LADIES AND THEIR CONFIDENCES

Southern Cross, Volume 12, Issue 15, 9 July 1904, Page 3

LADIES AND THEIR CONFIDENCES

It jIS an astonishing fact to anyone who travels much about the world, the extraordinary confidence that strangers repose in one. You meet a man or woman in a hotel, on board a ship, in a railway carriage, perhaps even in a wailing room, and, lo! he or she will tell you in a trice all about their most private affairs, who they married, why they married, Where they are going and to whom, even their income ami their family worries. Now, what is it that leads people to bestow their confidence on the unknown stranger? That it is a common human trait may be inferred from tbe well-known practice of the confidence trick, which rarely fails. But what is the instinct that prompts it? Does it come from vanity or stupidity, or love of talking, the need of sympathy, or mere desire to pass the time?—Lady Yiolet Greville, in the * Graphic.’