The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-03-30
CHILDREN'S RIGHTS PARTY.
NO. XIV.

books to see how much I could shorten
and make easy our spelling even with
our present alphabet by making only a
few Improvements. First instead of
figure notation in school books let the
vowel be made just little different for
long or broad sounds by nick in the
bottom or top, slight tick, fange, loop
least possible mark, to indicate it's partic-
ular place.
Let on, and OF, continue to stand for
the diphthongs in our, 0oice have one of
the tbs slightly modified for the light
sound of these letters, and have sh, and
zh, or s, and z modified be the sole rep
resentative of the sound in She azure /;
drop all double letters, except in COM
pound words; Danish every silent letter
as you would so many drones from the
hive. All our school books being print
ed in this way, printers would soon fol-
low in the same track, and almost with
out effort the ball of reform would be
started. And now as for long hand writ
ing, you know zoe haze or can haze the qcboze
thing an oar oaon haads. Suppose you and
| and every body else who felt deep in
terest in the reform should do all our
correspondence in Long Hand Phonetic
script, as now established and which is
so near the old style as to be readable by
and to facilitate its use we could have
letter paper with all the new script letter
at the head as key or trade mark. Sup
pose again that all authors and writers
for the press should so write, how long
would it be before the printers would
make their type to correspond True,
we should have two styles for a short
time. The old and the neao, but then
both would be correct, one in honor of
the past, the other the herald of the true,
of that aohach IS to be. Let no one imagine
that this new style is after the Nasty,
0. G, Kerr, Josh Billings style. Theirs
is intended to be only burlesque upon
the old, and being, in fact just as whim-
steal as the old, but ours would be
true scientific, the philosophical and the
beautiful, because truthful to nature.
Now | have just made these suggestions
Ia h l. h,4
is fixed and stereotyped for all coming
time and can never be changed, which is
against the laws Of progress On the
other hand, if thing can be done, an in
genious person can or should be able to
tell how it can be done. The first eff
fort may not succeed, nor the second, nor
even the ninth, but the tenth may, and
so may the first or second. Where there
is will there il q way, the world over
A few people may be Inconvenience a
few prejudices may be disturbed !,
but ever anon, "the right
comes uppermost." The real
question for consideration as, shall the
80 millions of children of the next gener-
alton who are to speak the English Ian
guage, and so on up to the 800 millions
in all coming generations, to be forced
through the foolish exigency of our bar
barous spelling, to spend three gears time
in learning to read and SPELL or only
three months. SHARI,oT.
THE SQUIRE's INDIeEsT1oN.-Old
Squire Ii was very successful and
substantial farmer in an interior town in
Massachusetts,, and more amazing eater
there never lived in any town anywhere.
And especially much did he eat when
fresh pork was to be his nourishment
Well, at a certain time, one of his hogs
had been killed. The next morning
there was fresh pork, and the old man ate
most wondrously. In the course of the
forenoon he ate his luncheon, consisting
of bread and butter, mince pie and
cheese. At noon his dinner consisted of
fresh pork, pickles. mince pie and the us
ual accomplishments. His afternoon
luncheon was like that of the forenoon
When he came home to supper, his favor
lite dish had not been prepared as part of
that meal. The old man fretted and
scolded until fresh pork was added to
the substantials. He ate voraciously as
usual. In the evening, he toasted some
cheese, buttered and ate it. Just before
going to bed he roasted couple of an.
pies and ate them. In the night he was