Spends Ten Months Gazing Into Mirror
Woman’s Average in a Lifetime
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.