Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1908-04-16
EXTREME SLANG A
POOR SUBSTITUTE
FOR CONVERSATION
American Girls Handicapped by
Never Having the Proper
instruction.

Slang In an extreme degree should
! not be permitted IN n school girl who
makes any pretence to good breeding.
She is not expected to he precise in
conversation. and it is quite expected
that she will be CRAZY" about things
and think them fine" But when she
gets nto the best ever" style of Ian
guage-it cannot be called conversation
1T Is time hat q check vas applied to
her tongue lest she descend into the
vulgarities.
1t is not to be hoped that a girl can
always realize how easily people are
prejudiced for or against her by the
pitch of her voice and her manner of
talking. 1t might be thought. however,
that mothers or guardians Shout real
!ze the Importance. n control the
natural exurberance that finds vent
frequently in tones pitched at high and
strident key and amazing EXPLANATIONS.
While girls Of other countries are
taught the use OF voice in conversation
1t remain for attractive Americans still
to be handicapped by never having had
any instruction in this direction.
OF the nan objections that might be
brought to bear against a girls using
slang there Is none greater than that
the girl who habitually interlards her
conversation in this way is not well
hammered. 1t Is not altogether to be
expected that a girl will call a thing
bully in quite the same infection that
she would adopt did she call it 'charm-
ing There is not an atom OF moral
injury resulting in clubbing the affair
lection to acquiring, as she o un-
consciously but none the less strongly.
Che manner that goes with 1T, the i'm
duence Of which Is lasting.
Tho Pretty Girl.
Broadly speaking a girl who is pretty
goes easily and %joyously through her
hrst season. The fact that she is good
to look at makes her in eoues in
cotiilions n parties. always provided
that she Is not stupid. 1t is only lee
essary that she shall have sweetness
success.
But a girl who is not pretty has
her popularity to win. unless she is so
glided with millions that nothing is re-
auired Of her. Even with those she
does we'll to have some natural attrac-
tons.
Charm of manner. sprightliness of
conversation without sharpness. and
tact will do more for her by the end
OF he season than mere prettiness.
Men tail. to a pretty girl because she
Is good to look at. But prettiness may
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by some other attraction. A girl who
is snlartly dressed. who has an average
amount of brains and has cultivated
charming anners holds a mans in
terest when he meets her. and her
dance card will be fuller. her cotillion
table more heavily laden and her flow
ers greater in quantity than those OF
the merely pretty girl.
It IS not the slangy girl who has all
this. however. Men laugh at her amaz-
ing sallies and EXPLANATIONS. hut later
they laugh at her for using them, Her
is usually loud and not unfre-
quently bold. Being lone Of the bows"
she crosses her feet as they do. bring
ing her thick soled. mannish shoe al
most on a level with her knee. The in
nuence OF slang In a girl is marked.
and. II allowed to continue. very last.
ing. 1t will work her harm and un-
popularity In the end. and it's use should
be checked at the beginning.