Show I Evening Chit Chat I l BY RUTH BUTH CAMERON iB i EWARI- EWARI of f In the person olIon lIon who takes In o everything literally ra B I 1 sometimes wonder If It It would l not be b a goo good tiling I If hr those people who aI are afflicted with Ith a tendel y to take everything thing th they the hear In III unmitigated earnest could heat lia e a placard about their persons persona saying something like this lithe Do Du 10 not In Indulge In any metaphor Iron Irony Intentional exaggeration ng of ot non- non settee nil of ot any kind I r In m nv m presence as all asI I should l probably any MII li deviation laUon fromn fromI from I n the hie path of ot literal 0 All Al 11 of or us liS have ha I some om people ppl of ot t ls t tsp pe p a among imons our ouri l 5 i I most moat N of or f UK us o ha b been en 1 b b. by their f p in m i K a Interpretations and some of ot us have 11 been leu n unlucky enough I If to have wc suffered f Crom i tom om them theft de' de When I was a L senior In college ono one of ot the girls came to me rae round round- round eyed Id and confided What do ou think Genevieve actually actual actual- ly Iy slapped Ruths Ruth's face faI Ruth and Genevieve p were both juniors and girls of ot considerable dignity While hile the little freshman was wall of th the take things literally ah type ty so BO I felt safe ut In n telling the tho freshman that hat I knew site she was mistaken answered warmly No No Im I'm not she Ruth nuth told In ine me so herself herselt and she ahe feels eels awfully Exa Exactly Uy what IUd did she say I asked The freshman pondered a minute She said she said she said said sald oh I know exactly she saId eald When Genevieve told me she sho couldn't come com home with me va vaca vaca-i a lion she gave me a a perfect slap flap in the I face fat I And n It took I Ruth's Ruths ut own assurance a that she hie had a used a metaphor ru and that h no I such Huh dread thing had actually happened I to get gel that freshman to give up her literal litoral lit lit- oral eral In one of ot Charles Lambs Jambs most amusing essays Y Is a little It passage e which proves 1 1 If that the h t type p existed a as m much then as now I Iwas was st-as Ir present not long since says he heo at a I party Dart where a son of ot Burns was I expected and happened to drop a silly Illy expression In m my south British way that I 1 wished It were IP the father Instead o of th the theton ton when son when four tour of ot them started tip up at once one to Inform C mn me that wu was impossible be because because be- be I IC IU Ilm lm f. f fwu I cause U he w was d dead IThe I IThe The tediousness of these people goes oIS goeson on this most gentle of philosophers philosopher with I surprising warmth Is I certainly ing InA I wonder If the they ever tire ope oue an au- au- au other I wonder C |