The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1875-06-02
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/ There xas spelling m~tch at Hartfofd On
Wednesday evenings; AID III, Santei 81
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I Ladies' and QMt1emen se-I Isare beeii sli0f{
ored with the ol]ce Of introducfbe lhesas1ss
solcmnitias with : 4 I'm ssnarks. Tho tom
perance crusade sswepk tn Ind sonie tints
Iae6l that NJ that v&st PORTION u chs land
where II was needed, but Il skipped Hartford.
Now comes this new spelling epidenic, aud
this time we ara stiickens 30 1 suppose Ne
needed the afiictiuns 4 don't soy Ne needed
II, for don't sac any use In spelling 4 word
right, and tiAser did. Imean don't see sty
use In having = uniform and arbitrary way of
spelling words. We might ~ well make ali
clothes alike and cook All dh1tee alike. Same
NESS d tirSscmS; variety Is pleasing. .have
4 Correspondent whose letters are always re-,
freshment 10 me, there u such 4 hrysxy, nm
fettered originality sbUut his osthoerapky =
He always spells Kow with q large ii. Now
that ID just a. good a. to spsll II with q small
one. IL is better. It gives the inaaginationa
broader field, q wider scope. It suggests to
tho mind gfdtd, vague, impressive, new
kind Of cow. Superb effects can DO produced
by variegated spelling. Now, there is Blind
Tom, the musical proiiay He always spells
q word according to the sound that IL carried
to his ear. And he il an enthusiast ii orthog.
raphy. When you give him q word he shouts
it outputs all his soul into II. Il once heard
him called upon to spell onsang outang before
an audience. He said, !" Osa Hss-g,e-r, ger
Granger, lt-asfiig, tang /; Granger tangtn Now
a body can respect an ourang- outang that
spells his name in q vigorous way like that.
But the feeble dictionary makes mere kitten
Of him. III the ola tfnr4s people spelled 3ast
as they Pleased. Tint was the right idea.--
Yon had two chances at stranger then. You
know strong man from weak one by his
iron-clads polling. and Ffth and-writing helped
you to verify your verdict, Some people have
an idea that correct spelling canibe taught
and taught to anybody. That h a mistake.
The spelling faculty 10 born In a man, like.
poetry, music and art. 1t Is a gift; it is d
talent. People who have this gin IN a high
degfes only noed SEQ . word once b print and
n h forever photographed on their memory
They cannot forget Il. People who iiaven'tit
must be content TO spell more Of less like
ike thunder--and expect to splinter Che die
tionary wherever their orthographical light
ming happens 10 Strike. asNt
There are IA, 900 words ii the unabridged
dictionary. know lady whocan spell only
$50 Of them right.as Size stesrso iearof' al the
rest. She can't learn any more. So her Lett
ters always consist OF those constantly re-
curing $50 words. Now aud then when she
finds herself obliged to write upon a subject
which necessitates the use of some other
Words she--wcll, she don't write on that sub
ject. I have a relative in New York who is
almost sublimely gifted. She can't spell any
word right. There is game called Verbari-
um, A dozen people are each provided with
: sheet H paper; scross thS top Of which is
written long word like kaleidosdopical or
something like that, and the game is to see
who can make up the most words out Of that
in three minutes, always beginning with the
initial letter Of the word Upon Que occasion
The word chosen was Golfer dam. When time
was called everybody had built from five to
twenty words except this young LADY, she
Dnly had one word--calf. We all studied
moment and then said. "Why, there Is no
in coffee-dam I" Then we examined her pa
per. To the eternal honor Of that uninspired,
sublmeIy independent soul DO It
mid abo had sroIlod fho word caff !,