The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-02
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS PARTY.
NO. XII


In my last gave our readers the anat
omy of the human voice from one of our
best scholars on the science of articulate
sounds. hope orr teachers have thor
oughly studied it. for it is the beginning
of wisdom on the question we have so
much at heart. The celebrated natural
ist, Cuvier, after life lnng study of man
and his relation to living org ,nism, pro
nounced that human speech aoas has most
tlistinctioc f6ature f.orn the brute croa.
ton Ii so we may pardon the reverence
of those who claim it to be q special Di.
vine gift from God to man and above NJ
ture's laws which are supposed by others
to supply every needed want. Certain t
u wi bout it man could never have emerg-
ed out of barbarism TO civilization, if H.
deed he would not have gone back from
barbarisrn to the brute creation Depri We
any barbarous islanders to-day. Of the
power Of speech and one century would
not elapse before the type, of humanity
would be entirely lost to that island
Human speech then is the great motive
power of man, the util Ger of all his MANY
divine gifts, the educator, the cly,lizer.
The great art cf@civllizatlon consists in
impressing and transmitting this human
speech to the written and printed page
by symbols the most simple, artistic util
l'arian, star ing as we kn,w it did in tn"
most rude hleroglyphic and ,,Itimating as
we fondly hope in the most perfect beauty
and simplicity OF forms sse
And who shall say that this ideal shall
NOT yet be realized even in our most bar.
barous and whimsical English typo.
grapy. Let US see what thousand wears
of progress has done with our mother
tongue amid all the wars and commissions
of our race. that have operated as con,
slant drawback to improvement Ir
I" Camden's Remains write in thesyear
700 we have the Lords prayer written
Iii the English OF that day:
"Uren tader thic arth II heofnas, sir
gehalgud thin nona; to cymeth thin rlc !;
SIC Thin villa sue is in hcoinas and in
rorthoi Uren hlaf Offer wortlic sci us To
}atg and forget us SC, Ida urna, sue we
forgotten seyldgum urum and no Inlcad
us it'll custnung. All gefric uricl from
fife. Amen"
Eight words only spelled as We now
spell them. w Tyndale's Bible printed
1928 826 wears after, we find it thus:
20 cure father which 4rte in hever,
halowed be thy name. Let thy kingdom
come. Thy wyll he fluff led, as well in
.nrih as hit y in heven Geve vs. this
dtye cure dayly breade. And forgive
them WHICH treaspa~ W. Leede VS. NOT
mt" temtacion bul delyvre vs. from well.
Amen"
3 This isa great Improvement Tor we have
80 " ords spelled as we now spell them
Now 4 will render it fonetically as near
rs can with our present alphabet-re
ENGINEERING that our tn, sh, and no repre-
sent only one sound each and giving the
vowels the sound theys have in those
w"rds and let on represent the diphthong
IN hour
S Our Father hwich art in heven, halod
be lit nam. Thi kingdum cum. TIL
vii be dan IN erth, az 1t liz in heven. CIV
us his da cur dali bred. And forgiv us
our diets az We forgiv our detorz. And
led Us not into temtashun but deliver us
from evil for thin IL the kingdum and
be pouer and the glori for ever Amen.
SHARLCT