Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-02-15

~ TAXIM has spoken the last word in war, the last
mi except peace. He invented the silencer. Its
function is to eXtinquish the gases whose
plosons produce wars loud alarms Husbands deaf
ened by continuous domestic sounds and bachelors
who long for the comforts of home minus its noise
nave urged the great gunmaker to invent a woman
slencer The man who hesitates is often dstanced
by
While Maxim hesitated l. Trentini discovered that
life in the United States is like thunderstorm 1t is
your own women who make 1t They talk too much.
In America the women talk talk talk They talk
hundred times much the men, They talk
hundred times too much
And they talk not well You meet an assenbIage
or women here and they talk of what? Personalities
dress, scandal Before my began accepted an
invitation to recepton-dreadful thing is the Amer
lean reception. We do not know it the other side
Clack, clack clack! CHATTER clatter, catter crowd
OF women too well dressed treadng anothers
At that reception l heard no one speak of beau,
uful painting she had seen uplifteng book she
had read, or an ennobling charity in which she was
engaged No 1t was Look at the red feather that
womans hat Most becoming, isn't it?" Yes. she's
rather pretty, but not young" mo indeed. No, she's
not married, but Buzz, buzz, buzz.
And throughout one heard the American voice,
whose timbre do not like, An American
talks always in the same tone. Her voice is mono
tone She strikes everlastingy the same note,
They talk poor things, because they think they
must to entertain and interest. That is the great
mistake woman silent is a interesting be-
cause We wonder what she thinks. There is doubt
what the woman who talks thinks. She tells it ALL and
more The talkative to me always the
rafting of dry gourd proclaiming its emptiness.
There is this truth that all the wise men and only a
few wise women know-that when we talk we give
out life. We should be grudgng of our life as
of the money in savings bank but instead we act
though stood street corner and tossed our
money into the air.
May tell you so that you will not believe 1 am
talking for my own amusement-as you say in this
country, through the crown of my hat-how | live?
The moment | have finished with The FREELY" at II
O'Clock, place my fingers my lips, and am silent
until the next evening at g. Nineteen hours silence
every day.
People wonder how the little Trentin works so
big, how she can sing and dance and laugh so gayly
night is becaue she takes all day the silence
cure. And what Trentini do your fine, big Amer.
lean women do.
l go straight home from the Casino. An after.
theatre supper? No, No, l to my room and
bring not my maid so that | will not talk / place my
mouth over the steam from alcohol lamp three
minutes. That is to take from my throat dust of
the theatre. Then feel better have my very light
supper-bread and cheese and apple-and go to
bed. am up at 10 and stirring about my room
dressed in something soft and weightless Thus
brush my hair and enjoy my coffee and papers There
- orders that one-no at al-shal ever tele.
phone me between II and H.
Alter II II any one telephones | answer but do
not talk listen. That is possible l merely breathe
into the receiver, ooh" or "Ah," or Yes" or mo"
so the rest of the hours pass. | write letters or
look after my wardrobe or listen what my manager
says by telephone-listen but do not answer-and at
O'Clock go forth for walk | do thirty blocks
sauntering along, never hurrying ! never take any