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Show TiiwJu.I'rS OF THE AUDIENCE j (J: .iters often refer to their hearers as "you thinking- people." The humorist remarks that what the th.iK.ii.g people are often thinking is their wish that the orator would get through. The average public address is too long. The newspaper news-paper person learns from experience that everything can be boiled down. He acquires the art of saying things in few words. The public speaker has not always al-ways learned that art. So he may take an hour when all that was essential in his talk could have been said in 30 minutes. The American people are restless, and do not like to sit long in one spot. Their backs begin to ache and their nerves go jumpy, if the orator talks too long. His best illustrations and most eloquent words may seem flat, if the audience is secretly wishing wish-ing to quit. |