Life — July 20, 1916 — page 7: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Conversation ONVERSATION is the art of get- ting some one to listen to you think out loud. In the good old days, when conversation was the only indoor form of amusement, thinking was not necessary, just talking would do. But with double-faced, twelve-inch records only seventy-five cents, talk is so cheap it has to be mixed with ideas to meet competition. Conversation is not dead. The mov- ing-picture show, the musical comedy and comedy musical, the talking-ma- chine, the subway, the clevated and daily bread lines keep it much of the time in a state of coma. But it always revives in the presence of an interest- ing listener. As the box-office makes the play, so the listener makes conversation. The talker has little to do with it, except to express the ideas the listener wants to hear. It is the listener who makes us think, not the thinker who makes us listen, Ever notice how hard it is to talk to some people? To get your mind going at all you have to kick it like Mileage at a Time and get the still lower rate of cost per mile, by purchasing now Pennsylvania Oilproof VACUUM CUP TIRES Only pneumatic tires ever submitted to official mileage test of 1s The Automobile Club of America, Certified average of nine strictly stock casings, 6,760 miles, including records of 10,164, 9,220 and 8,940 miles. Guaranteed for 6,000 Miles— per warranty tag on cach casing. As makers of the famous Vac- ta Pennsylvania Oilprool EBONY TREAD A. quality casing with black, ribbed tread, at a moderate price. BILTMORE ||| foe 43rd and 44th Sts. and Madiion Ave Gardens ‘4 sree ens tr Fountains, flowers, y F music and tea rooms. SHEVA nesses pEreweal -MOTHERSILL’S | SEASICK REMEDY Guaranteed not to skid on slip- pery pavements, else returnable, after reasonable trial. Guaranteed Oilproof. PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER CO. Jeannette, Pa. You pay for the Quality - the Safety costs 4 you nothing — || The Thing for Trainsickness | AT ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS Trade Mark Reg. U. 8., Canada & Ot. Britain, Patents STOPS SNORING ANO MOUTH BREATHING Made of Gold, $2.00 In U. S. Postpaid. WONEY REFUNDED ANT TIME WITHOUT QUESTION. Sizes: 1, Childs; 2, Regular (90 perct. ofsales);3,Large Comtoctable and Coovenient, Information on request. SIMPLE DEVICE CO., Middleburg, Va, Box 30. a lazy dog by the fire, and even then it only gets up and wags its tail per- functorily a couple of times and curls up again in the chimney corner. While ‘with another your thoughts leap up so strong and swift you have to chase after them with blinders and bit lest they run amuck. Perhaps we do not talk with each other enough—I mean listen to each other enough. But conversation is not dead, and never will be unless people quit thinking and caring for cach other. The quantity is decreased, not because of an exhausted supply, but because we cull it more carefully. Between A-t canned music and E- fresh chin music, we take the talking- machine. And a first-class brand of strictly pure silence is much preferred to a spoiled case of voluble inanities. William H. Hamby. comicbooks.com