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CHICKEN, 
LOBSTER AND STEAK DINNERS 
WEEK-END PARTIES ACCOMMODATED 
STEAM-HEATED AND WELL LIGHTED 
MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS FOR 
Thanksgiving Eve 
Special Music for Dancing in the Large Ball-Room 
GHakerroft Jun 
HAMILTON, MASS. 
—Joun C. Raucu, Prop. 
Bl ieisles 
Anniversary 
at FORD and WAS88’ 
GLOUCESTER 
P. O. Square 
Shoe Sale 
Affords a wonderful chance for bargains 
in new up-to-date shoes and stockings. 
Everything except SNAG RUBBER 
BOOTS reduced 10 per cent for cash. 
FORD & WASS 
Gloucester 
MAGNOLIA 
The Whist club held the regular 
meeting this week at the home of 
Mrs. J. R. Crispin, Fuller st. 
Mr. and Mrs.’ James Webber, 
formerly of Gloucester, have taken 
the Story cottage for the winter. 
Mrs. Abbie Story is leaving Sun- 
day for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. 
Edward Foster at Winchester. 
Mrs. Adele Barter returned from 
the Addison Gilbert hospital last Fri- 
day and is convalescing from her ill- 
ness at her home on Magnolia ave. 
Lester Dunbar, the son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Frederick Dunbar, is at the 
Children’s Hospital at Boston for 
treatment, and possibly an opera- 
tion. His mother is remaining in 
Bostom to be near him. 
Misses Amy and Susan Lycett have 
been guests of their grandmother, 
Mrs.~ Locke, at Bridgewater this 
week. 
About twenty of Miss Abbie May’s 
friends gave her a surprise party 
Friday evening at her home here. 
The house was decorated with pine 
and roses. Miss May was presented 
with a silver toilet set. The evening 
was spent at cards, and an old-fash- 
ioned marshmallow toast was a feat- 
ure of the. entertainment. Among 
those present from out-of-town were 
Miss. Madeline Witham, A. Leavitt, 
Herman Gaffney, Katherine McKen- 
zie and a number of other Gloucester 
friends. 
Let people know you are alive-— 
ADVERTISE. 
TITLE:.MUCH..MISUSED 
THE TERM “REVEREND” IS “VERY 
FREQUENTLY MISAPPLIED, 
T some time in the middle ages the 
custom grew up of applying to 
clergymen the term “reverendus.” 
This word was a part of speech known 
in Latin as a gerund, and meant “fone 
who ought to be revered.” . 
Gerunds could be compared like 
adjectives, and it seemed natural to 
the people of those days, that if all 
clergymen were reverend a_ bishop 
should be designated by the compara- 
tive degree, “reverendoir,’ more 
reverend, or right reverend, while the 
superlative degree, reverendissimus, 
most reverend was reserved for arch- 
bishops. 
As these terms referred to individ- 
uals they were never used in connec- 
tion with the family name alone, but 
with the Christian name, which indi- 
cated the individual. 
A great many people in our day are 
committing the unfortunate blunder 
of using the term, “reverend,” in con- 
nection with a family name. | Mr. 
Smith is a clergyman. He is fre- 
quently spoken of as. “Reverend 
Smith.” This is wrong. Smith is a 
family name, and does not refer to an 
individual, The only proper way of 
speaking of himis as Rev. Mr. Smith, 
or Rev. John Smith, or plain Mr. 
Smith, but never Rev. Smith. 
Never Rev. and Mrs. Smith, but 
Rev. and Mrs. John Smith. Strictly 
speaking, the only way of speaking of 
him is Mr. Smith, for the old English, 
“Your Reverence,”’ has died out. 
One does not speak of or toa judge 
as Honorable Jones, but one speaks 
of him as the Hon. Henry T. Jones, 
and addresses him as “Your Honor.” 
As concerns the use of the word 
“reverend,” no one applies it to him- 
self or signs his name with it as a 
prefix. Scholars urge us to preserve 
the use of the English language, and 
not be attracted by the modern dis- 
ease which impels so many people to 
use all the nouns and many of the ad- 
jectives as if they were titles. You 
may find in papers any day such ex- 
pressions as Motorman Brown, Wit- 
ness Green, Suspect Robinson, Op- 
tician White, Pitcher Jones. It ought 
to be stopped; but who will stop it. 
Scholars tell us that this is one of the 
signs that the English language is 
degenerating very rapidly. 
The fast young man seldom gets 
ahead much. 
Let people know you are alive— 
AD VGRATS Hage om 
