Queer Statistics from a Woman's Diary.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 26, 29 June 1907, Page 53

Queer Statistics from a Woman's Diary.

An aged English lady, who recently celebrated her ninety-second birthday, has kept from her early days aft interesting diary of her life, from which she compiled on her recent birthday some curious statistics, which she read out to her assembled friends on that occasion. She found, for example, that in all her life she had used but 1<X)O hairpins and sixteen hairnets, the pride of all English women when it comes to arranging their coiffures. And in that same period she had forty-one dresses, forty-seven petticoats, eighty pairs of shoes, and fifty-three aprons. As if those facts were not enough to make her hearers realise that econ-

omy may be practised by the fair sex, the widow told them that she had used but 274 pairs of stockings. 107 pairs of garters. 34 shawls and wraps, and 63 corsets. She never was extravagant in the matter of hats and bonnets, for of those she has purchased but 165 of both classes. With the exception of the latter the good lady had made what she wore, utilising her spare moments in the task. The old woman has it jotted down in black and white that she has spent 67.160 hours in dressing and undressing, and that she has done up and taken down her hair 53,480 times. She has washed her face 67,067 times, and her hands 123,424 times. She also finds that she has slept 302220 hours of her life, and drawn 33.584 buckets of water from the well in the back yard. She has lived chiefly on bread, cheese, and milk for the last twenty-five years, but she calculates that during her lifetime she has consumed 4784 fish, 11.960 loaves of bread. 50.730 potatoes, 19.136 cabbages, drunk 134.320 cups of tea. 67.160 glasses of milk, and 35-500 glasses of water.