ARE YOU AN AVERAGE MAN?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 41, 13 March 1909, Page 3

ARE YOU AN AVERAGE MAN?

If vuu are aa average man you will readily recognise yourself by relcni'g simply to your age, your w-.u ami linaucial condition iu life, -yuur taste.-., ami your prospects-- However, i..cic qu i :st a few facts which may have <Jap- ■ i your ■notice. Here are some ui Jem: jvou are an average .■'■'"%''»' weight is anything between Miami l''M iimn.ls; your height about -If hi-'-J ill 111 i.i ' rIP (''lll ' -i\ illHl \our skeleton will, >" - ll( - '■•',' mile-- vuu be burned to ileal n, »<• <"' capitated, or be deprived of your leg-, measure liii less than at I'^nt; a..d if whole, will weigh fifteen P"'""I*' 1 *' ;,. normal, average man you I'";'''" 7 ,„„».-. Vour brain weighs about .i.~. von breathe "b""t lw,Ml - v li,lß ' s l " ' ut'. and, ibis being the ease, yo'.u-; •bout -even hogdioads of air every da 'our life, with tbe ]«»*'te ™v;'»t><!» 0 Sundays, when, if yo" don't -i:,g ... , hlu .h.yo,M,seless.nyouarea I ,ae ; aw man. and have .cached UK .'„ U-entv-seven, you are married am ... ~lr- •likelihood.aceordingln.tat.st.es, .„;. 'wedded to 11 woman four years vun-er than yourself. If, aga.n. you 1,,-,, •neva.'e, von are not a lawyer, nm n ,lo',-tor nor'a soldier, nor a sailor, nor 1 ii„in» enghreer (this least of all. ..or f, 'new-paper man, nor an art.st, nor a ,'„Hli»m ire. nor a clergyman).. You may , ev'o- be connected with insurance or anki..".' or be a grocer, a canvasser, an !,;" m nUnf. a haberdasher, a *. csman ,„- a milk vcador. Your -ala.y is like w i > 'ivev.'-e »n the whole, you a.e the l.api.ies"t of all men, and the real l.ackbonc of the country you belong In Indeed without you, the nation could not <"'t along anything worth speaking • of "You have lew responsibilities, an 1 1 consequently fewer cares than other wen,