The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-11-05
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skines - Chaldrsn.
. pussl Gust. .niing ii sciencs has
been ereatsr than how 10 accouat fos
n ~ variety x sslang gaa ~ among men.
Eassy enolgh - explain the divers
a ity that exists among various dialects
/ soe he Same stock; . that. tsking the
most familiar casa. between French,
SItslIan. nd Spanish; q inawider sense,
afaong IN the sixty languages Of the
yran n Indo- European stock. the
twenty " the Semitic family (Hebrew,
sChalslaic, etc tho 1853 of the great
south African stock. the thirty-fivc Of
Algonquin Indian) stock. and so on.
3: hese groups otfer comparatively slight
variations within themselves, but the
/ nloment ~ 30 beyond ! single stock
tho several groups seem to have moth
Ing ID common. The parent stock in tho
Aryaaa group. for instknce. i absolutely
separated from the Semitic that from
the Chinese, and so on. Of these last
two 1t was said BY William Won Hum
I boll who was not inclined to super
natural explanations- that it was easier
: to believe that each came by some di-
rect communicable from heaven than
that either could have been developed
out of tho other. And as there are es-
tmated to be about two hundred of
these utterly distinct and remote parent
stocks. the officially Of accounting for
them has hitherto seemed almost insup-
erable. Yet all this while, Mr.. Horatio
Hale thinks the real solution was one
of the simplest things in the world. and
lay close at hand namely. in tho nur-
3sery Some observations made by
woman and recorded ed-not, unhappily,
q once, but long after gave the key
to the whole mystery. The solution is
lto be found, according to Mr. Hale. in
what no calls ..the language-making
.instinct Of yery young children. =
There were born near Boston. in 1860.
twin boys who we're particularly devot-
cd 70 each other They beganto talk
o the usunl age. but the lang dage they
talked was not even SO near to English
~ Is usual in such cases lin fact, it was
not English at ali. They made up >
jargon Of their own. and entirely re-
fused to speak anything else. Their
mother could not really understand it,
hut only guessed at what was essential;
yet they perfectly understood one an
sother. SO that il was for all purposes
q communication complete language.
AZ last they were sent to school, where
they learned English rs a foreign
tongue, and forgot their own prattle,
only one word Of which. unluckily.
was preserved. The matter was not
made public TIL eighteen years after
uArd, when il was described by Miss E.
II. Watson Of Boston.
Il happened. fortunately, however.
] that in the interval between these facts
and their record series Of more ex-
! act observations was made and pub
lishcd BY an Albany physician, Dr.. E.
u Hun. In a periodical Of small cir
8culation, iAe Mont7sIy Journal of Psy-
5Sclsclogicas Medicine, he gave what Mr..
i Hale calls "a clear and scientific ac-
count Of something more Of the kind.
lt was 4 language contrived by little
girl 4 ycars and months old, in con-
nection with her brother Of 5. about
twenty OF the words are given. most Of
which aroused in several allied accepta-
\ tions. as nlea. meaning both cat and
furs;; mig so-'pigaso, water. wash, bath;
pat. soldier. music; odo, TO ossend for. to
60 out. 70 take away; scaid- -soaiar,
black darkness, . negro. The Ian
guage had its own forms of construc-
ton. as in naca oaia-s0aiar dark furs. )
literally 'furs dark. when the adjec-
tive follows its substantive" DR. Hun
snys the children talked in this way
WITH the greatest rapidity and fuency.
honias Wc,stDorsA Higginson, il
Harper Bazar.