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Show "Papa" and "Mamma." The use of "papa" in this country illustrates il-lustrates tho flow and ebb of fashion in words, as in costumes, pretty clearly. All authorities agree that "papa" and "mamma" arrived here from France In the seventh century, says the London Chronicle. At first they were court ly expressions, and were uand by "persons "per-sons of fashion," .adults ns well as children, in the eighteenth century. But with the nineteenth the middle classes took them up, originally regarding re-garding them as genteel; in our own time one of the faults of the hero of "E dunno Were e' are." after coming Into 'a litUo bit o' splosh," was that ho 'ad the cheek and lmpldence to n I m0ther 'ls ma-" Tho al result re-sult followed. Everybody's words adopted as ffenteel becaxno vulgar and now "papa" and "mamma" aro dyinz out, GTa among children. |