Indiana University School of Dentistry - Prognosis Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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1 mga qerognnsis z f31nniana imma! QZUIIBQB 1904 Qtmmal nival grafter, we are not sure Whichg at any rate, his suc- cess was not great enough to bring him much money or fame. -. The second young man used slang in but one placef- his Writings--for the purpose of amusing and instructing the people, because he needed the money. And the ,last We heard of him, he, George Ade, was buying automobiles and farms- and was spoken of by the people as the great English dialect author, and such he is. Moral: Everything has its use in the right placeg but do not pack pink rubber around the pins. . HOWARD R. RAPER.

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tftbe qaroguosisi : glunianawental Qtnllege : 1904 Qlmmal A FABLE P 'ey HERE once lived in this country two bright Young Americans who had at- W tended high schoo-l and college, where SI the were, of course, warned a ainst 0' '9 Y b I I 'Q d d' ' I h d l l I 5555555555 5555 555555 5555555 M' x . ' NJ slang must necessarily sink. Immediately upon leaving college theseyoung Ameri- cans Cbecause they were Americans, I guessj began to- use slang. And such slang! The newsboys, or the circus roust- abouts, weren't in it with them- gi' and the older folks had to- have their sons and daughters- translate many of the young men's sayings into a less complex form of Englishg for, it must be remembered, they had not had the advan- tage- of a modern college training. i But each one of these young men 'had his own way, place, purpose and reasons for using the prevalent -dialect: The lirst, whose name we have forgotten, used it in ordi- nary conversation, extraordinary conversation, writings and every place else he could, for the purpose oi express- ing his thoughts-at first, because he thought it sounded well, or funny, and because he wanted to show his old English teacher that what he had said didn't amount to muchg but linallysbecause he had become such a degen- erate that he could no longer expresshimself in any other manner with easep In his world nobody ever died- they kicked the bucket The United States mint, instead of making quarter, half and whole dollars, turned out two bitsf' four bits and Kplunksf ,according to his vocabulary. By the constant use of such phrases he made a bad im- pression wherever he went, and the last we heard of him he was a poor practicing Dental Surgeon, or a street car-

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