Smyrna times., 1856-09-10
Over Refinement of Language.

me following admirable hit is from tie New
Orleans PicayuAe. 1t touches a point unop
which all readers of modern literature must
have spent some admiration:
Among all the improvements of the ooa
none, perhaps, are more striking than th9se
which have recently been made, and. indeed
are at present maklng, in the language of or.
binary LIE. Who, in these DAYS, ever reads
OF boardlng-schools! Nobody. They are trans
formed INTO academies for boys and seminaries
lor glrls; and the higher classes are :. estab.
ilShlheht. a coach-maker's shop is a 8. repos
itory Tor carriages" miliner's shop is a ade
pot; thread-seler's an "emoorinm. >, Ono
buys drugs at "medlcal hall" wines of
. company" and shoes at smart" BLACK
ing Is dispensed from an +" institution" and
meat from "purveyor." One would imagine
that the word shop had not only become com
temptlble, but mad been discovered nor to bo-
long to the English language. Now.a-davs all
the shops are " warehouses;" or " places Of
BUSINESS" and you will hardly find trades.
man having the honest hardihood 10 call him.
self shop-keeper There is now. also M >ncb
"ord as that OF the tailor-that is to saw sJmono
ears polite; "clOther has been discovered IN
oe more elegant, although the term tailor is
every bit as respectable.
Instead OF reading that, after the hall tho
company did not go away till daylight. we are
told that the joyous group continued trippino
on the light fantastic toe until Sol gave them
warning to depart If one of the company han
pened TO tumble into a ditch, we should he in-
formed that his "ioot slipped and he was inn.
mersed In the liquid element" A rood simmer
is describe as making the table groan with
every delicacy of the season." A crowd of
bfletiess, lazy lawyers, unbenefced clerpymen.
and hall. pay officers are enumerated a s. host
OK fashion, at waterlng-place, where we are
informed that ladies, instead Of takinp a din
before breakfast, "pluDge themselves feurless !
" into the bosom of Neptune" A sheen kin |
ed by lightning is thing unheard of--the ami |
NAL may be destroyed by the electric fluid. but |
even then we should not be told that if wos
dead-we should be told that "the vital spark
had fled forever"
All little girls, be their faces ever so plain.
pltted, or pitiable, if they appear at a public
olhce to complain of robbers or ill-treasment.
are invariably " intelligent and Interestingly
II they have proceeded very far in crime, thev
are called "unfortunate females'' Chiid-mur.
der is elegantly termed " "intanticide - and when
II Is punished capltally, we hear not that the
mother was handged, but that "the unfortunate
chlprlt underwent the sentence of the law, and
was launched into eternity" No one reads
N the newspapers that house has been burned
Town, he perhaps will hear that the house
: fell sacrifice to the flames" In an account
't launch. not that the ship went of the slips
without any accident, but that she glided Sc
'urely and majesticalIy into her native ele-
nent," one In which said ship was never be.
ore. 10 send for surgeon, if ones leg is
'rokeh' Is out OF fthe~questlon; man indeed may :
'e "despatched for medical aid" There are .
low no public singers at the public tavern din
lers, they are the "professional gentlemen -
nd actors are all "protesscrs of the histrionic
rt. Widows are scarce; they are all inter.
sting relics; !" and as for nursery maids thew
re nowadays universally transformed into a
yonng persons who superintend the Junior =
ranches. of the family"