GREAT WORDS DEFINED IN EPIGRAM.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 249, 17 October 1908, Page 11

GREAT WORDS DEFINED IN EPIGRAM.

By WILLIAM GEORGE JORDAN. TEARS. The silent speech of sorrow. Nature's automatic relief to grief. The heart overflowing into the eyes. Woman's last argument. Emotion bursting the bonds of reserve. The universal expression of all the hightide moments of the soul. The melting point of the emotions. The heart seeking to voice the inexpressible. The soul"s outburst in the Gethscinane of a sorrow. ENVY. Egotism gone to seed. Mental dyspepsia because some one else is feasting. Tne mud that inferiority throws at success. The malicious contemplation of the powers or possessions of another. Belittling the honours of those we cannot cijual. The gangrene of unsatisfied desire that eats away purpose and kills energy. Inability to bear bravely the prosperity of another. The vice that turns one's own clothes to rags at sight of another's ermine. Appreciating a quality, depreciating its possessor. SLANG. Conversational coin minted by the people. The fresh red blood of current speecu. Words bearing the bar sinister of vulgarity. High spiced verbal seasoning to conversation. The humour, poetry, and metaphor of the people focussed in a word or phrase. Verbal needs in the garden of speech. Squatter sovereignty of speech. Wild broncos of language not broken to harness. Verbal upstarts seeking to enter the select society of language. PUBLIC OPINION. The pulse of the people. Canned wisdom for those who do not do their own thinkiug. The thoughts of the few becoming contagious among the many. The golden calf that Society worships. The public, sitting as a jury ou great Questions. An ever-changing ocean formed by tne rivers of countless opinions. A community's guesses at trntb. A conscience owned by a syndicate. A milliou echoes, but one voice. The world's snbstitnte for private Jndgmea-