The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1909-08-28
THE WORSE BORE.

A woman weekly paper denounces
worse than the female bore. She
sometimes effaces herself. He goes
on forever.
1t seems a curious view. To most
people the statement would appear
truer If reversed Surely it is the
woman bore who asserts herse..
from early morn to dewy eve' far
more often than the male.
The usual characteristic of the
male bore is dreary pomposity. The
most frequent feature of the woman
bores conversation is an urquench-
able garrulity.
How often do you hear it said OF
a man that he talks 10 to the doz
en?'' Very seldom. Among women -
is common reproach.
Everyone has known at least one,
and probably good many specimens
Of the woman who will be talking.
1t is no exaggeration to say tina.
.nere are some who literally never
cease-except possibly when they are
in bed. Even then they probably talk
IN their sleep.
Very often they are rather quick
witted, the women who suffer from
this disease Of the jaw. They are
seldom fools. Their conversation in
s1nall doses would be found exhilarat-
ing. Poured out in lone weak, washy
everlasting flcod" it breaks the spirit
of the bravest. 1t daunts the fear
less even of their own sex.
The announcement that such one
has called and lis in the drawing
room" produces upon a household an
astonishing effect. Some fly to their
rooms and lock themselves in. Some
aide under tables or behind screens
One recollects that she has letters
nat must be written. Another re-
calls the doctors injunction to her
to lie Down for an hour every day.
Men bores are often very nearly
as bad, but they are bad with
difference. They are not, like WON.
en- bores, above the average OF in
telligence. They are always stnHd
And they do not, as rule, talk
indiscriminately on every subject.
They generally have one particular
topic, which they din into your dazed
brain until you lose all recollection
of the time before they began talk
ing to you and all hope that they
will ever leave off.
a
male bore. You can pretend to be
an idiot and to misunderstood every
thing he says. Or you can insist ON
changing the subject, in which case
his talk dries up at once. Or you
can simply flee whenever you see
him on your social horizon.
No one has every discovered how
to step the woman bore. She does
not mind whether you understand
what she is saying. She does not
even mind much whether you listen.
Changing the subject has no effect |
upon her She will talk with equal
auency on every subject under the
sun.
And you cannot persistently avoid
her without appearing either rude. il
you are man; or unkind, II you be-
eng to her own sex.
Yet it is mistake to be too tender
fifth bores. They are victims of mis-
AIKEN kindness. They ought never to |
nave been allowed to become bores.
At the first symptoms they showed
of developing into nuisances, their
and guardians, their brothers
md sisters, their cousins and aunts,
heir friends and acquaintances shouli
lave fallen upon them and said very
oudly and emphatically shut up
1t is not enough to- ask yourself,
Is everyone ought to: "Am bore?"
You should also consider whether you
ire allowing any OF those you live
With to become bores.-London Mir
or.