Debasing Influence of Low Words

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 13, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 33.

Debasing Influence of Low Words.

Printers' Ink tells us of a dealer whose letter-heads are adorned with his wife's and his own pictures. Under the latter is the inscription, "That's me;" under the former, "That's the old woman." We should think seriously several times before patronizing such a dealer. It seems the height of vanity—and so many people of the most refined taste feel it to be—to place one's portrait prominently on letter-heads when to add to this such a vulgar allusion to one's wife, caps the climax. No man can think so much of his wife after thus referring to her as he did before. It demeans her in his eyes. The reflex influence of the word used belittles and vulgarizes and hardens the soul of the man. Use pure, refined words.