te: _Funeral services were held at the
church and burial was in Evergreen Cemetery._

Do not use _heart failure_ for _heart disease_. All persons die because
the heart fails to beat.

Write simply, _he died_, and not _passed away_, _shuffled off this
mortal coil_, _gave up the ghost_, or any similarly amateurish phrase.
There is no occasion for clothing the incident of death in a panoply of
words, nor should birth be written of except simply. Do not say, _a
little stranger was ushered into a cold world_, but _a child was born_.
In writing of vital statistics--death, birth, marriage--be content to
state the facts without unnecessary embellishment. Forget about the
stork, the grim reaper, Hymen and Cupid.

A DICTIONARY

Wrote Sir Clifford Allbutt: "A dictionary 'sanctions' nothing of its
contents, but it enables us by consultation of its stores to compare and
choose for ourselves. In using this liberty we shall neither be
subservient to the prescriptions of age, nor scornful of modern freedom;
in every use we shall be guided by historical growth, the example of the
best authors, and our present necessities."

+---------------------------------------------+
| SCOURGE OF EVIL DOERS ... EXPOSER OF SECRET |
| INIQUITIES ... UNRELENTING FOE OF PRIVILEGE |
| AND CORRUPTION. |
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SPELLING

LOOK IT UP IF YOU ARE NOT SURE.

BETTER LOOK IT UP ANYWAY.

If two spellings are given in the dictionary, the first cited is
preferable.

Follow these spellings:

_airplane_
_ayes and noes_
_ax_
_base ball_
_basket ball_
_bazar_
_birdseye_
_blond_ (both noun and adjective)
_Budapest_
_can not_
_Chile_ (South America)
_Chili_ (Africa)
_clue_
_decollete_
_dispatch_
_draft_
_drouth_
_Duma_
_employe_
_Eskimo_
_facsimile_
_Filipino_
_foot ball_
_gaily_
_gaiety_
_goodby_
_guarantee_ (verb)
_guaranty_ (noun)
_Hayti_
_Hindu_
_Khartum_
_kidnaped_
_Korea_
_Leipzig_
_Macaulay's History_
_Mohammed_
_nearby_
_plow_
_Porto Rico_
_repertory_
_Shakespeare_
_Shakespearean_
_skilful_
_technic_
_Tibet_
_today_
_Tolstoy_
_tomorrow_
_Turgenieff_
_tying_
_vilify_
_vying_
_whisky_
_Wilkes-Barre_