ON CONVERSATION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 3433, 31 December 1885, Page 4

ON CONVERSATION.

According M Sir Waiiam T«m|ifc.;JN fear faessvfaate of conversation •boafoT be inik.ifwdHW.lH hanwwr m-wK. *» the** I woold add the knowledge «f ■ what.' not to **y. *»°" ,H * fr*" ll ' « Ifateeng.* There fa » rt»r» «* » ***** falter «K> cnatftted incessantly to a man '*■**«■ be met at an evwrie* P*««X« *«* .Best day a cnoißWO friend asked him '. , ,Tb* ..-wjoat iattelHgeat P»««L <1 I''**™ ''**™ "*f-M?' some tone." cried tVtalker;- u l**&. yea weald tileo bhn," was llie.dry wjtfner ; , •< Ha fa deaf and domK" o«aversa»fan. fa the sense fa witch X use the w«d,Js set monelcgor, nor is it etea dtologoe; tt fa the interchange of idaas among a somber of people who ara sasamhlsi together for sect*! mtercoorae and aaos*meet. Tbe sparks do not Sr aan(.ih* flint and steel bam* beco struck together. Iba* attrition of one mind up»a an other wh*ts them both. Tfobe«*o»rvn> satfooelnt fa hj« who, while contributing bfa fair quota to th* genera) entertainment, at tb« aama time extract! the moat frees other people's stores of -.wit* and knowledge. Tbe whose mind is wholly dominated by bfa own ideas may baaready speaker, bat be will net be a good talker, nor iao agreeable companion, oor arts a persuasive edvoesto. A draw- . tog-room fall of man and women is not a debating for ant wherein each fa for ever seeking to trip op an unwary aota> gonial. Be fa oat an underbred insMrbo turns the dinner table, or the fireside, or the smoking-room into Jan arena for the display of bfa eoeitjiaiiiJ talent*.*■ A saJf-eoncwited snd-firMpreastve talker will be as ineffictrfe Iran a-conversational point of views aeev shy--man or even a stupid one, People will belwreJ.by hfa tedious harangues, and will breathe i more freely when tbe.ineabos.of bis ovetpowerinr egotism fa removed.„ It is very wholesome for a'fining fellow to associate occasionally with persons who are older than himself. : It will not Batter bb vanity to learn—as lean be wul sooner or later—that tbe erode notions which bad seemed to him qnjta a gforioos revelation are by no means fctpirsdV or- even oatinal, bat bsve alt been well sifted, and for tbe most part deefafvely rejected, by men of an experience a good deal wider than his own; bat it vSI bad him to forma more lowly estimate of bfa shfliitVs, and ihut wifl „du-him do barm. "Let as remember, «atfomeo" - said Dr Whewell cue* to the members of . bfa college, "thstweare cot infalliole—- „ not even the yoaegcat i>f da "