The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-13

good reason; the first Is an intimate name given to familiar flower by a child who loves it. the second is the learned term of those who analyze flowers, pull them to pieces, petal by petal, and stretch their dead bodies on a plotting pad.
 The botanist shows you the ghastly skeleton of the Arisonema triphyllum, and tells you that it Is commonly known as "the Indian turnip." Indian turnip, forsoothl Ask the little chap in the back alley what it is. Give him bunch of them in his little hot hands, and see his pulpit! I didn't know they were out yet. Where did you get em?' If he has had a teacher who loved them, too, perhaps he will quote to you:
 Jack-in-the-pulpit breaches today
 Under the green trees just over the way, Squirrel and song-sparrow, high on their
 perch,
 church.
 Long may he love theml He has found the secret that perchance the learned Latinist missed. Fill his arms with "Black-eyed Susans' and Hearts Ease, and "Love-lies- bleeding" and old-fash- toned Sweet William" They have a message for him all their own.
 The purists, conservators of English unQenleQ, try Lne1r DeSt lo hScp ou' NA the language of literature and polite so- cietv the low-lived words of slang"
 With praiseworthy sternness they elbow back these linguistic pariahs when they come up from their native gutter or camp or mine and knock at what Mulvaney calls "the doorstep of decent folks" Yet some of these low-bred intruders are strong enough to hold their own; here, as elsewhere, 1t is the survival of the Attest.
 Wo Fourth of July displayed flaming posters advertising three purely American forms of merry-making-"G Callathumpian Parade! Monster Barbecue! Grand, Glo- rious Clam -Bake!lw The Callathumpian parade was a grotesque marshaling or misshapen followers of the old. Lord or Misrule The barbecue was an OK roasted whole in the sight of those who after ward ate it, but the clam-bake was in teresting in that it pointed to the GUS tom of the aboriginal Indians.
 An enormous dish of clans was baked on the beach in an impromptu stove of stones, the clans being wrapped in bedding of seaweed, while driftwood .arved for fuel. That 1t was good IS proved by the fact that the whole ca poodle was eaten up; not clam re- mained It was the straight goods, there 
 Further applications of the fertile get and go are seen in such expressions as these: q can't get the hang of my jog gafy lesson" He's a goner," There may be a few blunders on the go-on or the cut-loose, but leave him alone and he'll get there with both feet" ''To go 1t bald headed" is to act on the spur Of the moment, l. e., with the impetuoslty With which one would rush out without his hat
 What world of satiric philosophy there is in "Cheer up, the worst Is yet to come; go on with the procession; shine on. pale moon, don't blind me- The man who can think thus will never lose his grip.
 "The ghost walked today, let me know what the damage is and I'll pony up. This may be freely translated, This IS pay day. let me know my indebtedness, and I'll settle" The speaker was we'll heeled, if he did belong to period Of chromo-civilization; no doubt he was dressed to kill, and if he was giving us gulf, he had a great plenty
 Poodle Is a peculiarly American insti- tuition. and it dates back to the first fam flies. being easily traced to the buldel or pocket of the New York Dutch; if you are not in cahoots you are not in on it. Perhaps you are not built that way; if so you will never cut it fat and it's no use getting your Irish up.
 A sauaw man defines itself as that degraded character who hangs around Indian reservations. He is the mean white of the south Pappoose Is an h. dian child and pickanniny is his negro cousin to the south--pappoose and picka- niny are the rouge ct noir Of papydom,
 Chinook wind or, briefly, Chinook, Is A term adopted from the Indians Of the Columbia: it is the wind that comes from the land of the Chinooks-a balmy wind from the Kuro Suvo or Japan cur rent. cool in summer, warm in winter, setting the ley rivers free and, like San dalphon, the angel of prayer, bearing healing on Its wings.
 The compromising terms are all succinct. fsardan truck or market truck is any and all kinds of vegetables which a hayseed.