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Show cms kinds of enthusiasm. Of course, Broadway Broad-way is not altogether typical of life in general. It is. center of diversion and the crowds found talking there it night f t light hearted and none too serlousminded. Still, it's in our recreational moments that our real selves our suppressed or repressed desires rise to the surface.". Moore found that the two sexes have this In' common: Their conversation' is or at least was on Broadway limited almost al-most exclusively to money and business, amusement, persons of the same sex, persons of opposite sex and clothes, buildings and Interior decorations. Rather dismaying out-ilook out-ilook for the more "serious" topics of life. Ejlvi dropping MEN often -wonder what women talk about when they're alone. We presume worn-in worn-in have a reciprocal curiosity. Henry T. I'ore decided to make a scientific Investl-fitlon Investl-fitlon of "sex differences In conversation." He tells about It In the Journal of Abnormal Psychology., Every evenlnr for several weeks Moore walked up and down the night life district of Broadway in New York, listening to the talk between men, between women and between mixed roups. He discovered that, out of every 100 women conversing with'women, forty-four were discussing per-i sons of the opposite sex, men. Twenty-three talked about clothing, building and interior decorations. Sixteen discussed persons' of their same sex, . Where a woman was talking to a man,. in twenty-two ;cases out of too the conversation was about men and the jame number about money and business. These were the leading topics. . In the case of a man talking to a noman, the talk in twenty-five out of 100 cases concerned amusement' Second choice topic was money and business, twenty-two. Where men were with men, no women preset, pres-et, the talk in forty-eight out of 100 cases had to dd with money and business. Amuse-rrrnt Amuse-rrrnt ranked second, fourteen out of 100. - T:.ird came persons of the same sex, thirteen cases. And only eight out of 100 conversations conversa-tions were about women. According to Moore's eavesdropping, money and business dominate nearly a half of the conversation Klaeen n -i, while nearly half of the talk of v. n ji an deals with men. K .:. ; i contrast of Interests that might 5 - f. c'cl as a biological matter. It strik-1 strik-1 '.- ,-,-hJsUes the wide gulf that "sepirates t . no scj.es, is regards capacities for vari- i - - |