Evening star., 1905-10-01

of honeyed sweetness and captivating mu-
sic, and at the same time are extremely
picturesque, a single word in Greek often
containing all that we would express in a
phrase or sentence, and bringing up to
the initiated scene full Of color and life
tit for a painters brush.
brief and full of pith. They are often
one-syllabled words. The dictionary will
show you this
A thoughtful writer has sad: Among
The many ends which We may propose to
ourselves in the study of language there
is but one which is common and necessary
to every man. mean such a facility in
comprehsnddng and such a skill in using
his mother tongue mat he can play well
his part in the neyer-ceasing dialogue
which, whetn1r between the living and the
living, and the living and the dead, whether
breathed from the lips or figured with the
pen, takes up so large part of the life
OF every one of u.s.
A nice, exact and accurate use of words,
the ability to choose lie word that pre-
cisely fits the thought cannot be obtained
by any one who does not know the die
tlonary. For example. to take a familiar
illustration, one hears a careless person
say of a wooden building falling into ruin:
"Lcok at that dilapidated house! What a
PITY. But II is only stone house that
can be said. strictly speaking, to be
dilapidated, and in the very word there is
a picture of stones falling apart and
mouiderng in confusion
Ac HAN VINO WOuiu ADDRESS an audience
with success and shine in the reciprocal
talk of the drawing room or set good ex-
ample IN speech to his children must know
something of the real meaning of words.
Apart from this, IL one were stranded In
a country inn. with no other book than the
time, he might find no little satisfaction In
Studyfne WI ba Dou
PLY called the clang- tint of words There
words which carry the force of blows
There are words which have the ring of
ciashing Steel There are other words which
sound like bugles blowing upon the blast
X l.. Stevenson was past master In the
use OF living words which clothed his fer
vent thought. Rudyard Kipling has the
same happy magic In finding the exact
word and the exact phrase
rake some words of everyday use such
as cold. frigid. chill: or hot, arid, torrid
AT once each word peculiarly suggests the
condition it describes
Take the word rabble, defined in the die
| tlenary as "a brawing. disorderiy mob or
crowd. This one word comes to US
through the old Dutch, where 1t means 10
gabbie; through the German wherei 1t means
to prattle feelishly: through the Swiss.
where II means an uproar: through the
Latin. where II means rave: through the
Gaelic. where ii means tumultuous crowd
or rough or low people. One little common
word. yet how much il conveys. and how
much OF history 1t contains
Take the word CULVER. which may mean
case for arrows. or, on the other hand
may set our thoughts toward the shivering
OF the earth about to quake. or the trem-
bling of the leaf upon the tree.
Take the common word quorum Who
ever Is engaged on board or committee
knows the impossibiiity of proceeding with
business until quorum Is present. This
word. now adopted into everyday English.
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days of Roman Jurisprudence.
Such words as romp. drolic, rolIick, en-
body an idea OF wild and careless mirth
Crush and queli havr q different signifi-
canoe. the spirit of q nation may be crush
ed, the uprising of ri {opIe may be quelfed
A common English VI frd familiar to every