MARVELLOUS MAN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 283, 22 April 1911, Page 9

MARVELLOUS MAN.

A laborious trifler adorns the London Magazine for last month with some estimates of the foodstuffs consumed and the life-labor accomplished by "man, the marvel.' It seems the trifler went home rather tired one day after doing business in London, and to account for this unusual sensation, "made a rapid calculation of the number of stairs which I had climbed during the day." Lifts must be scarce in London, for the computation worked out at nine hundred steps up and nine hundred down. Reducing this number to the more everyday climb of a hundred and sixty-one fnnnnnnV'T ° f life will total about 3,000,000 for the average business man. Inc _advocate_ of going up-stairs as a physical exercise, will rejoice to contemplate so much of it during his threescore years and ten. But even on the flat our exertions are by no means to be despised. The average manj as he walks here and there, indoors and out is supposed to cover 146,000 miles during " S f ] l (e *™ «*™ll. Tliis HamcntaWe fact is, therefore, offered for our conl\» e Z\ ,or l' whi '« ne has chiefly Vlv th] V nadvent,lro1 ' 5 person has really taken _ steps which might have carried I'm six timss round the globe. He i, hundredweight, and over, while, supnosS 280 pounds of meat, or eighteen bullocks, S!X p,n;s and „ f]oMn g . ™ ms an «™r-abundanoe of boof b„t the computer, no doubt, is a specially ■Patriotic Englishman. The smokin" . during the smoker'? lifo-time-nml unon what m „re amiable indulge oo 1, fh sum be spent? When welcome to „ '„„ .putation of how many great-coats fl man wears, liow much loathe,- !s ;. nrn out in boots, and how many feet of hnir ** cut off in recurrin-T inoli dipping fhe tnllor -rows ton laborious. Why' not have turned )o ihiiisrs less severely ,„■.,,, tionl? Tf nil the !„„„„, of , YlM]m ; were thrown together, how loml WO ,iH 'be the coneiissinn of sm ,nd? fould you make a mountain or a molehill of the average girl's flirtations? And what -precise floor-sonee is supposed to be covered bv each individual contributor in a rilace which is paved with our good intentions?