True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1858-08-18

directing all WIN care. !
Then seeds of wisdom timely cast,
Beneath fair Learning's ray:
And cultured in the cheerful breast, |
Shall bear rich fruits for aye.
The pleasures of this passing hour,
Cannot have smiled in vain;
For memory has mystic power
To bring them back again
They long may disappear as dead.
Like flowers in winters storm
Till Spring shall raise them from their
bed,
To live, and smile, and charm.
NJ. M'INTosH,
The Use Of Slang Words and Phrases.
"TIMoTHY T1TcoMB," heads one of his
letters 10 young people, 1.-The Use of
Proper Language" In that portion ad.
dressed to the female part Of his readers,
he says. ..c
Young women are very apt 10 imbibe
another bad habit, namely, the use of
slang. was walking along the
street the other day, when | met an ell
egan,ly dressed lady and gentleman upon
the sidewalk. My attention was the more
attracted to them, because they were ev-
identity strangers. At any rate they i'm
pressed me as being very thoroughly re-
fined and gen,eel people. AS | came
within hearing Of their voices-lhey were
quietly chatting along the way, | heard
these words from the woman's lips:
"You may bet your life on that" ] was
iisgusted. l could almost have boxed
her ears. remember once being in com
pany of belle. one who had had win.
ter's reign in Washington. Some kind
of game was in progress, when in mo-
ment of surprise, she exclaimed. "My
gracious" Now you may regard this as
finicial notion. but tell you that wo-
man fell as fatty in my esteem as if she
had uttered an oath, A lady, fresh from
Paris, once informed me that il would do
the residents of certain quiet village a
great deal Of good to be "stirred up with
a long pole"
Let US see how you like this kind Of
talk: If you wish to be an "A No. |"
woman you have got to ''toe the mark"
and be less "hifaluin," "you may bet
your head on ,hat;' you may sing
''slightually,' dixie martin gales" you
may "spin street yarns" at the rate Of
ten knots an hour; you may dance as il
you were on Irregular breakdown;" you
may ''turn up your nose at common folks" F"
and play the piano "mighty fne," but 81
tell you" you can't "come to tea" "you
may be handsome, but you can't come
in;" you might just as well "cave in
first as last" and "absquatulate," fol
you cant "put it through" ''any way
you can fix III" if you imagine that you
may "you may goit while J ou are young
for when you are old you can't" yor
won't "come it, by "a long chalk
"Own up" now, and do the straigh
thing" and I'll "set you down" as "on'
of the women we read Of" Ifyou can
"con,e up 10 the scratch why ] must "le
you slide" But if you have a "sneakin
notion" for being . Irregular brick,
there is no other way-"no; as you know
on"--"no STREE, hoss." If a youn,
: man should "kind o shine up to you
and you should "co!ton to him." and h,
should hear you say "by the jumping
Noses" or "by the living Jingo," or ''m,
goodness" or II VOW" or ''go it, Betsey
I'll hold your bonnet" or "mind you
) eye," or chit him agin." or "take m
away" or "dry up. now" or "draw you
sled," or "cut stick" or ''give him pal
!, ticular 6ts," he would pretty certaipl
; "evaporate."
= | would by no means insinuate that
young women use slang as coarse as thi'
> but acknowledge to have heard some I
) these phrases from friends whom l reall
= e esteem. Is not the use Of these phrase
u and phrases like, them whose. number
. legion, very vulgar habit! Il seems
TO me, and can hear them from the lii
II Of no pretty woman except with pain, al
: certain degree Of diminution Of my !
;, ;, spect for her. The habit certainly d
y y tracts from womanly dignity, Il can
y dropped without the slightest danger
y going into that extreme fprecision in 4
"a use Of language, which takes ou. all !
~ life and freedom from social intercour:
s. Slang is bad enough in young men. a
10 they indulge in far too much Of it; but
ad young woman It is digustlng,
THE RIGHT USE OF THE EYES.
re Italian Bishop, who had endured mu
ee persecution with calm, unruffled temp
n was asked how he attained such a mi
or terry over himself. "By making q ri!
sr, use Of my eyes, said he. 81 &
ny look up to heaven, as the place whit
en- | am going to live forever. next K
'e. down upon the earth, and consider h
small space Of it will soon be all thu
ng can occupy or want. then look arou
" me, and think how many are m
us ~ wreiched than am"
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ov. IA FINISHED CITY.--A recent Ameri
n traveller, when in Venice, ,expresseda CT
Ia osity to know how the remarkable pala
~ ofthat city were built, and on what foun
'sn -. tion they stood. When told that they St
u.s. on piles, he desired to see the pile-driy
,an "There is o model oft in the Dodge's pal
'ne somewhere" replied the guide, "bu
do has not been used, for we have had no nc
len built in Venice for three hundred ye
q y Making due allowance for the guides
I curacy Of computation, the anecdote
d's serve to show,the stagnant depd-ssa asl
,lo of many Eastern countries, whose expl