Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-18

shall be an highway for the remnant OF
| his people, declared Isaiah, prophet OF
| the day of kings. but higher light was
already stealing into the Iron City. The
remnant" was proving its own quality
| by searching out the squalor of Its back
doors and runs" where wan specters OF
decadence elbowed ill-begotten. helpless
| staring-eyed detectives and dependents
1t may be said that at Pittsburg the
east ends and the west begins. The divi'
sion is in nothing more pronounced than
| in the speech of the native. In the noon
day tlrOng of the AIlequippa Club !,
J puzzles the stranger. 1t is not the lazy
drawl that crept into the central west
from the southeast with the early migra-
! ton, and that is still discernible wher-
| ever the old stock has held it's own, but
| a hybrid wrought of Scotch-lrish and
| Pennsylvania Dutch influences. 1t Is less
! interesting for elisiOns and the fattenine
| of voWels than for its cadences. In tamil
| lar dialogue these are marked and weave
spell upon the unfamiliar ear. They
are not peculiar to the man In the street,
| but flavor the polite babble of drawing
| rooms. They lure the ear of strangers.
and newcomers unconscious'y ADOPT
them. The operators at the telephone
exchange teach the most common and
the most readily communicable of these
cadences daily. In repeating number
of four figures the voice invariably rises
on the next to the last syllable to fall
again at the end. The native tongue,
long attuned to this practice. adds a
word to short sentences so that the In
miss its effect. For example: Did ne
get it," does not quite lend itself to the
usage; but If we prefix And: tAnd did
he get it?) the speaker satisfies his own
ear. Those who are keen for contfo-
versy in such matters may gnaw this
bone all they like. Some will trace 1t TO
Scotch others to Irish Influences; but
from the lips of the pretty girls of the
greater city, whether behind shop coun.
tiers or tea tables, it is melodious ana
haunting. To some shrewder pen than
this must be left q prediction as to the
ultimate fate Of our language at TINS
great western gateway, where the min
Cling of dialects spoken under all the
new influences on the common speech.
AS Col Craighill and his son entered
the club today commerce seemed less In.
sistently dominant Their names had
once the center Of attraction. The ticker
curled it's tape unnoticed in the basket
while the Craighill marriage was dis
cussed. AS the two checked their coats
the congratulations began, ana In tne
loun ging room they were Immediately
the center of group of friends. Wayne
1t seemed. was the object of more atten-
ton than his father; che colonel, as
nearly every one called him. would, OF
course, beam I'm his characteristic way;
but Wayne, in his own relation TO the
matter. was to be viewed III fresh
aspect There were those among his in
Inmates who chaffed him about his new
stepmother She would, they limited. un-
doubtedly visit upon him the traditional
contumeiy of stepmothership Others re-
appraised the Craighhill millions with q
view of determining just how much the
new wife's advent would cut into the ex-
pectations of Mrs. Blair and Wayne.
Roger Craighill's first wife every one re-
membered, had brought him a consider
able fortune. and many were now trying
to recall how much of this had reposed
in him, and how much had passed direct
to the children.
Dick Wingfield. who crystallized in his
own person the greater city's aspirations
i'm art and music, declared as he surveyed
the large dining room and contemplated
the two Craishiils in-their unusual in