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Show Ilomrnai Talkers. "Havejou any Idea howmanv words a per.011 talks a minute?" "ald a stenographer "There f so much individual difference," he wenton, tbatltlsdlillcult totrike 111 averagt; but I should say from ono hundred and fifty to one hundred hun-dred and seventy-flvu words er minute would bu a fair average. A erson who speaks 300 words ptr minute is talking very ra idly in-deeu. in-deeu. To give -OU some Idea of the fearful rate of j.ieed rej resented b 300 words In sixty secoud, figure out how many columns of an ordinary ordi-nary newspaper would l needed to rejiort an hour's talk with such a voluble speaker. You will find that such a talk, were tbo speech given In full, could fill from ten to twelve columns of solid tyw On an average, aver-age, women talk faster than men Many women talk 309 words per minute, ten hours jr day, every daj of their live-, and never seem to weary. Hut there is little to commend com-mend in fast talking It a pcron has tny thing worth saying there Is certain! time enough to sa it well. It is a belter art to be a good listener than a good talker r-ilencv and thoughtareinseparallc. Iubu-Inesa nutters only fonlsand magpie chatter." chat-ter." Dttrtitt Free J'rtu |
