Plots and Personalities

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Next I tried them out on my friends. But the re action I got was curious. Some took to the idea at sight, and having much more Vivid imaginations than I, evolved most exciting situations and fascinating charac ters. Others found the Personals silly or worse and obviously thought the same Of me for my interest in them. Then too the same name and message would be interpreted in the most varied ways by different people and I discovered that I could find out a great deal about the disposition and habit Of mind of a person, even of a stranger, by what he or she made out of one of these anonymous fragments of feeling. It was great fun to pass a Personal around a company and ask them all to write down or to tell at once what they saw in it. Some. Times a latent talent for story-telling would be revealed, much to the delight of the person and the rest Of us.

Next I tried them out on my friends. But the re action I got was curious. Some took to the idea at sight, and having much more Vivid imaginations than I, evolved most exciting situations and fascinating charac ters. Others found the Personals silly or worse and obviously thought the same Of me for my interest in them. Then too the same name and message would be interpreted in the most varied ways by different people and I discovered that I could find out a great deal about the disposition and habit Of mind of a person, even of a stranger, by what he or she made out of one of these anonymous fragments of feeling. It was great fun to pass a Personal around a company and ask them all to write down or to tell at once what they saw in it. Some. Times a latent talent for story-telling would be revealed, much to the delight of the person and the rest Of us.