Where the Time Goes.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 930, 27 December 1889, Page 20

Where the Time Goes.

* A man whose head is bulging with mathematical problems has figured out the disposition of every hour of the daily life of an average man, and tells just how many hours a man of fifty years has devoted to his toilet, meals, or newspaper. ‘ Let us assume, ’ said he, * that the sleeping hours of an average man will number eight daily. That is one-third of liis time, so that in fifty years your man will have slept all

told sixteen years and eight months. The man who is shaved daily at fifty years probably had his face scraped not oftener than three times per week at twenty-five years, while during his eighteen years a razor never touched his face. Say that the semi-centenarian

has arranged two shaves a week for fifty years,, and that will give 5,700 scrapes in the half-century. At an average of fifteen minutes per shave the time devoted to this one small element of life will run up to fifty-nine days and nine hours. If a man should not shave in fifty years, and then

attempt to make up his proportion all at once, he would have to shave night and day for nearly two months. The average man who is not limited to twenty minutes for dressing, breakfast, and catching his train, consumes about thirty minutes in getting inside his clothing in the morning. Half an hour per day for fifty years would amount to one year fifteen days and five hours, so - that if a man should dress himself at the start in life for the whole fifty years he would pass two weeks beyond his first birthday anniversary, and this means working twenty-four hours per day. A bath should precede dressing, however, and twenty minutes a day for that purpose would put a man in the tub for eight months thirteen days and eleven hours out of the fifty years. For other demands of the morning toilet allow ten minutes per day, or four months five days and twenty hours in half a century. Why, just a single minute every day spent in hunting for a collar button means twelve days and fourteen hours in the course of fifty years. Half an hour for breakfast, forty minutes for lunch, and an hour for dinner amounts to five months five days and nine hours of eating in fifty years in life. The man who spends an hour of each day jogging to and from business iu a horse car may not realise it, but it is nevertheless true that in thirty years one year three months one day and six hours of his time will go in that way. When a man reckons his time as worth 50 cents an hour it seems rather rough to think that it takes 182.50 dollars worth every year to'get to business and back home every day, but such is the fact.’—Baltimore Sun.