TALKERS AND TALK.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XXXXI, Issue 70453, 2 October 1900, Page 4

TALKERS AND TALK.

IT may be put down as &n almost inviolable rule that the big talkers are not good conversa* tioiialkts. The mere fact of muoh talking on the part of one rules out other people, and there can hardly be much point in a windy monologue. What more common sight is there than that of half a dozen people sitting &ilcnt while one "holds forth " in a stream of self-satisfied palaver, which gives no great pleasura to the rest, though you know that several who are present would have h%d something crisp and good to say if the talk had b:-en scattered, and casual, and natural, and not formal and dominated by a windy bore? No greater mistake could be made than to suppose that silent, or even tacfturn, people are the worse wet blankets of talk. The greatest of all such damping afflictions are the good souls who firmly believe it is their duty to keep on talking, to keep the ball rolling whether they have anything to say or not. Next to them come the specialists, experts, and faddists, whose existence is bounded by some restrictive theory. LasMy, there is the woeful company of professed jokers, who have been persuaded that it is their mission to amuse. A certain amount o! talk is necessary, and we talk straight when we tell you that Suratura is the Queen of teas. Suratura is a rich and fragrant Ceylon tea, and is guaranteed not blended with Indian, China, or other cheap ana inferior teas.