Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1904 — The Profane English Language. [ARTICLE]

The Profane English Language.

At a suburban station there entered two men of the submerged tenth. I diagnosed one as being of the genus navvy and his compatriot as in some way connected with the building Industry. One of my visitors was endeavoring to explain to his fellow traveler that owing to misdirection on the part of a porter he had missed the previous quicker train. Would you believe it, that the poor fellow, to make this small Incident clear to his companion, had to employ aB auxiliaries: Seventeen adjectives of a lurid hue. Five appeals to the Almighty. Two invocations that his own eyesight might be destroyed. Three invocations re the eyes of the official. Seven Iterations of the name of tbs infernal regions. One side issue, necessitating the name of the Messiah. Seventeen adjectives of simple obscenity. Four expletives of an unclassified nature.—Pall Mall Gazette.