Salt Lake Telegram | 1906-03-10 | Page 12 | How to Add to Our Vocabulary

HOW TO ADD hrOOU VOCABULARY. In a magazine before us a lady tells of a plan she has adopted for increasing one's vocabulary.' She says her husband and herself resolved to enlarge it if possible, and so in her leisure time through the day she read constantly and jotted down any new word or specially apt phrase that came across her during the, day. ' She wrote these on a slip and pinned them on a lamp over the dining-room table. It brought out a conversation of the words and phrases bh the list, the derivation and : accurate meaning of words, and the progress she reports as cplendid. ' 7 '.--' '. -:-; --.-- ;. : ' - ' That may be good for a lady, but our experience is that there is nothing in the library -to compare for a study of that kind with having a poor cook In the kitchen. : Let a man who'hasbeen counting on a fine roast with the fixings all O. K. come home to find that the roast is burned up on one side and raw on the other, and the, rest of the dinner in the same fix and then the poor wife is liable to hear a vocabulary vocabu-lary such' as sne could not find in any books that are permitted to pass through the mails. ,