Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-10

city, everybody in the old home town
who knew my name decided to stay at
my house when they dropped in to see
the sights.
"They have sorned in the Spring,
Summer, Fall and Winter. They found
good quarters: good food. all at no ex-
! penSe and with q minimum of trouble.
At first we were glad to do it. In fact,
we sort of thought we had to do it.
We did not want any of them to go
back home and say, Yes, Mrs. McGlink
has got so stuck up, since she moved to
the city, that she is ashamed of her old
neighbors. My, you should see her put
ting on airs! But we knew her when
she was not so high and mighty
Yes" went on Grandmother Nc
Glink, IF that is sorning thsn / know
all about it. Sorning is taking an I'M
| fair advantage of person in the name
of old times. To be a good sorner, of
course, one must feel that the one who
is being sorned is genuinely glad to
have one around.
Some folk say that not even rela-
lions ought to stay longer than two
weeks on a visit. but the sorner born
| feels that no length of his or her
charming company is too great. To be
good sorner, I guess, one has to be
born that way"
We got to dipping around in the S
section, by all odds the largest in the
| Big Book.
Here was solferino. Most people
have heard of the Battle of Solferino,
but as used with lower case IS" the
word indicates a purplish-red color,
which was discovered in the year OF the
battle.
Solidungilar animals are not seen on
the streets as often these days as DUR
ing the gay COS. The heavy-soundlng
word means solid-hoofed, of the horse
| family, equine. Stow the word away,
and trot it out on some unsuSpecting
acquaintance in a happy hour. 1t Is
guaranteed to do the business.
And what or who is a solifidian? He
is Cor maybe was) a holder of the doe
trine that faith by itself suf11ces Tor
| salvation.
Here is an architectural word which
| is a good one: Solve, meaning an IN
| termediate timber resting on the beams
and supporting the planks Of the floor
or ceiling. (Most people call EN-
SO longI Walt Whitman. the good
gray poet, did as much as any one to
| Introduce that popular phrase, equiva-
lent to good-by. 1t really means
"Good-by till we meet again" accord
ing to the dictionary, and "is perhaps
nautical corruption of salaam. y
Whitman, who loved to hang around
the New York wharves, probably so
| got 1t.
r X \
A specktioneer, in case the reader
doesn't know it, is chief harpooner.
Well, who cares, anyway? We can't
spend time wrangling about the ranks
of whale fishers. The word sounds too
much like electioneer.
Spatial Is fine, grand word, mean
ing of space; as, spatial relations, ex-
tent, etc. A similar word, which now
and then has a run, is factual. Several
months ago one could not pick up a
newspaper without running upon it.
Everything suddenly became "factual."
A book was factual, they said, but
often it turned out to be q plain bore.
Spadger is corruption of sparrow,
evidently purely English, but really not
bad for one of these perky, pestiferous
little fellows.
, Words, words, wordsl What inter-
esting things they are! We think that
Chinese characters are strange. yet our
words are much the same. We get at
glance that "sough" is a noise, and
that sought" is form of the verb
seek.