Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-23

List of Things We Should Not Say 8
A BOOK has Just been published that processes to teach the are /, 1
f6 Soy@w who n,oa m tic sr Ss a lamp an 9n to b n eS 5 96 a s s%s1g to tn tongue O !
what to say on various and sundry occasions. It equips you with merry
instead o a dumben. p4p@s
and Viii Tn1 be- '9ss ss2s5 % 7qR s a yS5S%s not %s s@y I b. l9 3Rs 6sse. sPss
themselves, but by the balance of us who often feel at dinner
parties that we have been called upon to work out more than
win those whose entire voc Vocabulary S iaTp consists Of Of mo" 1 and ~y yas
con G m1g. such as Gi renamnd W e arc prepared to welcome e came
Jude More power then to the book which teaches Vi what to sai May
But the handy manual of conversation for which there is
a crying need is N that will teach people what not to say,
harm. The thing that stabs ike a twoedged sword is the
ordc OF course %9 the o list Of the things We should not say is
place If we were all taught to think before W e speak, and
skeleton from its closet and makes IN old wound tdhrroebS anew new
vt. Surely there is n . need Of discussing unfnhhul husbands with a de-
MANNED soldier. "As " "N"4' '"' @DO'' . fipp " :
IN which T%s we dig up the bones of u ancestors, and hold pub
t to- be: ,S or Worse worse h1 4' to account all the troubles We have
rows that should have been forgotten years ago.
Then W e might be taught not to talk about ourselves. or our children.
G Go 0gr to pG do' fr fbes scr m 5ng tRn rs to d tn W hay to DONE do % 0s r the things g we re
der the sun except urseises. "' u "'''s'' :" no M uma 0ens un-
We might be taught to keep silent concerning aches.
MINDED minded snossh to Q enjoy If sHsba, to the S' details ssG Of Of hospital hospital
from telling ngu a @ sdk p sspeSaa tbSt ih91n gm wt ne t aug at. to refrain ahai
or or Aunt Maria who died a horrible death after she had
rel cured. M
a friend with a hat o thai makes her look like the wrath OF God. IT L.
not on business to destroy her pleasure in /. by telling her So. Neither is
1t up to is to tell a n acquaintance that we do not like his new house, or
the make of automobile he has bought, n that we do not approve Of the
and desires Other people have a similar right to express theirs and what
they do is none of our affair.
in 9 %s Dosa% s DE o@@ isn MT So a sis p a4ssasat s9 so cur s sRfssss,
The reason that family life is so ofen a failure is because
body sSs exactly ct Sy'% what '% they ne a S@ !" do n and a s sahh no not S's DO. every
children, they could saw the perpetual pickering that goes on IN almost
every household In which there &e growing boys and girls, that breaks
the parents hearts, and hat drives the children away from home as SOON
as they can get away. 1t is the nagging, Where III you going2- Wbxara
you going there? How long re you going to stay2 Why don't O do
this? Why don't you do tha?" that makes the children furious and does
from saying it.
And we could be taught not to say the uncourteous things
to those of III household that We would never be rude
enough % say to strangers When u husbands launch out
IN their favorite stories why should % tell them that we
have heard them before? We smile apprecativey over
chestnuts handed us by other people. Why should we tell our
wive that they don't know what they are talking about,
women outside of our homes? WIZ should We make a child
still more sef-conscious and awkward by publicly calling at
tenion to its faults? Why should we reserve all of III cruel
speeches or family consumption?
And we might be taught never to sy IT told you So" which is rob.
bling in anothers mistake. The sporting thing is to let bygones be by
cones. 8H'
But why multiply instances of the things we should lot say?
Surely the millennium will have arrived when we learn how
TO keep slence and put a guard upon your tongues.
DOROTHY DI&.