The mirror., 1915-11-18
As apples of gold in baskets of silver,
an ia q word fit1v snnkon ,,


commercial, SO are words medium of exchange in
things mental. An idea has its inception in the
mind, and by due mental process develops into
thot, and the thot is made Ineligible by means of
words
Words are reliable thermometer. indicating
the mental status Of the person using them. Some
there whom would deem reasonably intel
ligent if they would but maintain discreet silence
but when they voluble, they do by the words
of their mouth advertise their folly Our words
shew forth the fullness or barrenness of our mental
storehouse. Well chosen words by which we make
known thots, indicative of mental acumen
and well ordered mind.
Again, words barometer by which we are
made aware that the person speaking is, for the
time being at least, within mental storm area.
Who of US has not passed thru such periods? Many
are the causes of such low mental barometric con-
ditions trouble, sorrow, misfortune, i'll health etc.,
are prime factors in producing mental storm areas.
Some Cor abuse) words in such manner
that the ultimate of their effort is mystic maze of
phrases with little or no meaning The more pro-
found our thot. the simple should be the words
used in the enuncation thereof. Simple elegance
of dction has been the coinage of the mental treas
urehouse of our most able speakers or writer's The
less able the asprant for literary honors the more
apt is he to press into service words of many syl-
lables as a bulwark behind which to hide his men.
tai vacuity. This is one among many another case
of Loves labour's lost for the speaker or writer,
has lost not only the time consumed in the effort
but he has lost we'll, the respect and confidence
of his hearers readers. There are those who
after having pieced together hodge podge of dis
joned phrases in which there is neither syntax nor
sequence, rhyme reason. and finding their hear
readers unapprecative of their literary(?) ef
FORTS recede into their shell of snug self sats-
faction, and egotstically pride themselves on hav-
ing evidenced such profundity of thot as to have
gotten beyond the depth of their. audience We do
not envy such as these their small caibered pleas
ures.
To use many -syllabled words in the discussion
of ordinary subjects is incongruous as it would
be for person to tender thousand dollar bill
in payment of a ten cent purchase or to don even.
ing dress for the golf links.
Words of double coinage; some are uttered
out of the fullness of honest heart and mind and
are worth premium above par. Others are coin
ed in the mint of subtlety and uttered with intent
to deceive. One of old asked the question: Can
the same fountain give forth both sweet and bitter
water?' Experience teaches us that insofar as bu-
mankind is concerned, such can. and is being DONE
The same individual that offers praises unto God,
pronounces curses upon man. The same voice that
in mellow ca1ences enunciates honeyed phrases of
affection. in anger utters bitter and cutting words
The same person who to your face speaks pleasant
words of seeming friendship. WILL when you are not
present. revile you in uncertain terms. We say
with the author quoted above Verify, these things
ought not to be-
The person who in writing or speaking uses
words which, to legal phrase, are ncompe-
tent, irrelevant, and immatelial,' that is to say
words which have meaning in the place used;
words which quite evidently used because of
their individual caliber, and without due regard for
the effect they would have upon the sentence or
paragraph in which they employed, and which
constitutes broken link in the chain of thot the
author speaker is endeavoring to present to his
audence-this of course admitting for the nonce
that THERE ORIGINAL CHAIN OF THOT: say
that the person who abuses words force
them into phrases where they not only do not con-
vey to the phrase paragraph any m 4aning, but
where their power is nulli6el because of their
displacement, would confer upon his audience
would arrange the words of his message in alpha
betical order thus saying his hearers readers the
unrewarded effort of selecting from the heterogene-
GUS the individual words needed to form con-
secutive whole.
One has said that: "A single msconstructed