The Ebensburg Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1865-1871, 1866-05-10
About English.
Nay ?, 1866.

Of America, and anon the Hub, not of
America, simply, but of the universe,
city of fair dimensions, and of good man.
ners, in which man is fined for putting
his Havana in the public street, has
somewhere in its limits, perhaps on Ire
mont street, building from winch issues
q periodical magazine known as the At
lantic Monthly. We are regular purchas-
ers of the atlantic, and like it very much
for its literary worth, for its inculcation
OF good principles, and for its devotion to
Freedom, and what is the same thing,
Protection. Among the writer's for the
atlantic are two women, one Of whom,
especially, is well known on both sides of
the ocean, loved by some, and hated by
others, for awakening the conscience of
the nation more effectively than had ever
been done before by means of a simple,
truthful, and attractive story that hae its
power in its truthfuness The other of
these women is somewhat less known, but
managed, not a great time ago, to bring
upon her head the sharp criticisms of the
orthodox world for venturing into "New
Atmosphere" which the orthodox thought
smeled of future birthstone; and they
ought to know, seeing the mass vote them
competent to decide what opinions are and
what are not acceptable to his Satanic
Highness who rules where
Hope never comes that comes to ALL"
Now, it may be venturesome in the
editor of a country paper to criticise any
thing coming from the Hub through the
editorial sauctum of the first literary
monthly in America, but as humble peo-
pie havo ventured before, and doubtless
will again, We will take courage enough to
ask if the chimney corDer6 or America
ought to be echoing from the lips of
American boys and girls, or American
men and women, either, French, or Latin,
or any other foreign phrases, to the exclu-
sion of our own English. Isn't Mrs.
Stoves "Chimney corner" intended for
the chimney corner, or only for those
palaces where fre-places and chimney
corners have been ousted from all the
finer rooms and consigned to the cellar,
and surnamed "the furnace 2" We say
nothing against houses bereft of chimney
corners, but we do say that the chimney
corner is not, in our judgment, (anG it
ought to be clear and cool one, here on
the top of the Alleghanies,) fit place for
Frenchy phrases. Nor do we think that
our chimney corners are filled of evenings
by young people as glib in any foreign
tongue as one would suppose them to be
in French by reading certain articles in the
atlantic. Is it possible that the author OF
"The New Atmosphere" could not eli q
few pages in regard to ga struggle for
shelter" that in the sequel proves to be a
refuge among "saucepans," "gridirons, -
"butter jars, "bread and rolls" "pepper,"
"halibut, cranberries, "potatoes, "
'turnips," and many other articles of sim
liar kind, without condimenting them with
next thing to dozen foreign terms, less ap-
propriate by far than easily selected words
from our own tongue Why should the
authoress of Uncle Toms Cabin in seek
ing to overthrow Paris as the leader oi
American Fashion set us the example oi
trampling upon our own language, than
which there is no better, and of exaltine
that Of France? How many bright eyes
seated in the homestead chimney corner
will gather more vividpess, or beauty, oil
completeness Of expression, from co!,tUrc
than FROM head-dress, from abandon thar
from negligence, from aura than from at
mosphere, or from Outre than from inaP
propriate? Pray, do not, while seeking
to overturn one false god, SET up another
before, too, you are certain OF oTerturnfps
the old one. Let us 60 over the list OF
foreign expressions taken from twenty
eight pages of loaded matter written By
these two women, among the foremost IN
America : grande dame, otrtre, den,t monde
Gordon sanitare, religieuse, passee, en- aUant'
0terrd fyn,a" of of;realities, petite, Petite,sPe'
lite, salon, recherche, oequaUite, gr'sette
nu'tus, IN parro, primo don0, Fo'' &c Q"'