The Yellowstone journal., 1893-03-04
G|RLSWHOVSES SLANG
A CONvEEchT,cH BETWEEN TWO
C,,,LESG GRADUATES.

s,,ug II, the Mouths "f Men Is BAD Enough.
but when Well Bred Iouns Women Are
Addicted 10 the Habit It Eec"mes Ab,"-
Iutr!, In.oicrali..
Dear girls. avoid slang. There are 50
many reasons why you should not use
! it, and oul; one excuse III its favor tllt'
! have ever heard from any reliable dn-
thority! Here it is:
! Oliver Wendell Holmes. in one of his
racy brea':ta i table talks, says: Don 7
thinl; unt.eryalue the proper use al:i
"A, p.,ca.ion of cant word or phrase. 1t
adds piouancy to conversation as
mushroom does to a sauce. That this
is the idea most young people have
when they first begin To use 1t all VIII
admit. but unfortunately it Is like mod
crate drinking in its tendency, s" lnsin-
uating in its growth as a habit, and they
become so addicted TO it, Ito follow
out the SINH ~ that it seems Impossible
to make themselves ineligible without
it, have hearl young ladies (:) talk
iny who seemed to have an entire vo-
cabnlary composed of slang which
would be as utterly unintelligible to
well bred English or Scotch girl as
Chinese or Greek.
Toqnotv the veteran philosopher again:
..These expressions come to be alGebr;lc
symbols of minds whic, have grown too
weak or indolent TO discriminate. lac
are the blank checks of intellectual
bankruptcy. You my fiji! them up with
whatever idea You like 1t makes no dii-
ference. for there are no funds i'll the
!, treasury upon which they are drawn,
That of course is very severe. but
: have often heard quite clever and well
educated young ladies using those odi"'l'
BLANK checks" to such an extent that
any one not knowing them Intimately
might readily have supposed their ''ii!-
! tellectual bank" empty.
, Iwolder what DIR. Holmes would have
thought Of an actual conversation be.
: tween two young ladies i'll good society.
y SO called. who sat behind me in the grand
stand ut Il baseball match last summer
can give it almost verbatim:
> SAY. Jen abbreviated form of Jennie
u life is too short to use the whole of q
= persons name). who is the fly looking
!, 'snide' in the yellow striped get up:'
..Oh, come off the roof. To pretend
: Won don't know Cob. C. .. B. are ili'
= young gentieman's initials wittiiy con
&c yertcd into COBB After the way yos
!. went for him at the ball las wee
= You can't stuff me with that kind o
!. gag. Miss innocent"
u ooh. is that Cob: He must he of hl
nut to rig himself in such ii 'swa-gcl
way"
..Oh. Jen. look at Cob now! He is log
ribly ratified Mabe t5hort for Maiel
II slung IA glance ~ him. and he lost III
u head as well rs his base.
/. IL, she mashed Oh Cob:"
Ia "Ha. ha. Pull down Your vest: D
il outllink Mabei is off her base: She like
It him to trot her round and stump up tn
- needful for ice cream. etc, but sle like
T. Alf Jones better all the same-ce. Eo
=; .G can bet your sweet life she won't MARI
~ Cob"
? Look at him now. 'You bet he's 'h,'s
~ tling!"
Get there. Eli" "Ruddicore!" Tina
)" was boss rum and so on ad ti,i,uii
'ii ad nauseum. All this in Il perfectly aud
oi bic voice. and they We're seemingly III
DE aware that there was anything vulgar G
~ out of the usual III their conversation
,ii Probably there was not. and yet those tx
he Young ladies' were college graduates ail
~ were possessed of more han av.f., e al.
~ -. itv.
III If YOU think this description e2a s..t;c,
It. ated. listen critically to the hex: Il;
we restrained conversation between tN
.s Young ladies whom you know 10
.is guilty of using slang freely. fancy
IN hear YOU say, But l never could Ia
li!, like that" Take care! just as con-
r. dent ones as you have begun by using
few slang words-''they are so cute II,
expressive, you know!'-and ended |
III forming vulgar and ersi.ying hat
DIV which took great strength Of mind III
ne firm perseverance, to break. The wor
Is stage of slang devotee is when s.
ain grows utterly unconscious of or ind
OF terent to the habit. There is very liz
hope of Improvement for her. The on
safe way is never to form the habit
all.
CT Dear young girls. ON you the .'la
ne guage of the future in great measu
IN, IN, depends. You are the coming motie
All and teachers and will have an all po
aS erful influence in molding the langua
'e! of the next generation to come and nlil
CT berless generations after that. See to
he that it is language Of intelligenc
led 80, ,,,d ,,,,,;ty. Mice Frank DAVIS
ia- Wives and Daughters.
tei Tb. Ea.ue of a Good Address.
n Young mon should stsdy to talk W