The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-17
ESPERANTO is LOOKING UP
NEW YORk SOCIETY HAS NOW
4 HOME or ITS DIN.
Class for Beginners Once a Week DIplO-
matte Handling OT suggestions for
Improving the Languase-II9ht chat
and SERIOUS TaIk In Esperanto.

and serious TaIk In Esperanto.
Now that the New York Esperanto Society
has rented a club room Of its own at 81 East
18th street its members nave assumed on
air Of dignity quite different from the apollo
getic manner in which they explained last
season TINT they were gathering in turn at
one anOther's apartments. With growth
comes, Of course. some natural feeling OF
elation, for that this society is becoming
larger is evident to the visitor who makes
his way TO its room any Friday evening.
The Older member get there first. about
3 O'Clock. in order to bid the stranger well
come and to congratulate the newer men,
bers on their sustained interest in Esperanto.
The room is large and three classes can be
held in il at the same time;I the adopts who
converse more or less fiuently in the
language on any subject that interests
them for the moment. the learners who
receive instruction from one Of the experi-
enced, and III group Of newcomers, m
times large and sometimes small. who are
rounded up by another experienced member
and TO whom are explained the most ele-
mentary rules Of Esperanto.
Thu newcomers hear something like this:
Esperanto il an artificial language in
vented twenty years x by a DIR. Zamenhof
of Warsaw, Russian Poland. II is intended
for an auxiliary medium and in no way
expected by its adherents to drive out
existing language It's principal advan-
tage is its simplicity. II really remarkable
feature, for the grammar may be learned
in an hOu easily. All nouns end in o. ad-
~jectives in a. adverbs in e. and these endings
are attached to the same root to express
ideas which belong properly to that root.
For instance, patro, a father; patre. TatherIy;
pRtre. in r fatherly manner. Lahore, work;
hbora. l%aborious; lahore, deliberately. Verbs
have simple endings which change only for
tense and mood. and not for number OF
person and" and so on
Few strangers leave during this little
introduction. Occasionally an individual
rises awkwardly from his chair n walks
on tiptoe To the door, very slowly. but is
heard scuttling rapidly down the passage
once outside the portal.
Perhaps he has made n mistake about
Esperanto. Maybe he expected To hear n
disquisition on % medical subject or
came primed for magic lantern views.
Indeed M young man in evening dress
and an undersho, jaw, who was escorting a
pretty girl under a large red hat, seemed
TO resent not hearing The band play after
both visitors had 5000 around wonderingly
for a few minutes, but it developed in short
order thai the pair had mistaken the room
of The Esperanto society for a newly opened
dance hall. The girl under the large red
hat made a distinctly disrespec.ful remark
about the international auxiliary language
when the thing was explained and she is
not expected TO become an applicant for
membership OF The club at any lime.
The learners class IL a worry serious aTCir
The students have been working their
way through an ~cXercige book at LONE
and familiarizing themselves with he
vocabulary-;he Esperanto dictionary in
it's skeleton form contains less han 1850
root words nd heir mistakes have gwen
hem much uncas.ness.
The instructor show gently where these
mistakes might have been avoided with a
little more care, and after some primitive
sentences containing home truths and
interesting news items, such as: "A lion is
Q ferocious animal u read, you read. he