Morning journal and courier., 1893-10-18
The Influence Of Women on Lan-
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Max Muller in Science Of L1pgukgel
 The Influence of women on the language of each generation is much greater than that of men We very properly call our language in Germany our mother tongue, Cnsere MuttersprAche, for 1t is from our mother that we learn ii, with all its pscu- harities, faults, Idions, sccents. Cicero, in his ''Brutas" (c. Twill ], said: 'It makes great difference whom we hear st home every day, and with whom we speak as boys, Snd how our fathers, our tutors and our mothers speak. We read the letters os Corne1A, >.zs mother of ths GrAochi, and it Is clear from them that her cons were brought up not in the lisp. but, so to say, in the very breath and speech of their mother" And sgsin l''Rhet." iIi, l2l, when speaking of his moiher-in-lAE, Crhs- Eus said: "When l hear LAsliA flor wo- men keep old fashions more readily, be- csuss, as they do not hear the convsrsA- tion of many people, they will AlwBys re- tain what they learned At arsi(-but when hear her it Is as if l were listening to Plautus and NssvIus" But this is not all. Dante sscribed ths first attempts Ai using the vulgar tongue in Italy for literary com NAGAA-lAE u ALE E44GAA allNElGe AhQl0e who did not understand the Latin Ian RusZe. Now this vulgar Italian, before 1t bscEme the literary language Of Italy, held very muSh the same position there ss the so-cAlled Prakrit dialects in India: and these PrSkrit dialects first assumed a lite ragy position in the Sanskrit plays where female characters, both high and low, are introduced ss speaking PrSkrit, instead of the SAnskrit employed by kings, noblemen and priests. Here, then, we see the Ian gusge of women, or, if not of women eK- clusively, st all events of women and do- nestle servants. gradually entering into the literary idiom, and In later times even supplsniing it altogether; for 1t is from the Prakrit, and not from the literary SAnskrit, that the modern vernAcnlsrs of India brsnched of In cOurse of time.
 We have Greek, in Its two dialects, the .Eolic and the Ionic, with their snbdirI- sions. the Doric and Attic. In German We find the high and low German; in Gel tic the Goidhelic and Cymric, As tn India the SAnskrit and PrAkrit; and 1t is by no means an unlikely or merely fAnciful ex- plantation that, as Grimm suggested in the case of high and low German, so likewise In the other AryAn lApgusges, the stern and strict dialects, the SAnskrit, the 4Eo- lie, ihs Goidhelic, represent the idiom of the fathers snd brothers, used sf public assemblies. while the soft and simpler dis- lects, the Prakrit, the Ionic aud the Gym ric, spTAng originally from the domestic idiom of mothers, sis;ers and servants kt hons. But whether the influence of the language of women be sdditted on this large scale CT not, certain it is that through Q thousand smaller channels their idioms everywhere find admission into the domes- tic conversation of the whole family and into the public speeches of their assem- blies. The greater the ascsnoancy of the female element in society, the greater the influence of their language on the language Of family or clan, village or 8 town. An Oppressive Butler.
 From inc Boston Henaldl
 Many funny stories have been told of the maEosvres prscticed by women of fAEhion and position to capture a real English but Ter. and if he happeped to be the csst-oH servant of some noble family their sAtis- faction was supreme. Tbis mania has been developed in Boston to some extent; so I WAS not surprised 10 hear that the scion of family prominent In revolutionary annals had outstrippsd All hsr sisters and taken into her service a butler who had formerly been employed by real, live earl. Stll, her triumph was but short-llTec. and her historic ancestors were avenged; for the other day Ehe confessed 10 friend, her coafdCnto. who never tells anything, that ''Ehs hadn't eaten a meal in peace since be came into the house. Hehks such 6 solemn look on his face, don't you know, that I can't imagine what he is thinking about; end, bsing used to waiting in the eSrl's family 1t really scAres me to.think be may be thinking about us. Don't tell, deal, but really. don't think like nOblsmen's ser vanis"