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Show Conversation in the Home BY DOROTHY DIX T WAS leadinc In llio paper yes-I yes-I tcrday," said the woman m I 1'iijo, "tiiat a learned lady noai Hoston. woo speaks Bfty-four laaguacva, lias Just become engaged to marry a man who la reported i" be the greatest linguist 01 tiio world, and who underciUuids even more tongues than she docs." "And ni wager ion- ricti hat." commented iiip rrotnan In white, "rliai when tlioy sue spoonlmr they don't use tiny of tin tifty foreign 11 11 -gos tiiey iiavo aoqulrad wiih Buch pains, but iif says, '00's ducky ts 00?' ami she says, 'I'se 00 ducky datldte,' and tloii tiiopr.'s 3 long. itbllljUh! sound thai listens like a horse pulling us foot oni or Miiky mud, and she says. 'What mnkoe 00 SUCh a .'-inful pitty and h aaysi rooa de t'oofiilft tliintt In do world with no's pun jowl hair.' ami there's another QUrlOUS not5e thai sound:-- liko a amacji and m-m-m-m-m." 'Oil. iiiat s Cupid's votapukk" smiled fhe -noman in pink, "you don't have to loam Bfty languages to understand under-stand that. Vo'j fust .poak It nat-urath nat-urath " "M goodness," -said tho woman in hiu. "Ium think or thr things tha.i a woman with nfty toiiuos can say io per husband when be comae home at 2 a. m ! It makes mo envious." -oh 1 don't know," repHed the womn tn while. "I Hud that I can r-t rioit nomi action OUl of 0110 language under the (drcuniBtances," A Terrible Task. "And thinka" said Di woman in pink sympatrietleaJlyi "or tho aor-roWS aor-roWS of tho pOpr man, who has lost his srip on - 1 lanKuago. trying to explain tn fifty, la-bout meeting an old o.lo.-- friend. Or having to stav , down town to an) ethical culture lecture, lec-ture, or having a.sunstrokn or some tivng oIk tiutt unavoidably kopt him away from lil pro. -pro etons III wife hie--and hlsweM homo whore be hi-- hie wantsld to i,r aH ths time.'" 'Well at an r.iiov" Kald the woman wom-an in blue. "In a family Where the hUSbSnd and Wife egoh hold B lan- gtiage record there ceWaJftly can't bl 1 hi conversational aapdlock that ytni set In moHt gomes Ta my mind, the mOSl plteOUl thtnt; In th world t that RUSbandl and WUfSa appear to h o nothing to say to each other unless un-less they quarTel Ton can epot 11 rnnrrlft couple a far hm kyou ean no them by the rrosen niionoeihat reigns between thorn. "If, at Ihr theater, you a man fining up rending the adveurtiSements In the programme anj lyo woman looking around listlessly atvths other women's clothes, by that srkon you know- they arc hunb.ind ind Wife. if at s restaurant you see couple Eubbllngj down th'lr food Without a word to oach other, you dotal have to look at tho woman's wedctjnc rtiiR to know they are married. If you see a couple traveling together, yet appsrenily not on speaking tentia it's a married couple off on a. pleasure pleas-ure trip. Dpon my word. 1 Bel leva .,tht eonvarsatton would beccBne a loat arL if husbands and wivcskwere ! sogi r-zn 1 i'ii from 'he balance of humanity." hu-manity." "That's right," exclaimed the woman wom-an in white, "and did you eor notice not only tho paucity of conversation In the family circle, bul its piffiinc character? Ninety-nine rases out of a. hundred It's confined to the children, chil-dren, or household expenses, or the mofit trifling gossip about the neighbors neigh-bors "Yrl ( hr:-o people are Intelligent a.ud entertaining, and regular chatter chat-ter boxes out In Bociety. I wonder why? Do married people talk them- N'-'ivs out during the honeymoon -so that they've got nothing to ay the balance of their lives': r to' thej cease to ho Interesting i each other because neither one Is willing tQ ni-iko ;m effort to entertain tin.-other? tin.-other? "I don"i I;por Why other women don't talk at borne.' said the woman In blue, "but r don't because I've nobody to I is. I ii to mo. The mlnuto We've had dinner my husband .subsides .sub-sides Into his evening paper, and lalking 10 him (a pice talking to a wooden Indian. o far as getting a response i? concerned I used to do a monologue something like tiii- "I'd say, whom did you sHI today?' to-day?' He'd reply, muli I'd sav. 'did you see Tom Jones?' Ife', answer, 'huh.' I "What did bo Say ahour Susie?' Me. 'I'm r 'Are the rbil- dren well?' He. 'Mm-m-m.' t. is Susies mother coining to 1sl1 iiet?' He 'Oreal Scott, Majv. can t yOli lot h man read in paper in peac-.'' I do now. I read, tOO, Of an evening, for wo haven't even cot children to talk about, and the silence that roign in our house Is so thick von could CUl it with 3 knife." "T must ConfeSS that the roparsi-lioi,T roparsi-lioi,T outpui hi our lio.us" lo also fir Cldedly below par." sai.l tho woman in pink, "and 1 don't know whether It's m: fault or my husband's, but the i ld fact Is that we'va got nothing noth-ing hi cotanioii to dleouss except the ohil.lren. th expenses Slid th" negh-borr'. negh-borr'. 'We don't know any thing else for ho lives In one world' and 1 In another an-other He's ;i broker whose business lays are hard and Btrenuoua, and when he loes his dk ot' a nigh' ho liken o look all thoughts of his workaway work-away with it. Thoroforo he bas asked me as a special favor not to nienifon business to him at home. Thud shuts me off from his principal Interest. Which I would gladly share If T could, and h- takes no Interest In the clubs sod Ftudl6 for which I earn. ?o tlire we are. eonverRallonallv stranded, since we've reached the place where we can't sit up and ask each other. '00s ducky t" oo? " "My case" said the woman in yvhit. 'fa sllsrhtly different. Conversation Conver-sation In our house I limited because be-cause It's hf dangerous an handling explosives. Tou onn tep hfrp;,,, what subject Is golncr to mh the for tho wrong way with mv husband, ano H-t him off on a wild tirade He's one of lh people that aii gt up an argument over the drop of a pin. nni much experience has taught me tbnl the Ira! naid th less batting bat-ting you hive to listen to StlCncS niny be dull, bul It's safe " Tho Same in Both. 'And What we've been saying about men goes iust as (veil for women." wom-en." retorted (ho woman In blue. "If men lon't toll their good stOtiOS to their wives It la perhaps, because they are married to women who have to have their Joke diagramed for thom: If nun don't relate ihoir Interesting In-teresting personal experiences at home, maybe it'e because they am wise that they would tiring down a CU'rtgin lecture on their heads if tin;, dldi und nil the wioldera of hammers ham-mers don't wear tfOUSefB." You're on." said the woman in white. "I guess that if there's onj place on e.irih where silence Is golden It's In tho home circle." |