Show scarcity of friendly talk it Is one of the curious things about american life where individuals stand upon a plane more nearly equal than in any other land says the chicago journal that our street cars and other public conveyances crowded as they ire with men and women of almost similar station going to and return ing from work of the same nature should 1 e so devoid of conversation ahat the sound of a human voice among the passengers is really al car after car with hu naulty passes to and from the resi ence and business districts day by lay with never a friendly word from of its inmates to another As a matter of course speech be een men and women Is practically impossible owing to the nature of ow conventions owing too to the mutual distrust feel tor one an other and to the tradition essential to respectability it Is not easy for one woman to engage in friendly speech with another but there Is no reason why men their duty to their morning and evening newspaper done should ride side by side and continue to glare into uninteresting space when rational human intercourse is in waiting what we all really need Is something dl ferent life runs too readily into a rut we see the same things day after day talk with the same people do our dally tasi s in the same way until it is possible for thousands of us to fore tell whole years entire decades in ad vance just where we shall be at any given hour in any given dey assuming our lives are spared |