Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-14

patients sit soIemnly trying to be
amused until their turn comes.
Imagine dentist cheerfully boring
away while the other patients sat in
rows in front of him. It would be I'M
psychological, to say the least.
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Sometimes workers in various lines
feel similarly on parade, as a visitor
waiting for audience or for some as
sociate sits solemnly staring them out
OF their right to embarrassed thought.
Not all visitors are malicious In this
regard, but some of them are. Let us
consider them first. Their discretion
is on par with their boorish attitude
for they can never be sure when they
may have to deal with the one they
stare at so hard.
One is reminded of a recent Mutt
and JEFF cartoon. A long whiskered
his apartment window pleading de-
! Gently with JEFF to turn off his radio
which was going loudly at 3 am,
jeff told the old party to mind his
own business, but the next day when
the little fellow was hailed into traffic
court on charge of passing a light
he found himself confronting the same
old party-the judge!
Twenty yearsp chortled the Judge.
Play that on your radio, kidd" The
Justices remark might be made only in
a. comic page, but 1t aptly expressed the
belief OF thousands of harassed would
be sleepers in this land of the brave
and the noisy.
Those who object to him who stares-
for men offend in thisaparticular more
than women, for obvious reasons-are
willing to believe that most offenders
do what they do in embarrassment.
They come into an Office and, being
forced TO sit for time, become i'll at
ease. After they have looked at the
tips OF their shoes for the tenth time
ana have examined with care the
holdings on all the. pictures on the
wall, they fall back on a first-hand
examination of human faces,
NOW, faces are interesting. One of
the major indoor sports consists in
entering an ONCE and giving the bows
and girls the "once over" but Il must
be done with discretion.
There is a great gap between such
an inspection, made in the interest of
character study, and the wide. goggles
eyed stare INDUCED in by thoughtless
visitors who have nothing better to do
and an almost total lack of manners.
Every visitor should bring with him
book or newspaper, and read vigorously.
II he wants to carry away with him
the unspQken blessings OF those he
leaves behind.
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AstutS Office inmates make a practice
OF rrWfering a morning newspaper to
visitors. This gesture first of all gets
one reputation for being polite, but
even more it makes the visitor courte-
Gus, even against his will. And that is
something. With some chronic gawk-
erS 1t is great deal.
Strangling is the least they deserve.
and they get OF with a morning paper
fresh from New York! Ofices might
probably install a collection of nerve
racking puzzles so that those who cool
their heels might heat their nerves.
We saw one the other day that
would keep the eyes Of any visitor off
the office force and permit them to do
their daily chores without feeling i'll at
ease. This contraption had a small
steel ball running in grooves to a pin
nacle. The idea was to put the bali on
the crest of the wave. In the pursuit
of this goal the most persistent starer
who ever stared would find something
else to do with his eyes than glare
steadily at modest executives.