10 XKfoMen TjgpJnreftes Learning How to Talk By BEATRICE FAIRFAX Some folks think conversation comes by the graoe of heaven—but nothing Is farther from the truth. One might as well say playing the violin comes by nature. No human being—no mat ter how musical —oould play a simple lullaby on the violin without first learn ing. Of course, a maestro might play by ear without lesson*—but not with out practice. And most mortals need all the aid good instruction can give them. Well, by the same token of prac tical common sense, although a favored few folk talk glibly and even pleas antly by instlnot, even they do not get far without study, without prac tice and without taking infinite pains. O course, the obvious way to im prove In conversation Is to talk —pro- vided one talks as well as one Is able. But It would be hard to force any man or woman to take a tenth as much pains to learn the game of conver sation as to master the latest fox trot step or to learn the game of golf. And yet conversation Is a game that can never go out of style and that will b« Important as long as mortals have ears and tongues. Here are a few rules of practice for learning the gentle art of conversa tion: Talk as well as possible to all sorts of people. Adapt yourself to moods, to character and to varying ages. Make It your business to say what you want to convey so you shall be thoroughly understood by the Indi vidual you address. Be clear and simple. When you are thrown with an un utterably dull person who seems al most dumb pride yourself on finding out something about which he can talk. Anyone can talk about some thing. Even an utter fool can tell you about himself. Get into the liablt of drawing out the silent and taciturn. As they expand into conversation -ou will get a sort of perspective on your own lesser difficulties in finding con versational material. The very best school for conversa tion is, of course, good reading. The classical novels will accustom you to English used with charm and cer tainty and exactness. The right word in the right place will come, through good reading, to have a meaning all its own to you. Don't read to quote— don't read to talk with "high-falutlng' " and literary elegance. Read to see how words can be molded Into a liv ing mass to express Just the meaning In the modeler's mind. After you have read a bit don't get to thinking you are all wise—the field MARINES AT GETTYSBURG Special to The Telegraph Gettysburg, Pa., July 21. Marines from the barracks at Norfolk, Va., arrived in Gettysburg on Sunday morn ing to spend six weeks in making various maps of the battlefield. The men are quartered in the college dormitories while those who have their wives with them have accommo dations with private families of the town. A New Kind of Pastry Crisco pie crust is rich, wholesome and delicious, for Crisco is all vegetable and all pure. Crisco* s digestibility is especially important in relation to pie crust, in which so much shorten ing is used; it is a scientific fact that shortening is unchanged in the baking process. It is still in a raw state, merely having been distributed throughout the dough or crust. (RISCO FOP Frying-FOP Shortening For Cake Making PLAIN PASTRY {Clip this Recipe) | lfcj cupful* floor capful Crisco 1 teaapoonful uJt 4 table spoonful* cold water (.Urn leeeltmamtmenb) j Sift the flour and salt and cut the Crisco into the flour ' i with two knives until it is finely divided. Then add ! j the water sparingly, mixing it with a knife through ! j the dry materials. Form into a dough, roll out about ! % inch thick, on a floured board. Use a light i j motion in handling the rolling-pin, and roll from i i the center outward. The Crisco should be of a ! i consistency such that when scooped out with a spoon ! i it rounds up egg-6haped. WILDCAT FALLS INN, MARIETTA, PA. I CHICKEN AND WAFFLES A SPECIALTY Under new management. Special boat service. Ind. phone. A. L. RESCH, a Propr. I WEDNESDAY EVENING, | of classic lore In Just the English lan guage la wide Indeed. Don't be pedan tic about what you know—don't try to make It seem overwhelming. Be | overwhelmed yourself by all there Is j loft for you to read. Shakespeare and Goethe will prove Interesting after you have accustomed yourself to a school of reading In which, "Said she languidly" and "He exclaimed with flashing eyes" do not make up for licenses—for exactness in modeling words into a breathing ex pression of thought. It is obvious that all knowledge will help you In conversation. A little anecdote about your washerwoman's boy may lighten a dull moment. It is well to keep up with the times. The editorial pages of the newspapers In themselves offer a training for inter eating talk, whether you agree or intel ligently differ with what you have read. If you have read good book re views and criticisms of popular plays you can talk about the originals with those who have first-hand knowledge. There are two classics about bore dom which you must avoid if you want to be known as a good conversational ist. A bore has been defined as "a per son who talks about himself when I want to talk about myself." Don't let yourself be so defined. Talk about th 6 other chap, let him fall into the cate gory of bores, but avoid that slough of despond for your own social repu tation. Then a bore has been called "a per son who, when you ask him how he feels—tells you!" Dont, don't, as you value your friendly place In the minds of men. tell them all about your last headache, nor how you have all the symptoms of appendicitis. Rather than that, use even the stupid old ex pression "Pine and dandy!" when asked how you feel. But don't go into a clinicaJ and medical mass of detail. Save your symptoms for the doctor. Tou will pay him to listen to the story thereof. And Anally—to talk well, broaden your hortaon. Everything in the world about you—be It a crying baby In the subway or the latest war bulletin—has possibilities of Interest and interest ing possibilities. Observe—consider— comment. Don't turn your mind in on yourself, but expansively offer It to the world for impressions. And then exchange opinions with the people you meet. Soon giggling and idle chatter will be as unnatural as dumbness. You will have acquired for yourself the su preme gift of charm—that of being a pleasant and Interesting conversa tionalist. CLASS CAMFING OUT Dillsburg, Pa., July 21. On Mon j day the class of the Dillsburg Meth- I odist church taught by Miss Myrtle | Mayberry went to Williams Grove, where they will camp for two weeks. Those in the class are Misses Martha Mayberry, Gretna Mayberry, i Adaline Irgang, Dorothy Irgang, Bes sie Taylor, Milla Baker, Laura Elecker, Mary Allen, Mary Clappsaddle, i Beulah Karns, Ruth Martin, and Stella Martin. Story No. 9— lnstallment No. S wqfFgys? for the Corfirnonweolfh Ooprricbt, IMS. by Path* kchanit Inc. 11 uvTtag picture rights and all foreign copyrlghta strictly marred. FBOM YESTERDAY.) "That seemed to fetch him, for h« stepped back, said 'alight,' and walked off a bit as I entered. "When I got inside, I had to go down a flight of dark steps, through a narrow twisting passageway, and ug another flight of . steps—darker, 11 anything, than the first—until I cam« smack up against a door. Inside 1 could hear the murmur of manj voices, and * click that sounded like the click of Oliver knives on plates, and I smelled food. "I didn't know what was on th« The Trap's Sprung on Y<oung Mason. other side—but decided to risk it anyway, so I pushed nnen the dcof and walked right into the most mag nificent dining room I was ever In In my life." From here on young Mason's narration to the district at torney is familiar to those who rend the opening of this story. The district attorney had listened with interest all the while, his face pale— his mouth tightened to a thin hard line. From time to time he threw sidelong glances at his assist ant, noting with evident uneasiness his eager, earnest taoe, as he un folded his story. When Mason was through, his ohlef turned slowly iround In his chair, his face drawn ind tense— his flnger tapping posi tively the coat lapel of the young man before him. "Mr. Mason, I want you to under stand me thoroughly—there are no gambling dives In this city, under stand? NO GAMBLING DIVES RUNNING HERE. Forget it." "But I—'' "You saw NOTHING, I tell you. Forget it." Mason rose, his faoe burning, his whole figure showing resentment at the all too obvious meaning of his chief's words. He bowed coldly— and opened the door leading to his own office, Just as a messenger boy entered with a telegram for Bell. 111, Ellis Mason sat at his desk, his fine, earnest face puckered In a look of amazed discomfort. So this was politics! This was the field he had entered two years before as an outlet for the splendid politlcaj passion— the passion for constructive legisla tion that had so obsesßjd him ever since his entrance to college. There he had studied law. political econ omy, government, ethics, all t.he branches of the aclence that had to do with government. There ho had made a name fo;- iilmseL as a young man of big ideas and corresponding ability. On his graduation irom cri lege he had entered the government service aa a cl irk In the customs. He had written two books on political economy, had given nume: -us lec tures on "City Governments and had made himself so talked about In ths newspapers that he had, a few weeks ago, by popular demand, received the appointment of assistant district at torney under Curtis Bell. He had felt himself to be getting along splendidly—had started to dream the dreams of aspiring, ambitious youth —dreams which In his case were something more than dreams dreams that were possibilities, and now ! Now, two weeks after his appointment he found himself crowd ed close to the rail by a chief who was shtelding the very sort of thing he was elected and had sworn to wipe outl He was cut short in hl« reflections by an office boy with a message from his chief. "The district attorney wishes to see you Immediately In his office Mr. Mason." He arose and went to Bell's office. Bell was standing by his desk, an open telegram in his hand. Ms face thoughtful but good "numorad, as though pleased with something that had recently transpired. He showed no trace of the resentment of a half hour ago, when he had so arbitrarily Impressed his assistant with ths assurance that "there are no gam bling dives running In this city." "Mr. Mason, I have been called to the capltol by the Governor"—lndi cating the telegram in hie hand—' to discuss a political question of urgent Importance. I shall return tomor row." His voice changed from a tone of information to one of In junction—to one of what scented to the young man before him to bo embarrassing, mandatory injunction. "Your action will be of the nega tive sort, you understand? Tou will act on nothing unless absolutely nec essary, and then only if you are FORCED to act Tou understand, FULLY ?" "Yea, sir." coldly. "Very well." The district attorney turned to hit papers, Indicating; with expressive al ienee that the Interview was ended. Mason hesitated a moment as though unable to restrain the scath ing sarcasm striving for utterance on his Hps then, with an effort that would have done credit to a much older and more experienced man than he was. controlled the rebellious spirit of him utterly, turned and went back to his office. When Ellis Mason started for his of flee next morning. It was without th« usual eagerness of spirit that usuallj manifested itself in hie quick, buoyam step. The keen pleasure he would havi felt a few days before at the prospec; of playing District Attorney, then onlj for a few short hours, was, now thai the opportunity had come, entirelj lacking. Yesterday's warning that h« was not to recognize the existence o: a gambling hall In that city—and that after he had made a special detailed report of one—so depressed his flni conscientious spirit that he could noi bring himself to view any part of h!l work with the enthusiasm eo char*» teristic of him. (CONTTITTTED TOMOHOV.) FINGER AMPUTATED Dlllsburg, Pa., July 21. Emerson Bell, a well-known resident of Wells vllle, was taken to a Philadelphia hos pital where an operation per formed for the removal of a "finger which was affected by a cancerous growth. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH I This Is the Life for Me! 1 i|S If Get Out Where the Roosters Strut H II and the Pigeons Coo || If! HowM you like to sit down to a layout of fried chicken or squab on toast, and have the menu include eggs, {|li [ potatoes, tomatoes, beets, lettuce, or a dozen or more seasonable vegetables and fruits—all from your a|| i! own lot. And no grocer to pay except for the bread, salt and seasoning. Get Away From jSp" , g | t|Sr' Jjok tlie Congested City ||LjJp | out where you can have a detached house %' w ' t ' l w '^ e P orc^es - to enjoy the cooling breezes. ,||i A trim hedge around the place with shade or jM H fruit trees, flowers, vegetables, chickens or fflrwL H| fly'/v Jf* pigeons. Out where the children may romp and Tit ||| yJ? 1 play and develop into healthy robust men and r women, with just enough exercise for yourself j|| Ml- 1» Jgggpy to avoid doctor bills and gymnasium dues. Take. a ride on the Linglestown trolley. See tjie Colonial Country Club, the scores of |1 |||j l&z Wi beautiful bungalows of Harrisburg's leading business and professional men. See the im j£|f Jf*' WJ proved State highway which will be unexcelled when completed to city line. Refresh your- f|| / *>j}A self with the cooling breezes, from the mountains that may be seen in the distance. Then sf| Bj I fi' you will realize why so many prefer the Jonestown road for a suburban home. 118 ■f i' Big Sale of Lots and Garden Plots iff If 1J Friday 1.30 P. M. July 23, Saturday, July 24 jj| ||j W Keep Your Eye on Your Target |;| Tr y to ring the bell that la to t[M release you from paying tribute lM J J&Emfflß to the ' anf " or <l. Get as big a II I ij^,. slice of the earth as you can MJ J;?3l while living, and live right while v|p| $W you're on thlß earth. i t ®| Watch To-morrow's Edition i j(||jj | "Park Place" Is the Place For You | A FASHIONABLE jUMMER COAT An Empire Model that can be Worn With Closed or With Open Neck. By MAY~MANTON 8694 Coat with Circular Skirt for 1 Misses and Small Women, 16 and 18 years. Could any girl ask for a more graceful, smarter coat than this one? It is really j fascinating made of taffeta as illustrated with little ruches of the same for trim ming and it would be very charming in , one of the lustrous satins of the season ! and would be very serviceable and also 1 fashionable made of broadcloth in one i of the pretty colors that are so much liked. If a quiet tone is used, it can be i given a dash of brilliancy by means of A bright colored lining. Added to its other | advantages, it is very simple and easy to make. The little body portion is naif ! loose and the circular skirt is joined to . it and this skirt can be made with straight or with cutaway fronts and can be made ; shorter than shown here if preferred. 1 The sleeves allow a choice of flaring ruf -1 fles and a plain finish. The fronts of the 1 body portion are underfaced, conse-| ■ quently the collar can be buttoned up or; rolled open to form revers as occasion' requires. The coat is an exceptionally! charming one and also a practical one, 1 for it is just as suitable for afternoon as for evening | occasions. For the 16 year size will be required 1 6H yds. of material 27 in. wide, 4J4 yds. 36, 4)4 V ds - 44., 3% yds. 54. The pattern No. 8694 is cut in sizes for 16 and 18 years. It will be mailed to any • address by the Fashion Department ol 1 this paper, on receipt of tea eeats. bowman's sell May Man ton Patterns. 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