd. Youth's Companion.