Show AN ODD ITEM OF SEANG why Is a person of dubious mentality referred to as a nut who can expound the philosophy y of slang why for instance Is a person of A dubious mentality referred to as a nut nuts nuta are good there Is nothing probably more inure in ure enjoyable that than nutting it is the autumns one greatest happiness hereabouts thero there are two chief nuts and two lesser nuts andone and one least nut observes the cleveland plain dealer the bliler nuts are the hickory nut and the chestnut the hickory nut Is commonest and it Is a good nut despite its rugged exterior and ana its its prope propensity rAlty to hide its sweetness in difficult woody crannies and labyrinths the house wife desires lileR hickory bry nuts for her ca tho the small boy likes hickory nuts for the pleasure of elucidating their mysteries with hammer and flati rtin they tire are worth gathering the chestnut is of more nn til parent virtue it Is nil all meat it may ue used for turkey dressing and it Is used abundantly by dark skinned syrian genii who preside over magic braziers in the odd crannies of our busiest streets everyone probably more or less likes the chestnut it I 1 Is easy to eat and 99 per cent nourishment the lesser nuts nut sare are the walnut iri lunt and the butternut these fire arc fewer in number than th the e chief nuts and they have horrific rinds which must be penetrated with caution tho the reward too is meager scarcely worth the peril of stained and smashed fingers athe athe least nut Is tho the beechnut it i is a little out nut and there are beechnut brands of this or that comestible but no DO one ever seriously Beriou sly goes out to collect beechnuts beech nuts they are too small game for the american nutter but all the nuts are honorable they do not deserve the slang opprobrium which has been put upon them thero Is some sense in calling an undesirable person a lemon or a quince or even a persimmon but never a nut nut should be a term of solid honor |