Show ALONG LIFES LIFE'S TRAIL By THOMAS A. A CLARK Deity Drun of Men of Illinois 1 24 Wc lern Newspaper Union SILENCE ROMAIN HOLLAND ROLLAND In Jean Tenn M ChrIstophe In describing Rosa Kosa Euler and her garrulous family says sas Alwn Always s 's her lier shrill voice was heard In the house telling stories always B breathless as ns though she hn had no time timeto to say BUY everything alwa always s 's excited and animated In spite of the protests which she drew from her mother her father an and even her grandfather exasperated exasperated exasperated ex ex- ex- ex not so much because she slie was forever talking as us because she prevented them talking them themselves es el For these good people kind loyal devoted de de- de- de voted the voted the very vcr cream of goo good people had had almost all 2111 the virtues but they thES lacked one virtue which Is capital and andIs andis Is the charm of life the virtue of ot si si- si lence M My father u used ed to sa say when we were all chattering away and he found It difficult to keep us quiet or when when- a u more than ordinarily talkative neighbor neigh neigh- hor bor had hut finished his call that In all his life he had hud never newer been sorry he hud hind en eaten ten too little or talked too little an and my Ill father was on the whole a aruther rather ruther quiet man I believe the most common and frequent admonition which I received in childhood and my admonitions were not few was to o hold m. m my tongue and so far as ns I have been able to carry out this suggestion I have found it profitable I have hn found out much more that I have hn wanted to know b by listening and keeping silent than by talking and asking questions 1 n n 11 lk n n 1 d k 1 t hi h to H U ien lI ou U tri I lUll ill IX to IU LV a U man an U its n. n linn direct questions you jou OU often shut Rhut him up and make him suspicious However However However How How- ever much one talks and however much about any topic one OUE knows I have found too that It Is the part of wisdom to keep a little In reserve reserve- never ne to tell quite all that one knows Just as In the matter It t Is wiser to keep a n little balance In the bank George Eliot in Adam TIede Bede I believe believe be be- lieve It Is Is sa says s 's that It is a test of friendship that two people may walk or sit together for an un hour and yet et etsa sa say nothing nor feel any an desire or obligation obligation ob ob- ob to do so It lt Is not cas easy to keep silent under a taunt or when an argument Is going on or matters are being dl discussed cussed about which we may know more perhaps per per- haps hips than those who are conducting the discussion but It Is often far wiser to do so Silence is s often more eloquent and more Illuminating than speech It shows not Infrequently more self pos session more poise more restrained feeling Rolland Holland expresses it nAh Ali I It is good to be silent Christophe Christophe Chris Chris- said suld stretching his limbs And talking ing Is no use Sabine an an- Yes returned Christophe we understand understand un un- un each cach other oiher so well I It I They lapsed Into silence |