The San Francisco call., 1904-06-04
MEN analMAaTERS IN
THE EGaISZ lie WORLD
MONIES

the water they seemed in no way re-
markable. Perhaps all our clothes are
fashioned out Of what Mr. Ade calls
steamer rugs, even our 'Tuxedos' ana
Prince Alberts, whatever these vest
ments may be. But we, too, have our
peculiarities; we usually wear evening
dress at public dinners. and we do not
march down Piccadilly in round felt
hats and frock coats. In the course of
this humorous narrative a native tells
girl who waits at table that the
blending under the left ear is poor, and
If you are not careful some one will
sign you as a spotted girl What is
the blending and why are spotted girls
signed? They may know in Chicago.
Presently boy enters and says: Feed
me everything with one in the light to
come along II any of the cockroaches
ask for me. tell them I'm for all night
with the yellow rattlers, and laid out
at Winona. Here the reader, if a ma
tive of Chicago, may hold his sides, but
il was at this point that the English
tourist was holding his head We need
not pity him: why did he go TO Chi
cago2 Que diable allait-il faire dams
known connotation is 'josher' The term
has been applied to myself in a comic
contemporary. and / have wondered
what it meant. In Mr.. AIDES book it is
applied to an advance agent Can L
be an advance agent; the Theophile
Gautier is said to have been a Chris
tian without knowing it? The only way
to interpret 'josher' is to compare the
various conteXts in which 1t occurs.
Perhaps ii is only a synonym for 'hu-
man being The final jest is the state
ment Of the josher that the girl who
waited at table was his sister. Possibly
she was; quite as possibly there were
no ties of consanguinity between the
young woman and the josher.
The Englishman was deeply per-
picked out Of Chicago who is not?
And in Chicago perhaps the learned
are puzzled by Wee Macgregor.' book
| apparently couched in the Pictish Ian
guage. Among other pathological puz-
zles we note is the graft played out p
"a rangy person., "a cinch, a one-night
stand, a rube town. a jay town. "a
/ four-hush drummer a rooter from the
/ days of underhand pitching. Pitching
is the term for bowling at baseball Cf
/ it is bowling, a matter for the umpire
| decision), but is a 'rooter' equivalent
TO a daisy cropper? The following
phrase appears to refer to the terms
of some manly pastime: She could get
away with any topic that was batted
up to her, and then slam it over to sec
ond in time to head off the runner.
There seems to be a combination here
Of cricket and Rugby football, but the
Englishman is deeply perplexed.' Don't
renig may be excellent advice, but
clamors for a translator. We may re-
mig without knowing that it is wrong.
| Clarence stood in with the toughest
push in town; he learned to shoot craps
and rush the can The last phrase may
mean to push about the bottle, but to
say what kind of bird or beast the crap
/ is, and what kind of education the
cFapshooter needs, demands an educa-
ton more extensive and peculiar, if
not more liberal, than that of the pres
ent jOsher. Cuff, 1 think from the
context, is equivalent to what we call
! pulpit oratory.' The lookout certainly
means the pulpit"