Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-06-14
CURIOUS FAILINGS.
A Plea for the Bad SPELLING oi Rduca.
ted writer's Words winch Present
Two Faces.
Letters That win Twist Themselves tp,o
wrong Positions-a entail Peculiaritic.
Cases With Tinge OF Romance.
New York Tl1nea

va q PeuaSVSlc tutn OF mind that an edu. !
Gated person must never make mistake
IN spelling, or that the least bluuder In
I the grouping together OF the letters form.
ing wordisa convincingproj that the in
tellectusl training Of an Individual Is far
from being perfect. II viii be found in
aally experience that to bea0solutely per-
feet In spelling is byno means to be taken
as the criterion OF an educated man or
woman. There are the queerest and
suangest twists in n mans mind, for
there are certain words over which people
stumble, aud they viii live all their lives
IN hazy condition abeut the spelling OF
them.
Here is u really curious case OF a liter
airy man, who contributes very clever nc
ton to the magazines. This is his ahso.
Lutte aud truthful confession. al am
afraid TO give my material to 40 editor
who is not thoroughly acquainted with
me or my antecedents, and who has not
already brought my stories, or who does
not know that what write people like to
read, for am that unfortunate creature
whose spelling may be good OF bad ac-
cordlng to circumstances. In other
words, belong to that miserable category
of human beings who are to be olassed
among the accidental spelleTs' What do
| mean by thatP may write fifty pages
Of manuscript with very few errors. OF
spelling, then all Of sudden on page
tifty-one will come hlunder after
blunder. Words correctly spelled and
used over and over are all wrong now.
My mind Of a sudden halts and refuses 70
arrange theletters properly My little boy
of eight years old would deserve u thrash
ing for such vulgar blunders My wife
: will sometimes read my copy and clean
it up, but when am in hurry | can not
wait for her.
STORY or HUMILIATION.
'sDo you want to listen to the story OF
my humiliation? | took book l hat
made sometime ago TO well known
publisher. He knew me by reputation
and was politely received. The subject
| had chosen seemed to suit him, He mac
the temerity TO read the first page of my
manuscripts; then he suddenly halted, ane
/ was ut once aware that he had founC
certainly one, maybe half a dozen, mis-
takes in spelling. Under ordinary cir
cumstapces | might have corrected tht
blunders, but If the sale Of my work, OF
my life, had depended on spelling RICH
u off the doubtful words | could not hay,
d done It, had no idea how 10 spell them
: was conscious that they wer,
i, wrong, but the geography, the picture
of the WORD had entirely faded out OF m.
} mind. might have said to that Devil
e dered publisher, i will spell those word
Il quite correctly to-day or tomorrow, bu
: Just now it IS impossible Fortunatel
ii did not hurt the value OF the wotk, 10
II that intelligent and forgviug puolishe
le bought that book | feel very muc
!; ashamed OF myself, however, whenever
see him. fancy my mistakes arlse ifor
~ some sudden oblitsratiou OF the ments
= faculties, for the confusion is not perma
nent. Ii goes and comes II say
myself, now watch out aud see that 20
- rey particular attention b. yopr sieiling
could not produce hundrod wore
consecutively. Yes, it worries me.
neHere is an instance happened to nj
to-day: am very much interested in al
strsct science, and am reviewing Tor
! periodical a series of works on particl
lar topic, and have to take copious note
i | wrote the simple word many NANCY
don't think ever put the 'e' in oeIor
(. That extra 'e' fascinated me. ] was col
scious that 1t looked funny and origina
( II seemed ludicrous, and 1t annoyed M
y Then. after while, | did not kno
= whether it was right or wrong, ! had
4 cali on nv little girl and ask her to spe
q 'manyi for me. As long as | live neV'
n shall write made and maid witho'
y shying at them. The verb and the nor
4, are utterly distinct, but nevertheless
~ have to think whether 'The Made
e Orleans is right as far as 1t refers TO jos
u of Arc. It's trick of forty Dad yea
% standing. Despair is another wor
| despair of ever writing 1t without
Il feeling of uncertainty. want to make
tdespare.i | have pitch battle WIN j
=, nen before can work in the J, ana
V often as not put in the after the wol
- il written. / won't write 'despera,
lin ever can help 1t, but must VII
tdespairate.' It's my worst case OF nj
ing words. | speak French ana term
tinently, read italian and Spanish va
ease, / delight in the Roman poets, u
am distinguished for bad spelling ~ thg
languages. do not brazen II out
moi cav. u don't care | rather soll'
A vour pity for very sad infirmlty.
y THE MENTAL IRREGULARITIES.
In order to satisfy ones sell h'
strange are these ldiosyncraclesi Ills oi
necessary for the reader, without gol
into the spelling bee ahboyhhSei ~ ~
his friends in regard to their peculiarly
of spelling. 1t is exceedingly rare 70 Il
4 only one who does not tell me that
~ nails over certain words. a genuehi
but who in his professional duty resos al
leading journals Of the United states
clares that the words most treqnen
ynisnelled are close" and loose
hot5 editors and proof readers seem
W. he al sea IN regard TO them. Wo i
only on the threshold Of this subject &C q
-eA mental pecularues areas , sas'o no o1 -
mo aus. aud are quite as marked among
GufI forming the stan Of a ne'
n SNr, from the editorinch down
- th 1s reporter, as anywhere else, Eve w.,
~ hndv has a word or two, some any gu
Ane titv Of them, that they are always uac
tain about, aud the word IS written
- them as often wrongly as rightly,
what Il worse there seems 10 De no 2
Here Il a final case, with slight "
sDe- A qpllgue-ble9 luAN