BE INTERESTED

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 119, 13 February 1926, Page 17

BE INTERESTED

TO AVOID BEING A BORE

Unless otic is renowned for scintillating brilliance, to affirm constantly that one is bored is rather dangerous. li is practically owning that one is a bore. The man who is alwavs giving out that he "S bored, no matter where be is or whom he is with, is undoubtedly a bore himself or hovering perilously near the border, states a writer in an English exchange. Some there are who are born with an unquenchable interest ill their fellow men and their environment. Thev are never so much at ease as when darting hither and thither in new surroundings and new circumstances; thev are alwavs meeting new people and assimilating new ideas ' Such people—and liappv arc vou if vou are one of them—are never bored. Thev are like a bee living gailv fiom flower to flower, taking the best mid the sweetest and passing on. Ihe world to them is an ovstcr which thev have successful! v opened and found full of good things. Nothing is too small or insignificant to please them, and thev get some amusement ont of even-thing. Thev can, ns it were, squeeze blood . from a stone. And the verv > fact that thev are interested in others and in life makes them interesting in their turn. Be interested in others and vou will never be a bore.

There is another tvpc—those who rarely care to meet new people. TMieir own circle is enotio-li for them Thev have the (same interests, know the same set, and often snv the same things. Often their swans are geese, but thev are ouiie content, basking in mutual 'admiration-

There are others, again, who although bored in society, are never bored when alone Thev love solitude and open spaces The sight of a human being sends a sliivet down their backs: the liu'e voices of the wilds are alwavs calling them Thomas a Kemin's said flint when lie had been among men he returned less a man. But it ,-is perhaps as well that all of ns do not aoree with him. for to avoid one’s feH-uvs is to become misanthropic, selfish, and unsympathetic. Tn manv cases the life of a hermit mak'qs n man less a man. for it must tend to nut him out of touch with fbe rest of mankind. Still it is very frne flint

If chosen men had never been alone In ileen mid-silence, open-doored to , God, No greatness ever had been thought or done.

Talking to a representative of the “New Zealand Herald,” Mrs. Winter Hall spoke about the film industry, of Hollywood, Los Angeles "Film artists as a whole,” she said “are gjeat home lovers, and find their chief pleasures, after their work is done, in their home environments.” She deplored the numbers of girls, however, who rushed to Hollywood to find employment in the film world. Mrs. Eleanor Brodie Jones, Librarian of the Hollywood Library, conceived the idea of starting a club for them, and this is known as the Studio Club, and within its walls aspiring artists find the comfort and security of home life, until they are in employment.