BOARDING HOUSE GEOMETRY.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 18, 4 May 1899, Page 31

BOARDING HOUSE GEOMETRY.

The following addition to the works of Euclid was received recently by Master Cotter, a juvenile Philadelphia^, from his aunt in the Dominican Convent, Cape Town, South Africa :—: — DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS. All boarding houses are the same boarding house. Boarders on the same floor and in the same boarding housa are equal to one another. A single room is that which has no parts and no magnitude. The landlady of a boarding house is a parallelogram — that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, and which is equal to anything. A wrangle is the disinclination of tvto boarders to meet each other, that meet together, but are not on terms of affection. All the other rooms being taken, a single room is said to be a double room. POSTULATES AND PROPOSITIONS. A pie may be produced any number of times. The landlady can be reduced to her lowest terms by a series of propositions. A bee line may be made from any boarding house to any other boarding house. The clothes of a boarding house bed, though produced ever so far both ways, will not meet. Any two meals at a boarding house are together less than two square meals. On the same biil and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing. If there be two boarders on the same fhor and the amount of side of the one be equal to the amount of side of the other, each to each, and the wrangle between one boarder and the landlady be equal to the wrangle between the landlady and the other, the weekly bills of the two boarders be equal also each to each. For if not let one bill be the greater, Then the other bill is less than it might have been— which is absurd. Quod erat demonstranduvi.