The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-17
WOMAN NEEDS SMALL CHAT.
DISCUSSION or HUMAN STETES AND
HUMAN SPON8ES.

Make ANY Heturn-Coheo Not Harmful
70 w~omen-Bangs in Fashion Once
Again - K~nickerbookers In London.
IT'S better to be q human sieve than a human
.nonGe. True. the sieve Is apt TO tell things he
sbouldn't. but that's not nearly 30 bad! as to
sbsorb and absorb and absorb things and
nsyer give out 30 much as one little pleasantly.
ono little idea. Women aren't apt to be
Sponges; they rather run toward being
sieyes. SponRes are generally found among
men. Some people understand q hui
man sponge as meaning q person who
"a Inclined TO get the material things
Al life at somebody else's expense. Unques-
tlonably such q person Is q type Of the human
Sponee, but the sponge proper is q creature
VINO kesps all Of his wi affairs and alhof every
Nody etsS's affairs strictly to himself. The
rorld would DO u dull. uninteresting place. in
deed. II everybody did that. At least, that's
what an old man. who has spent the best part
OF his years helping others, told some young
women recently. They were discussing q young
man. and what they had to say about him
started the old man OF.
WELL" exclaimed one OF the girls. you can
nil rave over John James Johnson all you have
a mind to, but 1 can't endure him. Never
IN my experience. and II has been vast for
one OF my years. have / ever met such another
man. He is about rs companionable as q Jelly
Ash, How you girls can fool away your time
with him lie moro than I can understand. He
never gives out anything. I'm sure his mind
has gone dry. II he buys q new book and reads
Il, he never mentions It; IL he goes out to an
entertainment. he never hints that he has even
been there II he goes to a distant city on pleas
ure or business. he's 80 ~reticent about his trip
that an honest minded person is almost forced
70 believe that he's been of on q secret mission
4. u-,N cAn.A arf-nn IAntk SAn yvhx, IT,.
wasting so much time discussing him. though.
for he certainly isn't worth it. No man is who
has little. tiny eyes that look like badly
worked buttonholes set 30 close in his head"
THE idea Of your talking about dear Mr..
johnson that way u Indignantly protested an
other girl. You don't appreciate his reserve.
I admire n reserved man above all others. I'll
admit he isn't half so good fun as Timothy Pea
cock. but l admire him heaps more. Tim tells
everything no knows. hears and sees. and adds
a little to It. He can't keep anything to save his
life. He's a regular old sieve. II / wanted to
publish anything broadcast. 1 wouldn't put It in
the papers or issue q circular letter. I'd tell
Tim Peacock in confidence and make him crisis
cross his heart that he wouldn't tell q living
mortal human being. Dear old Timl All the
same. he is as true as he can be. and 80 COM
panionable. But how any sane person could
compare him with John James Johnson is be-
And it's beyond me. too put in tho old man,
who up to this line had been a silent, and
men YOU girls call 'em-slnce they we're lads.
and they are not to he compared. We can't
compare 2 sieve and a sponge. and Tim Pea.
care to see. I've had a, fine Chance to Study
different times. Tim was a most agreeable
fellow to, have around. take him, all in all.
True. in his eogerness always to have some
manufactured it.. but his variations from
the absolute truth were always harmless.
or a. theatre. the next morning at break
fast he made things lively by giving. us all the
% 1i1oilS Td tsL tRsr o. the the Pfr Tnhy g thinF sse thsE; o hans:
pened. everything. When JOIN James john
son was invited out. he never so much as told
ant interesting or pathetic Incident It III the
Visit, Visit his " parents t. / uS used L to say Sf to mS famiI 10
Well. 4 John, james carries no more to his
6d1m as t ! Snh hs Siii II ss sSEsy, s his visits must be as
5 5ssiss e ,fss Ss ! seS Il sft t1sni 4Sos Z the Ssn cSS@:
PartsEffnG OF ali the E good Ia and d be as fHsT things fR1gs
man m me is sn oite eeV ser s'T ress STs q G asd Al the tRhtns Same q
time TaIno Interesting SdRFsd and inclined &c to give out much
would Sdv fisew Sny vonp IN w ch0osi9 fG s q husband > maI l
II possible who is inclined to be somewhat re-
served, but q human sponge never. Take a
You what fate dpaliy ovefrtakes the sponge as ths
years 60 by. He becomes as utterly Incapable
in giving out such wares as y one o may l p osleSe
He who boards information and keeps back the
little INTERCHANGE of the good and pleasant
Ing and appropriating anything new and good.
The sturdy oak: dear girls, would. never be-
esHyhale from every pore OF every leaf its very
..he power: Secretiye people, grow so narrow
t HSs they So cdandR Hdd make axe a shadow II the world
abonnding love count for any thing.
us q rare thing to find a woman who Is a
say talks too much. but I Won't. She I Is pathe eG
Inclined, though. to tell everything she knows.
Sisiake hears ssoL and does. and so she often
PARENTS get a great deal more pleasure. out OF
r riva who are communicative than they de;
find q husband Who tell things much more yoH in
,]erestinG and comPanionabIe, than one who.
when you find yourselves falling In love, girls"
ne concluded earnestly,
e eSnSpiEo sSr5S b bPs :,,. admitted she who had
ne doesn't ever give out anything there's no
Eqom ior new ideas to creep In" and the said
MI Johnson came in for scoring number two
Women fond OF coffee needn't fear It's effect
on nerves and complexion 1t seems after all. A
woman recently made the experiment Of giving
up her favorite beverage because so many Of
her diet-crazy friends declared that 1t was in
turing her. She found that to continue her
work with any sort Of success she must have
her eonee. for without II her mind was inactive
and heavy. Her doctor told her that 1t was not
eunulating enough to harm her. and that
~Aen with sugar and rich cream in plenty 1t
was nutritious. The Medical Times quotes an
authority on the subject Of prescribing coffee
asa medicine In certain states of great debility
and adds:
Tea and coffee seem to be much alike In
S IhG1ny respects. but the latter Is greatly prefer
e epn a. 70 lts sustaining power. 1t would be q
SSr re ddyantage 70 our working classes and o
E pe$s help, toward the further development Of
Sof,al sobriety II coffee were to come into great
We IhIS cnHIS use. and II the ability TO make 1t
ntnerehce OF effect OF tea and coffee upon the
s sepr ' the writer notes what he believes many
SdP pinLs will confirm, that IT. Is far better to
srrnH e o s thar tea when shooting, Tea, it
Siid Az or IN any quantity. especially IL the indi-
S So 9e not in very robust health. will induce
asOt q nervousness which Is very ~prejudicjl
W hIel1y shooting nFfAanf TIE tnA,.aaaa 0Aa q .