Show HOW SHE TOLD IT A A School School- School Girls s 's Grandiloquent Manner of Speech One of the effects of a little education tion without much thinking with it itis It is to t make people expert in exaggerating ing lag says the Youths Youth's Companion Th There r are many young people people educated ed in Ia our schools who make use use of their acquaintance with words to pile them up uselessly in description We say their acquaintance with wit words not their knowledge of them for when one really knows kows words he does docs not often misuse them them Ho He does no not for instance call cil a 8 large largo apple a monstrous one one because ho he knows that that an apple may be large without being either misshapen or unnatural nor would he c call l a a mutton muton chop ele cle clo elegant gant because he found it tender Let us take an instance istance of the tho te misuse misuse misuse mis mis- use of a little education in this way Bertha Brown is i a high school girl irl who is i reckoned reckon d bright at school an and who has hn had ha many social advantages The other day meeting one ono of hex her her companions on the tho street stroet she grasped her by both hands and stud burst Into this speech Oh oh Oh Edith Edit Jones Jons You cant can't possibly bly imagine what a perfectly gorgeous time we wo had hart last night nigh at that enchanting Mrs Mr Snodgrass' Snodgrass She has a perfectly mammoth palatial house house you know three know three stories high hibb and ad such a gigantic I room dining room and the most fascinating love of n. n n piazza iazza Well Veil wo we had ha an a enormous dinner beautiful mushrooms mushrooms and an some monstrous peaches and the tho seraphic ice cream and that sort SOft of thing thing acid and aud then music the piazza that somo some on piazza was wa just too to huge and heavenly for anything anything anything any any- thing Sophie Sophio Ives was there tere with wih that perfectly ma magnificent banjo of hers her and played a n dazzling on it it And Ad then Billy Graves played itt Iw- 1 on his did did you r rhear hear anything so so utterly as playing on a n But Dut it viv 1 sublime anyway the to way he ho played on it it Ethel Etel Smith had hd just played sa pea immense little cap caprice ice on the piano when who should should- come como in but that awfully odious Mir Mr Tompkins and he be began nn talking everlastingly about social problems and and that sort of thing in i the most mOlt agonizing way a It J was wa absolutely insufferable and we were all al simply paralyzed Tuna Mrs Mra Snodgrass was to t death nd Fortunately for Edith Jones Jones her hor father came along at that moment and anti relieved her from freni the necessity of or listening to any more of Berthas Bertha's superlatives S Bertha had bad ha not been lieen conscious that she was using bad ba English or telling any untruths in i the he be speech sao sno had been making Sh She e had ha been well veI I trained in grammar grammar and did not wil wilfully wi I fully toll tell tel tella a n falsehood She thought though she was wa simply r ra latin listing in a lively way actual occurrences of the day before before People that talk in this thi ex exaggerated and inexact way do not realize that the most forcible language is nl always the simplest rind and that tat no word is i effective if U it i IB is used ed out of its proper sense sense |