Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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That's wh conclusion when why we have reac THE HOUSE O THE STY I You'll like these \ thing that a man c coats?good style fabrics, long serv: your best interest sr and Re ihdRTy^wf^^TflHPW I AT 1-2 Pric ivir xmnr urtiioi iy j v^iy ) unuoi make a mista mason's best sty] practically 1 nt out on approval nices is Store ?aak* I 11 p IS is the rock on which has been if this store; it is the most imjly contact with you?with all Ve strive to make it mean evnplies. here begins long before you our suit or overcoat; we preths before you walk into our * y satisfaction is a foregone you buy clothes here; that's ly for you clothes from F KUPPENHEIMER AND rLEPLUS MAKERS clothes; they provide every ould ask for in Siuts or Overj, fine workmanship, all-wool ice. We assembled them with in mind. t" ese a _ , ??ma CHILDREN NEED WHOLESOME FOOD At least one-fifth of all the school iS children in the United States are unrjil dernourished today, it has been cstijgg, mated. This condition is not the re^ |j| suit,- as in many lands, of lack of food, but comes about because in ??? many cases American mothers are jjg not giving their children the right pi jkinds of food. The right kind is not p: necessarily more expensive than the 55 wrong kind ar.d oftentimes costs less. ; An undernourished child is physicalHf ly, mentally, and sometimes morally ZJL below Mar am! shows it in appear ance. -chool work, n I conduct. ~ -? , j|gi \ In c/vler to area ? the attention p of parents to the ne.o.isity of giving ' [J| a child proper food, at many fairs jjjj home demonstration agents, working gjf'under the United States Department U'of Agriculture and the State agriiulm tural colleges, have measured and 1 |U weighed the children brought to _ _ I i|j them at their booths. At the Windsor ICll M Fair in Connecticut 177 boys and girls were weighed and measured by " fVio Vinnio Homnn^tvnf inn ntrpnt TVlf> |8 majority were from 8 to 12 years of IVC IB age. Of the 85 boys who were S?!weighed, 43 were underweight. Of biH the 02 girls, 55 were underweight. IB Arrangements have been made with the home economics committee of, fif the town to follow up the cases 2er"a5 1 |?j; where they were marked signs of malyS | nutrition. The children themselves .HI i were much interested and were gjikeen about learning how to gain Ullweight and health. Bulletins on child ^g;ieeuinj? ana suggestions as tu fij' changes in diet were received with HI appreciation. ?ii1 Talks on proper diet for a child -l |gj are sometimes given to the children IB'"1 choolrooms. In Pottawatamie HI County, Iowa, the home demonstrag?? tion agent in September talked to gg| 5,029 children in schools on the va!g? lue of milk, cereals, and vegetables sy H ' SCALED TINS ONLY a g| Wj^,/ AT YOUR GROCtfcS g J Ymmi house jj coffee j in their diet. c< When possible, a second weighing pi is made several weeks after the first p< talk, when the children have had fc time to obtain results from changing is their diet. The improvement is b< marked in those who have followed tc instructions. si j n< FAULTY ENGLISH Pv Horace Teall, in the Inland Printer. | One undubitable fact that is sel-;^c E dom sufficiently recognized is here, st the subject of thought which must be out sketchily expressed but which? ni at least so the writer thinks?is n< rc worthy of a suggestive attempt. Cc Faulty English does not consist, merely in violation of grammer rules,) but comprises many other kinds of|p< faulty expression. The fact alluded |r to is that the utmost effort by the j I nt best qualified person has always | failed to secure absolute correction I. ' of the evil in whole or in part (it isj^S strictly not so evil as some people j think), and presumably always will - i la so fail. I Reason for the opinion just pre-j ceding is like Coleridge's saying Jq' which A. S. Hill quoted in his book;P' "Our English," as follows: "In prose! I doubt whether it be even possible!01 to preserve our style wholly ^malloy-jni ed by the vicious phraseology which j"1 meets us everywhere, from the ser-jre mon to the newspaper, from the har-jm angue of the legislature to the |w speech from the convivial chair an-,^1 nonncing a toast or sentiment. Our(P] chains rattle even while we are com-^1 plaining of them.?Much, however,,111 mav be effected by education." ,a( Coleridge's work from which this ai was quoted was published in 1817.1 and the century following has er wrought little change in the general w status, though education has had p; mach good effect. Coleridge's expression, "Our m chains rattle even while we are com-'m plainiug of them/' plainly means that m those Vho decry erroneous use of e} language themselves make errors ^ even in uttering their complaint. It te is simply another way of saving what w H. L. Mencken meant when he said ^ of grammarians: "More than once,; plowing through profound and inter-j minable treatises of grammar andjf syntax in preparation for the present in work, I have encountered the cheer-,e* ing spectacle of one grammarian ex-: 1 posing, with contagious joy, the! ^ grammatical lapses of some other jdr grammarian. And nine times out of,0.1 ten, a few pages further on, I' h~ve, found the enchanted purist er-ing;15 himself. The most funereal of ther( sciences is saved from utter hcrvorj" by such displays of human . m .iicejcl and fallibility. Speech itself; indeed, ,w would become almost impossible- if; the grammarians could follow their!111 own rules, unfailingly and were al-!m ways right." Mencken herein over-i01 to steps the bounds and proper criti-j cism, as in the charge of malice, but 1 it is true that many grammarians | violate their own rules, and that; many of the rules are worthless. ItJ^ is at least doubtable whether anyj grammarians, even in expressing stronc dissent from the teaching of I I another or others, ever exhibited; ( malice in his text-book. iai ~ !jv] Grammatical errors constitute the j great majority of the defects which JS( are commonly classed as faulty Eng-jir lish, and are most frequently the.^ subjects of current criticism. One of,n the most recent journalistic essays,01 in this field striking exemplifies the ^ prevalent human fallibility. It is:0^ prompted by an item appearing in |01 another paper which said that Henry Watterson made two grammatical lie errors in the following passage: Itl "There sat at the table a gentleman |s( by the name of Tyndall and another im by the name of Mill?of neither hadim i ever neara?ouc mere was sun an- w other, of the name of Spencer, whom tl I fancied must be a literary man, forjfi I recalled having- reveiwed a clever;w book on 'Education' some four years sj ago by a writer of that name, a cer-;si tain Herbert Spenetr, whom 1 right- cl lv judged might be he.',' m The later critic found five errors o1 instead of two, and told what should hi have appeared instead, and in ex- t? plaining tin* proposed corrections he n introduced, as irrammutical distinc- ii tions, blunders much wor.\ '! those ho criticize*!. IK- said that "by oi the name ois an attribute phrase, and " of the name of" is an adverbial phrase, and made other assertions o equally had. His conclusion was: a "The moral of ii all is that correct p English is not to be learned fi\?m 7 newspapers of jk nodicals." H I'rofes.or fiiii. in "Our .ii-'.." < >mbined his estimates of news pa?rs and novels in one chapter, and minted out how many kinds of de;cts in the English of both journalm and fiction, some common to Jth, and some peculiar to one or i the other; but"., he says, "I am ire that successful newspapers and svols, with all their defects, are not ithout merit. The misfortune is that it is the deicts rather than the merits, the bad nglish rather than the good, that. rikes the eye and sticks in the emory.?As most novelists read jwspapers, and most journalists ad novels, writers of each class itch bad English from those of the ;her and adapt it to their own pur)ses. A writer who wishes to be :ad must have something to say id he must it in an interesting man?r. People do not pref<y- bad Engsh to gcod; but if the pood English in dull piece of writing and the id English in a clever one tligy ^ ill (and with reason) choose the tter. / These disconnected sentences are joted simply to show what one comment scholar, chosen as representave ofa common but not 1 universal rinion, thought of newspapers and ovels. Another opinion, probably at so common, was expressed in a 11 v v? 1 ui HtlC, WII1V.I1 ellost credited journalistic writing ith special fitness as a pattern of iod English. And a well-known roofreader said some time ago that lother reader was a almost perfect aster of diction, and that he had :quired such mastery by reading id studying Dickens. * Journalism and fiction actually nbody some of the best English riting and also much of the poorest. ^ rofessor Hill was right in saying iat the defects rather than the erits strike the eye and stick in the emory. But that is true of all huan activity, and always will be so, iri tho PH5P n*f npr^ftns wVlO ive been taught to choose the betr way. Persons can be taught, and ithout incullation of undue prension to superiority. . Faulty English is not peculiarly evalent in any one kind "of writ- v g, although it is more common in jhemerat composition than in peranent literature. Much of the :erature that deservingly ranks nong the best has been acrimoniisly. criticized by pedantic faultnders who could not themselves oduce anything nearly so good, ;t who have made many valuable iggestion.s of correction. Verbal iticism can find actual lapses in all ritings, for the best writer who . rer lived was not perfect. Gramaticr.l purists, however, are much ore liable to error than the auth s whose work they decry. They eer.inly need to be much more cauous than any one of them ever has ;en. fOKK OF Y. M. C. A. IN FRANCE DEPICTED The Rev. Eugene R. Pendleton, jrmerly a Y, M. C. A. worker mong the soldiers in France, and [r. T. B. Lanham, State Y. M. C. A. ;cretary for South Carolina, spoke i the interest of the Y. M. C. A. at le Baptist Church Wednesday ight. Mr. Lanham spoke briefly, utlining the work of the organizaon, and reciting certain instances f Christian wrok in individual lives f bnvs and vountr men. Dr. Pendleton spoke more at ngth, telling- of the work done b7 le Y. M. C. A. among ihe American >ldiers in Europe. He frankly aditted that many of the criticisms ade upon the work of secretaries as wholly justified, but staled that ic organization selected its men om among thousands of those who ere most highly recommended. He lid that more than eleven thousand " cretaries were sent to France, and aimed that it would have been a iiraele had not at least one in ten F them been unworthy. He said that t? knew of instances in which s'.'cre nil's uiieny Taueu, wnicn nroujjnt proa eh upon ihe oni'iv < rvi'nizaon. Hut, he with !! it r?: lures Y. U A. -i:' .: -m all Lher organizations lou'-ii' :! 1o ?rvo the :-o!(!iers. Dr. Pendleton rIt i; :i "! . ptican. jrivin-r :>.'-t ir.tfiv-iniT lit! instructive lecture u'.mii orifnt'i's in France :ix??i llnsriusn. he pifiuivs wore vivid. and ":m> it- !ar?ri' .".lidiiMK'c a now con Tptic.: f war see ill's and activities.