Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-12-03

seious that 30 locked funny aud orig
slnal II saened udicrous, and 81 an
moved me. Then, affter q did
not know w het her IL Il was right OF
wrong had to call on my little girl
md ask her to spell .mAny Tor mo.
AS long al i live ! never shall write
made and maid without shying at
them. The verb and the noun arc
/, utterly distinct, but neyerth eless.
have to thin Whether Ihe
Made 81 Orleans s. 5 lis afht as
lar as Il refers TO- Joan Of Arc. d q
trick OF forty odd years standing. De.
SPAR is another word. 20 despair OF
ever writing it without a feeling Of
uncertainty. want to I make it 'de-s
spare. s155I have q pitch battle with my
lpen beforeI can fork III the j, and as!
soften as not put in the j after the
word is written. i won't write 'des-s
Esperate' il ever can help it, but must
write 1despairate. IL my worst case,
..of mixing words. Il panse always at
whether and her, though /;
never blunder here, but you might
put pistol Is 1 my head and not pre-
vent my vriting pocrite' .hypoclit;'
that final u dropped out Of my. head
years on years ago. Do you want me
;to pose my imbecility further? I
neve r could write 8. aquatic or 5staque-
duct but properly, and would be inca
pable Of laundering with aqua marine, !.
Essbut the chances are ninety in the hum
,dred that if / wanted to write aquarium
j should make, it .acquarium.'' ] al
ways banker, too, after making quar>
ter one-fourth,s 'quater.''% have a
hatred for that interloping r. NJ.
! slaughter coached me most heroicallY
about agreeable with an "a, but when
she found that I pushed the "a into
|:agreenment, she, gave me up in de-
spare-no, 'd-e-s-p-a-i-r-e.' ] was
.shamed into Principal because I had
to"write to the principal Of a school
about my lecturing before, his class;
| but / am positive have addressed him
as Principle. IL speak French and
| 'German @huently, read Italian and
Spanish with perfect ease, j delight in
the Roman poets, and am distinguished
for bad spelling in three languages. I
! do not brazen it out. r. do not say I
don't care. I rather solicit your pity
for very sad infirmity,'''# >.s1:& :.
In order to satisfy ones self how
strange are these idiosyncracies, it is
only necessary for the reader, without
going into (, the :. spelling bee
annoyance to ask his. :. friends
! in regard Z to i. their peculiarities
of spelling. 1t is exceedingly rare
to find any one who does not9tel me
that he halts over certain words. A
! gentleman who in his professional duty
reads all the leading journals of the
| United States declares that the words
most frequently misspelled are close
! and sr.loose,' for both editors and proof
readers seem to be at sea in regard to
| them. Working only on the threshold
j of this subject, the mental peculiarities
are as various as curious, and are quite
as marked among the individuals form
i ing the staff 5of q newspaper from the
4 editor-in-c chief down to the reporter, a.
any where else. Every body has wore
y or: two, some any quantity of them
that they. are always, uncertain about
r. and the word is,written: by them a
7 often wrongly as rightly, and what j
worse, there seems to be no cure TO
such mistakes 5 %y."l {. - y .sssstssi
Here is a final case, with a sligh
tinge Of romancesto it. "A college bre,
!, man, graduate with honors, addresses
a young lady, and was referred to tn
!, young PERSONS father Permission t
:, press his suit could not be made .verk
ally to the father, who was absent, an
:. accordingly the young man wrote
+ letter. Areply came promptly enough
! bat not OF a. pleasing charac ter. u .nhh
. father, q highly educated man, an
!, somewhat of a purist, was shocke
with several bad plumbers of spellin
in the letter, and he SO informed hi
r daughter. y Whether twas excitement
!. r.iWhat not, could not be determined
, but the consequences to. the sutton wei
= likely to- be distressing Subseque1
: correspondence showed that the poss
I BILE son-in-law was really an educate
: man, and matters were arrang ed. 8 B,
1 from an '.e'' out. Of place and a donb,
!; st. 1 or one too many 81 So or mixin
81 up an isle with ''cci,'' the fortune
. Of two Young people came near bein
%I shipwrecked. i. n .saz,; Z.
After ALL spelling is 8. mechanic
rather than a mental process, IS st
& those who make the mistakes. - N. {.
1inless n ,.35 s. t r.. - 81: