ANTI-SLANG SOCIETY.

Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 2047, 1 September 1876, Page 3

ANTI-SLANG SOCIETY.

HEEOTC EFFORTS OF YOUNG LATVIEB TO SUPPRESS THE AMERICAF LANGUAGE.

The "Reform Club" is the title of a new organization in the West Knd, organized by young ladies for the purpose of discouraging the use of "slang phrasei" in conversation. At a recent meeting, while a member was addressing the society, she inadvertently nude use of the expression "awful nice," and was called to order by a sister member for transgressing the rules. . "In what way have I transgressed?" asked the speaker, blushing deeply. . • "You said it would be 'awful nice to admit young gentlemen to our deliberations," replied the other. "Well, wouldn't It be?1' returned the speaker: " you Snow you said yourself no longer as;o than yesterdiy that —" ■ " Yes, I know ; but you said ' awful nice.' That's slang " " Well," said the speaker, tartly, " if you are going to be so awful nice about it. perhaps it is; but I wouldn't say anything if I were you. Didn t you tell Sallie Spriggins, this morning, to pall down her basquo ?"' . '• No, I didn't," retorted the other, her face growing crimson : " and Sallie Spriggins will say I didn't. She won't go back on me " " This is a nice racket you are giving us, cried the President, af tar rapping both speakers to order, '* Let us ask, what Is the object of this society ?" "To discourrge slang1!" cried a dozen voices, " Kerect," said the President, "go on with the funeral " A member rose to explain that she had been fined at the last meeting for saying " awful nice" herself, but she hadn't the "stamps" to pay it now—would eett'e however, " in tl>e sweet by and by." "That'll be all right," said the President; "pay when you have the ducats."..t*? Another member yitsked if a young lady could say, •' old splendid" without subjecting herself to a fine " You bet she can't," said the President, who was the oriftinal founder of the society, and was therefore appealed to when any nice question waa to be decided. " Then " said the speaker, "ImoTe that Miranda Pew ceme down with the dust, for Ihesrd her say, that her beau was " just old splendid." Miranda* face was in a blaze as she cried:

" "Well, if toy bfeatt was such an old halr-piii as your fellow is, I wouldn't say it." " Shoot the chinning," cried the president. " Will you never tumble?" "But the con ur.ioD was too great to be ailayed Miranda's blood was up ; some tidfd with her, and others against her, and amid the Babel that followed, could be heard snch exclamations as " diy up," *• nlco blackberry you are," " wipe cff your chin," " hire a hall,' etc , when a motion to adjourn was carried "by a large majority.'1