Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1866-01-06
Exageration.


which appears to us to afford iruer
index Of their general qualities than
is ordinarily observed. A great depth in
any faculty, or acute intensity Of any feel
ing, is seldom possessed by those who in
variably use the most imposing words they
can fine to express their opinions and SEN
timeuts. Their sterot y2ed grandiloquence
and Aorid warmth OF tone used by them
in discussing simple matters. or relating
simple incidents, are, to our matterof-fa fact
organization, little beyond the flourish Of
drum and trumpet, which, upon close in.
vestigation, is found to be the issue of
sheepkin, brass, and common atmosphere.
Some peoples tongues are cte"nal'y emu
lating the frog in the old fable. and al
ways straining into an ox-a state Of ver-
bal imitation alike ridiculous and false.
There are those who never experience a
moderate AID occa >ional degree of pain.
but they speak Of it as "spliting "
headache, an awful" "spasm. or "drcad-
full" torture. If they meet with a slight
incision of the skin. they have "cut their
finger to the bone;" the application of a
mustard poultice for five minutes. never
fails to " fay them alive;" common
cold is mentioned seriously as "most
violent influenza and week or two Of
fever is recorded as " severe and fright
full illness" The "superl'tive is the
reigning mood with them, skim milk te-
comes Orange County cream. and small
beer London stout; "superb." eek
qnisite," "wond rful," glorious" ire
.neudous." delicious" charming"
beautiful" "tcrrific," astonishing"
and such extreme adjectives, hang on
their lips as plcntifully as conjunctions,
and we often wonder, while gauging the
narrow calibrc of brain whrnce the hig
torrent issues, how such large fnniturr
could be found in such small house.
Let these people report story or circum-
stance, and you c,n hardly detect the
original, they see everything through a
magnifying glass and kaleidoscope bend
ed. Talk OF painting in v-ritabls colors,
the foreground and outlines, often give in
mere words, beat tho Raphaclics by
notches; q Dutch garden all tulips and
peacocks, or summer sunset all purple
and gold, are soft and unimposIng COM
paired to the lining power Of one OF these
fluent sign painters. :
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during q three miles walk through rather
sandy lanes, who declared herself "half
dead" with fatigue every few minutes !;
and We found that she died exactly eleven
times aud half At the end If her journey
when she swallow. d rider aud sandwiches
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