The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-04-11
OF in His
Pronunciation

y am still having no end Of trouble
with my pronunciation, said the rug
ged man who has accumulated bie
fortune without having much improved
his education "That Is. J amt hay
ing any trouble with it myself but Tin
making a lot OF trouble for other peo-
pie
"As far as I'm concerned ] don't
mind much how pronounce my words
aa long as I'm understood but 10
makes am awful difference 10 my chill
dren. especially my Oldest daughter
'Why, father she says what do YOU
iuppose people viii think Of us with
Jou pronouncing words as YOU do
"You see since The children We're
old enough 90 know anything we've
always bad plenty of money and so
they've had an the what you call adj
vantages. and they know how 70 pro-
nOiince and all that and they can Hold
their end ups with the best 9f them.
Now, you know the childrens mothey
and have been married for quito
some time and | don't want to butt
my family affairs in onto your notice,
but don't mind saying to you that I
think mother IS the greatest and
noblest and finest woman that ever
lived, and you might not think i Of q
tough old chap like me- hut like 10
call her pretty names.
fller name; ! might as we'll tell YOU
because I've got to tell you 70 under.
stand what I'm going 10 say, rs Maryi
but Ike sometimes TO call her some
thing else. Sometimes call her Lucy,
/ rather like Lucy and instead Of cali
ing her Mary I've called her some
times Lucy for weeks at time, with
her smiling at me kind o dubious. as
if I was making fool Of myself but
saying nothing. And Agnes; ! always
sort Of liked Agnes, and onee called
her Agnes for six weeks And then
another name I always did like was
Pauline and once for about -four
months didn't call her anything but
Pauline and I've called her by lot
OF names ike that, just as they hap
RkitN w fAf INV III ANhAf
Foolish this may seem to you, Just
as It always did to her. but I never
saw any harm IN it. like to give her
these pretty nalles just as | like to
give her pretty clothes. like TO have
everything about her pretty; I'd give
my hat and all I've got to make her
happy. ! don't know what I'd done or
whore I'd got without her, ana she's
all the world to me and love to give
her all the pretty things I cam but 7
guess ! can't give her any moro
pretty names
Last week ! ran across the name
Of Beatrice. That's pretty name,
don't you think? Beatrice? And I
started right away calling the lady
Beatrice, but this time I ran up
against my oldest daughter.
"Of course ! pronounced Beatrice
Bee-a-triss; what other way could
there be2 never heard any other,
but the first time said it my Oldest
daughter happened to be around and
q 'Bee-a-triss? She said. why, father,
what do you mean by saying dreadful
things like that?'
Dreadful? ] says Why, what's
the matter with Beatrice? Isn't Bea-
trice a pretty name?
why father says my oldest
daughter you mustn't say things like
that; you mustn't say Bee-a-triss it's
Bayah-trce-chayi
What9 ] says 'Bayah-eheetray?' ?
"'Nn. no no., says daughter. not
Ray-ahchee-traA It's Bay.ah-tree-
chay!'
fAnd ] tried it again and got it Bay
ah-chee-tree aud Bay-ah-tree-chee, and
Bay-ah-tro-key, aud various other
things, and finally I got il Bay-ah-tree-
ebay.
Now. that's right, says daughter,
'it'a Bay ahtree-chay. Never say Bee
a-iriss.
Il said it again and got il right
again this time, Bay ah-treerhayi and
as ! said il happened to look around
where mother was, and there she sat
smiling at me
Wen, IL was S0ft OF ridiculous
wasn't it2 Certainly 1t was Lucy
ives ali right enough and Agnes and
Pauline. but fancy my going up to her
and saying Wei Bay-atrec-chay
and then going on and trying to say
something sensible or loving after
that
@Wby Of course, It wouldn't do and
we both know that and SO. do you
know I've cut out the fancy namea
altogether? Dropped 'em entirely. and
think she's rather pleased with that
She 3lways laughed at me for it but
am inclined 70 think that deep down
Ia her heart she never really fancied
my calling her by any name but her
own
$50 thero's one little reform worked