Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-10-17
From BIackwood's Magazine ]
The vVor6 no.r

II is old jest that there is not word in the Ian
guage that conveys little endearment the word
dear But though the saying ITSELF like most truths,
be trite and hackneyed no little novelty remains to the
search of the inqurers into the varieties of inimica
BILE import comprehended in that malign monosya-
BILE. For instance, submit to the experience that
the degree Of hostility il beirays is in much proper
toned to its collocation in Tie sentence. When,
gliding indirectly the rest of the period, it takes its
stand at the close as in that "CharleS DEAR of Mrs
Dae-it has split much of its natural bitterness
by the way it assumes smile, ''amara lento
tempered riSu." Sometimes the smile is plaintiye,
sometimes arch, Er gr.
(PlGintirs. 30 know very well what / do is
wrong, Charles dear"
"Nay, am only glad you amused yourself so
much without me, Charles DEAR
''Not quite so loud. If you had but my poor head
Charles DEAR &c.
(Arch. )-s'If you could spill the ink anywhere
but on the table-cloth, Charles dear!"
'But though you must always have your own way,
YOU are not quite fGullsss own, Charles dear" &C.
In this collocation occur many dears, parental as
well as conjugal ;-''Hold up your head, and don't
look quite so cross, dear"
''Be good boy for once in your lfe-thats a
DEAR" &c.
When the enemy stops in the middle of the SEN
tence, its is naturally less exhausted. En- gr.
Greatly, ] must say, Charles dear, that you are
the most hdgetty person. sc.
'And if the house bills were so high last week,
Charles dear, should Just like to know whose fault
il was-that's all -
''Do you think, Charles dear, that you could put
your feet anywhere except upon the ehintz sofa?''
''But you know, Charles dear, that you care no
more for me and the children than,'' &c.
But if the fatal word spring up, in its primitive
freshness at the head of the sentence, bow your head
to the storm. 1t then assumes the majesty OF "my"
before il; is generally than simple objurgation
it prefaces sermon. My candOur obliges me to
confess that this is the mode in which the hateful
monoSyilable is more usually employed by the mar
tial part of the esh and has something about it
of the odious assumption of the Petruchian pdter
fdmiHas-the head of the family-boding, not per-
haps ''peace and love- and quiet life but certainly
lawful rule and right supremacy" &c. Er. gr
''My dear Jane-I wish you would just put by that
everlasting tent stitch, and listen to me for few mo-
ments," &C.
sMy dear Jane-I wish you would understand me
for once-don't think am angry--no, but am hurt
You must consider" &c.
''My dear Jane-I don't know if it is your inten-
ton to ruin me; but | only wish you would do as
other women do who care three svaws for their hus-
bands property SC.
'sMy dear jane wish you to understand that am
the last person in the world to be Jealous buff that
puppy, Capt Prettyman,' sc.
Now, if that dear could be thoroughly
raked and hoed out of the connubia garden, don't
think that the remaining netleS would signify but
ton. But even as it was, Parson Dale, good man,
would have priced his garden beyond all the bowers
which Spenser and Tasso have sung so unsteady,
though there had not been a single specimen OF
''dear," whether the dear humis, the dear super
ba the dear pallada, rubrG, or nigrG; the dear u-
brosG forens, spicata; the dear sdUis or the dear
hOrrida no. not dear in the whole horticulture of
matrimony which Mrs Dale had not brought to per-
fiction. But this, unfortunately, was far from being
the case-the dsars of Mrs. Dale were only wild
flowers after all.