Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-10-30
tiABITUAL SWE RING.
How to Efeat Cure Of = Bad Hab,t-What Con.
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There is in one OF DR.. George Mac
donald's novels n very good little boy
who has never said a naughty word in |
his life. Unfortunately. this is a feat
ure in his character which fails to |
elicit the profound admiration OF his
school-fellows, and wicked plot is
concocted to force the good little boy
to swear. He is held head downwards
over stream, from which painful
position he is not suffered to escape
until he has more than satisfied his
tormentors by tbs unexpected strength
of his explosives. What particular
lesson DR.. Macdonald attempted to
teach by this story VIC do not know.
and should DO afraid to guess. He
could hardly have intended this moral
that boys ought not to be so good as to at
tract the envy aud mischlevoUsucss OF
| their fellows; and, as far Is moral
| guilt goes, it is obvious that the young
stcr, who, when upside down, came
| out with Il solemn 'DOmn' in broad
Scotch, was not responsible for re-
marks uttered under such circum-
stances of coercion. TIE question OF
what constitutes bad language" is
rather difficult to determine. There
is borderland of vigorous cXclama-
tons which can hardly be dignltied
with the title of oaths.
The reform to which we have called
attention OF course cnamateS from
America. and the plan for curing
habitual swearers is the copyright OF
Baptist minister who has a chapel in
West Twenty-fffth street in New York.
Unlike the owners of copyright, how
ever. this gentleman invites the whole
world to make use OF the property in
his invention. The beauty OF the most
OF great discoveries lies in their sim
plicity. and nothing can be more de-
lightfully simple than the clergyman s
method OF banishipg bad language
, from society. When he is uneXpect-
edly stung by a wasp, Or encounters q
nail on the floor when denudcd OF
I stockings or banks his shins badly
against the leg Of a table, he at once
and onionsw proceeding directly after
! ward to observe. "Ham and eggs"'
! and if the tendency to swear has not
by that time passed off, he adds,
!, ''Bread and butter and a plate OF ice
| cream" The reverend gentleman as
!. surc5 the world that, armed with this
o simple weapon, nobody need in future
0 ever swear at all. "Just as much sat
o isfaction." he quantity observes. ''i
derived from saying ''Pork and beans,
a as from emitting Il sting OF swea
O wOrd5.'
o Ii the essence OF an oath is tho call
q ing on outside powers to witness re
8 mark. or to assist the speaker. then
u cannot be contended for moment tina
:; Great Cnser" or Great Hail
r stonesr' American ejaculation
>. are really to be COMPOUNDED with 0,
v. binary "swear words.' A favorit
IS transatlantic exclamation is ''By Go
Il ly!" borrowed originally from tn
negroes, CuJ can III DC Stllu lldU CullllI
~ upon Il non-eXistnnt and entiroi
y chimerical divine Of this sort OF perso
N is really guilty Uf invoking outsid
- powers? Tho same thing may be sal
a, with equal truth Of "By Gosh"' Still
- it will be allowed that these exclam;
no tions have a somewhat unpleasing!
. 10 suggestive sound about them, and W.
ng therefore, can heartily commend tn
40 nautical exclamation "Shiver my to-
a. lights!' as good substitute, especia
ut ly for naval men. Jimmy Cripps
OF of and "By Hickory" are also ejacul
lions for which u good deal may
o.. or said. They do not err on the side
st excessive intelligibility, but they pc
CHI haps sound little less trivial than tt
ut .Beefsteak and onions!" of the reve
ne end reformer. -Butfa 10 Commercial.
So,
de How Phil Armour Got His Name.