Show iTI i- f TI THE E VINTAGE I I OF YOUR SLANG SLANG o 0 o 0 toward to If It one ono thing goes coos further with tho the date at woman stamping t a a. which she ceased to bo be jo young more than the tho way she docs does her hair It is ts the vintage of ot her slang Everyone r knows that you ou can n always tell when a woman stopped flopped taking an 11 active o In Interest interest In- In terest In the mode mOlle b by th lie style of ot her when when she and OU can tell W coiffure you ceased to keep her cars open and her senses keen b by Eby the date dale of oC the lie slang she uses there thero thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- Now ow of ot course are arc some progressive f and full fully a alive l c women who simp simply dont don't uso use slang Ian at atall atall atall who vho there are somo women all Just as do their hair in a distinctive Individual di way l that bears no date But the tho thing thinS out of or woman fatally that makes males a to a n amodo clinging date Is the tho persistent modo mode or a a. line of or slang that has ceased to be novel that has no connection i For In Instance instance In- In with things thinS's as they thoy are arc now I stance the ratted pompadour f was part art of oC the the picture with tho the clothes and hats hat halawith with which it wa was worn but with pres pres- day ent-day clothes It Is senseless s and dis dis- And so somo some of ot tho the once telling telling tell teU- ing bits of or slang that were In circulation circulation circulation doubt douht to lo lothe tion then added piquancy f no the conversation con for or a hort short day or two tiro but carried over o into these days when all aU the background of oC our dally daily life liCa has changed and chan changed ed man many times they arc are decidedly flat stale stalo and unprofitable You know you rou can be 30 0 and a back number and you OU can bo be 70 O and antI still sUll have a a. youthful point of ot view and be bc part of oC the moving throbbing life I about you ou But beware rc the slang that thatis is passe f It Il wilt will date you ou as surely as a a. rattlesnake reveals re his age arc b by the number of ot rattles on his tall tail In the republic of or China Chinn you ou know eggs gs or so years cars old aro are great reat delicacies deli nn and occidentals who have been treated to them aro arc able to get up quite Thc have havo a a. rich a taste for tor thorn thom They quaint Interesting Interesting- flavor that they tell ten tellus tenI I us Is not like anything else In the wa way of or food and Is really delectable But even In China eggs a few fe months ora ora or ora a year ar old are aro a delicacy in the eyes of C no one So with our sIan slang The Thc fashionable ra slang of or the days das of or Beau Brummel will bear revival ival but the slang of or last winter or or five fIe winters a ago o Is In tho the realm of oC conversation what tho the egg eSS of 1917 1911 is In this years year's food tood supply There Thero aro arc alwa always s 's a lot of ot women omen who never ne advance much In their sentiments sentiments sen sen- from tho the days das of or their own courtship and marriage There arc no football games ames liko those they witnessed wit wit- messed with their husbands when those husbands were still freshly graduated and still sUll knew all tho tine college c football players b by sight There Thero were no dances like those dances and no candles candies like the expensive brand of or candy that those husbands used 16 tb send during tine tho months of ot their courtship And AntI so the Blan slang of ot those thos days das is hallowed b by tender ten ton der associations associations Perhaps It Is no wonder onder And so 80 it is that every once in a 1 awhile awhile while you ou meet a woman who wro 10 Is still young enough In face tace and Ci figure ure still stilla Ull Ulla a virile very erY much alive sort of or person physically who has simply stopped I growing Crowing so far as her mode of or thought an and 1 expression goes gocs She Sho refers reters to lo her daughters daughter's men acquaintances as beaux or admirers or or if It the admiring one becomes quite ardent ai as lovers 10 a word woid that strikes a vcr very discordant ant note on the cars ears of ot the present generation And her slang Is 18 of ot tho same vintage For Fot such words as those quoted have ha havea a n special connotation at the time they are ara used Justas slang slang- does loes that is not understood by a n later generation Now all aU this has Inns a a. special bearing on present-day present slang For present-day present slang Mang and present day catch phrases are largely a growth lowth of or the tho war And now at this minute thc they arc are much to the point Some of oC them them others others are aro already going the way of ot the lost words of oC tho the ages Take Tako c. camouflage e. e for tor In- In Bianco When It first came to us it was an excellent word ord 1 Vo We 0 taIJ talked cd about aboul camouflaging camouflaging- our physical de do- do f by by tho tho tiro clo clothes we wo wore wore wore- we talked about camouflaging war substitute calve cake with elaborate names Wo Yo camouflaged camouflaged camouflaged cam cam- or talked about camouflaging everything everything- But Dut tho Olio word has been boen overworked o It Is not that we are arc bothered most roost of ot ofus ofus us Ul because c we havo have taken a French word wOld and given gi It an English form Wo We Cha ha have havo e done dono that before and antl thero there arc are few 10 language o purists Il who really can convince con us that such an action dO does S Snot not strengthen then tho the English tongue But we wc are aro tired of ot tho the word It still has bas a legitimate military use But Bul aa as aaK ast t K a word to be applied In slang fashion to eve I every action In life welt well well It It Is 18 s al already al- al r ready Teady ady a little old fashioned Our ears eal are arc listening listening- for something now new Over O the lie top top Treal Treat em cm rO l rough hCan h Can tho tiro kaiser all kaiser all those phrases founded rounded fresh tresh and fascinating Un a n. few fow ow months ago go But Hut even now non they ther are passing on on and i ew catch phrases and filan slang elang from lom tho trenches aro coming homo home to us When Pershing's victorious men como come home they will bring much slang slang- with them Imagine tho horde oro of or younger o brothers going proudly about with Ith slang slang- from Franco France on err their lips And young oung sisters loo too for tor the tho matter of ot that It will wilt all ho bo vcr very well too on the lips of at Iho tho young youns oun Youth Is adaptable and nd youth will use uso tho slang Blan of or the present Just eo so long an as It Is la tho the slang of ot tho the present As soon as ns it becomes becom the tho elan Slang of or tho the past youth will take e up UP the the slang of ot the present But nut w Wo we older generation we wc must be careful Dont Don't let Jet us brand ourselves of oC the vintage e of tho the great war by b retaining some Home favorite bit of ot military T elan slang to the Lb thy M ot of t our octogenarian ism |