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Show A ittald of All Work Affective. I inquired of the head mistress of girls' school why she so frequently mad use of the adjective 'nice. ' ' She replied, "Because It i3 such a useful maid of all work adjective and saves one tho trouble trou-ble of thinking 1' ' 'Then you teach your girls to be inaccurate?" "I don't think it is being inaccurate. The word in most cases expresses my meaning better than any other. " A relative of mine reproved one of hex nieces for her liberal use of "awfully jolly." The young lady replied: re-plied: "Oh aunt, do not deprive me of i that awfully jolly expression If I were deprived of it, I shouldn't know wnan to say." The frecuent use of tho expletive ' "you know" was justiCed to me on the ground that it keeps the listener's attention at-tention awa'te. The fashionable novel presses into its service these flowers of speech In Mr. Norris' "Countess P.aclna" a young gentleman gen-tleman thus addresses a young lady, "I'm so awfully sorry that you ait going to desert ns. " 'I'm awfully sor ry to havo to go," replied the girl com posedly, ' 'and my parents will be awfully aw-fully sorry to see me. " Of this young lady's two lovers the author himself declares in the same chapter (24) that one was much "nicer" than the other. In chapter 37 the nicer one, in declining an invitation, says, "Thanks swfully, but I'm afraid J an't" Notes and Queries. |