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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

Our Three-Day Serial Story

JEZEBEL

Chapter 1

"I gots garden on de haid, all you missiest Guarden on de hald I gota pardes hald..

CHIL

de

The black girl, balancing a basket of white camelias on her head, threaded her way through the hilarious throng, mingling her mellow cry with those of the other vendors, for the Mardi Gras was at Its height, and to morrow the fabulous Proteus Ball would end the festivities in a blaze of glory.

her Re

dem hawer clo'es,

Miss Julle!" stick still in his hand, and knocked asped Unele Cato,

at Julie's bedroom door. le call Julle tossed her crop to him. ed her, called again, but Ko! no Mickert the train of her ablt over response, Julle, In tremor her arm and entered the drawing malicious delight, was spreading the of room, "Good afternoon, everybody! ved dress on her bed. Terribly

Inte! I had sorry to be temble with the colt. You all know thiest way. Why Pres Dillard!" At last she opened the dong the when a cult gets high-headed, it's she exclaimed. "Knocking at teach him his manners right now. Indy's door! I'm

scandalized

at or ruin him!"

you!" He Unele Cato was

was gripping his stick, his quiously with a tinkling tray laden sus made the delicious discovery passing obse- face white with emotion. Suddenly with toddles for the gentlemen and that if he did use it on her It would. small glasres of sherry for the ladies be the greatest thrill of and Aunt Belle cofired with dismay well she cried, tauntingly. that Julie chose the former, Buck Cantrell raised his Blass and such, you come up here just to stand?"

" came up here foto" He The business streets were Blied very Hitler"

smility! with cynical cyen, "To the

best health of the future Mrs. realized that he could not go through with a pleturesque hodgepodge of Pres

with it. "Oh. Julie, honey," he conveyancer, well-groomed horse "Aren't you going to

pleaded, "how long must we go on men holding back their spirited happiness, too, Duck?"

like this

tussing..

.. Nighting mounts

like children?" in the slow-moving traffle. Overhanging balconies

To softly, her words lost in the din of voices. "What's the use?" he ans-

"Why do you treat me like a child tooned with fings and bunting, and wered with a

disconcerting grin, then?" top-hatted elegants and ladies in the "You won't get it, marrying a trader,

"Because you behave. like one swaying crinolines of 1850 moved

Hoin

up Nawth!" "Pres is not a spalled one!" among the humbler

Buck Cantrell, and I'll thank "You used to say you liked me All the "quality

like that!" she pouted, retreating Orleans had been asked to an after you to remember that!"

But he was angered by Pres's ever so slightly. You never wanted continued absence.

were

folkemakers, trader,

of New

noon reception at the stately

sion of Generni Bogardus, of whic

his

wish me said Julle

me to

Soun she was on the way to the memb up, you said ..

a message

Miss le bank in the unpredictable ward,

family victoria, Aunt Marsden, was to announce her che Belle by her side, protesting feebly, gagement to Preston Dillard, of the Julent Ti Bat, the black boy, with banking firm of Dillard and Sons.

for her fiance, feiling him Ted Dillard, younger of the sons, to come to her at once. had been driving through the foud Miss Julie, I done tole' him," said streets with his

his hero-handsome. T. Dat hard-drinking Buck Cantrell, who in

head, "but be say he ain't

jea precisely!" '-not jea

the past had more than once been comi? ahly, scratching

his

"did

re-

"Julle!" He remembered only too well, and look her in his arms.

Want to see my new dress?"

THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1938.

This is a Slanging Match, and Gilbert Frankau

Puts One Over

AN anonymous correspon- is about four times more dramatic, dent who signs himself is nearly always drainatie, it hits moreover, than "to approve." Slang "Four Englishmen" takes me to the nail of meaning right on the task for using the word "lousy," head. And if that isn't what words "One wonders," he writes, "if whole of which lant sentence can be

are for, what are they for?

ten years ago. The answer is you would have used the word written "So what?")

Certainly not.'"

(The

words

Take slang out of a language and sentences become

more tlignified corpses. Phone, bus, planc (no Now my crille happens to be wrong taxi, yank (to pull hard), rad, rev, apostrophies, please, Mr. Printer), about that particular word-as he mike-why use the Jonier can prove for himself by rending the when the shorter are so definitive? Journey," published in 1775: following from Sterne's "Sentimental

Shall men who sizzle the skies at six miles a minute employ the Jan- "You can never after be anything guage of Spenser, and talk about

it (the Church), said Pride, but "eleaving the empyrean"? a lousy prebendary.""

Must I write "the individual had become intoxicated with alcoliolle

He of

He will, as it matter of stark fact, itquor" when all I mean la "the chap have to go back to 1388 and the poet was tight"? Chaucer, who writes, "A lousy jug- gler can deceive thee," for my first bone to plek with America.

My nameless correspondent has a authority.

writes about the "vocabulary But that is by the way. For the a defilement. But that vocabulary. Hollywood stars" as though it were Issue raised, as apart from the, parti- at least. "gets across." "puts it over," cular word criticised, is a very much "rings the belt," "hits the target." bigger one than my correspondent "Like hell it does." And, again, imagines,

"So what?".

Do "breeding and education" de- bar us, as he suggests, from the use of "slang"?

Not So Hot

colled

MARK you, there are limits. "A sassy pair of shafts," she asked sweetly, "the one snobbery of the very worst hind to Victorians would have

In my contention it is not only description of what the chaster to wear to the Proteus Ball? Yon- der it is, on the bed! Isn't it lay down any such rule. It is highly ly's understandings," still strikes lovely?"

dangerous. Because new words even me as "not so hot." "But, Julle," he gasped, "It's it's whether written or spoken-are vital red! You never saw an unmarried to the development of language: dificulty that I should bring myself And it is only with the greatest the accepted sultor of fickle Miss Julie snapped shut her tiny par- girl there in anything but

while! language being, in the ultimate issue, to describe one of my own pukka Julie. Later they stopped at the St. asof, vaulted from the carriage and You know that! It's only custom, I only the expression of concrete sahib heroes as "giving his dame a Charles and quickly made their way was half-way up the bank steps be- know--but you've n position to things or abstract thought, to the famous bar, where General fore Aunt Belle realized it. Bogardus hailed them in his most Oh, so he won't come, won't he?" courtly manner. Further on a group she was saying to herself as the of men were discussing horses and great doors elanged shut behind her when Buck refused to let himself drawn into the Lautrec, ກ Creale, took offence, and "You see, stentlemen, Mr. Buck Can-

trell he mad

argument.

De

i-framed.

swarthy

sneered, shegree,

be

Chapter 2

maintain and

"ON"

She ful. "Will you please hold another directors' meeting, so they may de- cide what I can wear!"

was suddenly scorn-

HER

до

for

soel on the kisser." I Coined Zip

Yet would the newspaper reader ERE is a case in point from what "pukka" meant? Do you use of 50 years ago have understood personal experience.

"deevy" (Edwardian "Julie, for heavens sake be ren-

"simply divine, darting") or any that any sonable!

Only a few years Imperial thing "knocked you in the Old Kent- Chemical Industries decided to popu "WCFC

you reasonable this after-larise an oldish invention called the road"? So that's it, is it? Nursing your tising man, Sir Charles Higham, had corpses, too,

"lightning fastener." Their adver pite!" He gripped her arm.

Slang words and sentences became I'm not going to let your rum call the course of which a famous actress, stant dux and reflux which modern

"Well,

the idea of a stunt luncheon, during life itself, is in that state of con- Because language, like ing for you to-morrow night at ten

and you're going to be properly Miss Peggy O'Neil, should appear in fashion calls "evolution dressed

a dress entirely done up (and un- for the ball-in white!" "Am 17-Oh, of course, Mr. Dil-done) by the fasteners in question. lard, if you say so!"

Chosen to demonstrate the speed

"As I said before, gentlemen, on?" Just done lose his lady love-Miss Julie Marsden!" the South is doomed to economic With incredible speed and suavity extinction, unless it is willing to details of the coming duel were compele with the enterprise of arranged, place and weapons as usual; the time, ten that night, after the Northern States-by build the rising of the moon. Ted proud- ing this railroad—"

ly

offered himself as Buck's second, Young Pres Dillard was agreeably jusisting ruefully that it WILS

he him couselous that he was winning, the

self who should have avenged the conservative, bank directors to his

The moment he was gone she sat of doing and undoing. I and, per-

Too Many Rules

MY contention is that we need

more words, and that there Zip, it's off." Does a word, or does it not, convey

insult to his brother's future bride. way of thinking, and when the book down at her desk and began to pen forming both operations, "See how is only one criterion for their use.

they left, General Bogardus keeper tiptoed up behind hira, pluck note to Buck Cantrell. She was rasy it is, Zip, it's un.

As

gravely expressed his regrets at the ed his sleeve whispering that Julie affair; and his conviction that De was outside, he flushed with em- Lautrec was unworthy of the mettle barrassment, and excused himself as of a gentleman.

well as he could).

Julle "Well, Mr. Dillard,"

Bald

One man, Commander Ellis, who the speaker's or the writer's exnet back to his office happened to hear me, Fan straight meaning in the shortest and most and destroyed dramatic manner to the majority of every single pamphlet headed "The his hearers or readers? If it does even at the risk of shocking some purist-let the word stand.

When Buck and Ted arrived, they th quiet menace, "Are you coming been seen with the letter as he and New Lightning Fastener."

found

the spacious rooms ot the with Bogardus home a swirl of hoop- with m

W or are you not?"

are he would not have left his home yet for

for the place of the duel, but to deliver it to him with all speed. commanded

Zelte

the mulatto girl, Some time later Buck might have

Fed rode through the riotous crowds to the place of conflict. skirts, wagging tongues and waving "Julie, honey. try to understand!

on amazingly short time fans. Everybody who was anybody This is so important!"

when ten Julie, peering down was present-except Julie herself. "I suppose

it isn't important," she into the rocket-lighted street and her fiance Pres Dillard, Aunt retorted, with narrowing eves, "at Buck Cantrell, in immaculate even- Belle was all but in hysteries about I've spent a month having my balling garb, step from his carriage.

"Hack so soon?" she cried," run- two of her guests cattily mulling her and that you promised to come and ning down to the gate to meet him. see it Btter! In fact, don't sup-

in a whisper. "Did you-kill

Miss Julie," he answered

her niece's absence as she overheard dress made for to-morrow night-

over.

- Wor

With

atter

saw

He substituted my slang

word "Zip," and it has become perfectly

The words we use are invariably good English ever since.

the expression of our personalities. Among the greatest dangers of our Another WOR) of my coining, day is the stereotyping of personality "counterstrafe," you will not find in as the result of too many rules. the dictionary. But "strafe" is there,

Late at her own party! Imagine! pose that it's important what I- "I don't rightly follow you, ly a light wound.

Punctuality. I always say. 25 my to the Proteus Bail! It's only yun

important I don't suppose

mother said before me, is the polite, La Cour and the rest of the big I never tid him that bad! By Zing

ness of queens!"

"Politeness, darling. has been one of Julle's virtues!"

never

gel

back!

a house aftre!" Then

he

st

And so is "Blighty" originally The best writers of English, from Tammy's mispronunciation of "be- Chaucer to Kipfing, never followed lalti," signifying "leave across the rules. They only adhered to prin- water" from India, and subsequent- ciples.

I do not claim a place among that The word which shocks to-day's select band. But I do claim to write franciers, could possibly get along that red dress of yours! It's like purist is on his own lips to-morrow whicstandably,

clearly, succinctly, "I surely sympathize with Pres

became unless he happens to be one of and dramatically. "Julle right now I'm having the Ferfous, "Miss Julie--what- Dillard! Such

you those High Court judges who can Oh, fight of my life in there-a grond want me for, anyhow

Accordingly, I shall continue to il gentleman! here comes Ted! Good afternoon, fight! I've got to

prolest at the use of "O.K." - use such words as "lousy," or even Run

"I want you to take me to the

"bilge." until the cows come home dear boy! Isn't this exciting? I along now, and later to-night 11

Proteus Bali

As a verb "to okay" is perfectly or at least three other Englishmen think your brother is the luckiest come to you and we'll-"

(To be continued to-morrow}- understandable to the majority. It object. man in the whole world, really! Julie left in fury, drove to her Tell me, Ted, wasn't Mr. Cantrell dressmaker, midered a villainously just crushed at losing her?" Ted's red dress to be delivered that eve- boyish grin changed to L scowl. ningin spite of Aunt Belle's pro- "Buck Cantrell!"* he sald coldly. testations and ordered the black "It'd take more than any girl to driver to take them home. crush Buck! Look at him over there

Pres Dillard was accosted by Dr. now, makin' 'em roar! Does he Livingstone, oldest of the directors. after the meeting ended. He ven- Julie, at the moment, was dis tured to say that in his day a man mounting in front of the house, who had the sort of trouble he was Twenty, alim and imperious, wenr- evidently having with Miss Julle, ing the graceful riding habit of the would cut a hickory, use it on her, period, the ran lightly up the steps grense the wells and then buy her and entered the great halk, "Prake a diamond brooch!

looked crushed?"

be, Miss Julie!" Uncle Cato cried, Determined to be firm. Pres has- "Min Belle been nigh onto a 8t!" tened to Julie's house, where his new The mulatto maid pushed forward, attitude was highly

"I done laid out yo party Miss Julie!" "Thanks, no,

opproved

dress, Aunt Belle and the General.

Ey

Zette! The perturbed young man bound-

Got to go in to my guests!" "Not in ed up the stairs, his slim walking

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