The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1893-01-21
LANGUAGE IS SWEET.
EXPRESSION BY THE TONGUE IS
NECESSARY TO HAPPINESS.

Life would BE mighty Desolate without
Sweet Words - Much More Beautiful
Gould We Make This Existence " we
Took More Pains In Talking.
How would You enjoy life with sweet
words left out2 My littlest one runs to
me and with both arms about my neck
pulls me down to kiss me, and whispers
as if It were new secret: Papa, love |
you. Oh, how just do love, love youl" |
What pest it Is to be pulled about so
when one is busyi How it dislocates |
ones collar and ones thoughts But |
what would you take for such prattle? |
How would you like it checked, and in |
stead of such spontaneity be compelled |
to imagine you are loved2 Dear me, old |
man, but why so fussy2 Do you not
know you are loved? Do not actions
speak louder than words? Does not your
wife cook Your meals, and does not your
girl put your room in order? Must you
also be mussed over and gabbled to in
order to be satisfied?
Then comes my oldest boy, grand
fellow, stout and wholesome and brainy,
and before | am aware his arm is about
my neck, and he pulls my head over on
his shoulder with n kiss and "Papa,
YOU are awful dear to me-" Pshaw, what
is there in words? a few sounds-noth-
ing elsel | am not so certain about that.
only know that would not take a mint
Of money for that small bouquet of my
boys words, No, not for the world would
have to guess at his affection and get
hungry for a solid certainty. There is not
enough such eloqpence, as l have looked
about the world. And yet it should not
flow too easily. Tonguy love is quite
another thing from open heartedness In
my opinion we should bring up our
/ young folk to easily and frankly express
/ their feelings, only not to express any
more than they feel. The art and trick
| of speech is to be more eloquent than
true, and so to turn love into a lie.
Somewhere I.have lately read good
story Of a married couple that from
some spleen vowed not to speak 10 each
other. Well, if they had not really loved
they could have got on without talk, but
in this case they could not. So by happy
inspiration they used the household cat
as a 90 between. GO" said Betsy,
"and tell John that dinner is ready"
60" answered John, "and tell Betsy
am on hand" "Here, puss," says John,
"tell Betsy this pudding is remarkably
good, and l will take another plate of it
il she pleases." "Go tell John" answers
Betsy, "that l am glad he likes this
peach shortcake, and he shall have three
pieces if he will"
SO for years they kept their vows, but
told their love and got on famously. 1t
is a general fact that friendship grows
stronger by q short separation and cor
respondence by pen. A man or woman
will say sweet or true things in letter
that they would not say first by mouth
do not quite understand this, but
know it is true. Friends treasure let
ters, and friendship never is quite itself
until n few letters have pass l. | en-
courage young folk to write letters to
learn the art Of talking well. One would
suppose it would be the other way
good takers should write well.
How came it about that the tongue
and adjacent organs got control OF Ian
guage2 Possibly Dido can explain his
She leaps and bounds about me in ..rj.
whelming joy. Her nose is in my face
and her paws on my chest. At last, ut
terly unable TO express all her emotion,
, she throws back her head and explode
in bark. 1t is nothing but an explo
sion, but it is q great relief to her
2 That is the beginning of speech in ali
i creatures-only noise made by the
rush of emotion through the mouth.
, By and by this noise is modified to ex-
press different emotions. The dog can ex-
press dozen passions and resentments,
, and yet most of these are told by the
, tail and the body in general.
, The next step is, or was, to modify
/, these sounds into musical roles. The
bird does not enunciate first, but sings.
The lower races sing well and talk
badly. The highest art is TO sing well
/ and talk equally well, So language
slowly gets stolen by certain set of
organs that at first had little to do with
2 it. The legs and hands come less into
play to tell emotions; the tail, which
! has done so much animal talking, is
aborted / think it is aborted mainly
} because its functions are mostly passed
= over to the tongue. | have not heard
, whether the tailed tribe of Africans wag
those appendages in friendly greeting
like dogs or not. / would not own a
tailless cat or have horses tail even
t clipped Of its hair. 1t is TO abbreviate
q speech; it is to lop off the organ of ex-
: preston.
: You will zee that my theory about the
4 development Of language accounts for
many abnormal forms of speech. Pro-
family is u mere explosion of sound,
closely allied TO the dogs bark and the
g cats squall 1t is not SO wicked as it is
| beastly, 1t is the natural language Of a
vulgar fellow who has no art of high
: language. Half the world talks by ex-
4 plosion and expledves. The more beast
\ ly mans habits the more profane he
! becomes by necessity. 1t is his natural
/ language. What a stretch it is from
such a man to Coleridge or Emerson OF
{ Lowell!
4 | heard Of a man the other day, "Ah,
t he is great scientist, to be sure, but nc
E is also such a splendid tallSer," The art
of saying fine things finely you cannot
afford to bo without. Live with wolves
and you win learn to howl, says the
! Spanish proyerb. We ought to be able
: to add, Live with men and you will
/ learn to talk we'll" But that is not so.
] There are too few really good takers
/. really wise and witty tongues. e. p.
{ Powell in St. Louis Globe-DemOcrat