Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-10-03
GIRLS VINO TALK SLANG.


"a girl who will say gosh is past
praying for"
II was a somewhat irreverent re.
mark, grant. The speaker was lean
ing against the window easement, with
his eyes fixed on the outline of the dis.
tant White Hills. We had been watch
ing cloud effects and exchanging art
ideas.
" Eh ?" queried l, my eye following
his, while l wondered wnat possible
suggestion of such vulgarity he could
find in that glowing sky. He repeated
his remark
"Apd who has said 1t ?" asked.
The infant she's on the platform
under the window She's giving her
views OF ife. She's sufficiently opti-
mistic, 1 hope. She thinks she's going
to have an awful good time this Sun
mer only she wishes j i'm were here 80
spoon
"Oh, now, nv dear boy. She didn't
soy that" ex claimed, fairly blush
ing for the girl, who had forgotten II
she ever knew how, to blush tor her.
self.
Exact. Auutie. Say, did you ever
talk slang whep you were girl? Did
you say mash and swell O."
II should hope not ; nor your mother,
either"
We had dubbed the individual In
question "the infant" because he had
CHANGED to hear her, on the day OF her
arrival, pouring out her soul to dear
old Madam Snow, who WAS sitting in
her in valid chair under the naples.
I'm only a child" she said, throw
ing herself down on the grass with q
ludicrous atfectaiion of infanti.e sim
pi'city.
She wore Mother Hubbard gowns
usually, and one day, overcome with a
tit OF giggling, she jumped up from the
table and fled precipitately from the
ldining-room, stutiing the skirt of her
Mother Hubbard into her mouth.
merry creature" remarked our
land lady. who, as in duty bound, look
ed uiently on the freaks Of a boar,ler
who brought IS per week into the fami
| " exchequer. "She knows little as
| yet of the cares of life"
And less Of its proprieties," added
Miss Martin, severely.
The infant was 10, and was gradu.
ate of somewhat famous young
ladies' school.
We'll, ypuna folks must be young
folks" remarked dear old Madam
Snow, who, like Providence. beamed
alike ON the just and the III just.
| Say, Miss Martin, shall you skip TO
day ?" cried the infant at this point in
the conversation, thrustiDg her head out
of the halk door.
"Skip p ejsculated Miss Martin,
whose years aud weight would render
such feat we'll nigh impossible.
| 80, go down 20 the village, | mean,
explaintd the infant. " Here's a let
ter for mamma take it-do-that's a
brick -
"No, shall neither skip Tor go II
the village. So | think you will hav'
to take ) our letter yourself"
Yes, Stree, bob-all right" auC
the head was withdrawn az the infan
ruslled upstairs for her tile," leavin,
Miss Martin TOO petrified TO speak,
Is this a fancy sketch | am writing
Not at all. You who have heard thu
talk of young girls on the horae cars
the steam cars and on the streets know
that 1t 10 rot.
This Is the way these graduates OF ,
we'll known, somewhat famous, girls
school talked.
HOW IS IL possiole, often asked my
selt, tor these girls to have gone through
the curriculum of a thoroughly Roo'
school, to have been trained III EoglisI
literature, to have had daily the societ
of ref ned teachers. and to have com
out at last with a vocabulary fit only fo
Billipgsgate
Aud then, | remembered, | sally re
II EN- hered, that once, when waiting il
the hall of certain university for
friend, student came by, woman
and this Is what she was saying to he
companion
: "It's my birthday to day, and Tn
lgoing to buy cents worth of peanuts
aud going nome 10 have regula
tear" And she was q theological stu
dent, too . o, tempora o, mores
A recent writer in the North Ameri
!, can Review treats the subject, " Is On
! Civilization Perishable ?" md whe
one hears from the lips of young girl
volleys of slang, one is inclined I
. think thai the process of decompoaitio
has already begun. The tabled toad
that dropped from the lips OF II
, wretched child in the we'll known fair
tale were no: more loath, some than
D most of this slang.