, 1880-07-11

two portions OF one Of them are
spread apart, the better the author of
the crime is pleased with his performance.
A. favorit one is 7eiste ub.-which means. de-
from q novel and reduced to English:
The trunks being NOW ready,iile De- after
kissing his mother and sisters, aud once
more pressing to, his, bosom hi; adored
Gretchen, who. dressed in simple white
fods II S hsr rich is srown 0fi hr h had d. totteed
fcebly down the stairs, still pale from the
terror and excitement of the past evening,
but longing III lay her poor aching head yet
once again upon the breast Of him whom She
However, it is not well to dwell too much
on the separahle verbs: One is sure to lose
lis temper early; and it he sticks to the sub
ject, and will not be warned, it will at last
either soften his brain or petrify it. PERSON.
nuisance in this language, and should have
been lett out For Instance, the same sound,
sic, means yoH, and it means. she, and it
means her, and It means I, and itlleans they,
and it means tllem.' Think of the ragged
ps pese Wor1 1 do s WIZ S " has to s poof
little weak thing OF only three letters ut that.
But mainly, think Of the evaporation of
never knowing which Of these meanings the
speaker. is trying to convey. This explains
why, whenever q person says sic to me, I
. Now observe the adjective. Here was a
case where simplicity would have been an
advantage; therefore, for 10 other reason,
the Inventor Of this language complicated it
all he could., When we wish to speak OF our
.'good friend or friends,' in our enlightened
tongue, we stick to the one form and have no
trouble or hard feeling about; but with the
German tongue it is different. When a Ger
man gets his hands on an adjective, he declines
it, and Keeps on declining it until the conf
r. n {rf f&.s
bud as Latin. He says, for instance:
SINGULAR.
. No'ninattue-s(ein gutter Frennd, my good
.Genitipe-Mcnts guten Freundes, of my good
:Datipe-MeInem guten Freund, to my good
4cc,tsatlpe- -Mefnen g1tc, Freund, my good
friend
PLURAL.
N.-Metns gute,t Freund., my good friends.
G.-Meuer gutsn Freunde, of my good friends:
D-ieinen gutcn FreundeE, to my good
A.--Meine .guten Freunde, my good friends.
Now let the candidate for the asylum try
soon he will be elected. One might better
20 without friends in Germany than take all
this trouble about them. I have shown what
nais is5sf friend Is wel. Il asfi ass Is only yo0a
third of the work, for there is variety
f,f new distortions Of the adjective to be
learned when the object is feminine. andstilI
another wien the object is neuter: Now,
there are more adjectives in this language
than there are black cats in Switzerland, and
they must nil he as elaborately declined as
the Examples above suggested. Difficult p
tro ublesome ?-these words cannot describe
it. heard Californian student i'll Heit!el-
IN wouId rather decline two drinks than one
German adjective.
The inventor Of the language seems to
have taken pleasure in colnp}tsating 81 it IL in
Il one is CASUALLY referring toa house, Haus,
or a horse. Pfcri or a dog. Hand, he spells
these words as / have Indicated: but
If be is referring to them in the da-
unnecessary @ @ &. ~ and Spells them Hause Pferele,
the plural, as the does with US, tie new
student is likely to go on for a month max
inp twins out Of q dative dog before he dis
covers his mistake and On the n 9thsf m t2a4 n2na
loss, has bought and paid for two dogs and
onlv got ona Of them, because lie igporantly
bought that dog i'll the dative singular when
he really supposed he was talking plural
which LEFT the Law on the feils5s side ,d ct
therefore suit for recovery could not lie.
n I;er,nnn. ali the l,onns begin with . cap
ital letter. Now that is Il good idea; and a
good idea. in this language, is necessarily
Conspicuous for its Ioneso1neuess. ] consid-
er this capitalizlng Of nouns good idea, be-
cause byreason of you are almost alwaysable
to tell i noun the min ute you see il. Ioufall
into error occasionally, because you mistake
tie name OF 4 person for the name of thing,
and waste a good deal OF time trying to diga
meaning out of it. German names almost
always do mean something, and this helps to
deceive the student. I translated passage
one day, which said that. IS the infuriated
tigress broke loose and utterly ate up the
unfortunate fr-forest": (Tunncn4r1ld).
When was girding up my loils to doubt
this, found out that Tannenwald, in this
instance, was mans name.
Every noun has gender, and there is no
sense or system III the distribution; so the
gender of each must be learned separately
and by heart There is no other way. To do
this one has to have q memory like
a memoranlum-book. In Eerul;ln a
Young lady has no sex, while a tt,r-
min has. Think What oyervrousl,t
reverence that shows for the turniD. and
What cnllous disrpspcct for the Girl. See
how it looks in priut.-T translate this from
a conversation in one of the best of the Ger
man Sunday-school books:
'r Gne.essn~w;,ha,n, r IN, rvnera 10 tho turn3,2
ir5Ict,n-sbe h,s .,,,oe. 70 In Ejtchnn'
Grrtchcn-Where Is tho accomplished and
beautiful English maiden?
H'ahelm-1t has gone to the opera.
tn continue with the German genders: a
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