| Show IF YOU WOULD HAVE FRIENDS don t annoy people by combar sons that are hum I 1 at ng when you start in to say plain things to anybody be sure to use plain words and not idioms never use fig ures of speech when rebuking others tor for in time your helpful rebuke may be forgotten but the tang ol 01 the biting figuie figgie will never be forgotten and perhaps not forgiven for ex ample you might want to tell a con serva lve tive person he was not up to the times in some particular matter but dont call him a fossil be he would never forget it there is a good deal in a name never call a person a crank crank s a figure of speech simply say you have an odd way of looking at things this will please as it suggests individuality and not eccentricity or worse morse picturesque language is only interesting when ap plied to things people dont don t like it when applied personally people don t like to be placed in a comical and spectacular light and that s where picturesque language is apt to place them whatever a person s character may be don call him a mule or her a zany the clearer the defini tion the deeper the resentment better not call people names anyway it only arouses a lot of feeling which Is s slow ow to simmer down nothing an noys a person more than to be called some ridiculous name it seem to set well in other words use plain verbs and cut out the nouns and adjectives and aou ou will not make many enemies newark news |
