The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-20

' < uuttxs" you sknow.s . "of course I didn't know until she ex- plained that both words meant silly. She afterwards explained with some conde- scension, thonsht. that Bats in the belfry Talking through your hat | Wheels in your head 'chinks.' oh. dope and Don't queer yourself are all used to express doubt of a statement or of the speakers mental condition. and also learned that to show marked dis belief one need only say. Here's your hat: must you go7
 Don't try to use those words yet grand ma, or you will fan down meaning that I might get mixed up.,' | we had house party oyer Thanks giving." laughed another matron with gray hair, and I wish you had been with us I think your education in slang might have been hurried along consider ably.
 "'she's slick piece of furniture,' heard my son say to a chum and I found he was talking of q girl friend. Yes, was the answer, and Jones has got quite badly over her. l s'Oh, Jones always gets onto every peach returned my son. When 1t comes to mashing he thinks he is the whole | push
 :" Boys I inter3eoted. you will be late for dinner f " Just hold it on, mother. will you. till climb into my evening clothes?' wasathe answer got 8E At the dinner table one night two of the men exchanged a remark that showed an understanding between them. and at once there were cries of Make me | next Buy me a ticket I'm off the train.' etc. was quite bewildered until 1t dawned upon me that that was the | nf anv vii sAf rraa aA- l cret' aae3ss ssf; ," T declare,' I said to my daughter. soon after, half the time I don't know what you young people are talking about
 Well. make a stab at it, she answer | ed blithely, and.5 somewhat stunned. I concluded the, expression must be the | modern version Of try, try again. Before could ask, though. she hand ed me a note of thanks from prospec- tive bride to whom she had sent pres ent. It began:
 !" It was great of you to send me that i dandy dish'
 gro think of calling you great for sending a trifiing present, and dish a dandy!' I commented, handing the note back and my. daughter looked surprised. 'I have no doubt she writes No her l friends in precisely the same style, for a few days. later when we went to view her friends wedding presents she ex- claimed the first .thing:. N l" oh. what q bully tea set.' T believe. though. that bully is now a. household word and used to descri.e anything from ice cream to journey to Africa; so why not a tea set7 | "Just then a girl friend of my daugh- ter came along and said to her, What a daisy hat you have on.'
 Hike it?' she asked in return
 2" Yes. indeed, it suits you down to the ground ,"tis "..That's all right chimed in one of
 my daughters male admirers, who was at her elbow, using an, expression which
 believe he .utters nearly every time he l speaks. s* sl2s }! My daughter, am pained to say, was | unmistalkably pleased I spoke to the | young fellow who is to- be est man at the wedding. and asked if he knew wheth- | CT his friend would live in town or in the suburbs after he was married. 1 "'You can search me-" he responded l quite seriously. 's'
 ,'.Thinlxing he had not understood. re- | peated my question, at which he had the | grace to blush ;oud confess that he did
 found, of his first, speech" l ''On the way to Tuxedo last week." said the hostess, entering the discussion, "there 1 was a gay and very taklative party just | opposite us in the. parlor car.
 y" Miss Smith is invited said one of l the ladies'
 "'shes my rave.' exclaimed young man. ...t
 ."'Yes.' supplemented another. When 1t
 comes to. making love to that girl Bob l don't sit down. He hobgobbles (appro- priates) her on all occasions l oh, come out of the tall grass was the others good natured reJoinder, which my husband said meant the same as oh, come off.' or Stop your jollying.'
 "'Do you really admire Miss Smith so much?' curiously persisted the lady.
 :" Sure answered Bob.
 "'Thats a black eye for you. Kitty laughed the other man, who, in an aside, told Bob that Kitty was down on Miss | Smith. Then he went on, tantalizingly: | You ought to see Bob rubber for Miss Smith at all the dancing classes
 !" 'Ratsl' cried Rob. Run dry, will you!''
 haven't lived in New York very long, but my husband, as we got off the train. whispered in my ear:
 ," Miss Smith is a very swagger girl, and her father has cinch with a big | railroad corporation
 After that concluded could not af- ford to criticise other people," Up to certain point l oont mlno slang at all-in fact, I rather like 1t" frankly confessed woman who Is wort.l millions in her own right, ''but I am afraid we are beginning to borrow from the Bowery; and that do object to.
 "The other night. for instance, at dance heard that charming Miss Dash say to a young man:
 Come let us go to the buffet and feed our faces
 "I am told that phrase originated in down-t town music hall"