The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-28
CHIVALRY AND THE PRONouN.

For upwards of decade the editor of the New York
Sun has done service in the battle for justice
woman in the of the personal pronoun. 1t is the
pathetic of vicarious sacrifice on the altar of
Chvary in the history of civilization and culture
Behold the rank discrimination against the feminine
in the sentence, for example, eff is careful
will fall" Says the Sum- eve have carried this apo
dosis for nigh thirty years, and will carry long
er. Despite the authority of Boston and the gram
maans, the Sun editor jumps upon this masculine apo
dosis one which, though alphabetically correct accord
ing to the philosophy of pharisees pedants prgs and
others who part their hair behind is punctio and
panalete Of expression that delights him not while
arouses his chivalrc wrath for its unjust discrimination
against the fair
Seriously speaking there is much meat in the Suns
criticism. The of precision and proprety here
join hands with the Sun and chivalry Take this SEN
tence in regard to the rule for pencng the eyebrows
In the choice of coors will be in better form as
well as arrive at artistic result, if he use seal
brown charcoal gray rather green or royal
purple. How lacking III precision; She could
green and purple with impunity!
At the time the balance of justice and equality
between the scarcely be maintained by en-
poyng the pronoun She half the s1e instead of he in
the apodoss For example will be noted that the effect
OF the substitute altogether symphonic in the fol-
lowing sentence: eff take than five fingers of
Tom and Jerry, she should have wide sidewalk"
Neither does the substitute satisfy ones sense of Justice
in the rule Of etiquette touching the point whether kiss
proper prior to the engagement eff perceive that
the seal of affection in question object of deep So
citude the part Of the party Of the part and
contamination devouy to be wished She should rise in
prompt response the duty Of the hour In this case
there is distinct injustice the injustice that
in some cases might be unbearab1e.
In order to bridge difficulty which no unabridged
dictionary had yet been able to cross the Sun number
of years ago coined the word "thon" sort Of COM
pound of they and zone" and supposed be inter
changeabe in its gender. AS "I one is careful thon'
But in the
the new word unavoidable The editor explains simply
that made the proofreader "atrabous" But we ur-
derstand that the main kick from the business Of
ce where the first year of the experiment produced the
following statistics: Damage i'll editorial and proofread
ing departments, chairs transom windows II yards
of plaster three dozen electric light bulbs and the
serious abrdgment of the and pages Of the die
tonaries; damage to typesettng machinery Is Merge-
thacrs disabled by SPAWN rupture and lockaw damage
to liberty, life and limb, three proofreaders SngSnged
for putting heads editorial writer's the edtor--
chief and managing editor the hospital from the loss of
their which had been talked off by associate editors
editors, prooreaderS, forcmen and righteously
indignant public
The Sun then coined the word "hesh" cuphonous
compound of che" and She" But when the Yale pro-
essor of ancient languages and literature demanded the
dcclension the word Immediately lost standing The de-
clenslon Nomnative "hesh;" genitive Hhsh .
datve hush; objective "hosh" vocatve, 'hesh" alba
tive, hoosh;' plural all cases. hash" Since then the
only people who brave enough use it are boarding
house keepers, and the propoun famine still hovcrs
the office of the Sun and the Attic saltlcks of Syr-
acuse