FEMININE ARITHMETIC.
To tho Editor. Sir.—l do not intend to talce any notieo of any further correspondence, but for the benefit of the member of tho .voaker sex, I just want to say that three days ago I was in a school and heard a seven-year-old girl repeating simple addition tables, "one and two are three, two and one are three," "five and ten are fifteen, ten and five are fifteen." Obviously the child was wrong, but I noticed that the teacher didn't correct her. Clearly what she ought to have repeated was "ten and five are one hun« dred and fivej' and "five and ten-are five hundred and ten, for a famous member of Oliver Lodge's Psychic Research Society has declared so. I said that the ( Hebrew Y and H spelled in Hebrew God, that their numerical values wero respectively 10 and 5, that conjoined they represented 15, that the Hebrew word God represented numerically IS. :That is not as my dear lady friend say« "my" Hebrew; that' is Rabbinical Hebrew. and it is cither true or it is noti If it is not true, surely there is someone in New Plymouth who knows that It isn't. Similarly when John wrote the number of the beast he did not use 'numbers at all. He used three letters ' of the Gresk alphabet, which even those persons with les9 than the "limited" knowledge I possess know represent six hundred and sixty six. Surely thai anonymous writers who accuse me of abuse and ignorance, etc., do not thinld that I am foolish enough to make these statements if they can be successful disputed, and I suppose that it has never occurred to them that Mr. ICelland has never adducted one tittle of evidence in support of his statement that in the ancient Kabala the number 15 stood for the devil, but are prepared to accept this as a fact, upon the mere ipse dixit of a man who declares that the German Empire comprises twenty-seven states; A3 far a 9 I am concerned, this is a! finish. Will you allow me to thank you for your valuable space and your uw biassed attitude?—l am, etc., |i . J. G. ELLIS. jj
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1916, Page 3
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368FEMININE ARITHMETIC. Taranaki Daily News, 25 November 1916, Page 3
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