The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-05-26
SAY WHAT YOU MEAN.

"There should be 4 rule in every
newspaper office prohibiting the use of
certain phrases aud expressions" said
my friend, the old war correspondent,
as he threw down u paper in tue eleva>
tor car. 1T distresses me to see poor,
old. hackneyed. worn-out expressions
kept ut work daily when they should
have been retired long ago. Whv should
reporter always refer to mars i'm
maculate linen,' when he means to say
that the man wore a clean shirt? And
why in heavens name should man or
woman be described as well groomed?'
Here they are both in one paragraph, 9,
and just beside them is the man who,
according to the reporter, is always
saying something real devlish with q
twinkle in his eye,' and the other fel
low who made this or that remark as
he lit a fresh cigar
"There should be a cemetery for se-
nile aud used-up words and phrast .
that have outlived their usefulness, it
they ever were useful, and about a
thousand of them should be laid away
in quicklime at once and never resur-
rected.
''Speaking of cemeteries, why should
u man, as soon as he is dead, ~ re-
ferred to.as 'poor?' llere l read of a
railroad conductor, who was killed in a
railroad collision. Yesterday he was
the genial conductor Brown;' today
he Is poor Brown The word seemed
to he applied especially to men who in
lite were good fellows, and also to
those whose death was caused by viO-
lence. 1t is not used in connection
with great men. You never read OF
hear of poor Napoleon,' poor Shake
speare' or poor Frederick the Great,
do you?
II do not expect the reporters to re-
form 80 long rs their employers allow
the use of such idiotic words and phIa
ses. When was younger than l All
tod ~, and thought knew abnut il:
much as an ordinary man could be tx
pected to know his side If the grave
! ( was 4 reporter on the Herald unu+
the elder Bennett. Mr.. Bennett sen
for me one day. lie said: Young man
I notice that in your efforts t0 iut
interview you never enter i hotel.'
"'Never eutcr Il hotel, Mr. Bennett?
I said.
| Nu y'N IhS 'uOlC "IllV wa
you 'lriftrd' in and when you do drift
III you never meet tn" man.
"'Never meet hiu'?'
"'No. Iobserve that in every cas-
after drifting in you either run against
or 'stumbl, across the ohjrct Of you
pursuit. wish tina, in the future yol
would simply walk into the hotel an1
meet these people. That's all sir
II was angry, for prid"d myself o.
roy English and on my literary style
I said: Mr.. Bennett. have bee
writing now nine or ten years an
have worked on number Of news
papers as good us the Herald. l flatte
myself that l know something abou
the English language. and l.
"'Yonng man, interrupted Mr.. Ber
net. did you ever read Of how ma
once boasted to Sidney Smith that tn
stick he carried had been twice aroun
the world, and how Smith took tn
stick and, after carefully examining |,
said, And yet-9nd yet, it is only
stick after ALL
| "What did you say to that?' l aske
my friend, the WAT correspondent.
II maintained tnmultOus silence
and-no. did not drift out wen
out of the room. "-J. Annoy Knox.
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