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Show . -y . Big Words. Some people pose in the use -of language as others do, in their carriage, says the Catholic Uni-Yerse, Uni-Yerse, Cleveland. Affectation is not pleasing to sensible people, and those who are always on "dress parade" do not impress others in tho way they intend. in-tend. The "big-word" "people are not those who have the widest knowledge of language. We know of a man in an humble sphere in this city who was asked by a fellow' servant the whereabouts of the hay fork. "Go," he said, "to the barn, turn to your left at right angles and you will find the trident on the perpendicular." "How some people do pose," said a big raw-boned raw-boned westerner named Hank Custer. "They use great, big words just to make people-think that they are smart. I think that the weakest of all affectations af-fectations is that of using what is called 'big language,' lan-guage,' instead of those simple terms which at first present themselves to every person of common sense. ' "At my home in Xebraska the other day a young lady astonished my household by asking the loan of a diminutive argenteous, truncated cone, convex con-vex on its summit and semi-perforated Svith sum-metrical sum-metrical indentations.' "She wanted a thimble." 4 |