ANTI-SLANG SOCIETY. HEROIC REPORTS OF YOUNG LADIES TO SUPPRESS THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 667, 21 September 1876, Page 3

ANTI-SLANG SOCIETY. HEROIC REPORTS OF YOUNG LADIES TO SUPPRESS THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE .

The ' Reform Clul»' U the title of a new orginiziuniu (.he Wost Eul, organize! bjr youn^ Udiea tor the purpoao oi ducourting the Uro of ' aluug plinaea' in conversion. At a reuei»t meeting, while a mem it w«c add reading Die 80 ciety, the iiiadr«rt«<<tly mtde use of iti* expression ' awml nice/ and waa-c tiled to order 07 a finer member for transgrw •in^ the rule*. " In what way h«re I tran'g'eaud ?" Mktd the »p«ak«r, bluthing dwply " You »aid it would be 'awful nco' to aduit youn* uenilrmnn to our u«ubjr<i« lion," replied ihe other. " Well, woul n't it be ?" returned (he •p -alter " ywu know 30U euid youraelf. no Linger ago tuaii yealerd.iy thai—" " Yd#. I know ; but jou Mid 'awful nice.' ' hat* ■lung." " Well," iuM the ipe<k«r, tartly, "if you are i^oing to be «o a.tful nioa uuout it, p-ji-hap* it 11 ; but I wouldn't «a/ an/tliiu^ 41 I we c jrou. Lh In't you t«U Salne BpriggiiiKi, tnu nuruiug, to pull dowu her baquj?" "Nj, 1 didn't retorttJ tne othar, her fa-e gromiiifn oriuuua ; " and dali.e "»prigHi<m will My 1 didu't. She wao't go •baolt oa me." '• l'hii u a nico racket you are giving u«," cri^d the I'reaident, after rapping both i^eikera to ordrr. " Let us aak, wliat it the dbj -ct of ihia aooiety ?" "Todifcourage alaug i" cued a doz.n Toioet. " Kereolt" laid the Fre*id«nt, "go on mi h th» Tunara'." A member rote to • xpiam tbit the had been fined at the lai mcc ing fur laying ' awlul nice' her** f, but «lie hadn't ihe fltum^i' to pay it now would ttttilehow«v<sc ' m the »we«t by and by.' " Thut'll o« »tl right" iaiU the Fr «idtnt; " pay when you tiarv* the ducal •" Anotiur member a«ked if a young lady oiuld «ay, ' old rpieudid' without iuojjctiog h ir«#if to a fine " You oet *hn can't" said tb* Freiiden , wha waa tliw original founder of tie w oiety, and was tlicref jre appealed to whun any mcc qu«diun waa to be decided, ••Than «.tid the i«peaaer, "I move that 31iran<4* Few come down with the dmt, lor 1 heard her say, that her bdiiu w*« '* juat old aplendid" Miruudu'a face wa* ia a bluzo ai ibe cried : ' Wei], if my beau was im-h an old 'hturpin »■ jour fo low U, I wouldn't t*j it." ''Shoot the chinning," crici the pro aident. " Will you never tumb'e ? ' But the eonoiujun wa* too grtut to bu allayed, Mi-anda'a blood waa up 5 aotno aidei with her, and o:hera against her, and ami I the Babel that lollowed, could be heard aujh rxclamatioßs aa 'dry u ," " moo bliickberry you are 1 ' " wipe oil your ohm," hiro a hull," e;c, whun a motion for adjournment wui carried " by a large major ■ y,"