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Show OBJECTS TO 'DEAR OLD LADn I Writer Desires Abolition or What Hj Describes as the Sickly Sent!- I mental Adjective. Words have a way of falling- Tioleatj ly in lovo with each other. Ono maj watch sometimes Uio progress of ths affair. A craceful adjactlre Is Introduced Intro-duced to a sturdy noun by somo care- W less wrltor. Tbo two Btrangora flni 9 thamnnlvna .mutually caneenuu. - Tsn I aro thrown togotbor constantly. Af I tor a whllo tho wedding la quieUyi colsbratod and tho couplo pass front romance to humdrum respectability,! I bocomlng such a couplo porhaps as "Dittor End," "Unparalleled Clrcum? 9J stancos" or "Critical Situation." H Bomotlmos ono Is churlish enough tq B doslro divorce for such a pair, as la H tho caso of your contributor and ths collocation, "Doar Old' Lady," says al M writer In Scrlbner'o. Why Is It no old M lady, not positively vicious, appears la B Bpoech or print nowadays without ths- B adjective "dear" announcing hor? H Somo of us will be many of u H aro old ladles. Must we all bo "deajj IB old ladloa"? Must all tho pleasing and H Interesting characteristics, it has takes IB us a llfetlmo to cultivate bo obliterated) H by this vaguo, sickly sentimental SB blanket wordT U Nowadays most old ladlos are as H busy working for public causes that H thoy havo not tlmo to protect tholr H own Interests as thoy should. Dut lot H us hope that aftor a while thoy will or- jH ganlza a now association, to bo called ffl "The Society for tho Promotion of H Distinctive Characterizations for Old H Ladlos," and that it will havo displayed, H prominently on its banners tbo slogan, H "Down with tho word 'Dear' I" , Hj |