_CONTRAST_ and _COMPARISON_.

 

Recently the _New York American_ featured an editorial by Arthur Brisbane. Note

the following, printed in the same type as given here.

 

=We do not know what the President THOUGHT when he got that message, or what the

elephant thinks when he sees the mouse, but we do know what the President DID.=

 

The words _THOUGHT_ and _DID_ immediately catch the reader's attention because

they are different from the others, not especially because they are larger. If

all the rest of the words in this sentence were made ten times as large as they

are, and _DID_ and _THOUGHT_ were kept at their present size, they would still

be emphatic, because different.

 

Take the following from Robert Chambers' novel, "The Business of Life." The

words _you_, _had_, _would_, are all emphatic, because they have been made

different.

 

He looked at her in angry astonishment.

 

"Well, what do _you_ call it if it isn't cowardice--to slink off and marry a

defenseless girl like that!"

 

"Did you expect me to give you a chance to destroy me and poison Jacqueline's

mind? If I _had_ been guilty of the thing with which you charge me, what I have