A YOUNG LADIES' ANTI-SLANG SOCIETY.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 260, 21 February 1877, Page 3

A YOUNG LADIES' ANTI-SLANG SOCIETY.

Tim " Reform Club" w* tdie title of a now miciei.y in Sydney, New South Wale*. I'V lilll't'X f-u- the pur 1««(: of ili.wi>ui'a,ifiiig tho li»u of j>l»ni--»- .- [u conversation. At a recent. meeting, while ii. member wiw addressing the sooiyty , she inadvertently made use "t the expression 1 -awful nice," and was called to order by a sis'-m? uuiiutav fi>c typing th ■■ I'ltloS. "fu what way havo t hv u». ! jri.-s>«.. , *t I linked bin: sp slk, i-*, i)lu.--liitt J." deeply. " You sat •' \vi>*1111 l>o ' a.'.vc'nl iiia l to >l,l :■ . .cllileuicil to our debb.-ra* Mull,; r, '• -ii .lie other. •• \\. il .v ■ . lu'f. it l>o ■!" returned t'ur v.. Ik -f , ■ . : know yen sall yoiiyx -.f (><> yvsn-rday t',i; t.i- " ■■ j I. m iiv ; Imt Villi. s:'.ld 'awiut v i ■ -dang." ..M : fchu speaker, tartly, "it .yu an« ;;oing tn 1 >•-' si» awt'ul nieea.bont it*, perhaps it is ; Imt I wouldn't s.i.y anything u t wm'i! ynu. t'idu t you lull Sal lit? Spru;'ginn, tliin morning, to pull down her hiiHi|iii! " N*o, I didn't," retorted. the other, tier face ijrmvin g crimson ; "an.l Sall'e Spng;;inn will say f uidn't. She won, tgo back on inc." " This is a n;c « racket you are giving us," cried tiic I'ivsiilerit. after rapping both speakers to ord r. " Let u.-* ask. j what is the oliji'i't ot this soci/ty." ; '' Tn discourage slang I" cried a do/.en j VoilTS. "Kenvt," cried the President. "(Jo I on wir.h the funeral." ! A iii; nlln>r rose to explain, thai". she had | bri'ii lined at the la.st meeting for saying | "awful uiee" herself, hub she hadn't the I " stamps to |>;iv it now - woeJd settle. ' however. ' in the sweet by-anddiye.' "That'll I 'o all right." said the Prest- | dent.; ''pay when you have the dima's, j Am't.lier member asked, if a. young lady 1 could say "old splendid" without sub- I jei'tuig herself to a H»h\ | "Yon bet «1 U! eau't." said the President, who was the original founder "f the *oeivlv, and was therefore appealed; to when any niee point was to lie decided. "Then," said the speaker. "£ moire that Miranda Tew eome down with thy dust, hh' t heard her say that tier beau was ' juxb ~|i| li>rnlitt Miranda.'s t'aee wr.s in- a as she ovirtl - " Well, if Uiy beau w;w such an °'d hair-pin as yemr fellow is I wouldn't *uy it," ' the idiinuing," cried the th'esi<h'nl'., "\\ j|| y nl( . uo vcr tnuil'de !" I 'lit (i'H> eoni'u.siou. vva.s too great to f>e ll " : ',Ved. Miranda.'s btooil wa» np. S.>m-.! Ml| lpd with her and others against her. and Amid the l>al>el: that followed could he heard sne!i e^ela.illa- 11 ions as '* C>rj- up. • ' i i.i l.iieiry you are," '"VS>ipe oll ' ' '• ' Hie© a hall:/' Ac., wheu a t adji'itrrv wtv» carried "by a lar:, ...