YANKEE HUMOUR.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 648, 4 March 1914, Page 3

YANKEE HUMOUR.

SARA BERNHARDT TWO HUN-

DRED YEARS OLD

(According to Edison.)

Mr. Edison recently declared that he was one hundred and ten years old, on the basis of the amount of work he had done, calculating it at eighteen hours a day. This is, in reality, the only proper manner in which to estimate one's age. Some people who are over 80 years of age have not lived so long as those of forty. Life is made up of emotions of action. It is also made up of contemplation, of that necessary le'isure which precedes the best and most effective action. Mr. Edison has been a large dealer in all of these commodities. It seems to us that he is even older—on this basis—than he asserts. If we could apply a simple set like this to all men, and rate them accordingly, how interesting the findings might be. We fancy we see in our mind our old friend Badger (we have purposely misstated his name), who, at fifty or thereabouts, has reached the purple flush that comes after a life of morning cocktails and afternoon high-balls,, and who spends his time at the club consulting! the ticker (betwee* games of chance) and hie cloudless days at the racetrack, commingling with cronies at half-way houses, while the chauifeur waits. Badger, we estimate, is about six years of age. Then there is Braintree, who managed to get through college without serious mishap, and whose father left him enough money to become a faddist in motor-cars, chorus-girls, and other necessities. Braintree we estimate roughly to he about twenty-three-that Is to say, he was twenty-one when he left college, and during the lost two decades he has grown a couple of years more. But the ladies ! Well, so far as they are concerned, there migtot be some objection to this logical method. Sara B?xnhardt, according to Mr. Edison, must be fully two hundred years old.—"Life."