Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-06-01

While listening to the tedius con-
versation of some dull and stupid in.
dividual did you ever experience a
chilling of your eXtremities, accom-
of your stomach, as you suddenly
wondered if you were as great a
bore to other people as he, or she,
is to you?
1t is a fearsome thought and one
calculated to blanch the cheeks OF
the boldest, for there is not one OF
us who, IN our secret souls, would
not rather be arraigned at the bar
of public opinion for any crime, from
murder to chicken stealing, rather
than to be charged with being
bore.
Moreover, the mischief of the mat
ter is that we can never really be
certain whether we are bores or not.
We may believe, and trust, and pray
that we are not bores, but we can
not positively know. We cannot
make a personal test for we are all
Spell-binders and fascinating to our
selves.
Nor can we accurately gauge our
reaction on others because conven-
ton has taught us to do the Spartan
BOY stunt and smile, and smile. and
appear diverted while our very Vitals
are being gnawed by the tedious, and
we are suffering incredible agonies
of ennui.
We have even been taught to
camoutlage our sentiments so well
that when at last" in answer to our
fervent, silent petitions to heaven
Tor del1Verance, the bore finally rises
to depart we urge him, or her, to
stay longer, and to come again and
repeat the torture.
Therefore, unless people actually
yawn in our faces; we have no means
of knowing whether they are weary
unto death of us, or are hanging
enraptured on our words.
=, This being the case, the only safe
thlng to do is to regard ourselves
with suspicion as one who might,
could or would become a bore, and
to take every possible precaution
against being innocently betrayed
INTO becoming one of these dread
scourges of our fellow creatures.
The first, and one of the most i'm
portant, prevention measures to be
taken is to make short visits, and
to, administer our society to our
TRENDS and acquaintance in broken
ana homeopathic doses. Perhaps in
this one thing is comprised the whole
Of the law and the prophets as re-
CARDS not being a bore
FOR human nature is so constituted
that 1t can. stand almost any Attic
ton for short time. 1t is only when
the suffering is long drawn out that
1t breaks down nerves and becomes
uncomfortable
Hence as long as we stick to the
pop-in- and-pop-out method of calling,
we need never fear bat what we
will be welcome guests. The indiyid-
ual every one breads to see is he
who stays and stays and proses
along until you feel like screaming
with boredom. Brevity is said to be
the soul Of wit. 1t is certainly the
secret of popularity, and first aid in
the prevention of boredom.
1t is literally true that anybody
can be entertaining for half an hour,
and nobody is brilliant enough to
be entertaining for three hours on a
stretch. Ones own experience album
dainty proves this. Think Of how
merrily the first part Of a dinner
party goes, and how drearily the last
part! Remember how you chartered
away at high speed with Jones for
the first hour of his visit, and what
hard going the second hour was to
ind something to talk about! Recall
how interesting you thought Mrs.
Smith was when you first knew her,
and how dull you consider her now!
Apply this hardly won information
about others to yourself. Don't feed
people your society, but always keep
them asking for more. Condense
whatever you know that is amusing,
interesting and unusual into one small