Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-01-29
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Especial Correspondence
~ ERDIN, Jan. Ito the average
- mortal an allowance of 1900. 900
year would pass uncriticszed il
~ the Sivor insisted on describing
It as "alms," tips" OF even Shoe
money" That. however. is not the
point Of view OF Kaiser Wilholm II,
who has announced to Baron Rheln-
baben. Prussian minister of finance.
that his annual s4.000,000 allowance
from the state is no longer to be de-
scribed as civil list" in German civil
liste." civil list" is 4 foreign express
sion. for which there is better German
equivalent in "Koenigliche Haushalt,
in English "the kings household" and
''Koenigliche Haushalt' it is hence
forth to be. 1t will not add even one
dollar to the 100000. But 1t will add
an honest Teutonic phrase to the Ger
man language; and that, says Will
helm IL is worth good many dollars.
the war which Wilhelm II has now
begun upon the Anglicisms which defile
the tongue OF Luther and Goethe is in
logical sequence with his majestyS tri-
umphant campaign against the corrup-
tlons from unfriendly GauL, For nearly
20 years this war has been waged with
unwayering success; and now from the
Vosges to the Vistula you Will not hear
a word Of French The triumph is en-
tirely due TO the kaiser's strategy Re-
membering the cynical remark that the
path to heart and brain lies through
the impcrious stomach, the kaiser raid
ed his Galllcised kitchens In the year
Of his accession to the throne. When
he had found Teutonic TRANSACTIONS for
all the flnicky French on the menu, he
pounced upon menu" itself and re-
named 1t ''Speisekarte." which means
eating card
NO MORE CUISINE"
Next the palace authorities with Their
Rocco French traditions from the days
of Friedrich the Great were discovered
to be calling the imperial kitchen
cuisine" Henceforth 1t was German
"Kuche." Apparently the association
OF ideas led from "cuIsine" to 'Kusine.
barbarous Gallicism used by dcgener-
ate Germans To denote their cousins
The word appeared even In tho court
Circulars In 1890 there burst upon an
astonished world the mysterious ap-
Prh0tlOn IL olONc iNoSfhe
out OF the court list. Unscholarly in
dviduals asked themselves what was
the meaning OF "Muhme;" and learned
men from Heidelberg and Gocttlngen
when posed with the puZZlcr tried TO
look their wisest But the mysterious
"Muhme' had nothing to do with
mummy" except that 1t was mum
mihed. antediluvian. immemorial, obso-
lete. but honest German word. which
IL l.-NrN HI n
dead past Nowadays, all really smart
Germans talk about their ''Muhmes,"
and only sham smart Germans who live
In small flats at suburban Lichtenberg
and think they know French, talk
about their "Kusincs." They say to
their rich relations: MY Kusino is In
the cuisine" And their rich relations
look at them stonily. and say In the
manner OF Kaiser Wilhelm, Your
Auhme. you mean, is in the Kuche'
CLEANING UP THE ARMY.
Having expelled French from the
kuche." William ii clcansed less
important institution. the army. Twen-
~ years ago. most ranks. and nll tech
meal. above oil. all fertilization terms
were French. In 1889. William ii is
sued n decree ordering them to DC
translated into German. The cacophon.
Gus Teutonicisms nobody understood
at nrst; and had war broken out TWO
decades ago the beating of the French
might have been sadly hampercd b!
the lack of French words. 1t took al
leaSt 10 years before the German mill
tary language was purified. Finally, IT
lSs9. French had It's coup de grace. IT
order 10 purify our speech. ran
decree Issued by Wilhelm ii all the re-
naming French army ranks were to bt
turned into German
Ofnzier-Aspirant became Fahnenjun'
ker
Porte-epec Faehnrich became Fslehn'
rich.