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Avoid Slang

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 19, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 47.

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Avoid Slang

Avoid Slang.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox says of the young woman: “Let her realize that choice language enhances her mental charms, and that slangy words and phrases cheapen her value and bedraggle her mind as much as paste, and brass jewelry, and frayed-out, soiled skirts would ruin her personal appearance.” And this is emphatically true and more. The soiled, frayed-out skirt might be the result of accidents of a journey, but not so the speech. It is the index of the mind.