The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1875-06-24

are stricken. So suppose we needed the
affection. l don't say We needed it, for
don't see any use 10 spelling word right
and never dill. ! mean l don't see any use
10 having uniform and arbitrary way of
spelling words. We might as well make
all clothes alike aud cook all dishes alike
Saleness Is tiresome; variety Is plesing
| have correspondent whose letters are
alaays a reireehmeEt 10 NE; there is such
a breezy, unfettered originality about his
ortbographY. He always spells kow with
= large X. Now. that i just as good as to
spell it with d small one. Il is better. l.
gives the Imagination a broader field.
wider scope. II suggests to the mind a
grand, vague, impressive, new kind Of q
COW. Superb effects can be produced by
yariegated spelling. Now, there is Blind
Tom, the musical prodigy. lie always
spells "ord according to the sound that
Is carried to his ear. And he is an enthusi
asst in photography. When you give him a
word he shouts it OUTPUTS all his soul
into it. ! once heard him called upon to
spell ora.g- oltang before an audience. He
sald, 'O-r-a-n-g, orang, GER, ger, oran-
ger, tang, tang, Granger tang Now a
body can respect an orang-outang that
spells his name in a vigorous way ike that.
Bot the feeble dictionary makes a kitten Of
him. In the old time people spelled just
as they pleased. That was the right idea.
You had two chances at a stranger then.
You knew strong man from a weak one
by his iron-cfad spelling, AMI his handwril-
ing helped you to verify your verdict
Some people lave an idea that correct
spelling can be Caught--and taught to any
body. That is a mistake. The spelling
faculty is born in a man, Ike poetry, mnsic
and art. 1t is a gift; it Is talent. Peo-
pie who have this gift in q high degree only
need to see a word once in print and it Is
forever photographed upon their memory.
They cannot forget it. People who haven
it must be content to spell more or less like
like cumberland tx, ect to splinter the
/ dictionary wherever their photographer!
lightning happens to strike. There are
li4,000 words in the unabridged dictionary.
| know a lady who can spell only l8G of
them right. She steers clear of all the
rest. She can't learn any more. so her
letters always consist of these constantly
recurring $50 words. Now and then, when
she finds herself obliged to write upon a
subject which necessitates the use of some
other words, shc-well, she don't write On
that subject. have a relative in New
York who is almost sublimely gifted. She
can't spell any word right. There is a
game called Nerbarium. A dozen people
are each provided with Il sheet of paper,
across the top of WHICH is written a long
word ike kaledoscopical, or som,thing Ike
that, and the game Is to see who can make
az the most words out of that in three
minutes, always beginning with the initial
letter Of the word. Upon one oscasion the
word ch sen was coifer-dan. " hen time
was called everybody had built from five TO
twenty words except hisyoung lady. She
only had one wori--calf We all studied
m meut and then said: Why, there is
| n cuHer-dam.' Then we examined the
paper. TO the eternal horor of that unin
spired unconscious, subIimeIy independent
soul be it sail, she had spelled that word
eff! If anvil body here can spell calf any
more sen,fbly than thar, let him step to the
front and take his milk. The iusuIr, ;ton
will now begin