Evening star., 1919-12-26
WORDS OBSOLETE
SINCE JUNE 50
Interested Parties Invited to
Inspect List of Antique
Expressions.
BY HERBERT COREY.

NEW YORK, December 36.-Here i.
a list of words which recently became
obsolete. Those interested are invited
to paste them inside the cellaret:
Jingled, potted. soused. stewed. pie
! eyed. paralyzed. picked, sizzled, load
ed to the guards. piffiicated. sQuined
spiffiicated, teed up. tanked. rory
| eyed. got his pots on. tin hats. groggy
sloughed. rum dumb. bunned. boozy
brannigan, corned. fuddled, fuzzled
bug juice. half shot, hard stuff, short
one. tall one. illuminated. jagged
lushed. mellow. ossined. on a bat
| spree. petrified, plastered. still on
twisted. google eyed, dead to the
world, lights out. prune juice, well
| basted. CLASSY. locoed. lit up like a
church. blind in the eyelids.
| The list might be topped by that IL
| Illuminating description of a state of
mind which halls from Indiana:
He can't walk. waller. or stay
| where he's put"
Zero Weather and Children.
Just before Christmas the mercury
in the New York thermometer hover
| ed not too many degrees on the warm
side of zero. Every man who had a
| fur coat wore it. At the prevailing
nue. bus held not less than twenty
thousand dollars worth of pelts. Not
in fifty years had that day of Decem-
, Der been so cold. according to the
veracious chroniclers in the weather
bureau.
On that day one youngster went to
school wearing only the uppers of his
shoes. His purple feet touched the
crisp snow. Two little girls went to
the same school wearing little ging-
ham gowns-and nothing else. Their
tender little bodies were hard as mar
BILE to the touch, so cold were they.
Over their quaking shoulders they
wore nondescrip\ garments that by
some license might be described as
coats.
day like this?" their plying teacher
asked.
ITS warmer here" was the reply.
These children were helped-slight-
ly-through the operation of the
teachers fund. which is made up by
monthly contribution of 25 cents
from each teacher. A pair of rough
shoes was bought for the boy. The
little girls were made happy by a
gift of cheap underwear.
BY an odd coincidence, it was about
this time that Mayor Hylan made his
celebrated inquiry as to the authority
by which the board of education ex-
pended $3.50 for the purchase of milk
and meat for a schoolhouse cat.
1t is little wonder that the New
York Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children has in it's keep
ing fifteen girls, each less than thir-
teen years old, who have been arrest
ed on charge of shoplifting. Not
one had ever been arrested on any
charge before.
The Christmas spirit got into their
blood. poor little devils. They wanted
10 give something to some one. One
mad planned to make present to her
mother. Another's baby brother was
slowly dying from the cold She hoped
TO buy little shawl for him. A third
wanted to get her father a new pipe
Not one of the fifteen had ever had a
real Christmas for herself. Not one
OF the fifteen had visited the stores to
Duy something for herself. They want
eo TO give rather than to receive, So
tney took their few pennies and start
| ed out shopping"
Ihey saw tables heaped high with
they % had 1aa sRen ReXer seea sad-things Ms 4s
gloves. thicf &tockings, adorably Irm red
mumers besought them. They couJd
not buy. The combined assets of the
n1teen could hardly have bought one
such present as each had set her heart
on Tor some one else.
So they tried to steal.
Counterfeiter Of Corots.
FORMER United States Senator Will
nam A. Clark has just bought his
twenty-third Corot. The price is said
70 nave been in the neighborhood of
SIoO, ,0O0. translation of the title
makes II appear that the theme of the
painting is "A Dance Under the Trees
by the Border of the Lake"
There Is no doubt that this is a
genuine Corot. Its pedigree is clearly
established. But the incident calls to
mind mat some little time ago it was
reported in artistic circles that a
genius in Paris was making a most
satisfactory living by counterfeitine
Corots. He did not disdain the work
OF other artists, for that matter. An
unscrupulous art dealer might order
Meissonier or a Rembrandt or any
thing else from him, in the full as
surance that the counterfeited artist
himself could hardly deny paternity
when the counterfeited painting was
placed on view. But he preferred
Corots The Corot, he said, was his
meter.
Then he was modified, and for five
years fought in the French army.
The furnace OF war might have burn
ed the dross out of his soul, so that
he returned to his studio penitent and
pure. But it did not. And IL he were
character in fiction he might have
lost an eye or right hand or
grisette. or something, and thus have
been incapacitated for further artistic
deviltry. But he didn't. At last ac-
counts he was hard at work fiexing
will be turning out more Corots.