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Show i ' 1 wfiUUti' I irrarinn Scorning JUn- " -n rommon iu i'arne .gcrvcajsmgl eM. 1 til -gygjAsUoslon man recently paiil(-vlalt It -nj,,''to a small town In Vermont nnd was I surprised and shocked at tho amount , of profanity lis heard In tho streets of that village. He declared that all tho men and boys swore Incessantly In their conversation! that with them profanity had become Instinctive, commonplaco and even nocessary. It bad through long use lost all Its force and emphasis, had become an Inseparable Insep-arable part of tho ov cry-day nnd simple sim-ple speech. Ills remarks seem to bear out tho k I, recent statements of n prominent N'ow "i York lawyer who claims that tho In habitants of the smaller villages of the ' ' country do more swearing In ono week than n person would bear In a large . , , city In n munth. Ills views on the do- , , crcaso of profanity In our largo cities ,'! aro Interesting. Ho says: ranlty from the dally conversation la a matter of culturo rather than of religion. re-ligion. Men cease tq swear from gentlemanly gen-tlemanly Instincts, just as they avoid other forms of vulgarity. I attend a club regularly where several hundred men lunch each day men of all lines of trado and of the professions, men who smoko nnd drink their wines and liquors within reasonable bounds. Hut they don't swear. You will not hear one oath a day, and when you do It la a post of some story that Is told nnd Is droppeil In for picturesque emphasis. empha-sis. Tho same holds good of the men t meet In other walks of life. You don't hear much of It from the teamsters team-sters nnd other workmen In tho streets, 1 linvo heard more oaths from one country yokel In ono summer than from all tha men I hnve met In New York for the past 10 years." |