BOARDING-HOUSE EUCLID

New Zealand Tablet, 26 July 1906, Page 37

BOARDING-HOUSE EUCLID

1. All boarding-houses in the same square are equal to one another.. t 2. A hoarding-house keeper is equal to anything. d. No other rooms being unlet at a given time, a bed-room may include a sitting-room. 4. A bed-room included in a sitting-room may be charged for as two rooms. 5. Extras have magnitude, and no limits. -a n <.u any . dis P ute concerning a bill, that which is sam on the one side can never be equal to that which is said on the other. 7. On the same bill and on the same side of it tw 0 charges may always be made for the same item provio ?J are cx I>ressed in different terms. „ ;+; + v ° bill 1 s in two we eks for- the same set of rooms ?S^iV be e2e 2f al ; , If ihe l are ' one biil m*y ° c than it ought to be. Which is absurd. 9. A boarder's home-made birthday cako cannot be JunS hvT 6 ,^] 11166 times ' but *l«S of mutton, supplied by the landlady can be produced indefinitely.