The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-29
hysteria. Breath Is wasted health is
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hysteria. Breath is wasted, health is
impaired, time is stolen BY Wild mis-
| guided, valueless talk.
| IL we were q silent race / would
accept the Darwin theory. AS We are.
1t Is more plausible that we are de-
stended from fnagpes. If YOU don't
believe IT, listen to yourself when in
| chattering, mood.
Wise persons are trying to stem the
endless tide of talk by building dams
Wheeler Wilcox's home, on the Con-
hecticut coast, / discovered at our
first breakfast how, with gentle firm
ness that. earnest, gifted woman turn
the channel of personalities into the
broad stream of science. Even liter
allure was barred at this matin meal,
because, all the persons about her
board being scribblers, the discussion
of work must trend toward dis
cussion of the worker. Each guest
mad glanced at the morning papers,
and each one had found therein some-
thing. concerning the march of science.
The latest flight in an aeroplane in
terested every one. She who had the 4
best memory recalled how many such
flights had been made during the
month. He of the most active imagi-
nation predicted that before year
had passed all who were then sip
ping their morning coffee In friendly
converse would have had an air flight.
Immediately there twas an aligning o
the conservatives and radicals in their
to the veranda to say good morning
to the ripples on Long Island Sound.
our thoughts were upon the conquest
of the air, and no one remembered |
from the city by the most fiirtatious
girl in the settlement, a matter that
had seemed one Of scandalous moment
when we took our seats at table.
Mrs. Wilcox told me 1t had been a
rule of her family for many years to
at breakfast. She believes that the
speech Of the early part OF the day is
the key to the thoughts OF the remain
ing hours.
The great law of conservation of
energy should be obeyed in converse
ton. Nothing should be said without
which we can get on as well, or better.
If we remember this we won't con-
sumo our own energies and listeners,
pretty as she used to be-" and Johns
emper is growing worse every year"
These are self-evident facts. daily
They need no vocali-
We take to ourselves lessons from
farys vanishing beauty and Johns
rutal temper. we will be the richer
a philosophy and we will have wasted
" Oue else llHlc III CONCLUSIONS lfldt
hey must have reached alone.
So observations of the weather no
onger tend to promote the social
pirit They foster quite the contrary.
heard man say he always feels
lie murderous impulse stir within him
able thought with the 'chirrup. Zine
ay" The superfluous query, as that
ou?" it has been argued. Is provo
ltion to justifable homicide heard
lie cheerful greeting: ooh, you here?"
, ef' Of the rs' City Hair and heard APP
ause greet the reply. Not an ami
ole answer 1t is true, but voicing
lie protest of all of us against cor
,borating tho testimony OF other
copies senses.
The manner of conversation is al
ost as important as the matter of 1t. III
he greatest talker" ! know never III
,res, because what he says is worth n
IN embering. He Is wit. philos- III
bier and an author. III
The volume of his talk is as great
that of Niagara Falls. When he II
lks he says something. which is the
Nv excuse for talking, as love is the al
ny excuse for marriage. But he
res, arrowlike, to the centre of his "a
inject He uses many words, but
astes none.
Talking bores us because 1t skirts
bout a subject instead of attacking 1t. i
r it is too diffuse, smothering us in HI
mass of non essential details. The
GOD talker goes TO the heart of the
ub1ect. His conversation is a series
f short cuts without harshness. Our "
peeches may be concise without be-
lg abrupt direct without giving of -
ense. having candor without brutal e
y.
A good rule to guide our conversa- De
onal ship is: Don't talk unless you TIL
ave something to say. Then say it fol
is, briefly and clearly ha
hitting as often as you can the over 10,
helming r." -