CALLERS OF THE TUNE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 19 (Supplement)

CALLERS OF THE TUNE

ARE YOU ONE OF THESE—OR HAVE YOU THE LISTENING EAR? Are you a caller of the tune, or a quick taker-up of other people’s tunes? If you can always determine what the subject of a conversation shall be, always make other people listen to you. always refuse to allow them to subordinate yourself or your tsieme to themselves or their themes, well, you are probably a very successful person. You will almost certainly have made considerable advance, professionally or socially, you will be able to make use of those whom you dominate; you will also be able, presuming that you are good-hearted, to do them good

turns. Those who call the tune are often fond of arranging other people’s lives for them, and will take trouble on their behalf so long as they feel any interest in the matter. The Responsive Type If you have, the responsive type of mind, the disposition which yields to others, the tentativeness which holds you back from self-assertion and emphatic statement, then you are probably only a moderately successful person, possibly something of a failure in the gay world or in the professional or business sphere. You are neither criticised nor envied; it may be that you are not precisely “looked up to.” but you are almost certain to be liked. People look at you on the level of human nature; they know that you do not dominate them or dictate to them in any way, but that you have the power quietly to absorb something of themselves, usually their worries, and even more beneficially to give something of yourself, usually in the form of considering, reflecting sympathy—not the sort of sympathy that exclaims, “Oh, my dear, I am so sorry!” and forgets all about it. Most of us lean toward one or the other of these two types, and both types are necessary, so that w*e need not bother about that. It might be a good plan, however, to discover which sort we are, and then remember, if we can. not to be too assertive on the one hand, or too submissive on the other.