THE LOST ART.
Conversation gets' more and.mote .difficult every day now, one way- and anothei ■ '(says an English writer). The suffrage religion., and -polities'' - are controversial a large number of old-fashioned peopli still remain - who object to maladies murders, marriages, and money; as topic! of genoral conversation; ; and • wnei people's opinions and possessions aro ajiki barred, it is very difficult to 6nd uny thing else to -.- talk about.' Albums 1o: Swiss views are out of'date; Shaw make: . ; '6ne think, w.o' havo exhausted Wagner : Whistler has no successor—and; in brief what ii ono to do?.''lt. isibad form to«bi serious, unkind to be .thoughtful,\uusafi to/Jjo personal. Wo nre' between ihe dec] 'sinltand—the 'alternative.*; .All we can di . is .to say. nothing : in as many - words a: possible. To this end is inost up-to-dati conversation directed. After all, it i - only a question .the timu be ~ tween meals and bridge.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 3
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147THE LOST ART. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 3
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