The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1909-08-27

dimittis- almost ready but not quite.
Il want to be an angel,
For this l hope and pray,
| want to be an angel:
But, of course, not right away"
"You may rail at this life,
But from the hour | began it,
have found it a life of kindness
and bliss,
And, until you can show me some
happier planet,
More genial and bright, TIL con-
tent me with this"
CAS- long as this world has such
looks and such eyes,
AS round me this moment | see,
You may talk as you will of your
mansions in skies,
But this is the world for you and
me-"
Not only is this the world, but
this the part and this the hour.
At our last session, when the ques-
ton as to the next meeting place
arose, l opposed coming to Boston,
for the same reason I objected to
studying medicine in Paris-I did not
understand the language. It takes
long, and careful training to prepare
an adult who has been bred to speak
English, to speak and understand
French So with Bostonese.
My first feeling, then, in response
tc your words of welcome, is one of
mingled surprise and gratitude-sur
prise that plain English should be so
we'll known here: and gratitude TO
you for deciding to make English, in
stead of Bostonese, the language of
this occasion.
Adaptability to environment is one
of the commonest of natural phenom-
rna, and you that dwell continually in
the glittering effulgence Of this mag
nificient city, have no idea how its
Kaleidoscope and irridescent glories
affect the vision of those who inhabit
the darker regions, which lie more or
less remote from this classic center.
Boston, big, boastful and beautiful:
Boston, bright breezy and bellicose:
Boston, beany, biophagous and brain
ey: Boston, lean, learned and literary:
Boston that always takes her gram
mar straight, if her streets are crook
ed, and her morals occasionally bias.
Boston, that believes in liberty for
herself and the right to set the pace
for the other fellow: Boston, where
every citizen is an I specialist if not
an occulst. City of the hub, if not
of the hubby: Great, glorious, grandi-
loquent, bulimic efflorescence of the
pie district: Buttressed with pork and
beans, pilastered with succulent pas
try: pollysyllabic, philosophical, pa
triotic, pulchritudinous, liberty-loving,
bespectacled Boston: The cradle of
liberty, the mother of great men, the
beacon-light of democracy, the trav-
eller's boast, the patriots pride, the
glory of our past history, the hope for
our future triumphs, the hub of the
Universe, "the fairest of ten thou
sand" and altogether lovely: Esto
perpetual! May thy shadow never
grow less and may thy guests always
be as grateful as the one now address,
ing thee.
It is the custom of inexperience
to demonstrate its wisdom at every
opportunity. AS this is my first trip
to Boston | may be expected to show
my limited knowledge of Bostonese.
give it as heard in the remotest
provinces. 1t must be genuine, be-
cause l obtained it from veracious
travellers and honest newspapers.
ought to be reliable. The famous DR..
Johnson reached the form and force,
if not the elegance, of pure Bostonese
when, after examining a French Bill
of-fare, he exclaimed In disgust, "Sir,
My brain is obfusticated with the pc
rusal of this heterogeneous cong'om-
GRAFTON of bastard English, ill-spelt
and foreign tongue. Bid the rascals
bring me a dish of hogs pudding,
slice or two from the upper cut of a
we'll roasted sirloin and two apple
dumplings"
A western traveller passing along
the streets Of Boston was thus ac-
costed by ten-year-old-America:
Pedal extremities artistically illumi-
mated for the infnitesimal remunera-
tion of one twentieth of a dollar
Understanding only plain English, he
failed to recognize this as Bostonese
for the Western "Shine your shoes for
five cents" And hastened to his
hotel to avoid what he thought an i'm
pending assault,
l know not how the truth may be,
I tell the tale as twas told to me.
But seriously, it is my pleasure and
privilege on this occasion to speak for