Have- you also observed, Friend, how touchy folk are these days about a the application of certain words? We perhaps had the brightest example of such touchiness lately when we were not allowed to call our hostili-to see if it were shut, for the menial which are called nowadays in order to help earnest folk to allocate funds for the assistance of the distressed we are quickly snubbed if we use the dread word, "charity," we must say Why, goodness only Does not "charity" mean Christian love of fellow men, and if so, what is wrong with that? If I am hungry and they give me a loaf, do you suppose I am going to quarrel with the name given to the kindly inventive for such action? Not on your life, my Friend, they can call it "the wages of sin" if they like, but so long as the loaf is good I would not worry, "Pauper, "Class" "genteel" and "gentleman" are other words to be avoided it appears but why this should be one cannot think. If words function correctly, and tell a true tale why be so finicky Anyway, my dear. if ever you have 10 write a report of any institution in which you are interested never, use the word, "inmate," but kindly let me know what you substitute, I am trying to think one up for my own use, but don't give me "residents; nor "guests,"
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