Women sit at work together.

One woman talks, talks, talks until her companions are so worn with the constant chatter that they have neither head nor nerve enough to do their work well.

If they know how to let the chatter go on and turn their attention away from it, so that it makes no impression, they are fortunate indeed, and the practice is most useful to them.

But that does not relieve the strain of the nervous talker herself; she is wearing herself out from day to day, and ruining her mind as well as hurting the nerves and dispositions of those about her who do not know how to protect themselves from her nervous talk.
Nervous talking is a disease.
Now the question is how to cure it.

It can be cured, but the first necessity is for a woman to know she has the disease.