Show I A good story is told of a passage at arms between R young English woman the daughter of a statesman of distinction dis-tinction and the daughter of an American college professor They met at a Long Island resort the other day and the English woman was criticising sharply some of the expressions of the Americans She thought It was dreadful dread-ful to use the word mortification In lieu ot the word chagrin as an Illustration Illus-tration and she Insisted that mortification mortifi-cation should only be used In Its medical medi-cal sense whereupon tho American girl responded Well do you think that our mortification is any worse than your decayed gentlewoman 1 |