Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1881 — Anti-Slang Phrases. [ARTICLE]

Anti-Slang Phrases.

* The “Reform Club” is the title of a new organization by young ladles for the purpose of discouraging the use of “slang phrases” in J conversation. At a recent meeting, while a member was addressing the society, she inadvertantlv made use of the expression “awful nice,” and was called to order by a sister member for transgressing the rules, i ' , “In what way fiave 1 transgressed?” asked the speaker, blushing deeply. “You Baid it would be ‘awful nice’ to admit young gentlemen to our deliberations.” replied the other. • ; “Well, wouldn’t it be?” replied the speaker," “You know you said yourself, no longer ago than yesterday, that-” W “Yes. I know; but you said ‘awful nice,’ that’s slang.” .‘ Well,” said the speaker, tartly, “if you are going to be so awful nice about it, perhaps it is; but I wouldn’t say anything if I were you, Didn’t you tell Bailie Bpriggins this morning to pull down her basque?” “No, I didn’t,” retorted the other, her face growing crimson, “and Bailie Bpriggins will say I didn’t. She won’t go back on me.\’ •‘This is a nice racket you are giving us,” cried the president, after rapping both speakers to order. “Let me ask what is the object of this society?” “To discourage slang I” cried a dozen voices. * “Correct,” said the president, “go on with the funeral” t A member rose to explain that she had been fined at the last meeting for saving ‘’‘awful nice” herself, but she hadn’t the stamps tojMjy'jt now/but would settle, however;far ih the sweet Jt’lPbe afl right,” said the president: “pay when you have the ducats.” Another member then asked, “cap a young lady say ‘old splendid’ without subjecting herself to a fine?” “You bet she can’t,” said the president, who was the original founder of the society, and therefore appealed to when any nice question was to be decided. “Then,” said the speaker, “I move that Miranda Pew comedown with the dust, for I heard her say that her beau was ‘just old splendid.” “Well, if my beau was such a hairpin as your fellow is I would not say it.” " ' ’ “Shoot the chinning,” said the president, “will you never tumble?’ But the confusion was too great to be allayed. Miranda’s blood was up: some sided with her and others against her and amid the Babel that followed could be heard such exclamations as, “Dry up!” “Nice huckleberry* you are!” “Wipe off your chin!” “Hire a hall!” etc., when a motion to adjourn was carried by a laige majority. • At a Smoking. Concert—Herr Professor: “You hafa fileaain foice, my young went! Put you font brotueeit Ina lechidimate vay!” Our Tehor: “Perhaps if I did 4t would no longer “Harr Professor: “Acb! Vat of dat? Bleasure is hot efferv ding! You should alvays brotuoeyonr foice in a lechidimate vay, vedder R ; gifs bleasure or not!” .