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Show UNCONSCIOUS MONOLOGISTS. they Are Victims of the Difficulty ef Hearinsr Oneself Think In Gotham. "I cannot say whether I shall make any detailed and professional use of my' observations," said a neurologist, "but I do not mind telling you in a general way that New Yorkers 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 vatch the people there. X have not got my percentages per-centages together yet, but it is safe to 6ay roundly that you will see nearly half the people exhibiting some of the forms of the disease, for of course it ia 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 the street cars and on the up town thoroughfarea Women are falling into the habit also, but not so much as men, The other day, while I was waiting for my coupe, I sat at the office window, and I declare that out of the 75 people who passed eight were showing some signs of monologa-oia. monologa-oia. "Of course the primal cause of the disease is that we never allow our minds 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-Bory cen-Bory cells, of 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 tho habit is due to the fact that this city is so thundering full of noise that one cannot hear oneself think, and so people have to think aloud " New York Sua. |