Halloo | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 27, 1882

"Halloo."

Referring to unladylike manners and modes of address, a gentleman writes that, passing two pretty, well-dressed, stylish-looking young ladies in the public streets, he was surprised to hear one greet the other with, "Halloo, Sid!" and the other respond, "Halloo, Tude!" to her friend's greeting, and he remarked it was just what two lounging young men might have said, or stable boys for that matter. It might not have been so much out of the way for the latter, but I confess it sounded very odd and offensive, in what I supposed to be two well-bred young ladies; as much so as if I had heard two beautiful, gay, rose-colored parrots begin to make use of slang.

It was so unnatural and out of place. It may be the "style" for young girls or ladies to greet each other with a "Halloo," but I can't like it or get used to it. These things may seem but a trifle, but they make all the difference between nice things and very common things. - Sel.