The Art of Listening

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 27, 16 January 1931, Page 32

The Art of Listening

Appreciated by Men HE woman or girl who is welcome everywhere is not the one who is a brilliant conversationalist, but the one who is a good listener. Especially is this so where men are concerned. Phyllis, the ‘witty talker, ‘will keep her companion amused with a clever resume of the day’s happenings, of her own reactions toward these events, with perhaps a spicy bit of gossip or gseandal to finish off, The man listens and laughs at the right places, and the girl feels that she. has been .a success,

But the man notes with a feeling of real pleasure that the next name on his programme is Margaret. He doesn’t know exactly why he is pleased, but then men are not analysts. So, encouraged by his new companion, he begins to talk, and it is not long before he is telling her all about that last round of golf when he nearly got a hole in one-about his new rooms which he is sharing with a friendabout his prospects of a move up in the office during the New Year week, and so on. Margaret listens and murmurs sympathetically: over the almost-in-one hole (omitting to mention the fact that she did that same hole in one herself at the week-end), and the result is that the man goes off think- | ing he hag never met such a delightful girl, and vowing to see more of her in the future. He will never notice that she has not. spoken much -in fact, he may quite possibly think she is a brilliant conversationalist, for, as I have said before, men are no analysts. Hand-Embroidered Evening Dresses HE return to favour of hand-em-broidered materials is. giving employment to thousands of expert needlewomen. In one department of a big London fashion house, over fifty per cent. of the material for evening dresses was adorned in this way. One especially beautiful frock of heavy .parchment-coloured silk georgette had a design of. cobwebs embroidered in silk on the surface, the colours toning

and shading into each other in a wonderful manner. When the material on view appears particularly fragile, pieces of the silk are often displayed showing how it reacts to various methods of washing and cleaning, and how it retains’the fastness of the colouring.

"Wireless hasn't yet produced a lot, speaker that beats a self-made man." :

0( AIL men are born equal, but some prove J unequal to anvthing else: