so that the little girl carrying it can
slip her hands through into the soft
muff inside. To enhance the effect
the doll aico carries a muff. But it is
not only children who may. be looked
for to carry this doll muff. In these
faddish days when young women car
teddy bears, stuffed dogs and even
Doll Muff.
dolls on the street, there is no reason
why they should not carry one of
these child's toys as a hand-warmer
and achieve the double success of at
tracting attention at the same time.
WHAT MAKES A GOOD TALKER
Doctor Johnson Says, Among Other
Things, There Must Be Presence
of Mind and Resolution.
A man may have the gift of gab
without being a good talker, the Lon
don Chronicle remarks. Of this order
was Macaulay, who had no restful
spaces of silen.
"I wish," sail Sydney Smith, who
could listen as well as talk, "I wish
that Macaulay would see the differ
ence between colloquy and soliloquy."
And on another occasion: "Oh,
yes, we both talk a good deal; but
I don't believe Macaulay ever did hear
my voice. Sometimes when I have
told a good story I have thought to
myself: 'Poor Macaulay! He will
be very sorry some day to have
missed hearing that!'" The differ
ence between the two men was that
between the clever talker and the bril.
liant bore.
But the elements of success in con
versation will be variously defined.
Doctor Johnson, who must take rank
with the foremost of the world's great
talkers, had his own theories on the
subject.
