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Show UP LANGUGE. A New Fad 'Which Is Ji? Under Discus-glon Discus-glon In England's Ujcr Tendom. "Lip language" is umrstood to be the latest craze which will icupy the spare time of society in fheriace of banjo playing and skirt danng. Somebody once sang something atit: Whin meek gray eye? dl-' etill more meek And dimples play lii'di'.'d seek. There's but one iangruo..,vpS'can fpeak 'Tls brief, but rathereasant. Perchance w e havdl of us had some experience of this hd in bur time, but it is quite a dtffererkindof lip language that I am now alluog to. It is reading and understanding Drds shaped, by the lips without articueh. ' That this is pof rms. well known by the efficient mannoij Jiich deaf actors have been able to 'ke their part on the stage, and if peopllecme proficient in the art it will be jrprising how quiet society will becom r Doubtless life will be somewhat dulJut at any rate we ! 6hallbe spared thatjrpetual babble and cackle which ofttis makes a dinner party so wearisornaud we shall get rid of the roar a id buJf overcrowded assemblies. as-semblies. ' If perfection ia tained ii. the art, writh a couple of gi opera glasses people peo-ple will be able tonverse when a considerable con-siderable distance jrt. Tht, male practices prac-tices of the art v undoubtedly have to shave, and it w be a nice point of law to find whethe ander or libel con' veyed by this sile system will beau J tionable or not. i Probably the onleople who will or ject to the new pime will bo those perpetual jabbers,ose incessant jaw exercisers, to whonothing is so sweet as the sound of thiown voices. London Lon-don Graphic. 1 |