The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-11

People who don't like republication are
not likely to be satisfied with anything
SO much like 1t as gold democracy.
A Scolding Master.
Mankind always likes to take its les
sons in sugar form, except when
1t Is making practice Of receiving in
struction and is, therefore, Of humble
and open mind. This is especially true
when we are taught by self-appointed
instructors things we ought to know.
When they hand out their wisdom along
with verbal castigations from the start
our anger is aroused, and with bullish
stubborness we refuse to learn. The re-
suit Is that q book written in that man.
ner serves no purpose except to delight
the author with evidences Of his purism
and his infinite superiority to the poor
wretches who make up the rest of the
garisms, barbarisms and solecisms and
using slang utterly without discretion.
DR.. Ralcy Hustled Bell is an instructor of
that sort. Evidently he is possessed of a
great store Of information about words,
but he 'rubs it in altogether too much,
as a few citations from his "The Worth
of Words will show.
Possibly the reader considers himself
a person of culture. We hasten, with DR..
Bells assistance, to remove him from his
FOOLS paradise. No doubt, reader, you
frequently "allude" to various things.
"Allude," says DR.. Bell, means to indi-
cate jocosely. to hint at playfully, y
in a slight, passing manner. 1T is good,
serviceable word, and since it's birth has
had no other meaning to reasonably we'll
cultured folk" OF course you will now
hasten to the dictionary, and when you
find what it says about 'allude'' you will
indulge In a whoop of delight But wait
till you hear what DR.. Bell has. to say
about the dictionary: 1.-The average Eng
| tion to our language that the courtesan
bears to society. No thoughtful person
would wholly condemn either"
Here Is one for you business men who
talk about loaning money: Loan is a
noun; it is the completed act Of lending
~oAAO
rant snob, it were better to say that one
lent this or that to So-and-so, rather than
loaned it, Probably you will confess your
error, though there are dictionaries to
support you, but what about being called
IAN ignorant snob'?~ ~ ..e5..-:..,
In discussing gentleman and lady, -
DR.. Bell says that man. and woman
&oI nf
society folk, and then scolds away thus:
I'm view of our growing national impor-
tance, our subjugation of inferior races,
our princely fortunes, our foreign decora-
tions dangling from the thin necks OF
some of our natives and such other non
sense as is born of purse intimacy with
kings, queens and emperors of the OLD
world, this Is really not surprising an6
really needs no comment" 49,.
/ We might scold back at DR.. Bell al
some length, but we prefer to take a
good story from his pages and quit. Aftel
explaining how absurdly the term "helI
meet" for wife, was perverted from the
Genesis words, II will make him an helI
meet for him. meaning that woman was
given to a man as help that was meet
fit, suitable for him, DR.. Bell says thai
the combination help meet suggested
i to friend the story Of "a preacher wht
took as his text the familiar passage from
q Job: Though after my skin worms de
q stroy this body, yet in my flesh shall SET
4 Cod" He said: my friends, / shall di
} vide the subject into, three parts. 5Fust
skin worms, Second, what they done
J And third, what the man seen after III
was eat up - ...= - 80
The monthly report of the Associated
Charities shows a :. marked tendency
among the charitably inclined of Mime.
apolis to seek advice regarding. theil
philanthropic plans and more and more
Of tendency. to deal Systematically will
charity problems. The more these ten
denotes assert themselves the heavier will
be the burden Of the Associated Chari