The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1891-01-02


Papa. what 4 this the Bots DE
H-o-ul-o g-nes'
why. Tint means the boy with boz
Iogua- don't you zee him there atntin' IT.
ION. yes: and this spelling II out,--Rue
de Henri QuatresH
Eyes. my son, thnt's pronounced Hong
rec Kat, and means the street Of hungry
cats--we'll 20 down there an see EN- some
day
"And this-Iouis QnatorzeP
"I,ooee kahtor.-weli, that little Louie
and his cart horse. See 'em there III the
corneryr
Look at these little heads and under
'em il says. 'Scraphin Brllc.'
YES. them's the bully seraphim-them
stone things they put on monnyments.'
'.And here's great big wine store with
men or =omethin' in il. and j; has q sign
Of les sept frercs' Cthe seven brothers,,
.'That well. lemme see IL - oh. yess
thems the twelve apostles
But. papa. they aren't but seven Of
'em.n
s.Oh, yes-well-ah--er-u cuts
no figure The other ive's gone inside TO
take drink"
The foregoing (allege.l) conversation not
only serves 70 amuse the Americans in
Paris. but illustrates the difficulty persons
~ middle lifeexperience in graphing with
the language learned IL young and then
forgot most of it: now that am resurrect
ingit note hundred ab~urdities never
thought Of In my school days. What, for
instance. could be more absurd than tho
50 called grammatical gender in which
there L. no neuter aud all sexlc~s things
aredividea between male and fenale'
ny pen il feminine but the wooden pen
Lolfer H. masculine: the knife inlscuiiae,
the fork frnlD.n4: the paper and Ink mas
cnllnc. and - On All around the table,
4 that being feminine And a. far AZ | can
4 see there j. nothing AZ all in the way OF
\ natural analogy 10 guide the learner.
N What blnnder< we Americans must makel
\ And ii the Parisians were not She most
\ delightful hypocrites in the world how
/, they would laugh al as But they don (;
\ even over the worst blunders their smiling
/ comment l.. Tres bicr. monsieur; tres
\ biea: vous ave. IA vrlje Parisienne," etc,
I etc. It's al lie, and know Il: but then
\ il sounds nice. True il is that the sun Il
I he aud the moon She a ship, a nation Or 4
fine wcrl. Of art generally Is she. and a
\ few rlorc things seem triile reasonable,
I for we use them the same way; but IN this
line 81 pronunciation what do you think
~ this:
\ "Qn'est-ce quest celafr That's pro
bounced -kesky slah" fmeaning, What II
thatf"). and new man In Paris has 70 u-<
II about hundred times day. Now,
have had very strange mental experience
In the telling II does not amount 20 much
butt feel that IL could give the exact ex
perences r. some protested student Of psy
choIogy he could make much out Of i
perhaps prove the assertion, often mad'
and 0ftener denied. that we never reall,
forget. that the only difference between
man with good memory aud one with
bad one il that the former has a c.rtail
sensitivcness In the brain fiber which
makes any suggestion call UP thc relates
facts lying away back Ia the lumber room
Of memory.
When began 70 pick up French phrase
here and there ! had not the slightes
recollection ~ ever having heard most .
them. All M once. however, on the sec
ond day. old recollections began 70 pop vi
from the most unexpected places IN til
: obscure back ground Of consciousness
/. seemed rs II some great screen had actu
= ally been pulle,, away from private room
: IN the brain a room | had totally forgot
, ten that owned. and that out u IT., singh
w ul~A Alft t4tfn ia ktttA tltrtifos ttAiF VI
Y sentences and with them a perfect reco
y lection ~ the circumstances under whic
had lrst mastered them recalled tn
very day on which we had rccited the pal
ticular senlens " IN class thirty years agr
y and later the occieions On which hid pu
: the sentences to use and II was reall
4 wonderful to notice how the old phrase
: and odd idioms marched forward and r.
y into their proper places, Ike well drille
: soldiers. 1t waS q very curious exper
rience, but ! fear the philosophy Of
would be- tedious.
i Paris H. always gay In the summer. an
the Americans. ~ whom several thousnn
are then there. are the gayest Of all. Thel
Il An impression among those who serve.
2 strong ia England and much stronger
v France that every American who come
y over has his clothes just padded wit
y money, and Il burning with anxiety
u spend Il: and must say that most Amer
cans aid the illusion. It's all We.
well, perhaps, for them 20 scatter the
4 own money a. freely as they please. b,
I they dcmoralize the market for their cou
"a trymcn who are not 40 well "heelcd." II.
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