Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-03-02 | Page 6 | On Talking Too Much

I I I I I i I I i I I I 1 I I ON TALKING TOO MUCH Philadelphia Ledger It was said bald of or the great Prussian Field Marshal Von Moltke that lie could be si sl lent ent in seven languages John Milton the tercentenary of whose birth was lately celebrated refused refu ed to let his hili daughters learn any other than their mother tongue on the ground that one tongue was enough for tor a woman Perhaps had Milton realized that silence may be cultivated no noleE leE lees than he might have been will willing willing ing to let his hie h l daughters d study to be silent In half a dozen languages besides be ldes their own By talking too much we mean more generally the lh thinking aloud of the order of oC person whose brain and consequently conseQuent whOM who whose tongue Is La wholly occupied with the most moet insignificant cant trifles trifle Some people can an talk a great i deal de 1 without talking too much because cause their conversation II is s of interesting things It t is en by flashes of ot wit and im imagination it distinguishes between n mat mal maters malters matters ers of enduring importance and the th mere chaff chart which the wind awa away The talk of other people may be n relatively Inot not so great in quantity but It is like Uke th the Inconsequent quent chatter of apes full lull of sound and arid fury signifying nothing the kind tind of ot talk lalk that ia is first cousin to the buzzing of fles thea on a window pane