Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1913 — The Way We Live. [ARTICLE]

The Way We Live.

Mrs. Hannah Green sides, who on her ninety-dinth birthday calculated that she had slept 365.000 hours of her life away, indulged in a higher proportion of sleep than was allowed by Sydney Smith when he made a similar calculation. His son-in-law, Sir Henry Holland, notes in hls Recollections that “Sydney Smith, addressing a young lady, said: ‘Do you ever reflect how you pass your life? If you live to seventy-two, which I hope you may, your life Is passed in the following manner: An hour a day Is three years. This makes twentyseven years sleeping, nine yearn dressing, nine years at table, six years plavlng with children, nine years walking, drawing and visiting, six years shopping and three years quarreling. I have heard him similarly estimate for himself the portion of life he had spent in shaving, always a long occupation him.” — London Chronicle.