Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-14
THE LINE KILN CLUE.
Everyday Language Good Enough for
Member.

From the Detroit Free Press.
Some time since as Samuel Shin was cleaning
up Paradise Hall in readiness for the usual
weekly meeting, he flung pan Of ashes out Of
one Of the windows fronting on the Mckinley
Bill alley, ana the same descended upon the
head of Col. Inquirer Jones. who was about to
enter the hall. There has been bad blood be-
tween the pair in consequence, or, rather, the
colonel has wasted a great deal of time in try
ing to catch Samuel in some lonely locality.
Odds OF ten to one have been given that he
would succeed, but at the last meeting. to the
surprise of everybody, he walked up to Brother
Shin and extended his hand and waved the flag
of peace. This action was brought about by q
telegram announcing the death Of his mother
IN North Carolina. Two hours later he heard
that she had been dead thirteen years when the
telegram was sent. but he was not the man to
go back on his word.
ABOUT LANGUAGE.
Gem len," said Brother Gardner as the
meeting came to order, Il hev few words of
advice to offer which hope will be keerfully
listened to an impecuniously considered. I
has observed tendency on de part of many
members of dis club to affeck what may be
tarmed de Shakspearean style of conversashun
IL Gums from de white folks, of cose-from dat
class who has bin suddenly elevated by de
prohts OF sewer contract, an should be sot
down on wild de most vigorous disqualification
1t hain't in keepin' wild de financial an soshul
standin' of man who has to black stoves an
lay on whitewash at an average income Of
seben dollars week. 1 want it stopped.
Judge Cahoots, Whyfore Davis, Independ-
ence Jones and others began to look very seri-
GUS.
Fur instance" continued the president,
"how many members of dis club know de
meanln OF de term: TO pognosticate towards
de emblematical Individuality? an yit, at de
party given at my house de odder night.
heard 1t uttered no less dan fo'teen times
what's de use of a man airnin' dollar a day
obsarvin' dat he eXpecks to condescend to the
irresponsible endeayor befo spring! He doan
know whether 1t means dat cranberries am
gwlne up TO foty cents a quart or will drap
down to six, an his bearer goes home an can t
sleep fur thinkin about it. Sich conversation
simply duplicates a resinous disinclination to
absorb tine proper desideratum.
lRlpples of excitement with suppressed cries
Of Hear! Hearr'l
"If any of YOU" continued the president as
ne LAID aside his coat, has an ide2h dat de
yuse OF SIGH words as bombastic. delirium ire
mems, Cato, inconsequential, Dante. Boston,
impugn, retaliate or Postmaster General ele-
Yates you in de corruptible and imperious esti-
mashun OF Vanderbilt an Gould you is preca-
riously mistaken. When a member of dis club
comes to me an wants to borry tablespoonful
OF Accent green tea, kase de preacher am gwine
to be to his cabin fur supper. 1 want him to sot
down on de aige of cheer, look me in de eve.
an Civ it to me in plain English. He needn't
spect me to heap up de measure bekase he uses
slch words as abdicate, absquatulate. Cesarisn
an primeval incalculate. More ripples. dur
ing which Col. Cahoots managed to kick Sir
John Smythe on the shin, and thus pay off an
old grudge.l
III had a son twenty vars ole" said the
president as he looked up and down the aisles,
IAN he should come home some Cay wild hi-
whltewash brush on his shoulder an inform me
dat de gratificashun of de incompatible syntax
had Withdrawn its objeckshuns to de planetary
afhliashun, do you know what would do? /
would riz up an put my No. ISIS agin him wild
sich auxiliary reprehensibility dat he would
percolate de longitudinal cumulative fur six
weeks to cum. Oar bein' no furder bizness
befo de club until its recent communication
to de legislachur' is answered, We will redun-
date homewards."