The Archive · 1937

DEPRESSION. DOTS AND DIGITS

How to Live on $30 a Month and Be Satisfied: Better — Here Than at Home — By 4 Sernenieyr Breton

About 60 years or so ago when the: late Lord Randolph Churchill, (father of the present Mr. Winston Churchill, MP.,), was Chancellor, of the Ex. chequer, he was much irritated and bewildered by the necessary detailed calculations of his department, and indignantly complained to a Cabinet colleague. "It's these damned dots that are so depressing, for 1 don't know what they mean!" "Oh,? repiled: the colleague, "they are the decimal points, Randolph, didn't. you get_a3 for as decimals at Eton?"

This parable may not seem to have much application to the data of depression, nevertheless, In order. to manage to get along and keep smiling on very short commons it 1s Import ds. Fad.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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