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Show . y , "SIR" AXD "MA'AM" OUT OF DATE. By Mrs. Martha Foote Crow. Our grandmothers said "yes, sir," and "yes, ma'am," "no, sir," and "no, ma'am," and to the child who was properly reared the use of these stiff and formal terms of address was as natural as breathing. But they are in bad taste nowadays and out of date. They are so old-fashioned as to be worthy of a place upon the highest shelf of antiquities. an-tiquities. "Yes, Mrs. Smith," or "Xo, Mr. Brown," are much more sensible and in better taste. Even plain "yes" or ' o" sounds much better. Another word which is not in good form is "coed." "co-ed." It is not artistic. It is slangy. It is not at all nice, and young women students at the universities universi-ties should be the first to resent the use of the word in reference to them. Girl students are not "co-eds." They are "young women," or "young ladies." la-dies." The word has been overworked. The idea of calling young women "girls" also is incorrect. Very, very few of the female students stu-dents in the universities are any longer girls. They are young women, or young ladies, if they 60 prefer pre-fer to be called,' but they should no longer be referred re-ferred to as "girls." Too many of the young women students in the universities spend the time which should be spent in reading in picking out crochet patterns published pub-lished in the magazines and papers. This is deplorable. de-plorable. Such a thing is out of date, and will do i only for provincials. Young women students should not spend this time fussing over such things. And I would go farther and say that any magazine which contains crochet advertisements and reading matter is not fit to be read. |
