Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-01-15
Refinements of Language.

Among all the improvements of the age,
none perhaps, are more striking than those
which have recently been made, and, indeed,
are at present making, in the language of Or
binary life. Who in these days ever read
Of boarding-schools They are transformed
into academies for boys and seminaries for
girls the higher classes are establishments"
A coachmaker's shop is repository for car
riages milliner's shop, depot; thread
sellers, an emporium.
One buys drugs at medical hall, wines
of company, and shoes at mart. Black.
ing is dispensed from an institution; and
meat from purveyor One would imagine
that the word shop had become not only con-
temptible, but had been discovered not to
belong to the English language. Nowadays,
all the shops are warehouses or "places OF
business" and you will hardly find trades
man having the honest hardihood to call
himself shop-keeper. There is now, also,
no such word as that of tailor-that is to
say, among speakers polite. Clothier has
been discovered to be moro elegant.
Instead of reading that, after ball the
company did not go away till daylight we
are told that the joyful groups continued
tripping on the light fantastic toe till Sol
gave them warning to depart If one of the
company happened to tumble into ditch, we
should be informed that his foot slipped and
he was immersed in the liquid element. A
good breakfast is described as making " the
tables groan with every delicacy Of the
season."
A crowd of brieaess, lazy lawyers urben
efced clergymon, and half-pay officers. are
enumcrat d Ghost of fashion, at water
ing place, where we are informed that ladies'
instead of taking dip before breakfast
plunge themselves into the bosom of Nep
tune. A sheep killed by lightning is q
thing unheard--the animal may be destroyed
by the electric fluid, but even then we shoul8
not be told that it was dead, we should be
informed that the vital spark had fled for
ever.
All little girls, be their faces ever SO plain
pited or pitiable, if they appear at public
Office to complain of robbery or i'll treatment
are invariably " intelligent and interesting.
If they have proceeded very fair in crime
they are called unfortunate females. Child
murder is elegantly termed inanticide, ant
when it is punished capitally, we hear no
that the wicked mother was hanged, but thu
unfortunate culprit underwent the last sen
tence Of the law, and was launched int
eternity.
No person reads in newspaper that
house has been burned down; he perhap
will find that the house fell sacrifice to thu
flames in an account of launch. not tina
the ship went off the slips without an acct
dent, but that she gidcd securely and majcs
tically into her "native element" being on
in which the said ship never was in before
To send for a surgeon, if ope's leg is broken
is out Of The question; man indeed ma.
be despatched for medical aid. There ar
nowi no public singers at tavern dinners
and actors are all professors Of the histrioni
art Widows are scarce, they are all "in
tcresting relics" and as for nusery maid
lthey are nowadays, universally transforme
into young person, who supelntend tn
Junior branches Of the family"