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Show Boring People Lack Interest - In All Others By KITH MIIJ-ETT What make! a person a bore? Usually, it's hit lack of Interest in you. He shows it in any of a variety va-riety of ways, all of them conversa- lieMl Usually a bore it completely absorbed ab-sorbed In hinuelf. "Himself" in-eTudeaTUrcnndrefl71stI in-eTudeaTUrcnndrefl71stI business; his hobbies and his opinions. Trouble Talk The woret kind of bore makes conversation out of his troubles, auch as operations, loss of fortune, or the lack of appreciation the We, the Women world has for his talents and abilities. abil-ities. Or he "enjoys" poor health. ' The poor health bore is usually a woman. Another kind of bore uses up your time and patience predicting things to come, or telling you how he foretold fore-told the last important world event r a friend's downfall. Then there la the bore who talks, . pleasantly enough, but all the time, sUMl 4forVtt3rFtoQtir 'ti"9tB(rivT hi hobby, or his remarkable child. He . Isn't as hard to cope with as some varieties, for you can put a bright mile on your face, think your own thoughts, and he is so absorbed in his topic that he rarely notices you are In line for being a bore yourself. your-self. Often In Pairs Bore don't always come singly. They're just as deadly in pairs. Remember Re-member the yawns you swallowed when Dick and John got together and recalled their college pranks, asked each other whatever became of good old Joe, and generally do-you-rememberered for hours? Then there's the person, usually man, who has a few cherished stories and loves to tell them. They are "such good stories, he does not bother to remember whether or not they are as familiar to you as to him. All these conversational faults that produce bores are more a matter mat-ter of quantity than quality. All bores have one fault in common. They talk too much on a single subject sub-ject We would all stop dodging them, Bo matter what they talked about, if they would become 60-50 conversationalists. conver-sationalists. That Is, encourage us to do at least half of the boring, i |