.mower) American Children and Slang By KIiLA VHGKIiER WILCOX Passing a group of grammar school ] graduates soon to enter high school, the following phrases were overheard: "There ain't no ball here." "Yes, ! there is; 1 seen it." "I never done no such thing." "Git out o' here." These expressions and others may be heard in any schoolyard every day ; in the year. More than three-fourths ' of the boys and girls attending high school converse in language which is the expression of ignorance und ' lack of culture. What is the matter with our school system that so little value seems to be placed on the important matter of conversation ? The assistant dean ot Harvard, William Castle, Jr., complains that the language of the average Harvard student is very. poor. Certainly the same may be said of Yale men, and of Princeton men. and of students of all American colleges and schools. The Rochester Herald, commenting on this, claims that good language is a matter of feeling, and says: "Slovenly writing is the result of slovenly thinking. Xo l>oy will ever write nil essay on the tariff question in n<wxl Knglisli unless he is interested in tile turiff quest ion. Xo Harvard man will ever write air essay on Hegel that will foe well written unless Hegel lias inspired liim either with love or with hate. IT Knglisli lieys write better than American lioys, as It Is asserted that they do, tile reason will foe I'ound in the fact that Knglisli hoys are more thouiihtful than American Iniys. for there Is far less teach-- ing of Knglisli in Knglish schools i than in American schools." Knglish Children lteeeivc Moi* In timate Kduca tion. But Knglish children receive more intimate education in their homes than our children receive. At one of the English hotels a father was heard day after day at the meal hour drawing his little 1 daughter out to talk of her school, her studies and her recreations, and j liis gentle corrections were listened I to by the child with respectful in- | terest. In one Knglish home (typical of: thousands of others) the mother ar- | ranged all her domestic and social! duties with the central idea of being | at the table when her children came i from school, and the conversation and topics all served the purpose of educa- I tional uplifts. One does not encounter many | American mothers or fathers of this type. Slang and ungrammatical' ~ VKk'*" ■ / f OO'tRIGHT, M, MIBMKIN, hiW YOBK. MYRTLE ELVYN World Famous Concert Pianista Will Appear in Piano Recital at Tech High School Auditorium Wednesday Evening, January 6th j Admission One Dollar Sale of Seats Starts Manday, January 4th, at the J. H. Troup Music House Troup Building 15 S. Market Square Absolutely No Pain My latest Improved nppLU • nre# . Including an oxygen- aFv * ,zed " ,r apparatus, makea S .V" t WW&SStlbi extracting and all den- Svv • S £9vsbsM/ t*l work positively _a\ w\y painless and la per- O >0" x <A*tf harl^ ea "- EXAMINATION / / teeth .. ?55.00 I ' FRFR S m 41 S a®" fluln «» *l— Sa WJ S Filling. In allver j ' S i alloy oeinent 50c. # \v T _X Gold Growna and lUgtetere* a Bridge Work, SB, $4, $5. X ▲ a\." X 13-K Gold Crown ....$5.00 Graduate X X Office open dally 8.30 a. X / I\~ m. to • p n.l Hon., Wed. AsrtatMta and Rat. Till • p. m.; Sundays, X X to a. m. to Ip. m. X X M B»m mm tt • EASY TEKMslop" PAYMENTS AMMiK / / / 320 Market Street JOrer the Huk) Harriaburg, Pa, w m<ai Bart a ntt PAISTinN I Whon Nomina to My Off 100 Be j UftU I lull . Sure You Are In the Right Place. FRIDAY EVENING. TELEGRAPH JANUARY 1, 1915. i language pass from the lips of Ameri can children unrebuked by parents who know better. Not only unre ibuked, but the slang frequently evokes a laugh, which is encourage ment for its repetition. Even in the shops and streets of England one hears much better lan guage used, with much more agree ably modulated voices, than one hears in our own country. It is an older land, and the value of good langu age and the appreciation of it as one |of the virtues have been backed by many more centuries than America j has known/ But it seems that we might awaken in our schools and in | our homes to the very large and im portant part which good language plays in the world. Children Should Il«*alize the Value of Good Lan guage. We ought to insist upon having teachers who will devote a few mo ments each day to the discussion of this subject with the children, so that it may impress their minds, and that the mere grammar lesson will not be regarded as the whole of grammatical education. A card ought to be print ed and placed in every school and every home giving a correct version of a few of the sentences misused in daily conversation. Attention to this card should bo called whenever double, negatives are employed or other mistakes made. And by every possible, means our children should be made to realize the value of good language as an ac complishment. You may choose your word like a connoisseur And polish it up with qrt; But the \Vord that sways and stirs and ■ stays Is the word that comes from the heart. You may work on your word a thousand weeks. But it will not glow like one That, all unsought, leaps forth white hot When the fountains of feeling run. Yau may hammer away on the anvil of thought. And fashion your mind with care; But unless you are stirred to the depths that word Shall die on the empty air. For the word that comes from the brain alone - Alone to the brain will speed; But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays— Oh, that is the word men heed. ISSUE PERMITS FOD 572 HOUSES 111 1914 City Paved Two and a Half Miles of Streets; Laid Six Miles of Sewers During the year 1914 llarrisburg paved nearly two and a half miles of streets and alleys, laid a little more than six miles of sewers, did nearly two miles of grading work and Issued permits to build 572 new houses. Detailed reports of the improve ment work of this character have been compiled to date by James Thompson, chief clerk in the department of streets and public improvements, and the ilg ures were made public to-day. In exact figures, the city put down 2.41 miles of paving or a total yardage of 37.fi26.fi3 and at a cost, of $86,- 726.95. Twenty-three sections of streets and alleys, including the new | Front street subway, are included in the program. With the completion of the 1914 work the city now boasts of 71.89 miles of improved streets, repre senting a total yardage of 1,152,106.16. Of this amount 68.29 miles, or 1,106,- 453.8 yards, represents sheets asphalt. The remainder is vitrified brick, as | phalt block, bltullthlc and wood block. The exact mileage of sewers laid was 6.08, or "2,130 feet. * Forty-five j sections of drains, including the great Spring creek sewer, were included in what was completed in the year just closipg. The total outlay for new sewers was $61,506.70. Tin- 572 building permits issued dur ing the year included new buildings, remodeling, etc., and aggregated $1,269,500. For previous years the total amounts expended for building were as follows: 1913, $1,467,040; 1912, $1,167,125; 1911. $1,249,075; 1910. $1,139,315; 1909. $2,120,825. In the year just closing the actual num ber of permits for new buildings to taled 323 and cost $42,700. April was the big month of the'year, when 60 permits, aggregating $292,175, were issued; the low month was De cember, when only six permits, costing $17,100, were issued. GOOD MILK IX DECEMBER Nineteen milk tests were taken dur ing the present month by Dr. Oeorge R. Mofntt. the city chemist and bac teriologist, and these show a general reduction in the percentages of bac teria. One is as low as 7,500 per cubit centimeter; the highest shows 800,000. The percentage of fats ranges from 2.9 to 5.3. OXI.Y ONE "HIIOMO QUININE" Whenever you feel a cold coining on think of tile full name, UAXATIVh BROMO QUININE. I-.ook for signature of E. W. Grove on box. 25c.—Adver tisement. A PRETTYNEGLIGEE 4 Morning Jacket with Pepluro that Ripples Over the Hips. By MAY~MANTON 8485 Dressing Jacket for Misses ana Small Women, 16 and 18 years. Every fashionable garment must giva some ripple effect and here is a jacket that shows that feature and also a most becoming collar. It is designed for young girls antT for small women and it can be made either with three-quarter or with long sleeves. In the picture, it is made from dotted challis with frills of India silk and lace banding as trimming but this is the time of lovely cotton fabrics and there are beautiful crapes, voiles and the like that would make up most attractively after the design while the heated houses make them warm enough at any season. Cotton cr?pe or cotton voile with frills of Valenciennes lace would be charn 'ng £nd the crclpe can be found in pretty colon as well as in white. Practically the gar ment is a blouse with a peplurn joined to the lower edge so that it is very simple and easy to inake. For the 16 year size, the jacket will require 3 yds. of material 27 or 36, 2% yds. 44 111. wide, with J-2 yd- 27 for the ruffles, yds, of edging, I yd. of beading. The pattern 8485 is cut in sizes for 16 and 18 years. It will be mailed to any address by the Fashion Department o$ this paper, on receipt of ten cents. Bowman's sell May Manton Patterns. STOMACH UPSET? Get At the Real Cause Take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets That's what thousands of stomach sufferers are doing now. Instead of taking tonics, or trying to patch up a poor digestion, they are attacking the rcul cause of the ailment—clogged liver and disordered bowels. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets arouse the liver in a soothing, healing way. When the liver and bowels nro per forming their natural functions, away goes Indigestion and stomach troubles. If you have a bad taste In your mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor, lazy, don't-care feeling, no ambition or energy, troubled with undigested food, you should take Olive Tablets, the sub stitute for calomel. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are a purely vegetable compound mixed with olive oil. You will know them by their olive color. They do the work without griping, cramps or pain. Take one or two at bedtime for quick relief, HO you nan eat what you like. At 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. The Olive Tablet Company, Colum bus, O. —Advertisement. KAUFMAN'S | KAUFMAN'S 1 KAUFMAN'S 1 KAUFMAN'S | HERE ARE VALUES THAT WILL INSURE A BUSY SATURDAY J STORE OPENS AT 8 A. M. CLOSES 9 P.M. I Won*" Women's and Misses' Women's and Misses' Girls'c„, ts ( and Misses • D.ncmg Suits & Coats Suits <Sr Coats $2.69 and Party Former Prices Up To $15.00 Former Prices Up To SIB.OO I Dresses NOW Every Figure NOW worth »p to U L nil , !————-- Newest win-I W|/(V V ter ■ all-wool innte ,. rlnlm neatly \\ ort h up to w „ trimmed. /jf j / I / m Jj nfw at I Vi G" I' C sfi Jff llrnntlful inn-' trrlnlM O Or \ v,''v Jvy Vvk nplt-ndld »tjlr» ' *P k» *JPJ it nd eolornt | Worth up to Neweat atylea f .;/°'ii Women's and Misses' Women's and Misses' Women's 1 -7—7- Suits & Coats Suits Coats Marabou Sets . M - » Former Prices Up To $20.00 Former Prices Up To $25.00 J n NOW Display NOW « ftO in Our Window J.UV ( iinturul and in jjm sjr mKbr /sf ft am mm favorite mate- /BBa tf / wm\ IMm // BQ ■■ n\ HMMMHHB rlaln anil <•«!- Iml £ ffiSSSk «&|| I Bff // 1611111 MBBa Wll orM; all nIXPN. JU >Sp Iff mH ]ftl f f\t'r to $7.50; «■■hmmw i■ i■ ii I ■■!—ir ■ year*. | 1 y Men's $lO & $12.50 Winter Suits, Balmacaans d*/? "JC ! r J and Overcoats on Sale Tomorrow, .. . k Sfeff t0 values, put in this sale to-morrow at this extraordinary low price tjJO, / {3 -o®g6 Cost of Manufacture caans, Big Bargains for Tomorrow ; «l Men's $2.00 Pants at QQ r Boys' Norfolks, at C| qp \mm " —%/«/*. Viiiiios io »:t.ao ; si/.ps slo io. <J»l.«fO ln> $1.75 Corduroy Pants, at (1 Aft ~ 77 I ~ Vfl »pIoUU Boys $4.00 Overcoats, at *9 OQ \'s $3.00 Men's Pants $149 *'"•* -'* '" 10 Y, als - iflK gli oo L '»ed Corduroy Pants _ **?»■". Miss Fairfax Answers Queries : *■ A FAMILY QUARREL. DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I hve been estranged from my brother for a year and a half. Will you advise me how wc can become reconciled without losing my dig nity? Tho club to which he belongs gave an evening affa'lr, and since he was registration officer he could not take ine, but give mc two tickets for myself and a girl friend. I went upon the impression that he \»?ould take me home. He paid no attention to me all evening and since we were strangers we wore both wall flowers. Worst of all, he made no attempt to take us home, and after 12 o'clock we had to go home alone. My mother was so incensed that she made me give him the money for the tickets. He became insulted and since then he does not talk to me. For the sake of having cheerfulness and amiabil ity in our home I have made sev eral overtures to him but without success. He claims that he was right in not taking us homo, because he did not take us up and says he is entitled to an apology. What shall I do? MONA. Your brother treated you with a great lack of consideration and cour tesy. But since it was so marked he must have felt some justification. You are really in the right, so you can afford to allow for his viewpoint and to make every effort to become friend ly again. After you are on good terms once more talk it over with him very quietly and make him see that he showed no consideration for either your pleasure or yyour safety. Don't consider your dignity, but think only of the real affection you and your brother have for one another back of this particular disagreement. DANCING WITH STRANGERS. DEAR MISS FAIRFAX: I I am twenty-six. Recently I went !to a dance. I do not waltz and a I stranger asked the girl I escorted for jthe first waltz. With my permission she accepted. At the end of that waltz she made another engagement with the same young man. At the end of that dance 1 firmly told her if she would rather dance with this | young man than with me or the .friends in our party she might stay | with him for the evening. Her ex icuse for dancing with a stranger was jthat he danced so well. Who was justified? ! N. E. W. The first blunder was yours. You , should had never have given your permission to any girl for whom you I felt real respect to dance with a | stranger. Of course, she should not have gone on dnncing with him, but | you can hardly blame her after your i own lack of proper dignity. A man | ought to protect the girl he escorts ,to dances from any advances, strang jers arc impudent enough to make. A "SLAVE" OF LOVE, j DEAII MISS FAIRFAX: I am twenty-seven and am called good-looking, entertaining and lov able. I am in love with a man of forty-three and have declared my love for him on numerous occasions. He has treated me shamefully and only comes to see me when I write and ask him and only takes me out when I foot the bills. I would be happy to work to support him until he can do better financially than at present. I have a large acquaintance of men who are considered more at tractive, and yet I care for him and am ready to lay my love at his feet. Can you comfort me? CLARAM. Your present methods must surely j cause this man, and any others who know of them to sneer at your weak ness. I cannot comfort you unless you are strong enough to simply root up this weakness out of your life. Xo self-respecting man would permit a girl to "foot the bills" for an even ing's entertainment. No self-respect ing girl should do such a thing. Stop your undignified pursuit of a man There Ss Only One "Bromo Quinine " To Got The GENUINE, Gall For The Full Name Laxative Bromo Quinine UsedTho World Ovor to Oure a Gold In One Day Whenever you feel a cold coming on l *^y, think of the full name LAXATIVE /}- BROMO QUININE. Look for this f_ - signature on the box. Price 25 cents. \tr' » •OfyVZX'^' who is such that you ought to reject him, even il he came wooing. Neither one of you is particularly worth sav « ; , jU r K , ner , by yolir own evidence. But I feel that if you will just right about face you may really he the lovable girl you say people call you. You Are Taking Chances by keeping your money In your store or in your home —risk of fire, burglars or thieves Is always great, anil it costs nothing to open a bank account here, where you will have the convenience of a checking account, besides the standing that a good commercial bank gives you. It Is the helping hand when difficulties in business overtake you. Open an account now for the New Year in the First National Bank 221 MARKET SSTItKIiT 5
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