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Show Girl and Grammar. "Out In my town," said a Kentucky editor, "everybody doesn't uso as correct cor-rect English as they do In Boston, just as In Boston everybody doesn't drink as good liquor as wo do in Kentucky. "Not long ago a young woman from tho Hub came out our way to spend somo time on a farm a mile or two out of town. She had met tho farmer's folks somewhere and camo out to try hor hand at chicken raising, being an enterprising young lady. "One day sho camo Into tho store of ono of our merchants with half a dozen chickens tied together by tho feet nnd laid them down on a sack whllo sho negotiated a sale. Tho merchant observed that they wero in rather an lnsccuro position. "'Will thoy lay there, Miss Julia?' ho asked, with never a thought of his grammar slnco ho loft school. " 'Oh, no,' sho ropllcd, half blushing and half reproving; 'they aro all roosters.' roost-ers.' "Slnco then tho merchant has been trying to coax Miss Julia to quit chicken raising and go to school teaching, teach-ing, and tho rest of us are bocomlng more particular In our language when tho young lady Is around." New York Herald. |
