Life — February 6, 1908 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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parental elucidation. Is that child truth- fully and seriously taught its meaning, in accordance with the principles of ele- mentary training advocated by H. G. Wells and our own beloved President? Alas! no. The innocent, confiding young- ster is told that PREFACE is an anagram, to be interpreted by reading the initial letters forward, and then backward, as follows: ‘Peter Rice eats fish, alligators catch eels, eels catch alligators, French- men cat rotten potatoes.” Frenchmen eat rotten potatoes! In- sidious slander, which, entering into the subconscious mind of the child, may well become a permanent misconception of the adult understanding confronted through life with Prefaces. If we must have them, infuture, insist that they shall be Forewords. Cuss Words in Literature GoMEBODY who writes from East Northfield, Mass., points out with sor- row, in a letter to the Evening Post, “the constantly increasing practice with writers of stories in the magazines, and publishers of the same, of writing and publishing in their stories such expressions of profanity as they cannot but know are an offense to God and to all who seek to hallow His name, and which cannot fail to exert a great influence for evil in young readers.” ‘The correspondent would have persons to whom profanity is an offense refuse to buy or read these inconsiderate publications, whose editors do not constrain their writers to the use of proper language. We guess it is true that there is more minor profanity in print than there used to be—more “devils,” “damns,” and “hells,” but that is as far as it goes. We question whether the use of these expletives is a serious annoyance to the Higher Powers, It belongs more in the plane of manners than of religion. If it isa bad thing to print these bad words the case may be helped without going to the drastic extreme the complainant recommends, simply by dis- suading the story writers from introducing such improper and ill-speaking folks into their tales. If a character does say “damn,” it is just as well, as we sce it, to print this bad word, but, of course, there is much to be said in favor of excluding persons who say “damn” from stories altogether until they can make their conversation suitable for the parlor. Lots of characters who are not at all nice Ret into the story-books in these days. Some of them do much worse things than say “damn,” and some of the lady-writers are particularly hospitable to them, _ Naughty! Naughty! They shouldn’t do it! Ttisthe dev—— Oh, no! It isa job of Superlative difficulty to make people behave and speak as they should in actual life, but atleast the story people can be made to do it. And they should; oh, yes, they should. W.T. L. 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