Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-12-09
LESSON IN ESPERANTO.
Universal Language to Be Tried
 at a Normal College.
EASY TO LEARN IF IT IS QUEER
To Be Upper Class Language of the Future, Say Girls In New York In-
 stitution-Are Singing "Walk With Me In the Moonlisht' In Strange Words. 'es' u :
Liberland de rbravul'' kaj deni.

Liberland "de Pbravul' kaj deni. Kolombio, la perlo de fmaro.
 The Normal college girls in New
 York began to sing this the other aft ernoon and have been humming it to themselves ever since, only stopping occasionally when a number of them get together to shout in unison:
 "Vivu la g-blank-kaj-blu"'
 This is not Latin, as some parents
 thought, or Hindustani or Chinese, as
 others who knew Latin said it must
 be, but "Columbia" in Esperanto, in
 which the girls had lesson and which
 they say is to be the upper class lan-
 guage of the future.
 The lesson came in the form of a lecture on Esperanto at the college by
 good looking young apostle of uni
 versal language, M. Edmond Privat,
 who has come sover from Geneva, his
 home, at his own expense to help
 build the Esperanto bridge which he
 believes is sure to bring about lov-
 ing understanding between nations,
 says the New York Times. It is also,
 he thinks, going to do away with un- pleasant irregular French verbs and
 yard long sentences in German in the
 schools. This appealed to the Normal
 girls.
 NJ. Privat's English is only four . months old, and, although it is excel
 lent, he would not undertake to give
 a public lesson in Esperanto grammar
 in it. This was done by J. Charles
 Walker. professor of French at the
 college. who illustrated the construc-
 tion of Esperanto on the blackboard.
 You know" he said in beginning,
 "tbnt the French verb is rather ditti-
 cult"
 A ripple of laughter through the room seemed to indicate assent. "Well," he continued, "the Esperan- to verbs can be learned in two min utes."
 { Then with a crayon he gave illustra- tions of the construction of the words, . and in about two minutes the girls had { learned "belulo" to be handsome man. "belulino" to be handsome wo' man, and rattled off the words signi' flying, in Esperanto, "a bevy of pretty little girls" with a pure Esperanto ac' cent.
 { "I'd like to teach French as easily as ] that" said Professor Walker, with s laugh, and the girls laughed again. af fI,o of which { Miss Caglieris, one of the normal girls ! sang songs in Esperanto, fifty names were given of girls who will take les ! sons in a class which M. Privat will !. teach. Some of the Washington Irv ing High school girls who attended thu lecture made an appointment for M f Privat to give them an idea of Espe ]. ranto at their school. The language | d to be taught in twelve lessons, three < week.
 ' Young NJ. Privat is enthusiastic abou 5 the value of the universal language i He is quite young, though he ha < edited a magazine in the new languag and been a delegate to different con d gresses. Living is expensive in tn { United States, he says, so he pays hi < expenses by writing for the Frencl 2 journals and what pay classes he cal p get. The school class is free. He cam Z. to New York with introductions t .! Fleming H. Revell, who introduce P Esperanto into the United States som D three years ago at the instance of hi fhnY rr ceived only with amusement. 9 The Normal college girls say the q . are going to talk nothing but Espt ranto among themselves. The sent mental ones who are not singing "CC - lumbia, Gem of the Ocean," hay . learned the words of a song sung a follows: "HO venu. promenu sub lun'
 Ho venu, promenu kun mi" "Oh. com
 walk with me in the moonlight"