Show SLANG AND we hear people rebuke young men and particularly girls for the use of Parenthetically we wish to say that the slang we speak of is not the slang that verges on It is the slang that is the slang that has its best exponents in George Ade and Sewell the slang that Europe calls and as Those slang phrases are very expressive and they not only fit in moments when one is facetious but moments when one is grave and falling a crisis that is fraught with momentous for said a great and powerful man to who was in sore traits a short time Never did words sound sweeter to than for they meant a release from a terrible thralldom they meant hope and the beating of O. the well-known short story was operated upon in an hospital a few weeks ago and for almost two days thereafter he lay in a Just a little before the dawn of the third day he roused The hospital lamp was burning dimly it sat the and near in his room white-capped He called her to up the he don't want to go And those the dark home in were the last words he spoke for death the smile with which he uttered them upon his And we all hope that he did not home in the that the way was bright and that ahead gleamed the friendly light of the great house where all is and and contentment where we will wait for the rest of the travelers to He went out with a slang phrase on his lips because it was with such phrases that he had learned how best to express Mahony |