ARITHMETICAL.
"Yes," said the old mathematician with a gleam in hia eyes, "I've ways looked at it that way. Marriage is addition ; when 'the little ones come its multiplication ; when dissension looms up to cloud the horizon of their happiness it's di~. vision ; and when the final parting comes it's subtraction !"
"And how about divorce ?" asked the listener.
"Oh, that would come under -the denomination of fractions !"
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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 41, 21 May 1907, Page 2
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67ARITHMETICAL. Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 18, Issue 41, 21 May 1907, Page 2
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