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Show BORES AT PUBLIC GATHERINGS. Protest Against Prosy Utterers of Dreary Commonplaces. Thoso who Impute to us a national lack of.patlenco and polltonoss must admit that thoro are occasions upon which wo desorve a long mark for solf-restraint solf-restraint and kindly consideration of tho feelings of our tormentors. Undoubtedly Un-doubtedly altruism Is one of tho flnost Jowels In tho moral crown, but It has Its limits, and at tho close of n season sea-son thnt has abounded in lectures and debates It seoms a fitting tlmo to protest pro-test against tholr being stretched beyond be-yond tho point of human endurance-by downright bores in tho shape of chairmen chair-men nnd speakers, who vocally amblo on and on while tholr audlonces, how-over how-over thoy may chafo Inwardly at tho wasto of time and mental Irritation, begotten of n dreary rehearsing of commonplaces, sit as patiently as dumb puppets. In prlvato tholr victims discuss the ndvlsablllty of a stiff civil sorvlco courso for chairmen who apparently nro of tho Arm conviction that they aro expected to make tho longest addresses ad-dresses of tho occasion ovor which thoy proBldo, nnd cortalnly thoy ns well as other spoakors frequently stand In need of training In tho direction direc-tion of much thought nnd fow words. Voguo. |