The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-18
Ow Many w ords
Do You Use?

A VAS talking with a High sehoo'
...s,y about the educational al,
ne modern youth as compared
49, ago. He was enthusiastic
30 81 Andrew Carnegie for es'
4 nbrsries and expressed the opin'
Dore OF letters" was approach
,rls outrlval the past history
- mrhe twentieth century will
.oother Shakespeare, he said
EDITORS and orators and poets
a everywhere. Our advantages
70 60 superior that many school
4 !, graduation from high school have
80 ~ literature aud Of the world
,ss,,sb vocabulary which are far
the equipment Of the man OF
- vesrs ago. L fellow Is a
NJ student he can leave the pun
y, .,i,s thorough general knoWl-
<,v,u.erefure and he may easily az
u'abnlary Of 200 to 3OQo words.
eesbniary IS a fortune In itself !
.ss5 plan for acquiring one oil
{o-Ss / read everything can GEL
~ an and when | discover q new
sne with which l am not perfectly
n Urite ii down on a caro- ana on
..ss aide write the definition ana
IN which the word appears IN us
.enss have taken nundreds uI
som the dictionary ana as man!
In cprreDt literature, and have now
~ - eerds. occasionally get some
- sant 10 'call out the words, anu
49, dalichted to End how easily a
nav thus be acquired. Ten
.,ndv and practice should give one
e. sousl to Shakespeare HIS
Y -iehest used by any English writer.
Il .,n,Ioyed 1900 words. Milton could
Tloni sou. but our average uniycr-
t.ansts rarely has more than 5000 or
k-erSs The ordinary person gets
~. Comfortably with 500 words, and
4, i,stricts POO Is sufficient. This, OF
A .Ssors 10 the needs Of conversation.
an wants TO read newspapers aud
l.5,,sn books he must know ut least
.ns5s We should all feel grateful
snsiupr reformers. Millions Of dol
wasted each year in the writils
tinting Of useless letters, and tine
ksgun by the American Pathological
I,iss viii confer a lasting beneht on
M OR education aud progress
nj, be hampcred by cumbrous, Niogi-
hsIssdIpg photography We are also
fsmght more common sense In regard
Euds We no longer consider II yul-
4 nse very many words which de-
"a were considered uncouth In 4
~ room. We no longer lavender the
[stsnrh' INTO unpleasant edluvia' or
\ c5or We do not dilute sweat
En{ times the number of syllahles by
n ,perspirauou. nor Is IL deemed
Inv 10 saw than q crOSs-eyed man has
nv az vision. or that Il man fua Of
In rye IS insbriated instead Of plain.
La honest drunk. We are also
Il a avoid yerbiagc That Is sin
|lonn1onlv committed nowadays by
Ehrary men For political reasons, l
81. they can not avoid circunlocutI9n
Tmblguity II you wish an example,
feT az General Charcc's reports on
Im6signs In the Philippines. Amerl-
rrefer the tersencss NJ Putnam whom
'ote 10 sir Henry Clinton; Edmund
n British officer, taken as a SPY
our lines. was tried as a spy. CON
n rs a spy and executed as spy
he British Gag Is ordered to depart
iistely. Dcwey's report OF the hattie
lnila was also an American model II
stlf,ins 10 note, too. that newspaper
4 no longer favor mixed metaphor.
rldem read Of the Shiny, kissing wolt
Hes to spit venom from his forked
4 on the editor Of the Blazing Torch,
n the pale hand ~ death Stalked into
Ildst last week and fastened lis cruel
bn the beautiful form Of little Mary
Jews"