CHRISTMAS BOARDING HOUSE GEOMETRY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14250, 22 December 1909, Page 3 (Supplement)

CHRISTMAS BOARDING HOUSE GEOMETRY.

All boardinghouse6 are the same boardinghouses. Boarders in the same boardinghouse and on the same floor are equal to one another. The landlady of a boardinghouse is a parallelogramthat is, an oblong, angular figure which cannot be described, but is equal to anything. A single room is that which has no parts and no magnitude. A wrangle is the disinclination of two boarders to each other, that meet together, but are not on the same floor. All the other rooms being taken, a single room is said to be a double room. POSTULATES AND PROPOSITIONS. A pie may be produced any number of times. The landlady can lie reduced to her lowest terms by a series of propositions. 1 ' .« On the same bill, and on the same side of it, there should not be two charges for the same thing. The clothes of a boardinghouse bed, though produced ever so far both ways, will not meet. Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than on© square meal. If there be two boarders in the same flat, and the amount of side 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, then shall the weekly bills of the two boarders be equal also, 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.