Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1890-09-22
Mannerisms.

Now Reggie had been so often com.
plimented for his politeness that. tho
only six years old, he was beginning
to observe the formalities in a pain
full degree, and his constantly recur-
ring 'scuse me-" united with a com
ical little air of piggishness, annoyed
even his good-natured playfellow.
"Perhaps you will understand bet
ter now,'' gently said the mother of
the young critic, ''why [ reprove you
for beginning SO many of your SEN
fences with SAY. 1t is easy to fall
into tiresome habit of that sort
The incident set me to thinking
(not without remembering, however.
that s'bv others faults wise men cor
rect their own" of the people | have
met who indulge in pet conversational
sins as freely as unconsciouslv.
First to come to mind is a dear old
lady, whose sweet face smiles a per-
petual benediction. She is a great
reader, well posted in the topics of
current interest, and would be a
charming conversationalist if after
every remark addressed to her she
did not exclaim, "What saw" until
you long to be a typewriter prepared
for roopifol6ipn IF chm xvo,o 1oo
one would pity her affection, but try
changing the sentence and a sure
proof of sound ear-drums follows.
To nervous person this soon be-
comes unbearable, and often the kind
old soul is debarred the pleasure of a
neighborly call or half-hour's chat,
which she dearly enjoys, just by this
unfortunate piece of disagreeable-
ness.
81 am trying to think of all the
news writes friend, 'sbut Aunt
Jane is sitting ON the other side of
the table, and she always shifts at
intervals of twenty-five seconds, /
can't keep my mind on anything but
the coming sniff" Yet Aunt Jane
could have told of a habit equally an
noying of the fair writer's own-that
of beginning her sentences with why.
''Will you have tea or coffee ?" "Why,
tea, if you please" "Shall you go
downtown to-day?" "Why, yes, I
think So" elbow do you like that
new book?" "Why, pretty we'll as
far as / have read" etc., till 'sthe
coming sniff" fades into insignif-
canoe.
Here is a young man who constant
ly asserts that you are acquainted
with facts you never heard of before,
not even questioning with "doncher-
know" but in the most excited man
ner repeatedly accusing you: 81 saw
Harry Smith just now, you know land |
he said that his wife had had lot of |
money left her, you know, by a rich |
uncle that had just dropped off, you
know, and that they were going to |
make prompt use of it, you know, land
would probably start for Europe in
few weeks, you know through all
all of which he was not aware he had
ooiI slrrnu ox,a,
A young lady who enters most
into tho spirIJ of @
would be one of the best
of that rare class called good listen
ers had not her vocabulary such a
fecundity of 'yeses."
| heard her thus discomfort a small
boy who had been sent with mess
age: "Miss l(Yes), my mother
told me to come over (YesO to tell
you that our currants were ripe Yes y
and that if you would like some
(Yes , you could have all you want
ed (YesO by, yes, by coming over
(YesO, yes, and-Oh, [ forget!''
and with a face like peony, he turn
ed and fed.
"What bashful little fellow l
suppose she meant that / was to come
over and help pick them. He is the
BOY that took the prize for recitation
1T school last week. Queer he could
-ecite long recitation then and yet
,orget just one sentence before an
audience of three
"He wasn't interrupted THERE"
'aid her brother, bluntly.
Peculiar to the genus schoolgirl
S the habit of making an "and" sand
Hich of every sentence. Count the
lands heard in the course of two
minutes of voluble chatter, and see
what ratio the necessary ones bear to
The superfuous ones. 1t is so con-
venient to use long-drawn outs sand
when thinking what to say next
People not frivolous in the least
often giggle over everything they
say, and use smoker for each mark
If punctuation but this is usually
more from nervousness than any 9TH
II cause, and little self-control will
emedy it.
What is more tiresome than the
of familiar quotation
book, to whom every triviality sug-
gests line from some poet, to be
,iven with a flourish, and as if orig
mated then and there. He can not
land glass of water without" Drink,
pretty creature, drink or pass the
uga1e without stSweets to the sweet
low he delights to trip the unsus
,ecting by asking in what book of
he Bible occurs the comforting pass
ge, 'sGod tempers the wind to the