The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-10


heor, Wis has never heard more tAan roo
or $40 WORDS ct = very ruds sroYineiai
aialect y EnSlisA, arid therttors com
Tnands neither the Wonit nor the ideas II
the outlying provinces =
A tlsory u that Kind should erplair tlie
facts sssd siisss Spss not explaisi them. IL
Il were true, the women would be Gs ST.
lent as the mea, having even isss of eul-
turs, bat they are not. On the contrary,
tho wives of those silent rural folk can
often chat R.sreeahly. and e4ve aud take ia
conversation. They do not only Rarrafe
they dlScuss and are capable even az
r0rgh badinage, which helps the argument
directly on Moreover, the Chat1eriaE
paopIes-the Neapolitans, for instance
sre not bilingual ana Tie best takers ia
the world, tho horn Parssians, spring of
ancestors who knew no language but theit
own The border peoples, TOO, arc nor
exceptionally talkatiye, IS We eee itl
yWaies; and the Swiss peasantry, for ali
their linguistic requirements, are ex
ecpti0nally tzclturn. Nobody would say
th&t GA h.satssa, accustomed from child
hood to two Languages, aud those among
the richest IN the world, was Acre con
versable than LyounGis, who hardly
knows Of the existence Of two while 4
Partisan seems nimble ia talk by tka side
OF a Brnxeilois, who IL never for an in-
stant out Of the hearing af two tongueD,
The man who Is bilingual, either IN fact
or by tradition, has no doSht 4 larger
command OF words; but Is the corlmaad
OF worGr the key 70 the seerck2 Isto why
do the women, as we said before, tall bc4-
ter than the men. and why arc not @Q the
cultivated equally capable Of conycrea-
uons How often can = ptofessof'r co.,.
psratively ignorant wife talk we'll, while
the Learned husband is incapable of coa-
versationl And, iin2lly, X the differences
Is question of knowledge ot kay sort
Why does w'iac so cfteig aud MP 10 point
bgightcn talk and tkikerss II caanpt nd
thoaghts, Or increAse limited fcpcrtciro
of words At most, alcohol, II ars
form, cAn but iyapxft courage, and per-
hans 4 little speed 70 the movements n
-tae brain We should say that thc power
Of talk, IN the sense cf o3nSsrsirr, ea5re
first at All from the wish 10 talk, tho d.
sire 10 mRnifest one'a self 10 others, aTH
that this WAS IN the FIRST instance exactly
what TIC professor rays SC 4 net--a fncs
peculigrity Nothing ruus niere eosp
pletely ii families thsn the habit n con
yersing f1tich. ans 4 race u nothing int 4
big family slid Mr. MAhssEy, ~ HE
whole life, ever meet Jew who could not
tax. or who did not With to talk, oa who. lf
circumstances favored ldna, aid not talk n
little too readily peraans and ArWhs.
who know nothing, chat twice as readily
as Scotch farmers, who know much; and
tbs popuiace Of Naples, men Is jgnsrnnt
as the fishes of their bay, talk, cnd talk
weil all day. 1'he Greeks heve been elfat-
ttrboxes for 5000 years, and heye lived
for 800 o. them 6ide by side nith Turks,
who IA the lorcr elssscS scsrcelg conyerso
AZ alI It IL not eyea tt.e "a lar ts 0xw
observation goes, that, outside the Teu-
tonic rage, ciess mekes any perccptihi6
difference an Itejian ~ Greek Or French
workman talking qNise a. reNdilg HeS an
Euperiors, and enjoying ak quits e.
much.
We fear that the trufh q one wfieh
Professor Mahany's courtesy induces hinR
onlg te hint, viz, that the Tentou of All
thsee branches German. isngiishnla1 sfe
ASlierican-though be is filiug shs world
and Eay possibly master Il, Is 4 slow
witled being, who does not by nature
enjoy talk. but rather feele II WORRY tn
iye called on 10 understand words arid
make response to them 70 quickly He
docs not s;tke III readily, aEd therefcfe
has ltttie pleasure Ia hearing tniks and he
c~Rrlot give ont quickly, and therefore
suffers IN uftering II As to tho cause 0f
such pecHliarity of race II II tircsofie
or ut ail events useless even 70 spccnlate.
Spectator.