GIRL SLANG-STINGERS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 235, 12 February 1880, Page 3

GIRL SLANG-STINGERS.

N-otking sounds as repulsive to inasculine ears, or is more discordant to sensible women, than the ind sormilnate ust of the absurd slang and nonpertinent jargon so largely in use nowadays among our young ladies ol >- society. It is harmless, but it is so useless and idiotic, that it lies outside of the scope of condemnation. It is disgusting to any ma:, to hear th? fresh, blood flashed, beautiful mouths of young gx.s warbling—like sweet, bells jangled cut of tune—- about matters ami men audj so forth : “So awfully jolly !” “ Ain’t he a tumbler !’ ’ “ Awfully firs’t rate?” “We gave him the g.*-by ?” “1 hut show was the boss and don’t ydu forget it I ” .“ Nannie’s having a circus to-night I” “ She dances true,!’’ “ Tha-w-nks !” “ Quite too awfully handsome !” “Pitch on ycur dicer and let’s go for the picturesque !” -and so fortli. - This jargmijs not only forced, but thoroughly a * bore. It sounds as out of place, coming ftbin girls, as would profanity, and its proper place is that region to which it owes its birth—-the variety stage. Those simple-naimled Sentimentalities of. feminine fas.boning Use it, beli ving that it garnishes their speech ; while it is very often the most impressive portion of their colloquial still it is the most unpleasant. They force it into conversation as people teometnhes .; compel their stomachs to take unsavory , food, and they resemble nothing more closely than the young man, who, after his first spree, boasts of the fact. When he has been tight 300 times or so, and grows older, he is very anxious to impress the public with the idea that he is abstemious. He has learned more, and fostered what natural sense lie, ever had into a marked activity by that dame X s° °ur sisters, our cousins, and our aunts should do, as regards slang, before they begin to be i. s Victims, r.-. - '