Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-29
Copyrighted, 1881
for the Gazette.

bihI,ing he use OF slang wolds or PHRASES
were dropped into foreign missionary
NV belonging to o member. Much fun
.ud more serious reflection ensued upon
sso workings of the constitution and oy-
,.ws The most careful speakers were
.oniounded at finding themselves con-
vTcte1 as transgressors, while college
hnvs sud graduate girls declared that
S,1kruptcy stared them in the face before
Che close of the season. One merry
Sontb, who rsn up from the city
IN Saturday afternoon TO spend
Supd.ys IN the mountain retreat, rs 1T
n,l,y rendered quarter OF dollar to the
treasurer on aliga,iGg from the csrrisge
that had met him at the stgtiop, with the
,eo1ast that he might "oe notified when
The amount wGs used up"
ps,ertsmlss wss travelling abroad
when the society was formed, and wrote
home this dryly significant comment:
HTith regs1d 10 the IS. S. S, have
nnIv 10 remark ths. the conversion Of the
world is cow mere question of timel"
The result OF the ests enlistment OF SIM
u,r organizations in other families and
communities, with rigid enforcement OF
pen.ltes, would astound members and
lockers on
The uugrsmmatic9l structure OF SEN
tsrce is 8 fault in him who composes It..
Slang is llrgual vice. Collegisns of both
sexes, who are among the chiefest sin
rers in this matter, palliste it to their
eonsceuces by pleading that they find
nothing In sober, every day phrase SO
scy End sp. SIS the catch-Words thst run
like wild fire or scarlet fever from band
to band, from city 10 town all over the
country. Some originate in comic
stokes or pointed anecdotes which please
the popular fancy; others in witless
savings that would seem to Impartial
listeners TO hSve no terminating power,
yet are IS prolific as wire-gress and
paisley In the great common of the
peoples vernacular. We may borrow,
in descri1ing the msl0rity Of
these parasites, from the negro
prascher's delinestion of Melchizedek:
"Without father, without mother, with
ous 10 decent behavior st ell +" They
c9meSnd 90 as fit and rise, and sink the
lsubent txlalStiOns of swamp. Those
Of this day will be iIccmprsh ensible to
the generation following. We would need
agOssary were those OF cur torefathers
set before US IN pint.
Forty years ago saw Young girl cover
herself with confusion as with garment
bYa careless reply to her escort on an
evening walk, who asked if she were goin3
10 wear rub le!S.
"Irm not going to wear anything else"
iell gaily from her lips.
Had s1e been asked II she felt ashamed
1.-THE lucAless ssying, the chances are
tha. she would have said: "Well, dol"
mother slang saying then In vogue.
These expressions, with 81. does not
matter 40 X" and the half dozen 9TH
efs that were banded into shreds ana
dropped for newer ahsurdities, were fool
El In irceFton and use, bnt few and I'M
objectionable by comparison with those
nat come 10 upon US Ike a muddy sod
WIZ eacn passing year. The French mot
qel'gme may be witty and serve god
Wfl 10 the speaker; each house
nod hiss what the same conven-
tent tongue styles mots de iamille,
oOfn q Jest and incident. dignifed, some
vines, by ussge and years into tradition,
QUO encued With q psthettc value not
NEIL Own. They are treasured and be-
queStned with the battered nursery fur
aHufe We have not the heart to send of
me auction room. Popular slang,
sasn' oy Oar Girl from schoolmates and
1o'ners, is silly, slcvenly, and often vul-
sa' In its effect upon home and society
Nl'efsAton, II is perlicious to degree
"ICsnnot overestimase.
tHS'ened, the other day, with mingled
PAN ana disgust, to the talk Of rich law
;;el' tnlf!y-fve years old, who was noted
@me'Aege for his proficiency in slang. o.
present occasion he desired, l
.asW, 10 appear well to the associ-
s Ns u the hour, some of whom were dis.
n sulFhed IN art, literature and science.
~ elegant woman who inquired If he
- ep!Jyed his winter in RJme, he re-
nv We'll, should relax my fea-
Sa .s!' To another who asked if he
T T9se ~ tdmirer of Chopin, he drswled:
az, guessl" He told q reviewer
SN Matthew Arnold "worked his muse
,sns NJ II vas worth,n stock phrase he
tPbsaea tour times in six sentences, no
sly SSy IN commenting upon Professor Cor
FarSie lectures on Browning; he thought
rsa "vHs rather "fresh," and James ode
by nF,you know" The whole"kit and
nv NV OF the literary cochalorums were
IGcn given to footing their own
rnsH, 10 please MIN. HEven Stevenson
toS ru De the better If he were taken
Ma ~. us oetestable mess is more intelligi-
Ns ,.s 'ne talk of two collegisns ACROSS
hnn'o o'e o. country hotel, in which one
Nh .s,ea the other TO crush the bovine"
i,ia.LL US wanted the milk pitcher, to
,ss tle tinker" for the absent waitress
ta'sed II he had "doused the glimn
lud iote leaving their bedroom. Both al.
re.I " tne Well-cooked and well-served
81 IS GRUB"
,ljmn Grl ney not descend to such
ioreso,oe eps Of llngusl iniquIry as the
fessorne, ous she is ingenious in the in
b ,doa.o OF pstois OF her own, and quick
h,o,Sopts Wnas strikes her fancy in her
lap Sc dialect, Sle is not above call
rei ,.i uunann "oeriectly mag" and Tur-
hGu, !,st toe, too, utterly more 80, you
usma somonishes her teasing mate to
Il, VI Inc roofl" nchestnuts! ~ cries
hsri,mri told, and takes the cure Mt
tro," ior all she's WORTH into full
70. ~ even overheard one, not q week
t'You na facetiously to girl friend:
hh o.ay wager your saccharlne vital
irs,,o.s ocn and such point, and say of
Chez lmasculine) that he chad the
raa BRASS faced monkey.n
hnm 'oieraole jargon is neither wit |
Aresaaor. Least Of all Is It lkdy-like
4 "vulgarity" Is not toe