The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-13

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gonian.
"A gentleman from Boston" he writes,
was kind enough TO tel me something
about il. He defended the use OF guess
as a Shakespearean expression. 10 be found
in Richard III have 9srne6 enough
never 10 argue with Bostonlan.
An right I said. I've never heard a
real American say ~ guess" but what
| about The balance OF your extraordinary
| tongUe2 Do you mean 10 say thar Il has
anything IN common with ours except the
auxiliary verbs, the name Of the Creator
and damn" Listen 70 the men at the
next table
They are westsrners.' SAID the man
| from Boston, as who should say Observe
this casscowary.' They are westerners.
! and II you want 20 make a westerner mad
tell him ne is not Ike an Engiishman-
They think they are Ike the English. They
are awfully thin-skinned in the West
Now in Boston it's different We don't
care what the English people think OF Us.
The idea Of the English people sitting
down TO think about Boston. while Boston
on the other side Of the water ostsnta-
| tiously didn't care made me Singer.
The man told me stories. He belonged 20
| a republic. That was why every man OF
his acquaintance belonged either TO one Of
the first families N Boston y else was
Of good Salem stock, and his fathers had
come over in the Mayflower-' l felt as
though were moving in tie midst OF a
novel Fancy having 20 explain 10 the
casual stranger the blood and breeding o.
the hero OF every anecdOte, I wonder
whether many people in Boston are like
my friend with the salem families. I am
gong there 70 see.
- There's no romance in Amer.ca-it's
all hard business facts said a man from
the Pacific slope, after I had expressed
my op NIL about scIiae rather curious muir
der cases which might have been called
mlscarriages of justice. Ten minutes later
heard him say slowly. apropos of a game
called Round the Horn chs IS a bad
game; don't play It with a stranger;
Well. it's a good thing for this game that
Omaha came up. Dice were invented in
Omaha, and the man who invented EN-, ne
made a colossal fortune
II said nothing. I began 10 feel faint.
The man must have noticed it. SIX and
twenty years ago Omaha came up he re-
peated. looking me N the eye, and the
number Of dice that have been made N
Omaha since that time Is incalculabe.
'' There is no romance in America I
moaned like a striker ring dove in the pro-
fessor's ear. Nothing but hard bushes
facts, ad the first families OF Boston IN /
vented dice at Omaha when it first came ,
up. twenty-six years ago. and that's the I
I f~
people ike th!s?'
Are you describing Japan or America? /
For goodness sake, stick 10 one or the I
other said the professor.
" 1T wasn't my fault. There's a bit OF /
America in the barroom. and on my word 4
it's rather more interesting than Japan
Let's go across to Frisco and hear some /
more lies
From Yokohama 70 San Francisco Is but
a matter of a few days. Those few DAYS
past. Mr.. Kipling found himself in the
midst Of the new civilization. which
reaches its rawest and most aggressive
newness on the Pacific slope. His FIRST i'm
preston wa that san Francisco is a mad
city. inhabited for the most part by per-
fectly insane people, whose women are OF
a remarkable beauty"
He met with what he looked upon as a
adventure even on his way
to the Palace Hotel. He tells OF Il thus:
There was n slight commotion IN the
street-a gathering together OF three or
something that glttered as II
moved very swiftly. a pOnderous Irish
gentleman with priests cords IN his hat
and a small nickle plated badge on his Tat
bosom emerged from the knot supporting
a Chinaman who had been stabbed in the
eye and was bleeding like a pig TIE by
standers went their ways and the China
man. assisted by the policeman hhs own.
Of course. this was none OF my business.
but I rather wanted 70 know what had
20 the gentleman who had dealt
he stab. Il said great deal for the tx
selIence OF the municipal arrangements OF
he town that surg.ag crowd did no. a
,nce block the street to see what was 60
ng forward. I was the sixth man and tho
asst who assisted at the performance, and :
ny curiousity was six times the greatest.
indeed. ! felt ashamed OF showing IL
San Francisco suggested 70 him certain ]
sentiments on the American citizen as
zen al the Golden Gate and the American
POLITICAL system. He delivers himself OF
hem in this fashion:
They delude themselves into the belief
hat they talk Eng lsh-the EnRlish-and 7 /
lave already been pitied for speaking with
an English accent" The man who Dt;ed
ne spoke, 50 far as I was concerned. the :
language OF thieves And they al do.
Where we put the accent forward. they ,
brow 4 back. and vioeversa, where We ,
se the long a. they Use The short. and
vords so simple as 20 be past nistaklnK
hey pronounce somewhere up IN the 6oue ,
z their heads How DO .heee things hap
en-? Oliver Wendell Holmes says that /
-ankee schoolmarms. the cider and salt
1lEfsh % the eastern states are rsspo1s.-
lie for what 10 calls nasal accent z
- Hindu - a II ud1 and 2 brother % I
he man who knows his vsrnacu.sr. and A I
'ranchman Is French because DO speaks
Is own language. but ne American has 2
% language lie Is dialect slang. p-ovin-
ialsm. accent, etc"
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