The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-01-05

Inere nedFcS III SlSlll }Sl'O"-Hdti
ed city girl, Aanked on either side
by handsome boy. They are COM
ing up the street in high feather.
They appear to be supremely "hun-
KY" AS the yellowhaired city girl
saw the vellow-haired country girl,
she cried, "I1ello! hello! hello! and
ran forward, threw her arms
around her kissed her and cried:
"Oh, you sweet, old rascal, you pull
my leg, pull my leg" Then the boy
on the right, who knew the country
girl, said with great anln1atlon:
"Oh, I know what you have come
back here for. You have come to
get a still tighter cinch on us poor
suherings boys" "Cinch" Then
the city girl pointing to the young
fellow on the left. who was a stran-
ger and had not yet been introduce
ed, said in loud whisper to the
country girl: 'TIe's a daisy; he's a
Ieen1s Dandy. 1t will pay YOU to
pull his leg little.'' At this Our
old eyes again dropped out and
rolled on the pavement. Then the
newly introduced boy bowed very
gallantly and said: "Oh, Miss
-'s pull on ME became very
tight the moment I beheld her love-
1y eyes," Then the city girl tapped
him on the shoulder and said:
"Cone off; ; that sounds bum"
At this the other young man put
up both hands before his face and
said: "Oh, give us rest-glve us
rest; it's all bum, very bum? At
this point a third handsome young
fellow passed, smiling and lifting
his hat very politely; and as he went
on the country girl craned her neck
after him. Then the city girl, pull
ing her by the sleeve said: "Oh,
don't waste your time looking at
him. You needn't pull his leg, for
he is a perfect Joe Mary" Then
they all laughed immoderately and
agreed to have swagger time at
Mrs. IS german.
AS soon as the city girl got out OF
hearing, we said to the girl at our
side: "Merciful heaven, child, what
did that girl mean by telling you
first to pull her own leg and then to
pull the young mans leg? You
certainly wouldn't do such a thing
as that under any possible circum-
stances, would you?' Then the
country girl almost died with laugh
ter at our virtuous greenness and
said: "Oh, that only means that you
must tafy the boys little so that
they will take you out to dances and
give you ice cream and flowers, etc.
You know, when a boys off at COL
lege nowadays, and wants a little
money, he says that he pulls the old
mans leg for a little dab. She did
not mean that I must actually pull
the young mans leg Of flesh. We
said "Thank God for that much.
Then we continued: ''But what did
she mean when she said that the
young man who passed It's without
stopping was Joe Mary?' The
answer was, well he's a good boy
enough-only most too good. He
is sorter pious and doesn't dance
the german, nor go to the theatre,
nor scorch it on the wheel, nor
treat to ice cream; consequently he's
a Joe Mary" We could not help
laughing heartily at this, and said
to her: "Well, of the two classes,
the 'Jeems Dandys' and the Joe
Marys', would advise you to take
a Joe Mary if you ever get a
chance, for he would be the more
apt of the two to keep bread in
your mouth"
This universal and apparently
unavoidable slang, pervades all
classes of society, haunts itself hor-
ribly and conspicuously in the news
papers, and is even beginning to
creep into the sacred pulpit. 1t is
all very funny, and really very eN-
pressive. but it is extremely TIN
genteel and dangerously subverslve
of the purity Of Our noble language.