HOW SAVAGES DEAL WITH "BORES !"

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 10465, 21 November 1896, Page 5

HOW SAVAGES DEAL WITH "BORES !"

To the current number of the Windior Magazine Miss O'Conor Eeclea contributes a brightly written article on "The Disadvantage) of Ctvtllaatton.'' Among the other products of civilisation Is "the 'borei one of the 'greatest affllotlons that mortals are oalled on to endnre. The bore, male or female— and to the credit of my,, sex, be it aatd, the latter la leas natneroaa . than the former— whether of the egotistical, the pompous, or tbe übiquitous type, whether silent and heavy, or talkative and frothy, whether Interested in politics, religion, or social questions, given merely to the irritating habit of.annoanclng foots known to everyone) or to bonveylog an eudletß stream of dull narrative, la essentially a disadvantage, of civilisation. Tbe bore conld not eicht In a, savage eoolety. No rude, untutored tribe, wltb the elemental passionsof onr race strong ' within them, wonld endnre tbe bore for a moment. They would rise aa one man and exterminate him, for tbey have nob been ground between the npper and the nether millstone of convention. Uncivilised man has even devised a way for arresting, at least in one direction, the development of bores, who are an artificial prodnot, evolved only in a suitable atmosphere. Working by the light ot reason alone, a simple tribe of. negroes, wltb few wantß and fewer ambitions, has bit upon a plan onr English Parliament might adopt with advantage, to members, Press reporters, . and the progrees of business. They decree that whan a native oounoll la beiog held, he who has anything worth saying may utter it dnring the space of time he can stand on one leg. When, throngh fatigue, the toe of the other, foot tonobea the ground, tbe flood of oratory Is abruptly arrested."