Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-01-03

than she has put out When you see
a child that you want to fondle at the
other side of the room you say to her.
Arrive here" And the child prompt
~ arrives"
In England when we speak Of walk
ing we refer to a certain use or the
legs. But the Portuguese verb Ito
walk" has many more Specifications.
In Portugal not only do the people
walk. but also the carts and cars walk.
the trains walk, balloon walks, and
a boat walks. Stranger still, the
hands of a clock walk round the facet
A clock, by the way, never goes; 1t
works
Unless you are very intimate or very
rude you never say to your fair part
ner at dinner; ''Will you have some
% etc. You inquire, "Will your
excellency have some bread?' or, "Will
the lady have some bread" the LADY"
meaning not some other lady, but your
fair partner herself.
In spite of winter you are never cold
in Portugal unless you are a corpse
You are with" cold. In the same
way you are occasionally with" heat,
with" headache, with" hunger or
with" thirst When you have occa-
at makes cold" at makes fog"
etc. On your way home from an en-
tertainment you tell your companion
that it makes" dark.
II speaking of her husband wife
says he is tame" man. She merely
means that he is a man of peace and
justice.
The word house means more than
with us. Your buttons share your own
privilege of living in a house. The
buttonholes are called houses OF
the buttons" The squares on a chess
board are also houses" You don't
say, TIN going TO shave" You say.
Pm going to do the beard" Neither
do you say on the way to the bar
ber's, I'm going to get my hair cut"
but yoS say. I'm going to cut my
hair" ~.
When you are In Portugal you have
twenty fingers. but no toes, II you
want to make distinction you
say fingers of the hand" or
fingers OF the foot" Instead of
telling the servant to set the table
you tel ntE W put IL " hCb JOo
go to the theater you assist" You
don't mean by that that you come
on" nor even that you do little scene
shifting You mean that you are there.
Residents in fats who mediate TAX
ing a holiday in Portugal will be re-
lieved TO hear that no one plays the
piano there. They merely touch" 1t.
Neither do they ring bells. They
touch" them also. But they play"
stones, meaning that they throw
them, and ship at sea plays" when
It pitches and losses.
Re careful how you tell your lan6-
lady that you intend to dine out or
she may think, with a shrug of the
shoulders, that you intend dining
"outside"-i. e., In the garden. In an
swer TO the kind inquiries OF your
friends don't say that you are well;
say that you are good" Be careful
in your use of words. Some words
similar in form are widely different in
meaning. as an American missionary
once discovered to his cost when
preaching in Brazil. once Portuguese
colony. His subject was ''The Prodt-
gal Son." and he gravely informed his
hearers that when the young man re-
turned home his father killed for him
the fatted beetle! But he had merely
made a mistake in one solitary vowel
A sleeping" bridge means bridge
that IS immovable mot a drawbridge).
Stagnant water also sleeps" So do
trucks or trains that wait anywhere
during the night When they laugh In
Portugal they unite themselves to
laugh" and when they cry they '+un-
make themselves in tears" A persist
entity unfortunate man says, 81 am so
unlucky that II / fc>i on my back /
should break my noSsT-London An
swers.