Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-02-03
LANGUAGE IS SWEET.
EXPRESSION BY THE TONGUE is
NECESSARY TO HAPPINESS.


words left out! My littlest one runs to
h,e and with both arms about my neck
mills me down to kiss me, and whispers
ssif it were new secret: Papa, | love
you. Oh, how just do To- love you!"
What a pest it is to be pull about so
when one is busyl How it dislocates
ones collar and ones thoughtsl But
what would you take for such prattle?
How would you like it checked, and in
stead of such spoutaneity be compelled
+o imagine You are loved? Dear me, old
man. but why so fussy? Do you not
know Won are loved: Do not actions
eragI, louder than words? Does not your
wife cook your meals, and does not your
,rirl mt vour room in order? Must You
also he 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
nv neck. and he pulls my head over on
his shoulder with kiss and Papa,
Won are awful dear to me- Pshaw, what
;otbere in words? A few sOunds-noth-
ipu else! am not so certain about that.
IonIy know that would not take a mint
of money for that small bouquet of my
bov's words No not for the world would
have to guess at his affection and get
hungry for solid certainty. There is not
enough such eloquence, as | 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 lie.
Somewhere | have lately read good
story Of a married couple that from
some spleen vowed not to speak to 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 ten John that dinner is ready
go" answered John, land tell Betsy
lam on hand" Here, puss," says John,
"teH Betsy this pudding is remarkably
good, and will take another plate Of it
if she pleases." "Go tell john answers
Betsy, that | am glad he likes this
peach gh0rtcake, 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 general fact that friendship grows
stronger by a short separation and cor
responleuce 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 few letters have passed. | en-
courage young folk to write letters to
learn the art of talking well. One would
suppose it would be the other way-that
good takers should write well.
How came it about that the tongue
and adjacent organs got control Of lam
guagc? Possibly Dido can explain this.
She leaps and bounds about me in over
whemning joy, Her nose is in my face
and her paws on my chest. At last, ut
terIy unable to express all her emotion,
She throws back her head and eXplodes
in a bark 1t is nothing but an eXplo-
sion, but it is a great relief to her.
That is the beginning of speech IN all
crcatures-only a 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 eN-
press dozen passions and resentmenls,
and yet most Of these are told by the
tail and the body III 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 tal; equally well. So language
slowly gets stolen by certain set of
organs that at first had little to do with
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
ever 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 a horses tail even
clipped of it's hair. 1t is to abbreviate
speech; it is to lop off the organ Of ex
preston
You viii see that my theory about the
development OF language accounts for
many abnormal forms Of speech. Pro-
family is IA mere explosion of sound
closely allied to the dogs bark and the
cats squall. 1t is not so wicked as 1t Is
beastly. 1t is the natural language OF
vulgar fellow who has no art of high
language Half the world talks by ex-
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