Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-01-22
WONDERFUL CHILD LINGUIsr.
A Tiny Little Girl who speabs Four
Languages FIuentIy.

years OF age who speaks f1uently Eng
Iish, French, Greek and German, the
first three are so perfectly that no one
can tell which Is her native tongue |
Maria Rose was born in America, but |
DIR. Achilles Rose of No. ssa East Fiji
teenth street, who adopted the sweet
faced orphan four years ago does not
know to what race her parents be-
longed, and cannot explain her extraor-
binary ability for the acquisition of Ian
guages except by saying that her natur-
al gifts are great and her ambition to
succeed keen.
The girl !, Of fair complexion and her
hair and eyes are brown. She is quiet
and demure, but of quick observation
Dr. Rose has long written and spoken
IN advocacy Of the adoption Of the liv-
ing Greek as = international language
for physicians. lie was anxious hat
the child should learn Greek when he
saw how rapidly she progressed in Eng
lish and French, both Of which he
speaks auently. He speaks Greek also.
but he does not believe in the general
method OF teaching It, being sure that
the requirement OF new tongue
through daily contact with someone us
ing It Is the best way.
Not content with what his own com. =
partnership might do for his adopted
daughter, he brought from Greece Miss
Eusiathia Memocharizi. Maria In :.
very short time spoke Greek nearly as :.
well as her governess n
The young llnguist in the summer of p
1905. then only ? years of age, carried -
home big parchment. which now 8,
hangs IN "A frame IN her home, and
which reads
New York Co. Medical Association;
The members Of the executive com
mittee, present at meeting of the asso- M
citation on June n. 1905. desire to ex- 81
press their thanks to Miss Maria Rose, gr
daughter OF Dr. Achilles Rose, for The ma
charming manner IN which she spoke IN
ind sang IN the Crock language, In H. su
ustration Of the subject which formed we
,art OF her fathers address on that MI
'vening. Let this action, with the seal
q ~. a,.oc,a,,oo .m~ed e~o,e.s o,,. +.
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lie services rendered by her. chi
1She sang the national hymn OF Greece a.
nd reeited on that occasion fable con- VIC
erning fox that disposed of a gold ire
rick 10 a syndicate of trusting animals. ""'
% eleverly did she speak that she sue !"
eeded In arousing the enthusiasm even W
{ the Rev. Archimandrite Agathodoros INC
More cannot be "s'
i'd VIM
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800 10 ~s ..aau. $3.50 ing
rench governess for month or two,
It'll the result that the child speaks
rench today as II she had been In
rance. II
Miss Maria for the last few months "0'''
IS been attending the school of the "'''
sters of the Sacred Heart In west Sew A
teenth street II was there she ore. a Co
red a surprise for DR.. Rose. She knew the
would please him greatly If she ac- A
ired still another language. Without Parl
ing anyone into her confidence. she and
gan to talk with the German speaking TIL
lool children and borrow their vo- chief
'ulary. an &c
he busted her little head In this way Tn
months, and yet during all that time was s
word OF German escaped her while was I
WAS IN br Roses nearing. When Unur
spoke German 10 his friends or pa i
Is the little woman pretended to pay H..
attention. She heard every word and ,do =,
erstood most of what was said, but
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er triumph was coming. One day upon
= she ,.,, t,,n, .,,,,,n.A ~ - old lac
ID DR.. Rose by breaking into con- an e'e'
alton In German which he and a 4
d were having and making 1t plain No q
she could speak the language as the ori
as be could metal
ow's this'' he cried, delighted. Homer
hF she said, laughing. at was easy brass "
sFn. thought YOU would Ike IT, mao B.
90 see. lodged
e best feature OF It all is that the opinion
has not been a victim of over-study. coins $,
lose IS the enemy OF all systems of fury B.
ig Il heard English in the sums" known
-. "and know a man who speaks Persian
! and schoIar.like who learned Il IN one sid.