The Washington times., 1915-09-02
Don't Work
WONDERFUL
=, r...'..'
Overtime
That Word Is Getting Bored
to Death With Itself, So
! Let's Get Another One.
Take a Resolve to Stop
! Using It!
pv WINIFRED BLACK.


I. rsonv,t 1915. by Newspaper Feature Service.>
ET.a get a new wore, sisters
(. and brothers. too.
~ "wonderfnr' ts getting ooreo 10
death with itself.
= Tho girls began it-at College.
The new professor was 'wonoerlui'
his eyes were wonderful. MS voice
was "wonderful' and his theory OF the
evolution Of the species was wonder
full
/. Then the weather became wonder
,ful," and SO were the stars. And when
: the roses arrived and the spring flowers,
they were wonderful" too.
And SO was spring-
And the new frock for the seniors
going home was wonderful"
Getting home at the vacation was
wonderful :" and mother with her hair
: and father grumbling about the bills In
= his homelike fashion was wonderful"
: And little sister at the station to
the collie and his new collar were won
derful:" and the little cakes that An
nnie. the maid served ut tea-wers
:, And then we all caught It.
- Everything Is Wonderful.
Brother at the football age stopped
saying that a girl was peach" and
said she was wonderful"
- Tho crowd in the grandstand wasn't I
- "fierce" any more, 1t was wonderful"
crisis Of the game was wonderful" and
even the sprained knee football brother
got et y. the enSSar game wasn't a 'pippin." 1T
~ss Mother a r~causl; eausht it. Tho paper Mrs.
;. Highland Mighty read at the club
. wasn't illuminating any longer. 1t was
: The president of the club was Charm
fne no Sscrs shs ssotsrs
robes. wasn't uplifting" as it used to
i. be, It was wonderful"
y The snub-nosed girl with the new
! beads and the smart frock. who sat in
front Of her at school. was perfectly
sweet" no longer. she @ was ',S "wonderfui. I1ui
used to be "a regular dear"
She turned into "something wonder
Little sisters chum makes. wonder
derful" Hawaiian songs. which she
. plays wonderfully" on the "wonderfur'
Father fell into the net.
! merce used to be a hustler in father 9
eyes.
Father says he's wonderful" now.
Forget the Word.
The real estate boom in the north end
OF the town is wonderful thing" and
: nobody In the world could look at the
new bank on Main street without see-
). ing how wonderful 1t is.
Ioor old "wondcrful!" should think
Il would drop to pieces of fatigue.
= I'm 80 tired Of 1t myself that I'm
y going to get a pair Of earmuffs and put
" them on whenever a wonderful person
with a wonderful vocabulary comes to
:. talk to me.
:. There arc so many words in the splen-
7 did English Of our good old tongue.
: So many honest, exact, perfectly good
!. words that really mean something.
:. There are so many things In this
|. world that are good and pretty. and
/. useful. and pleasant. and that are not
z WONDERFUL In the least.
! What's the use of talking IL we're
. going to keep saying the same thing
> over and over?
. Why not save poor old "wonderful'
Tor something that It really FITS?
My little girl has n new frock, and she
wants to wear 1t every day. But II she
does what will she have to wear on
Sunday?
Let's take wonderful resolve and
make. wonderful VOW. here and now
this day and hour. "WonderfuT is inst
: one word out of good many thousand
: Let's leave 1t alone for a few minutes
every day, and see II the world stons
! toll.ng around.