Show IN SEW YORK third ikeie there abbit ta town aw 1 AM slang has reached ita development iu new york without it alie gossip of the town would lo 10 barren arid lethargic and inert it lends an airy grace lo 10 the most prosaic and commonplace events A collar duches remarked ft sixth a venue swell fi a lady who stood behind the counter of a small shop where I 1 had sought shelter from sli ower paper or tin naked iho duch ess with a gani admiration in her downy brown byca tut tut eaid alio llio swell reprovingly as he admired iiii finery in a ln not buying a dog dollar sweet tart ita not for lf then tuh go to thou art a was the dignified rejoinder get me a four ply bevel edged handing collar of the vintage and without any on the teams she passed it over the counter and the swell examined it critically fur a moment and then he id senell bouly ita a dollah lo llah sixteen cents said wi th an air of sudden as she meditatively scratched her head with a pencil beg barding par ding sixteen Si iteen benn well said the blood thought fully ill just lake it around to my apartment anil see if it fits my polka dot shirt if it des ill drop in make good and gel more nixa said the duch esa nix wh because eaid her grace calmly about half way auto your corvea in which case remarked tha swell with suavity 1 I had better produce the escada sixteen centa said the duchess the money waa paid herd waa a knowing interchange of smiles and then the swell sauntered out she was on to my corvea fer ft aftic he amiably to me aa he kasae 1 out wanah wan Lh Ilat ber and son he added with an air ot great sincerity im pretty near onto youra this is no place for a mash so we left together and and I 1 had no further chance of enjoying the conversation of the duchina duchi aa i 1 be phrase they bandied so easily struck me an being the labeet thing in slang it bomea from the bull field ol 01 course to art onto a pitch erd curves indicates great skill prescience and knowledge on the part of the man at the bat I 1 have heard the often of late as indicating sharpness and intuition there are one or two words which set the people laughing as soon as they are mentioned for some reason or another the great north american PUBLIC MADE ita MIND that there is nothing ly fundy than an allusion to whiskers A long ago pat booney awl to tell hilory in bis dialect about the manner in winch he had been abused by aini a law abidin inan he would ay savagely an ol 01 have a temper but alien aim alyin down under a tree in the park a nap an a man comes along an wipes liis 1 beet on me whisker bego bOi draw the line chii reference refe renco to whiskers started the bill any variety man who speaks the word whiskers is sure of a roar ono of the funniest things I 1 think I 1 ever heard is a song of evans the comedian of the parlor match detailing the boea of a poor woman who went forth into the world to seek her husband evans has a magnificent baritone voice and ha sang taij particular song with a depth of feeling and intensity that would have been deeply moving except for the words I 1 heard it last night if it had not been for the lack of time I 1 would bo able to give the merw here it detailed the awful misery of the unhappy wife jthn went out to bearch fur her husband voth her sobbed air evans in his song filled up with feet he lei la how she boea forth from door to door and finally nods her liui band sitting on a horse block with a cordial smile on his face while the wind igla through his whiskers ano effect of tha song on the multitude of theatre goers is inconceivable 0 o people who leave idea if the real holt that slang has upon the majority of new borkert kert it pervades every section of the town thia years buds said a roan in the other night are a bit shaggy about the fet locks but they er loaded to tho limit with the aluir stuff by the way means money it 19 a rather curious sort of thing that tho slang of people of one sort in town dues not coalesce with that of another the of the stage are astounding there are two words ahat actors and act are almost now which are never hoard the profession I 1 heard an emotional tragedy queen employ both of them recently t the in referring to a gentleman abi was making a courage coura gf oua but utterly futile attempt to support andersen tu playing obando notte what a jay he remarked tho shaking her head rachy HB is a nothing ehe ano quarrel acerie which one roads in sand books are stilted I 1 happened to be at a ou broad way bot 1 oa a go iu which the language was of the customary sort it was very early in the and two gentlemen n bilter dispute about n milter the trouble wilh yon chim mie ail one with ngar is alint iii ruy uppers oh 1 do do reaid sarcastically ild a pity about you h well nil alfi imperial nerve from you that alio season you make me tind uhro at mud who cat mul you at me cat mud ya as Biti ifil PEAK alano 01 ENGLISH I 1 remember playing one dav coming up new in a Pul linin or with three other men a mouth american a onsol find a C hirai A r with a large anil fubby t the car unil louk H opposite oura J aliey enado about caril playing for a while anil then raia lug lliter veiled began to ting lii niia at us wilh a vehemence and earu tiit aa that was almost beyond belief it waa an abominably discordant performance that it finally grew unbearable the nian brorn chicago laid down lua cards ij the muelle of a and looking across at the preacher baid majl you an your family aro making the hull cr fatigued drop if see arop it antl dunt take it up again life s too clort mhd here ilce aint a barracks nor a church ita a slee ier and we re not paying extra faro to hear your performance selah it is iu the fourth ward however that slang reached ita highest point some libbis no I 1 was coniing out of hajiera Ha riera building when the voice nt a boy seemed scarcely 0 years old arrested my attention ila waa a raed little urchin and am was pulling bis drem with one band while he pointed at the driver of ft pa asiu wilh the other the driver hid 11 rich burgundy color and it was concentrate i at the eul if his it was aliis eliat the child d attention 1 I ley rn udder ho daiil ay iy pipe h ijaga de roay beak til 1 he morgue jt waa akin in accent and n to another man whom I 1 heard as I 1 up broadway hii was a barker in front of n clieaf and I 1 stopped fur u moment tn listen he wore a huge cibar in the corner of his mouth and displayed an estr varying edcile just as I 1 was pacing his place be raised his vico ant cried my bawd can these things bt everybody stopped hero I 1 yam continued the barker in a of gho otin aft ma mouth like a wild etian an for what purpose here lie turned addressed the crowd gents he aid solemnly ver of a lifetime lite time pway from that winder boy or ill kick yer lun an whose t blame am I 1 N walk iu I 1 an look at availed of U rope an an halave covellica from the coria of fukio B kio and the barker then lowered iiii voice to a chiper wh iper and added con all fer an euni of one dime or 10 cents including inc ludin a troop of wild eyed children Chil dien rf borneo n living skeleton of llie a cork girl who ald lir li r joae th daig uv four beon ti ul Tri pleta at this point he lost all control of and yelled not for pig gull hinkie france s favorit or it son ho can ut im bia pants over h n hear bein backed iia again hi burld br us ur tha e nor bui of adno hundred dollers gash but then slang is baand baaed a good deal on locality in the far west a man speaks of factory in wag noay as a dandy turnout stranger in newport it fews aia devilish bragger tray ol hap and there a bit of Hur tont cyp 1 l birtle na sawyer lie typewriter type writer to the president elect is a very quiet looking be slie wears a little apron and dresses in sober col ond on d clothes that make her look as demure as a ll eally if she would put on a cap you might take her for a birr hair is and she wears it piled loose on the top of her head her ayea are blue or eray of the sort that you cant ell which and large her faco id alio llio face of H country girl in the plump roundness of its red cheeks and the clear carmine of its lip altogether she is as pretty and demure n little typewriter lady ahyou wih sec in a altya journey I 1 and see her rattling her chita fingers over the key of her machine you would never thick irom her looks that perhaps sho pounding cabinet appointments out of her noisy instrument alio looks 20 years old aal probably looks older than she is taco girls who work in and run typewriters typewrite ra usually do hut she doca not look like the nort of a girl wham it would pay you to try to elicit state secrets from fur there is a about the mould of her rounded chin and a quiet self contained look iu her blue pray ayea that convinces you a SHIU aa you aeo her that she knows her busi oes there i a big gold ring too on the index finger of her left hand but eave this she wears scarcely n bit of jewelry ablio would impress yon H if you wanted a girl type hiiter n good one to have tourish Tour on bint or ut clr i t aati aiti on alio klinc bowdls tn tan il ol 01 li h ekit bof in mit ml ono doll ir bottei bott fi I 1 v all ali leu ieng |