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Show UNCONSCIOUS MG'NOLCGISTS. They Are Victims of tho DiMculty 4 Ileariugr Oneself Think In Gothiiin. "I cannot say whether I shall make eny detailed and professional use of my observations," said a neurologist, "but I do not mind telling you in a general way that New Yorkors are fast becoming becom-ing a race cf unconscious monologists that is, of talkers to themselves without knowing it. Go down into the business quarter of the city and just watch the people there. I have not got my percentages per-centages together yet, but it is safe to say roundly that yon will see nearly half the poople exhibiting sorno of the forms of tho disease, for of course it is a disease. They are either moving their lips, wagging their heads, puckering their eyebrows, making gestures with their hands or doing something, while In a great number of cases they are busy carrying on imaginary conversations conversa-tions between themselves and somebody else, laying down the laws with much emphasis, reading the riot act to some one or else meeting imaginary issues with circumstantial replies. "You will see men doing the same thing in hotel lobbies, in tho street can and on the up town thoroughfares. Women are falling into the habit also, but not so much as men. The other day. while I was waitingl73r"my conpo, I sat at the office window, and I declare that cut of the 75 peoplo who passed eight were showing some signs of monologa-tda, monologa-tda, "Of course the primal cause of the disease is that we never allow our minda any period of repose. We are so eternally full of plans and schemes that anything like a quiescent mood is unknown, and that condition of morbid mental activity activ-ity supervenes, which in turn is followed follow-ed by a distinct weakening of the cen-sory cen-sory cells, cf which condition self communication com-munication is always one of the symptoms. symp-toms. "At the same time it must not be overlooked that undoubtedly much of the habit is due to the fact that this city is so thundering full of noise that one eannot hear oneself think, and so people have to think aloud. "New York Sun. |