People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — They Never Use Slang. [ARTICLE]

They Never Use Slang.

“I just think it’s shameful the way Sallie Spittle jig spits Blang,” said a Harlem society girl to a friend in the elevated car. “My! If I twirled my talker as she does, my blooming old dad,would tan my duds until the dust was thicker than fleas , in fly time.” “You betcher yer brass and serve you right,” replied the other young lady. “My parents are sunflowers of the same hue, and if I should make a raw crack in my conversation they’d thrash the rosy cussedness out of my angelic anatomy quicker than old Parkhurst yanked the tiger out of his blooming hide.”—Texas Siftings,