The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-10-20

Last March Andrew Carnegie, the
giver Of libraries. announced his inter-
est I'm the spelling reform movement,
which had been struggling for recognl-
ton for generation. In a character
istic manner he gave proof of his In
terest by becoming the financial prop
to the missionaries who were trying
to popularize a simplifed and uniform
method of photography
The announcement was greeted by
men of letters with horror; those gem
tlemen who are learned in philology
expressed their delight and the para
grapher found an old and well-worn
subject suddenly galvanized into life
Then the subject, having endured for
the span allotted to wonders, was be-
lieved to have passed into oblivion.
But it had not 1t was believed to be
I'M possible. and consequently, its ter
rors were not particularly to be dread
ed. But when President Roosevelt re-
turned to the subject and by his sign
manual actually breathed life into it,
both sides of the Atlantic gave voice
| to a protest whose echo has not yet
died away.
Mr.. Roosevelt has ordered a small
dose Of improved spelling, evidently
under the belief that it will whet the
appetite for a whole bottle. Conse-
quently only 300 words have been
adopted for use in the messages which
may emanate from the White House
He has instructed Public Printer Still
ings to conform with the recommend
atoms of the Spelling Reform Commit
tee in printing his official documents
Many of the spellings adopted by Mr.
! Roosevelt have long been familiar by
common usage. The word Jail, for in
stance, has not been otherwise spelled
by an American writer these last fifty
years. For the great part. the new or
biography authorized by the President
has to do with dropping the ue in words
like catalogue, or the re in words like
programme, or in dropping other
phonetically useless letters. In some
cases, as fantasy for phantasy. the
new method certainly will not impress
the present generation with it's air o.
novelty; and the same remark is appli
cable to the adoption of the anglciset
ter ending for the French ire in words
like center, theater, which are more Of
less in harmony with modern prac
tice.
Winston Churchill, who lives in New
Hampshire in an address at Concord
recently praised the New Hampshr,
farmer
ours" he said, "is a state fittec
above all others for a summer resort
New Hampshire, with it's superb eli
mate, it's mountains, its lakes an
forests, will in a generation or two b
one great pleasure ground-a vast par
dotted with beautiful villas, to whic
, will come each summer families fror
, all parts of America.
"In anticipation of this, many farm
ers are learning to conduct hotels. The
= are building cottages for summer Wis
itors Some of them. too, are takin
boarders. And I am glad to say tina
the New Hampshire farmer is in a pc
sition to take boarders because, unlik
the farmers in other states that I coul
name, he does not send all his goo
= things to the city.
'I once boarded at a fine, big farm
but the fare was wretched-canne
vegetables, condensed milk and so OF
"7By Jove, I said one morning a
breakfast, as I pushed my egg Gu
from me, these eggs are really not a
fresh as those I get in New York
my farmer host snorted
e "'That's rank prejudice on your par
Mr.. Churchill, he said. It's from Ne
York that all our eggs come"
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Here is the big scene of the grea
est play hit of the year, Pinero's II
House in Order" Nina has found lie
tiers which show that the deceased Wi
of her husband was a base unfaithf