MODERN STATISTICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ROMANCE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume III, Issue 829, 6 October 1916, Page 4

MODERN STATISTICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL ROMANCE.

''Will you marry me," he asked, in five years from the coming of June 10? -She looked at him interrogatively, as every respectable heroine would have done in the distressing circumstances. "Before giving you a definite reply," she said, "kindly explain the exact reasons for the delay."

"I shall be most happy to do so. T am at present receiving a salary of 25.00 dollars a week. According to statistics among 5000 college graduates, who, at my age, received the same salary, ,'IOOO doubled their salary in two years, and in two years more doubled that. But, as my standing at college was Si per cent, lower than the average of those 5000, 1 am adding a year more. Now, according to the exhaustive figures of the Underwriters Logarithm Association of East Peoria, out of 5000 marriages where the groom was receiving 5000 dollars a year, over 4000 were happy. But, under this amount, out of 5000,' anly 2ISOO wen- happy. Thus, you see that the question of our happiness is purely economic. I love you madly, nay, passionately, but 1 must restrain myself for five years in order to come within the social law. Will you wait?" "1 find," she replied, upon consulting the remarkable results achieved by Hie Amalgamated Psychologic Cerebral Statistical Bureau thai out of 4000 blondes weighing ]2Hb and averaging 70 per cent in beauty, I'OOO who waited five years for suitors whose side object in getting married was to consider the happiness of the one they were going to marry, only 10 per cent, waited and over so per cent, married elsewhere within one year. Rut, as 1 am about 7 \ per cent. below the average of beauty in the -JOOO, 1 estimate thai I shall be led to the altar by n handsome man with at least 100,000 dollars within two vcars. Sorrv. When vou go out kindly see that the hitch of the screen door is well fastened behind yon. "- American " Life."