The New Orleans Item is engaged
in a praiseworthy attempt to discour
age the use by its local contempo
raries of the term "suicided" which it
stigmatizes as a "homicidal attack on
the English language." If the Item
succeeds in its crusade against this par
ticular atrocity, we suggest that it take
up its cudgel and swat a few licks in
behalf of the noble word "splendid,"
which is made to do all sorts of menial
service in the unique vocabulary of
some of the reporters who are doing
time and space on the city press. A
recent issue of one of the morning pa
pers contained three little theatrical
notices of barely a dozen lines each in
which this much-abused adjective ap
peared no fewer than five times. Splen
did audiences enjoyed splendid presen
tations of splendid plays, and splen
did actors filled splendid roles in a
splendid manner, while splendid or
chestras discoursed splendid music
and so on, ad libitum et ad nauseam.
This sort of "pigeon-English" is
about on a par with that of the gush
ing maiden who declared that her pet
poodle was "perfectly magnificent"
and that the Rocky Mountains were
"just too cute for anything."
We Ran Some, Anyhow.
The Donaldsonville Chief sa3s its editor ran
ahead of the Republican ticket in Ascension
parish on the 8th, but it failed to say how far
behind the Democratic ticket he ran.-Cata
houla News.
