The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1890-03-13
DIDsT HEAR HER sPEAKS


"A careless shoe slrlnsl IN whose no
Issea Wld elyllW-
Doth more hawiich mo than when art
Islou precise ~ eyery palt"
Since We are on the subject OF language,
what think you ot the expression 'Wilh
eiVlltyYn II has plquanoy when 10 sur
paaaed in q preceding llne, not quoted,
where the author speaks OF tie "lempesf
IInylnq read these verses to critical
friend asked for his opinion,
Uls that yours ~ he asked, ANA deleel-
cd tone Of diaapproyal'
oMIne,n exclaimed, laughing heartily,
"No, that's Robert llerflekh"
After my merrlmeni hal somewhat SUD
sided, Rhid III thai had been mine you
would advise 10 rule out 'lempea'uoua
FNitulG ID out anyway he answered,
mi don't agree, We can become 90
saueanlsh In our choice Of words that all
idlom aud originality disappear,
ID has been objected that a humorous
woman IL seldom what We call refined,
Bun need never be coarse, bpt perhaps u
Ia true that Ii has q wlldneaF inconsistent
with refinement, A. long az We are IN
ills world Of mental aud phyhlehl dihor-
ders, above tho faalidlOusiieah that eAhg'
perates discomfort, we shall value tho
merry heat that "doeih good like med
icneM So tho "wlld eiyllityn that makes
ms easy IN more bewliChing Than the pre-.
0lslon which measured every word ana
aeema 10 have preluded every sentence
with llp'hhaplng repetition oi papa
potatoes, ptullry, prnnen ana pflhlnA''
ON TALK.
UThe dress looks beautifully u a
speelmen error Of which the overly nice
are sometlmea guilty. TO say thing
looks, when we look at II, 10 an idlom
peculiar 10 our language, "Ihe drehh
looks beautiful, " iarlghti beautiful being
an adjective describing dreani And SHOULD
not be- made an adyerb modifying lookh'
no say "the man looks AZ uA kindly IN
quite a different thing Wemay say "The
man looks kind,n which la a correct sem
tence, hut the meaning IN again changed
S0me ladIea object 10 saying, "fou look
bnd.n II IN nn obleCilonal femarki bui
not on account OF grammatical eonhiruc-
ton, nor are the ladleh who object 70 say
Ing Il conscious Of In oblectlonnl quail
Ties from ita inolyillly They VII DO ,hpl
20 think " they SAY you look badly
they are all right nm not sure whether
such persons say "luu look phlely. put
oIo arrived hafe,N not "hnfely," Ah
some folks aay. The expreaalona, "chlof-
eat,n "nratly,n oto,, arc wrong. They are
not 80 frequent In conversations ah In
aermana, II seems almost useless
10 mention the use Of "don'p
for "doean'tn but this blunder IN
NOT lnfrequent In The headlines Of news
pnpera, There are no faults OF speech
which appenr 30 aef,oydont 40 70 bo uns
worthy OF mention, This morning u wo-
man called In a0arch Of frlendj not
finding her she glanced up and down the
street, saying, ~ wish | 'knowod which
way she VENT
Usomobody'a else II unfamiliar aoomu
no overly nice na 10 appear an niiochtion'
hut II u right, and should 20 uhod,
although II u hyphen connects lhe ,worda
they may bo written "homobouy'elheh
The former expression, howoyeriia bet
ter. Have YOU noticed whnt u difference
In the meaning Ia cnuaed by the use or
omlaalon OF the hyphcn2 Take the son.
tonco, "llo has many'colorcd coats"
EITHER AND NEITHER,
Perhaps no Insignificant matter haa
arouaod more contention than tho pro.
nuncintion OF "cilhorn and "ncithorn
Tho persons who say ithor and nither
generally have thai air OF oatcnintion
which ltaelf N sufficient 20 mako thom
odloua. ono need but meet them with n
pood.nnturod hardhood that sticks 70
other and neither. | remember u comodi.
an who uses In ono part OF the play Meth
or, which, In the funniest way lac corrocta,
saying nthor, and then, In q comic aside,
says "nnythor In right This IL but "a re-
mlnder Of tho anocdote OF Dr. Johnson
when asked " he said ether or ilhor, ho
replied nnythcr. Tho best authorities
give ether the proiorcnoc, but between
that and ithor thCro IL not enough impor-
lanoo to divide friends.
SOME YANKEE TALK,
A few moments ago found the follow.
Ing clipping In tho Louiayillo Courier
Journal. give Il 10 you Just Tor funi
1--WE notice In an article In New Eng
land magazine describing Clark Uniyora.
lly, that the writer usea the phrase, has
risen In our midst Nothing could show
ua moro concuaiyOly the necessity for
another university In New England Two
hundred and nifty years ago Harvard COLI
lcqo was founded, and yet II has not been
able 10 educate the people OF New England
sufficiently TO break them OF tho habit Of
writing I'm our midst by All means
build moro universities In her midst
McErfEs TO M RECOMMENDED
Are fine distinctions Of meaning. a caro-
how one uses the little words "mayh and
"can,n "CnlCulnton and "guosan arc not
always properly used. We sometimes
speak Of an "nccdonth whom we moan
the result OF an accident. "Try and go,h
whom II should be ITO go.n We put tho
apoiling our sentences; for instance, ~
only heard ono ooncort" instead or VI
heard only ono conccrt.n
Ridiculous rhetorical figures make II
more likely that the hOnror will laugh NJ
the speaker than with him. That IL not
no bad when laughter IN the end In Wow
N the words nro intended seriously the re-
suit is pathos,
In rolgloua meeting once heard u
young man tell how lao "wont into tho land
of Bculnh n kltinin
Richard Grant White mentions tho
senaelcss use OF "nro,n meaning "to
throw.n AZ nrst II was used instead OF
"shoot,n because tho gun. was actually
fred by applying tho match TO tho pow
der, but now II 10 "ilron everything. Ho
says "Erclong we may hear ofa fireman
firing wntor NJ a ilro.h
iAVM llAllN VI hN uNN ~ " hN NNaf'"
uuonce,n when we mean "of no impor-
tnnce.u But these longthened criticisme
SAVIOR Of podnntry Each woman must
choose her own manner OF speech, as she
selects her style OF bonnet In both caeeg
she will find that tho most succoggful
which may bo described as "plein but
knowlng,n the result OF tho art which con-
cpRls art.
Rousseau said no mover felt his heart In
such great danger as whom he mot wo-
man In elegant dishabille. Thoro In n
dishabille OF manner 0s woll az toiloti n
that Of the person which Bon. johnson
thus prcttily touched of:
"0lVo mo look, give mo face
That makes smplioity grace
Robes loosely flowing, hair ~ FREQ,
Such aweet neglect moro tAkcth mo