Judge — June 12, 1926 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE Sue—There was a time when you said I was the most articulate woman you had ever met. He—But you finished in 1918. NOT MUCH TO ARTICULATE bv Don Herold Ts more articulate, the less said.” is an old Chinese proverb which I just. wrote, myself, a couple of minutes ago. There has been quite a practice in recent years of classifying women as either inarticulate or articulate. It is considered the highest compliment you can pay a woman to say of her: “And she is articulate, toc (Men have simply lumped them- selves off as all articulate. It seems to be women who either are or ain't.) When I was young (about five years ago) I used to get extremely excited about articulate women. It is only since I have become an old man that I have discovered that there are two kinds of inarticulate people: those who are dumb-bells and those who keep their mouths shut, and that most articulate people articulate themselves dry in a mighty short time. For long hauls, give me inarticu- late individuals every day. The trouble with being articulate is that there is not much to articulate. And the trouble with articulate people is that they continue to articu-’ late a long time after they have any- thing to articulate. Pretty soon they are articulating hot air. This has considerable bearing on marriage and may be construed as matrimonial advice, if you need any. Silence is not half as bromidic as a lot of things that are articulated over and over. Polar explorers ought to know more about the durability of con- versation than anybody, so it was a great satisfaction to hear that Donald B. MacMillan tells his men to keep still on their Arctic expeditions. He knows it is a long way North, and he says it is not cold or lack of food which makes these trips hard, but boredom after the men get all talked out. The radio is expected to relieve this somewhat in future polar trips. but explorers will soon discover that radio, too, is too dadburned artieu- late—it talks itself out weeks. Most of the interesting people I now know may have seemed stupid in a few in the beginning, and they were surely in no hurry to get into the high place of my esteem. And all our pathways are strewn with the ca s of folks who articulated themselves to cinders long, long ago. It is amusing to go to a tearoom or somewhere and watch people articulating themselves to extinction. Between Rounds Manager—You're doing a lot of missing. Fighter—Can't help it. Every time I hit him once I knock him so far back I can’t reach him with the next few. The big concerns have armored cars to carry the pay roll for their em- ployces. envelope home. But the employees must provide their own protection to take their comicbooks.com