The Words To Use

Bo simple, unaffected ; be honost iu your speakiug and your writing. Nover use a long word wh,en a sljoit onu will do. Cali a spade n spade, not a wellknown oblong instrumout of uuusual indu?try ; let a homo be a home, not a residence ; a place, not locality ; tnda of the rest. Where a short ono wiil do, you always loso by using a laug ene. - You lose in clearness, you loso in honest exprosíing of your meauing; and, in tho cstimation of all men whq are competent to judge, you lose in reputation for abüity. Tlie only trut! way lo fhiuo, eyen in this i'alse world, is to be modest and qnassuininji. Falseliood may be a vi-ry thick crust. bat in tlio cnurse, of timo truth will fiud a place to br.'ak through. Elegnnce of lnnguage may not bo in tbe power of all of us, but niiriplioity and straightforwai'dnesu are. Write as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your nfeiior, spoak no uoaiser than iisua! ; if your superior, speak uojinor. Iut what you say, and within the riilca at pruuenoe, say what you are. Avoid al oddity of expresai ion. No óne n-;i ever a gainer by sin gularity of word.1--, or in pronunciation. The truly wiso will so spmk that Done will observe hoiv h opeiils. A man may show grtia!. k'.mwleilt) of chemicals hy oarrying übniit bladden rf gtrancjo gHSfses to breulho, bul ba will enjoy l,et ter Uealth, and find mere time for bufe nesa, wbo lives on comraon air. Wben I he;ir a peraon use a queer exprossion, or pronounce a name in readinfl diflorently Irom hra neighbor, the babit always goes down, miuus sign, before it stands on the side of deficit, uot of credit, Avoid, likewist), all slang. It is only öt (wheu innocent, which it aeldom il) f jr raw school boys and oue term freshmeu to astonish their 8sters with. Talk as sensible men talk, use the eaeiest words in their eoinnionest meaning. Let the sense conveyed, not the vehicle ia which it is conveyed, be your sulject of attention, Once more, avoid in csnversation all sin;ulafity of aceiiracy. One of the bores of sooiety is the !jore wbo if ui; ways setting you right ; wbo, when you report from the psper that 10,000 men feil in sonie battle, teil you that it wa 9,996 ; who, when you describe your walk as two milos out and back, assure y 'U thut it lacked half a furlong of il. Prnth does not oonsist in minute acgijracy of detail, but inconveying a right impression ; and thero are many vague ways of speaking that are truer thqn, strict faot would bo. When the Psalmist siiid "rivers of water run down tny oyes beoanse men keep not tly law," ho did not statf the fact, but he g'.ated a trutb deeper tljaq faot and also triier. - Dean Alfred.