TALKING STRAIGHT.

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 245, 6 January 1928, Page 5

TALKING STRAIGHT.

COME people just can't talk straight. You may ply them with the simplest of questions, discuss the most obvious everyday subjects, and yet they always seem ideatied, let alone tongue-tied. It may, of course, arise from seme kind of mental fright. But it is very puzzling why they can't deal out the simplest of phrases. And when they manage to do it, every now and again, you can’t make top or tail of it. Everything they say is jumbled up. Sadly enough, some of these, blundering talkers are conscious of their embarrassing efforts to be normal in their conversations, and feel very bad about it. But the majority are utterly unconscious of it. One is sorry for the genuine mind-tied persons. They need our sympathy. They ought to have our help. For the others, there is nothing due to them. They are just mental lazybones. And one usually finds them physically lazy too. If they would just take themselves in hand they would get over the condition. But they won’t. Then there’s that other kind. The people who haven’t the character to say what they mean. They run round corners, and spy at you from the other end. They hate talking straight. To come out into the open is a horror to them. To let the light into their mind is as bad as a heart seizure. They can’t, won’ # t and probably never will talk straight. The remedy is to keep them ruthlessly to the point. Chain ’em to it. They don’t like that.