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=CAJOLE= v. t., From Grk. _kalos_, beautiful, and Eng. _jolly_, to jolly beautifully.
=CALCIUM= An earthly light that brightens even the stars.
=CANNIBAL= A heathen hobo who never works, but lives on other people.
=CAPTIVATE= From Lat. _caput_, head, and Eng. _vacate_, or empty,--to empty the head. Note, Women who have captivated men.
=CAPE= A neck in the sea.
=CAPER= A foot in the air.
=CARNEGIE-ITIS=
[Ill.u.s.tration]
A mania for burning money. Contracted in a Pennsylvania blast furnace, developed in a Scotch castle and now epidemic in American public libraries.
=CART= v. t., To take off.
=CARTOON= The take-off.
=CAULIFLOWER= A Cabbage with a college education.
=CAVALRY= That arm of the military service that engages in the real hoss-tilities.
=CEMETERY= The one place where princes and paupers, porters and presidents are finally on the dead level.
=CHAMPAGNE= The stuff that makes the world go round.
=CHAIR= Four-legged aid to the injured.
=CHARITY= Forehanded aid to the indigent.
=CHAUFFEUR= A man who is smart enough to operate an automobile, but clever enough not to own one.
=CHRISTIAN= A member of any orthodox church.
=CHRISTMAS= A widely observed holiday on which the past nor the future is of so much interest as the present.
=CHUMP= Any one whose opinion differs radically from ours.
=CIGARETTE= A weed whose smoke, some say, should never be inhaled, and still more insist should never be exhaled.
=CINDER= One of the first things to catch your eye in travelling.
=CIVILIZATION= An upward growth or tendency that has enabled mankind to develop the college yell from what was once only a feeble war-whoop.
=COLLECTOR= A man whom few care to see but many ask to call again.
=COLLEGE= From Fr. _colle_, pasted or stuck, and _etude_, study. A place where everyone is stuck on study. (?)
=COLONEL=
[Ill.u.s.tration]
A male resident of Kentucky.
