USES BIG WORDS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2788, 11 October 1910, Page 2

USES BIG WORDS.

" What hip words he uses !" said one lady to another as they were coming out of church. " Yes," was the reply ; " he has a decided poly-syllabic propensity. Nevertheless hia discourses Rive me satisfaction." The pood lady was not conscious that she had the " polysyllabic pro pensity " herself. " What caused your little boy's illness ?" asked a plain mother of a mother whose little son was not well.

" He was climbinp a ladder," said the lady, " and lost his equilibrium."

" Poor little fellow I" said the sympathetic woman. "Do buy him another ; he'll be more careful next .time !"

A lady who was making a call on some acquaintances observed that the furniture had been changed, and remarked to the hostess :

" You have been metamorphosed, haven't you ?" "Yes," said the other, hesitatingly. " You mean whitewashed, I suppose. It looks much better, doesn't it?"

" Did you find the people indigent ?" asked a clergyman of a wealthy member of his church who had been calling on some very poor families.

" Oh dear no," answered the lady. " They were respectable but as poor as poverty."