Explaining Division of Fractions .......(circa 1910)

Some things are definitely better old school.

Exhibit A:

Elementary Arithmetic
By Charles William Morey

I leave it to you to decide if you think this explanation of division of fractions from 1910 is better than what you have seen recently.

http://books.google.com/books?id=BQMAAAAAYAAJ&dq=Elementary+ARithmetic+Morey&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=BFi6PnJ_vh&sig=VbFj6qvT2hNKtR7JGPYBA0m-OEM&hl=en&ei=UMOMSde4LaKBtwe5z_2aCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR2,M1


The explanation of division of fractions
is on pages 279-280.

This is in the intermediate Arithmetic section ...

bulletin: arithmetic still matters ... duh.