HOW TO TELL HER AGE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 26, 28 June 1890, Page 19

HOW TO TELL HER AGE.

AOU must provide the person whose age is to lie told with a piece of paper and a pencil, ami ask her to put down the number of the month in which she was born -2 for February, or 7 for July, etc. Then she must double it : add stoit ; multiply the result by 50 ; add her age to the product : subtract from that the number of days in a year (not leap year), and add to the figure left 115. Ask her to tell you the result, and the two right hand figures will give her age, while the remaining figure or figures will l>e the number of the month in which she was born. <lf course, you have to trust to her honesty in adding, subtractin'', and multiplying correctly. We tried the experiment with an ' old-young ’ visitor a few evenings ago, ami,owing to her want of skill in arithmetic. Archie s ‘ system ' declared that she was just 21, and was Isirn in April, which of course produced a hearty laugh.

Tot’s big brother was a-king her hard questions in arithmetic, which annoyed her very much. ‘ Well,’ she said, ‘ I can ask you something yo« can’t

answer.' ‘ What is it ?’ ' \A hat kind of a bonnet did Pontius Pilate's grandmother wear ?'