Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-27
Aplng the English.
[American Queen.l

A good commentary on the fashion Of apinp
the English in their manner of dress and
speech was the remark of little girl who
visited the Casino and looked upon its fire.
quenters for the first time She was from
the south, but had been in England. "Why
mamma" she said ''where did all these
English people come from? Isn't it funny to
hear them talk just as it was in Brighton g.
1t is very cleverly done-this imitation of a
certain style of Englishmen
young Bostonian know has acquired il
perfectly in five weeks. L can fancy him
greeting you next winter in this fashion;
g Jolly cold day, ehs Egad, Boston's more
than hawf nawsty this beastly weathaw.
Got a new fad, have, don't yau know?' etc.
And yet they say we are no inguists, and
this fellow has acquired a new speech all in a
month. 1t is really very clever, as you will
see.
1t sTnacks of the English groom, to be sure
for the manly Englishmen does not talk like
fool, and they who are beginning to cult
vate the so-called English pronunciation talk
very much like fools and make very funny
lapses in unconscious moments to their native
speech. Please, said a girl to one OF these
ambitious young men, "say hawlf- pawst,
or half-past,' and net 'hawlf-past, OF half.
pawst' !"
Egotistic Sweetness and Eight,
Boston Letter.
That Matthew Arnold is an enornnm1s
egotist perhaps needs no special illustration.
but an incident which occurred at Cambridge
on the occasion of Mr.. Arnold's reading there
is worth repeating, as Illustrating his charac
ter. Miss Emerson, naturally Interested in
the man who is soon to lecture upon her ia
ther, came down from Concord to hear him
and after the conclusion of that unsatisfac
tory entertainment, Col. Thomas Wentworth
Higginson said to Mr.. Arnold that Miss
Emerson was present, and suggested meet.
ing Miss Emerson is of the shy and retiring
order Of women, and complimentary speeches
are naturally not in her line, but she very
gracefully said to Mr.. Arnold that her father
had regretted not meeting him when in Eng.
land. To which Ny Lord Highland Mighty's
nioiest reply was delivered with his mos.
snobbish air: Eyes, l understood that he de
sired to meet mer'
Mr.. Arnold's little nephews and nieces. 50
an English friend assures me, say in admir-
ing awe, 80, Uncle MATHS such a swelIIn hut
it would be nearer the truth if they would
say cad. He has been terribly disturbed after
accepting hospitality If he is told it is not
''the thing" to know these people or those, and
makes most minute inquiries of the social
standing of those whom he consents to know.
he is a terror in conversation, continually
bringing his interlocutor up with a jerk to
inquire, "Aw-well, now, exactly what do
you mean by that terms Precisely how is that
word understood in American and other in
terrogations equally maddening. For my own
part shall always be wonder to myself
that when he had demanded what 1 meant
by 'lively girl" whether used ''clever'' in
the American or the English sense, and if 1
was sure Of certain figures l gave, that did
not call him BLASTED Britisher'' there and
then And then to think what his book on
America will be Ekel He is making copious
notes therefor, and partly for this reason
wished to lecture in southern cities The ut
most concession his managers would consent
to was an engagement in Richmond, where,
if do not greatly underestimate the extent
Of Mr. Arnold's fame, he will find that the
majority of people never heard either of him
or of "SYeetneSS and LIGHT u