The acme magazine . the wisething would be to adjourn till spring;but Sam was differently inclined. Yousee, hed been the official figurer of thekitchen cabinet and had made a mar-velously good forecast on the fall he was a man of some con-sequence in the cabinet, and of moreconsequence to himself. When themotion to adjourn, subject to call of thepresident (which would come with thefirst political whisper of spring) wasmade, Sam spoke against it as follows: Well, men, I for one have kind ofgot into the habit of enjoying these meet-ings. Why not continue them ? Wedont have to deal
The acme magazine . the wisething would be to adjourn till spring;but Sam was differently inclined. Yousee, hed been the official figurer of thekitchen cabinet and had made a mar-velously good forecast on the fall he was a man of some con-sequence in the cabinet, and of moreconsequence to himself. When themotion to adjourn, subject to call of thepresident (which would come with thefirst political whisper of spring) wasmade, Sam spoke against it as follows: Well, men, I for one have kind ofgot into the habit of enjoying these meet-ings. Why not continue them ? Wedont have to deal with politics; we candiscuss other subjects to a good advan-tage. Defeat the motion, and I willexplain. The motion was defeated, and this isthe explanation he gave and which caus-ed him thereafter to be called StatisticalSam: Ive been doing considerable figuringof late and Ive kind o got in the habitof it. Now that there is no more poli-tics to figure, I find my attention beingdrawn into other lines of speculative. and statistical thought. Even the home-ly kitchen articles become of interestwhen viewed from certain standpoints,The common skillet, statistically viewed,may be made to present a wonderfulcombination of comparisons. For purpose of establishing a meas-uring unit, or standard skillet, let ussay the skillet is one foot in diameter,weighs one pound, and, including han-dle length, is eighteen inches long. Itis a mild estimate to say that each fami-ly in the United States possesses a bigskillet and a little skillet. There aremore than 15,000,000 families in thiscountry, and more than 30,000,000 skil-lets. Without worrying you by askingyou to go through all the figures, I willtell you the following facts: If all the skillets of the United Stateswere placed side by side they wouldreach more than 6,000 miles; if placedhandlewise, 9,000 miles. If all the skillets were made into onebig skillet, Uncle Sam would have to beover six miles high to handle it and cookin it. It would
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