_ A word to the wise is useless.
=EAGLE= The national bird of a Christian country; (the United States.) Presumably chosen on account of its being a bird of pray.
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=EARL= A title of nobility.
=EARLY= A title of stupidity. See old saw,
"Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man a farmer!"
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=EARTH= A solid substance, much desired by the seasick.
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=ECHO= The only thing that can cheat a woman out of the last word.
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=ECONOMY= Denying ourselves a necessary to-day in order to buy a luxury to-morrow.
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=EGG= A wholesome, yet fowl, product, of no use until broken. Sometimes a cure for indigestion or bad acting.
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=ELECTION= A periodical picnic for the American People. Held in booths, where the Voter puts in his ballot, and The Machine elects whatever it chooses. A day when the lowliest may make their mark and even beggars may ride; when the Glad Mit gets promiscuous and everything is full--particularly the lodging-houses.
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=ENCORE= A greedy theatre-goer's desire to get more than his money's worth. From the Fr.
en, among, and
cochon, pig,--common among pigs.
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=ENGAGEMENT= In war, a battle. In love, the salubrious calm that precedes the real hostilities.
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=ENTHUSIAST= One who preaches four times as much as he believes and believes four times as much as a sane man ought to.
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=EPITAPH= A statement that usually lies above about the one who lies beneath.
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=EQUATOR= An imaginary line around the earth. Recently held by J.P. Morgan.
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=ERR= To make a mistake.
=ERRATIC= Full of mistakes.
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=ETHER= One of the world's three great composers--the others being Gas and Chloroform--whose airs are popular among the suffering.
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=ETIQUETTE= A convenient code of conduct which makes Lying a virtue and Snobbishness a righteous deed.
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=EVOLUTION= A clever trick performed by one Darwin, who made a monkey of Adam.
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=EXCURSION= From
ex. former, and Grk.
kairo, to enjoy. Hence, a tiresome journey--formerly an enjoyment--sold at half price.
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=EXERCISE= Bodily exertion requiring a $10,000 gymnasium, a ten-acre lot and impossible raiment. Originally confined to the wash-tub and the wood-pile.
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=EXPANSION= A combination of Grand Larceny and Piracy, involving the destruction of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.--Boston.
The benevolent assimilation of previously oppressed peoples--Washington, D.C.
A doubtful commercial experiment.--Wall Street.
The white man's burden.--Kipling.
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=EXPLOSION= A good chance to begin at the bottom and work up.
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=EXPOSITION= An overgrown Department Store, usually opened a year or two behind time.
It's never too late to spend. _