The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-11-26
ANDREW AND
TMOGENE
ny ROE FULKERsoN

Andrew" said Imogene, seating her
Tself on his chair arm and rumpling
kup his hair. do you ever suspect
when I do little kind things to you
that l am not altruistic?
do you ever feel when l am pet
ting you like | am now that my mo-
tives are of a selfish instead of an
altruistic character?
DO You ever feel that my work in
the day nursery is due to my desire
to get into the social swim, or do
you think that my charity is of an al
truistic nature?
DO you think that altruism pre-
Andrew put his hand over her
mouth.
What dye mean altruistic?" he
said. What is all this sudden love
of unselfishness? What does all this
altruism mean?'
why, l do not like selfish people,
and l hoped" said Imogene with a
little embarrassment, that 1 might
be of an altruistic nature"
Say" said Andrew, "whered you
get that word? Now. listen, you are
overworking II. That's union word
and used to union hours"
WELL hesitated Imogene, Il sup
pose l had better tell you"
Yes" said Andrew, IF You don't
/ am going to get a hair pin or a
tooth pick and pick it out of you"
Well, it was Susie and me-" said
Imogene, 'or l mean Susie and T."
She put the accent on the pronoun.
I'VE were just talking the other day
about how little one used ones edu-
cation. We spoke of the little lapses
of grammar we had fallen into as a
result of being married, for you know
married men always use bad gram
mar.
Then we began to discuss the lin
tied vocabulary one ordinarily uses
in conversation and we decided that
If 1t was possible, as the newspapers
say, to learn one new fact each day,
a person might just as easily learn
one new word each day, and we de-
cided to make out list every Sun
day during church while DIR. Stevens
is preaching, and we would use the
first word on Monday as much as we
possibly could and then the next one
on Tuesday, and in that way We could
increase the number of words we had
at our command.
1--WE set the list for this week, and
the word we We're to use as much as
possible today was 'aitrnistic.' and
forgot all about IL until you came
home and 1 was using it as often as
I could"
Say" said Andrew, with hearty ap-
proval, that was a dandy scheme,
kiddo. Go to 1t. You will have a
string of words at your command in
year that will keep the ordinary
person from knowing what you are
talking about In the most casual con-
versation.
Mother thing. You have my APP
prevail in the selection OF your first
word. 1t comes tripping to the
tongue, and its meaning is one that
every married woman ought to know,
and it should be a part of her daily
talk and conversation.
Il want you always to be aitruistic
in your motives. When you kiss me
want to know that 1t means a kiss
and not feel that there is a new hat
or another dress hidden somewhere
in the smack
Learn a string of words like that
and learn their definition as we'll as
their pronunciation. A
What's tonorrow's w6rd?s Maybe
can help You bring 1t in to the table
chatter
We'll, you see we culled the words
out of the sermon last Sunday and the
next word is 'acquisitive' in its va
rious forms. Do you think it is a
nice idea?'
Every rose has its thorn said
Andrew, sadly. so also I suppose
every word must have its antonym. ="