German Statisticians Assert That a Man
Requires Only Seven Months for This
Employment.
German statisticians, who have long been noted for their tendency to turn
their searchlights on subjects that might better be left alone, have made
another little incursion into the field of woman's vanity. In short, they
have been calculating what part of a woman's life is spent in looking at
herself in a mirror.
She begins as a rule at six years. From six to ten she has a daily average
of seven minutes. From ten to fifteen she devotes a quarter of an hour to
her glass.
At twenty she certainly spends thirty minutes daily admiring herself, and
when past twenty a whole hour.
The statisticians are tactful enough not to say when a woman begins to
take less interest in her personal appearance, but women more than sixty
years do not, they say, spend more than ten minutes daily at their
mirrors. All this time reckoned up--it is a simple sum in
multiplication--makes seven thousand hours, or about ten months, at the
mirror.
Then they proceed to compare the time which a man--a German man--devotes
to this occupation, and come to the conclusion that his average is seven
months.