Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — Intensified. [ARTICLE]

Intensified.

Strange meanings are to be extracted from words. The most remarkable are sometimes the result of desperation. If a boy “can’t think” of his answer, he Is likely to manufacture it. A teacher tells, in the Brooklyn Eagle, this story of “drawing out” the power dormant In the pupil’s mind. He was explaining to a farmer lad, who was studying Latin, and had been called on to recite, the fact that a preposition often intensities the meaning of a verb. “Take cavo, for instance,” he said, “It means to hollow out. Now what will a preposition do to it?” “Intensify It, sir." “That’s right. Now what would exeavo mean?” i “To holler out louder.” young master nnu iuutiress. It was iiot until after he was married that young Mason knew of the wealth he had gained with his noble-souled young wife. His eyes opened wide, and