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Show OBJECTS TO 'DEAR OLD LADY i Writer Desires Abolition of What He Describes as the Sickly Sentl- mental Adjective. ; Words have a way of fallinj rlolenti ly In love with each other. One may watch sometimes the progress of th affair. A graceful adjective Is Introduced Intro-duced to a sturdy noun by some care less writer. The two strangers find themselves mutually congenial. They are thrown together constantly. AXv ter a while the wedding is quietly celebrated and the couple pass from-romance from-romance to humdrum respectability becoming such a couple perhaps "Bitter End," "Unparalleled Circumr stances" or "Critical Situation." Sometimes one is churlish enough to desire divorce for such a pair, as ia the case of your contributor and th collocation, "Dear Old Lady," says a writer in Scribner's. Vhy is it no ol3 lady, not positively wlclous, appears lnj Bpeech or print nowadays without th adjective "dear" nnounclng her? i Some of us iryi be many of usj are old ladles. Must we all be "dea old ladies"? Must all the pleasing and Interesting characteristics It has takea us a lifetime to cultivate be obliterated) by this vague, sickly sentimental blanket word? Nowadays most old ladies are so busy working for public causes that they have not time to protect theis own interests as they should. But leB us hope that after a while they will or ganlze a new association, to be called "The Society for the Promotion of Distinctive Characterizations for Old Ladies," and that it will have displayed prominently on its banners the slogan, "Down with the word 'Dear' I" , |