Show I MODERN SLA SLANG G. G To hear an any ono one condemn slang brings S to mind the thc story tory of a fond country i mother who was very solicitous that th the I well bred l manners mauner of her little daughter daugh daugh- h ter who had been sent nt to tho the cit city for her education should not into como come contamination contamination con con- tS with the thc ill broil manners of or certain city children childre D of or whom she simo hal hail h hoard ca ru Be Be Vcr very careful she wrote that I I Mabel docs not associate with children who ho use slang which she has never T heard A Above hove all aU do not allow her bel to toelt sit flit next to the S S.- S. children I knew their father before he bc went to the tho city arid and confidentially they're a bum lot th the whole push of them Commendable a as mav may have been the tho of or this country mother her letter let let- ter tor proves pro that t she sho was not altogether unsophisticated Then why fear for time the sophisticate cat o her child which was bound to como com sooner or later if time tho words nords of President Woodro Wilson of Princeton have any weight wight Tho The only class s of En English idioms the average JO young collego woman is at borne home in its slang and that s A all 11 she he heu u uses s 's with gusto And she i is not the one for tho the virility of slung slang com conies flo front l its adaptability it ty- ty it t suits the word to the OCI occasion Slang ma may b hn hI correctly ns as unauthorized un authorized 1 popular Jan language lIa c which han tI liko like a fringe c on tho tim skirts of reputable speech It breathes the atmosphere at at- tt re of thought untrammeled 11 by conventionalities it i is absolutely free forcible and vigorous and a n as e each ach year that par passes parses s 's marks an advance anlo in in our civilization so 10 al also o o slang words word often prove pro to bo be milestones h by the way war Of th the utility h- h hof of recording the these c slang terms in iii a dictionary onan we have c it iton iton iton on the time author authority t of Dr Isaac haM K Funk that wo should bear in mind that tho the thoI slang firing words of one ODe age J. J am arn often tho time thoa I a accepted Cepl literary words of oC a n succeeding n age t and it i is is the thc function of nf a n dictionary dictionary diction diction- ary try to In furnish h the keys s that will unlock nl ll phrases s 's and sentences Hi Hi- holds that it is iR to the common people that th we wc must t look for th enriching of our nul spoken Spoken ken Jan language and that they regard an any 11 wor word as ns a good won woid woal if it clearly and forcibly con conveys e 8 an nn idea rom From It the tho tho Talk of r tho the Town rown by hv F. F IT II Vise ViM tell in the Bohemian t for tr r May Ma- 1 a |