The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-23
GabbineSS Is
Not Solely
Female Sin
BY MARTHA LEE

Ever since Adams spare rib was
transformed into playmate in the
garden of Eden, women have been
given the cut glass bath tubs for
being long winded conversationaists.
They have been awarded all the
blue ribbons for saying nothing in
the longest time with the most noise.
It always has been conceded II there
is any difficulty in getting a word
In edgewise, it is the men who meet
up with this hazard.
But, like everything else, there are
exceptions to the rule. There are
men who feel that a silent moment
is a lost one. AS a consequence they
talk necessarily, on the slightest
provocation. about practically moth
ing. And there is nothing so mon
otonous and boring as continuous,
one-sided conversation.
If you are just a visitor, and do
not have to stand that sort OF thing
except upon occasion, it isn't such a
thorn. But being married to one
must make a woman long for the
coed old days when it was possible
to walk out on bore.
Sounds like a little, unimportant
thing to have trouble over, but those
little, seemingly unimpOrtant things
are what matter when one is mar
ried. 1t is the daily repetition Of
annoying habits or customs that
wears down the resistance Of mar
ried folk.
When a man or woman commits
an error toward the other that is
big enough to bring out on the table
and discuss and talk over, it isn't
so bad. But can a woman start an
argument with hex husband because
he forever is leaving the dresser
drawers open or throwing his soiled
clothes in a heap on the floor or al
ways interrupting? Or because he
takes the floor" and keeps it, hours
on end, while all the guests yawn
and squirm, and become irritated
from listening to his droning? Not
without severely injuring his mascu-
line pride and running an evening
for herself.
A man or woman who feels he is
called upon to start, sustain and end
the conversation at all times, is too
egotistical to be much interested in
reading from the faces of his listen
ers that he IS boring them stiff.
No matter how clever, Row intelli-
gent, how amusing a man or woman
may be conversationally, no one per-
son possibly can hold the interest
OF a group Of people so completely
that they will forget their desire to
hear their own voices.
Poor 'Disheartened" has such a
husband. He not only takes it upon
himself to amuse those guests who
call at their home, but he imme-
dlately becomes master of cere-
monies at other peoples parties.
He's such bore that even his wife's
friends must listen to his chatter
when they drop in to see her.
As for the wife herself, she might
just as well be deaf-mute, first be-
cause she never has a chance to
talk anyway and second because it
would make things a little easier if
she did not have to listen to his
chatter all the time.
All the woman asks out of the
drama of life is a speaking part.
She wants to be modern. She's sick
OF playing role in silent film.
And she wants to know how to cure
him, because she is so tired Of being
bored and Inundated and embar-
raised.
The trouble is, bores never realize
they are bores. If "Disheartened"
were to tell her husband outright
what she has written in the letter.
he'd probably think she was jealous
of his popularity.