Monmouth weekly herald. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1854-1860, 1856-11-06
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Refinement Of Language.

Among all the Improvements of the age.
none perhaps are more striking than those
which have recently been made, and, in
deed are at present making. in the Ian
guaget Of ordit3ry life Who in these
days ever reads Of boarding schools
They are transformed into academies for
boys and seminaries TOR girls; the higher
clesses are establishments A coach.
makers shop is repository for carriages,
a milliner's shop, a''depot; thread sellers
an emporium. One buys drugs at a med
ical ball, wines Of company and shoes
at mart Backing is dispensed from an
Iinsituation; and meat from purveyor.-
Zone would imagine that the word shop
had become not only contemplate. but
had been discovered not to belong to the
English language. Nowadays all the
shops are warehouses or places of bust.
ness and you will hardly find trades
man having the honest hardihood to call
himself shopkeeper. There is now. also
no such word as that Of tailor-that is to
SAY among speakers polite. Clothier has
been discovered to be more elegant al.
though the term tailor is every bit as re-
spectacle.
Instead Of reading that after ball the
company did not 90 away till daylight.
we are told that joyful groups Continued
tripping on the light and fantastic toe till
Sol gave them warning to depart. Ifone
of the company happened to tumble into
a ditch, we should be informed that his
foot slipped and he was immersed in the
liquid element. A good breakfast is de.
scrihed as making the table groan with
every deicacy Of the season" A crowd
Of brieaess lazy lawyers, unlarned eler-
gymen, and half officers, are enumerated
a host of fashion" at a watering place
where we are informed that ladies instead
of taking dip before breakfast, plunged
themselves into the bosom of NEPTUNE
4 sheep killed by lightning is a thing I'M
heard of-the animal may be DESTROYED
by electrict fluid, but even then we should
not be told that the vital spark had fed
forever.
All little girls, be their faces ever so
plain pitted or pitiab!e, if they appear at
public Office to complain of robbery or
lll-treatment. are invariably intelligent
and Interesting IF they have proceed
ed very far i'll crime, they are called I'M.
fortunate females. Child murder is ele
gantly termed infanticide; and when it is
punished capitally. we hear, not that the
wicked woman was hanged but that the
unfortunate culprit underwent the last
sentence of the law, and was launched into
eternity. No person reads in a newspaper
that a house has been burned down; he
perhaps will find that the house fell a
sacrifice to the flames; in an account of a
launch, not that the ship went off the lips.
without any accident, but that she glided
securely and majestically into her qsatioe
element; the said native element being
one in which the said ship never was be.
fore. To send for surgeon if ones leg
is broken, is out Of the question; man
indeed may be despatched for medical aid.
There are now no public singers at tavern
dinners; and actors are all professors of
the histrionic art. Widows are scarce
they are all interesting relies" and as
for nursery maids, they are NOWADAYS
universally Transformed TTrrU -yvrrrrg TJv;r-
sous who superintend the innior branches
of the family"