Figures and Days.
Throughout tire ages fanciful ul belief and superstition have nvested the days of the week oach with a peculiar significance. Now the statistician has curious id vice and information can be oilowed suit, and from his figures nuch gleaned. If for example, you aspire to recomc a murderer, and still to ceep in favour with those who deight to juggle with figures, you vi 11 be well advised to lot your •boson victim rest in peace till Saturday, Saturday week, or, letter, still some Saturday in the 7 ery indefinite future. At any rate by studying figures lou will find that the number : murders proved in any year an rverwhejmirig majority were Munmitted on Saturdays. Why? Well, why is it so many reoplc elect to get married on a tVednesday. And why is it that, nore of those people, v. ho are ired of life bring their careers to m untimely end, on Tuesdays ban on any other day? It is impossible to say, these .hings just happen Tuesday, is a iuicide day; Wednesday the vedding day, Saturday the murler day, Friday it would seem by 10 means deserves the bad remtatiou that superstition has ffven to it.
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Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 25 December 1914, Page 3
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201Figures and Days. Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, 25 December 1914, Page 3
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