THE LANGUAGE OP SWEET SIXTEEN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2339, 1 October 1881, Page 3

THE LANGUAGE OP SWEET SIXTEEN.

•My daughter never uses slang," says come staid paterfamilias, who is denouncing the idea that the American young lady speaks any other than the purest College-taught English, and he is sincere in his belief. But should some curious senior, with an eye to the truth, linger near this young lady and her school friends, ten to one this is an exact and not overdrawn description of what he would hear. " Meet me on the ave' this aft' and we will go to the mat'." " No! not this aft' on the ave'." " Well, good aft*!" " I had a perfectly mag' time, and don't you forget it." " Don't give me awßy, Kate." " Well I should softly exclaim." " I should blush to murmur." " I should remark." " I should mutter." " I should smile." " Are you going to the musicale ?" " You just bet I am," " Have you got your lesson in physical geography ?" " What do you take me for ?" " I told the Qar.' I wanted a new handier* chief dress." " Did he tumble to the racket ?" " Did he trail ?" " Did he catch on ?" "He forked over, girls, and it's my treat." These are the sweet girl graduates who stand up in the month of roses and read charming essays on "TheEealand the Ideal," " Life as it Should Be," " Beforais," and other practical subjects, and who turn from admiring teachers to whom they have listened with tears in their mock-serious eyes, to say in a low aside, " He's giving us taffy, girls," and who christen everything that does not please them as " snide." This period of slang among eohool girls is infectious. They oatoh it just as they did the measles and whooping cough at aa earlier age, and it runs its course and leave* them about as hamvlessly. Their good, proper mothers and grandmothers Baid all their lives, " Will you take a walk P" The " Dare-to-be-a Daniel" of this age says to her chum, " Take a crawl on the ave ?"—" Free Press."