Be Polite to Bores

To the bore, life holds no dullness. A story told for the thousandth time has not lost its thrill. Every tiresome detail is held up and turned about as a morsel of delectableness. To call your husband Mr. means that you consider the person you are talking to beneath you in station. Unless you wish to stamp yourself a person who has never been out of provincial society, never speak of your husband as Mr. except to an inferior. It is bad for him to go about saying Edith Worldly, or Ethel Norman, to those who do not call them Edith or Ethel.