The $10000 Beauty

<p>In hopes of casting his readers into the era of the events that transpire the author has used the vocabulary of the period. The spellings of the day were used as well. Street and Avenue were not capitalized for example. Several words such as streetcar and backstop had hyphens. People stopped at hotels they didn't stay at them. Many of the expressions of the 1880's are no longer in use. He tried some hippodrome business makes no sense anymore we'd say he tried to throw the game and no one has the collywobbles either we're just anxious. Nobody today is in high cotton they're delighted and we wouldn't say someone doesn't care a continental we'd say he was indifferent. Now no one has a wire-edge on now they're disgruntled or resentful.</p><p>Baseball was still base ball. A member of a team was said to play in the nine not for the nine. A substitute catcher was a change-catcher. A pitcher or twirler was positioned between the points or in the pitching box not on the mound there was no mound. And there were no dugouts just a bench that the two teams shared. Teams rarely had more than ten players. The people in attendance were referred to as rooters boosters or cranks not fans. The crowd was an audience of spectators.</p>