Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1911 — Conversation. [ARTICLE]

Conversation.

Conversation is one of the blights of civilization. People spend thousands of dollars in education, in books, in travel, in theater tickets, and all in order to be able to carry on a conversation. As a consequence the women talk about cooks and clothes and the men about weather mid women. Conversation may be divided Into chats, arguments, piffle and palaver, with gossips and quarrels as side issues. v Conversations are fortunately forgotten as soon as they are over; otherwise people would be bo mortified over their Inane remarks that they would seek new friends every day, fearing to meet old ones. V 1 V.-r .

The idea that when people meet it is necessary for them to talk has grown out of helpless self distrust. Not over five ont of a million people say anything when they converse. The trouble is that were we to try to develop the art of keeping still we should immediately begin to talk about it.