The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-05
BETTER ROLL YOUR HOOP
That's the Latest Juicy Slang
Expression in Vogue
new YORK "GIvES cur THE OFFICE"
GoTHAMITEs ARE PEEvED WITH
SUCH OBSOLETE FORMS AS
"skIDoo" AND "cusT."
NEW YORK "GIvEs cur THE OFFICE"

|
ticians got together in Chicago the
other day and undertook to settle the
question of what is new in that mode
of thought expression. After weighty
deliberatiOn and research they came to
| the conclusion that the latest thing in
| slang is "skiddoO", that the only novel
ty of the new year is handing a lemon
and that 'grafters" must be coupled
with quotation marks.
Poor Chicago! "Sl1iddoo" may be
new in Cook county, but it has been
discharged in New York 10 these many
! months. No one in the really classy
Broadway set would use such an ex-
preston any more.
Occasionally you may hear it fall
form the lips of some traveller on Main
street, but if your curiosity impels you
to make an examination you will find
that the person so offending wears a
| coat buttoned only at the bottom hole,
has his gloves turned down half way
over his hands, sports a scarfpin in a
bow tie and in other ways gives abund-
| ant testimony of being a stranger to
the locality.
Your steady residenter, inheritor of
the kingdom of Broadway, shoulders as
he hears the word which Chicago re-
CARDS so reverently. He would no
more say "skiddoo" when he wished
an acquaintance to vanish than he
would say twenty three" For the
Manhattanite has a horror of the de-
funct. He probably would say you
better roll your hoop, bo,' if he wished
to send companion on his way. Should
the form would be. well, l must roll
my hoop, Pallie." Just what expression
will take it's place next week or next
month is uncertain. But, for the beni-
fit of Chicago, it may be said at once
the expression won't be "Skiddoo."
i CRATER Obsolete.
| The word CRATER may call for in
verted commas in the middle west, but
| it goes here without quotations. We
don't set so much store by it as we
| w
that a gentleman subsists by irregular
means we say of him that he is a Lag.
Get that, Chicago? Lag, Lag, Lag.
1t isn't a hard word to memorize. Say
it over to yourself two or three times,
Chi, dear. and you will be letter-per-
| feet.
All the inhabitants of the electric
village say Lag when they have oc-
casion to describe a person who in
! Chicago is still a crook.
The Chicago equivalent of money
| is "cush.' Isn't that disheartening
Cush. Ell? Why, we got through with
| cush away last fall, or some other time
! in the dim ages. Family we remem-
Der "cush." Didn't it go with kick? ?"
Well we'll! Glad to see you. Pleasant
to renew acquaintance with the friends
of YOUR youth. How are you, Cush
What's the good word, Kick? Where
been? Living in Chicago, Ell? Too
bad too bad!
Cush is dead-everywhere except IN
Chicago. Iron men is alive. LIE roi
est mort! Vive lie roi! (Footnote-
This is good French, not slang. Chica-
go papers please note.) An iron man
| is a dollar Two iron men are two
dollars. Three iron men are three dol
lars. Simple,isn't it? Il was there
with three iron men," that's an ex-
ample. You mustn't say anything ABOUT
.cush." Nor "simoleons." Nor yet
.long green" Ugh! the thought OF
those expressions brings up unpleasant
reflections on age. and we would not
grow old Keep off dinero, too. mat
isn't even slang. It's just the regula-
ton Spanish word for money. Ana
never let us hear you say Got any
coin?" They may still use it In chi
cago. but not here, not here. Don
forget about the iron man.
What do Chicago folks say when they
intend to suggest the superiority OF one
man over another? Why, Got MIN
bea+ seven WAYS from the jack OF
course. Isn't it pitiful? 1hev sui
COW that out west. they really 90.
Sometimes they vary it by remarklns
that Blinks has got Jinks beat 10 d
vhisper. or beat to a fragile, or nara
boiled FRAGILE. Those forms dld very
well some period ago, but today tnes
are like last years birds nests-there
nothing in 'em. What shall you Say
then? Why, simply this "Bilnks mas
got Jinks put away" to be sure Ut
"Jeff's got 'em all put away. Don
forget and use any Of those anteoateo
expressions on our main thorough1are
Folks will stare at you if you do.
If you find yourself employing suci
an old-fashioned word as "come-on oi
mark" when you mean person easil.
victimized, yank yourself with a rouno
turn and blush little for your lghor
ance. There aren't any come-ons any
more No more marks, either. Ii
Mace of these there are Booos' LopS
and Stews. The Boob is very la'e
latest. There is very little dif1erence