Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 219, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — PROBLEMS MANY YEARS OLD [ARTICLE]

PROBLEMS MANY YEARS OLD

Children of Today Puzzle Over Them Juat as They DM a Thousand Years Ago. "When King Alfred the Great was reigning over England, a thousand years ago, school children pondered ®y®r problems In arithmetic much as °ur boys' and girls do now. Here are two taken word tor word from a lesson book of that day: “The swallow once Invited the snail to dinner. He lived Just one league (three English miles) from the spot, and the snail traveled at the rate of only one inch a day. How long ■would it be before he dined?" “An old man met a child. “Goodday, my son,’ he said. “May you live as long as you have lived, and as much more, and thrice as much as all this; and If God gives you one year m addition to the others, you will be a century old!' What was that boy*a age?"—The Comrade.