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Show The Bored Are Boring jj. People of Outstanding Personality Are Interested, and Never Blase ing personality, people whom everybody ev-erybody finds interesting. Without exception they will be people who are vitally interested. They are never bored, never blase. They are able to give out what interests others, because through their interest in-terest in things and people about them they are constantly taking in. Their main charm is a certain aliveness, a vitality which has absolutely no relationship with being bored. Bell Syndicate. WXU Service. "yOUNG people of today," .a1 A mother writes, "seem to regard re-gard it as a sign of immaturity or weakness to be thrilled with anything. Their idea of sophistication so-phistication is to .appear bored with everything, the having-done-all-seen-all attitude that finds it very difficult to be impressed with anything. It is most annoying to find that anything you can offer them for a good time seems to be inadequate, that the thrills of your own youth cannot be repeated for them. It seems to me they miss a great deal." I would point out to this mother, says a woman writer of international interna-tional note, that naturally we cannot can-not expect that the thrills of our youth will equally impress the young people of this day. So much that came to us gradually as colorful experiences are a part of their daily background. But there is something definitely true in what she says of a pose, of a deliberate care never to seem impressed, im-pressed, of a pretense at being bored. It may interest such young people to know that that super-sophisticate, super-sophisticate, G. K. Chesterton, said "there are no bores, only people whe are bored." In other words there can be nothing interesting inter-esting about a person who is bored! That takes us right down to a bedrock fact that can be observed if we will note people of outstand- |