Show BORES AT PUBLIC GATHERINGS Protest Against Prosy Utterers of Dreary Commonplaces Those who Impute to us a national lack nf patience and politeness must admit that there are occasions upon which we deserve a long mark for self restraint and kindly consideration of tho feelings of our tormentors Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly altruism Is one of the finest Jewels In tho moral crown but It has Its limits and at the close of a season sea-son that has abounded In lectures and debates It seems a fitting time to protest pro-test against their being stretched beyond be-yond tho point of human endurance by downrhf bores In tho shape of chairmen chair-men and speakers who vocally amble on and on while their audiences hqw over they may chafe Inwardly at tho waste of time and mental Irritation begotten of a dreary rehearsing ol commonplaces sit as patiently as dumb puppets In private their victims discuss the advisability of a stiff civil service couiso for chairmen who apparently are of the firm conviction that they are expected to make the longest addresses ad-dresses of tho occasion over which they preside and certainly they as well as other speakers frequently stand In need of training In the direction direc-tion of much thought and few words Vogue |