Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-21 | Page 8 | We, the Women

FA j i t f We v e the lie W Women Fast Talker Tall Becomes A Quick Bore By RUTH MILLETT l The woman whose mind works too fast Is as much of a bore to have around as the woman whose mind doesn't work fast enough In your crowd there is probably at least one too smart woman woma Instead of getting what you say the first time she has t to ask you to repeat it because her mind was three jumps ahead of you She doesn't develop any topic that comes up Instead she puts a neat lid on it and it-and and is ready to togo togo togo go on to the next thing While you are telling your story her eyes are glassy though glassy though she he leans toward you faking attention as as she thinks up what she is going going going go- go go go- ing to tell you She talks as fast as she thinks thinks- so that you always feel breathless after listening to her for 15 min mm- utes Whenever you hesitate a moment mom moment mo mo- m ment nt for exactly the right word- word she supplies S it She is impatient when anyone else holds the floor in spite of her attempts to grab it and shows it by twisting an and 1 turning and staring staring star star- tar tar- ing off into space Even though you think you have havethe havethe havethe the latest dope on any anything anything- hers is later After you have g gone ne to some pains to explain a matter she sums it up for you nicely in one sentence She wouldn't invite you to dinner dinner dinner din din- ner and tell you to hurry up and cat eat faster But conversationally she Is always jobbing your elbow saying Hurry up and get it over with