Show HI jl lift' iA m i u Hrs Manv Voices nhhit v Thnmton W Burgess Sweek as Can Be Li Bedtime Stories ' Take My Word 1 What Is the Origin? (Scrapbook Item) San Francisco: A friend of mine in Europe who teaches English has asked me to explain what Americans mean by the term "cute" Can you tell me and also — give its origin? K D A Answer: First of all the origin of elite is rather surprising It is the word "acute" with a "a" cut off Cute is not listed in Noah Webster's original American Dictionary But 'cute is mentioned in DeVere's "Americanisms" (1872)! as being "almost a word of its own oeing suuugei in ius peculiar meahinf than the fuller form and almost exclusively applied to Yankees" x-- Rabbit was puzzled Peter to very much puzzled Truth tell Peter didn't know quite what to make of his own ears Here it was nignt a moonngni nigni to oe iwas ft i them do this often Btyt the voices that Peter was so surqne naa just heard had come from overhead out That could mean of a clear sky hut one thine— that the owners of thnso voices were flvintf Peter and Peter sat at the edge or me Old 8X111 nigni surt but up 1 H trf have sworn that ne naa ju pn his voices the heard °hn always ached " I certainl nijw tshe £ neck featured- friends yet I couldn'tfh ave head some True ' at PSht r jrht and them" he muttered "It must be sometimes awake in neard that j am dreaming jyet I never iwij felt more awake in my life There! jwyw There's one now! And there s an 4 mi m T other and another!" Peter suddenly scampered ijnto the dear Old Briar Patch in search of Mrs Peter "My (tear" said he when he found her fan! I asleep or am I awake?" Mrs Peter looked at Peter first she thought! he sharply At but was fooling whenjjshe saw how very much in earnesjjj" he was she began to be afraid tigat jsometning was the matter with liim "Don't be silly Petjr" said she "I'm not silly'' declared Peter "I'm not silly the least little bit I My dear I want yoii to listen want you to sit perfectly still and listen with both earl as hard as § mi m ism it H L Mencken (The American Language) states that cute was "already secure in revolutionary you can So little Mrs Peter listened and days" Peter listened They listened and ' V V At first cute meant "having SIZES listened Mrs Peter Vas just about £ ask or quick sensibility" It next to this Peter nice vfhat ready meant When siuddenlv clevhieh came to mean "sharp-witte- d on the took it Then above them the twicer of a bird er" meaning: J JB8H W Wm was heard Faint bur clear it came "Attractive by reason of daintiness down to them the cal of one bird to another and then the reply There cried Peter triumphantly mmW Did you hear that qt did I dream M that I heard it?" n "I heard it all right' replied lit 1t was one bird tle Mrs Peter rmWw-id the other calling to another answering But wh of it? What is there to get so ex ted about?" "Fuzzy my dear" replied Peter 'what birds you mow fly at nieht?" Little Mrs Peter lopked thoughtwo ful "Hooty the' Owl" she replied nciiy as a picture 'and Boomer the Nikhthawk and dress for her ruffles with eyelet — and' — d sunfrock j Sunday best! Sew the '"There isn t any other and cried Peter triurnphatfitly "you version ofi Pattern 4619 for her Comfy panties know as well as I do that most of peppy playtimes our feathered frientfe fly by day inciuaea Pattern 4619 sizes 2 4 6 8 Size Yet those vbjees we pave only 6 frock some were of the l4 yds n eyelet edgof heard just 2 xmow Warbler family my dear ing yds Send twkntv cents in coins for what does it mean?" 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