The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-09-30

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 sense - calm, evenly balanced, and dispassionate-bu was misunder- stood or understood to reflect upon the habits of the critic, who took offense at once. Hereafter. sober shall be excluded from my vocab- ulary when facing controversial sub jects.
 To-day one of the most popular words with women is permanent. We men sometimes wonder why women who are usually so careful in their use of words as to assure themselves the right to the last one, are so easily satisfied With a permanent wave that lasts only six months and costs Friend Husband S25; yet when they appeal for the restriction of their conjugal rights, and fail to get them, they insist on a very different kind of perm anence in matters of alimony.
 "In London recently one of the judges of the high court asked fo1
 
 permanent as used in tonsoria. He was told by counsel that 'perma- nent' meant that which lasts as long as anything mortal lasts but was promptly corrected by a fri. seur or curlicurist, who explained to the court that a permanent wave lasted only until new hair grew tc replace the old. Nevertheless, have been assured that in hair. waving, permanent is word de- rived from the Latin per, mean ing by and 'manus,' the hand, and if this is so, both counsel ane expert were wrong!"
 Darwin was right-Man came from the animal. First he is borne by the stork, then he creeps and crawls and squawks and squeak: until he becomes little pig. Later in life he is a poor fish anc a sucker, but often acquires horse sense. Road-hogs flourish, and seat. hogs obstruct, and the early bire gets the worm. People look sheep. ish, act like crawfish, or the grouse and growl, snap, or. calf-like lick the hand that feeds them. Some men are bull-headed, and some wo' men Licked. Husbands have lived to be insects. Occasionally one meets a consummate ass. Wise olt owls, sly-old foxes, and eagle-eye: prey upon their fellow men. Some. times dirty dog runs amuck Kangaroo-courtS are common Clodhoppers hop and jay walkers walk. All of us get stung without 2 bee in sight. :.
 "The female of the species fl more deadly than the male. Olt maids get catfish, and maids tha are not so old. kittenish. Men are sharks, old bears, or wolves 1T sheep's clothing and pull the woo over our eyes. Some folks are 10( per cent bull. We slionize heroes everybody knows some old crab some COW, or some silly goose. Mer are Holsters; the wise ones shut ur in season like oysters or clams; or like snails, they back into theil shells. Every county seat has its court house rats; every town hal it's chickens and old hens. The whole human world is infested with parasites.
 i've develop elephantiasis horses neck, Charlie horse, and a whale of a lot of other things. We are land-lubbers and sea-dogs turtle-doves and otherwise fine birds, such as lame ducks. We are dark horses, hunks of cheese little shrimps, and often wiggle out of things. We do the goose step the turkey trot and the. came walk while we get a hump on our selves. We have our bearcats ham, actors, and jackle-lawyers. We sing like canaries, laugh like hy- enas, grin like Cheshire cats, shed crocodile tears, and hound and buffalo one another. We are stubborn as mules. slick as eels, but often have to pony up. We are the biggest toad in the puddle oi the smallest tadpole in the pond We make 'em pigeon-toed, walrus- toothed, pug-nosed, monkey-faced chicken-hearted. and cock-eyed and all of us are more or less cuckoo. Finally, we sing our swan song and croak; still the half has not yet been told. All this mon- key-business gets our goat. Ain't science the snakes hips!
 "As to slang, well, there's some- thing snappy about it that seems to fit, no matter how spontaneously 1t originates and it's fairly we'll un- derstood throughout the English speaking world. Dead languages are in such state because they had no slang to vivify them. Maybe that is why we call them the classic languages to-day. Slang travels in cycles, but every now and again one is startled by the discovery that the shorter the term the stronger the force. There is certain sin- cerity about slang that frees 1t al. together from snobbery, and Il leaves very little room for doubt as to intention. Prove 1t? Well, there's not the least doubt about q mans meaning when he calls you q dud. q wet blanket. or cal amlty howier. You know what he means. and you can't possibly kid yourself that you don't. and I don't mean maybe! At the same time. nothing is more dismal than dead slang. Whenever I think Of the terms that have passed out. I'm reminded of the beautiful night. blooming cereus on the gray dawn Of the morning after. That which was n nierified flower. iilumined bs the rays af the moon. resembles q rotten potato in the glare Of the ""one: ,.nen n lime we declared