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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'
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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
$17,100, were issued.
GOOD MILK IX DECEMBER
Nineteen milk tests were taken dur
ing the present month by Dr. Oeorge
R. Mofntt. the city chemist and bac
teriologist, and these show a general
reduction in the percentages of bac
teria. One is as low as 7,500 per cubit
centimeter; the highest shows 800,000.
The percentage of fats ranges from
2.9 to 5.3.
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Whenever you feel a cold coining on
think of tile full name, UAXATIVh
BROMO QUININE. I-.ook for signature
of E. W. Grove on box. 25c.—Adver
tisement.
A PRETTYNEGLIGEE
4 Morning Jacket with Pepluro that
Ripples Over the Hips.
By MAY~MANTON
8485 Dressing Jacket for Misses ana
Small Women, 16 and 18 years.
Every fashionable garment must giva
some ripple effect and here is a jacket
that shows that feature and also a most
becoming collar. It is designed for young
girls antT for small women and it can be
made either with three-quarter or with
long sleeves. In the picture, it is made
from dotted challis with frills of India
silk and lace banding as trimming but this
is the time of lovely cotton fabrics and
there are beautiful crapes, voiles and the
like that would make up most attractively
after the design while the heated houses
make them warm enough at any season.
Cotton cr?pe or cotton voile with frills of
Valenciennes lace would be charn 'ng £nd
the crclpe can be found in pretty colon
as well as in white. Practically the gar
ment is a blouse with a peplurn joined to
the lower edge so that it is very simple
and easy to inake.
For the 16 year size, the jacket will
require 3 yds. of material 27 or 36, 2%
yds. 44 111. wide, with J-2 yd- 27 for the
ruffles, yds, of edging, I yd. of beading.
The pattern 8485 is cut in sizes for 16
and 18 years. It will be mailed to any
address by the Fashion Department o$
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.
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Miss Fairfax
Answers Queries
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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
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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
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