OUR COUESE IN ENGLISH.

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 19, 22 January 1921, Page 14

OUR COUESE IN ENGLISH.

Conversations for the Benefit of Those Who Wish to Obtain Quickly a Knowledge of Our Esteemed Language.

.The trained dogs.are acting on the stage before an audience. They are doing a lot o£ wonderful tricks. The man is directing them. The. audience is applauding It took a long time for the dogs to learn these tricks. The man had to train them, constantly. This was hard on the man. { But the audience does not care about the man. They are looking at the dogs. All they seel are the tricks. They do not see ho.w tlie' dogs were trained. Neither do we, for that matter. I shall tell you, if you'd like me to. Yes, you do like mo to. The dogs are trained with dope. And they are whipped, and sometimes starred. Shall I go on? No, you say not. You do not like to hear that. And so wo shall just look at the dogs and applaud them. It is bettor so (expression of American resignation). We are happy when we do not know everything. Ah, yes; that is plain. That is in every language. New York Life. >

• Warm Language.—" He had a lantern jaw, and his whole face lit up. His cheeks flamed, he gave a burning .glance, and then, blazing with anger and boiling' with rage, he administered a'scorching rebuke." Smith: " Say. how about that great soheme you had of,raising- money? Did you ever put it through?" Wilderapin: "No, I didn't need to." Smith: "How's that?" Wilderspin; 1"' It fell through."

The editor was frightfully bu3y. He couldn't see anyone; ■ ■ . . When, an old friend sent up his card he sighed, but decided riot to see him. | He called in. the office boy. " Look" here," he said, " you must, tell this mar. I'm out. I can't see hint, and I wouldn't offend him for -the world, so be sure to convince him that I really am out. You see?" ■ •

"Yes/sir," said the boy. Then, after a pause—"l think I .should be sure to convince him you were out if I went to. him smoking one of your best cigars 1"