The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-11-26
81 Bit of France
and French !:
By Mrs. Byrd Trego.

The war has been producing new
words right along that will become
part of the vocabulary of the world
Tor Keeps, SO we may as well teach
ourselves the correct way to call
them before We and they older grow.
Here comes the word Camouflage,
pronounced as tho spelled this way:
Cam-oo-fazh, now you will please
give those two 90 letters a long
sound and use the last a as tho you
were saying ask.
Camoofazh literally means fax
Ing. Camooflazh is a word or term
adopted from the French theatrical
vocabulary, in which 1t means max
Ing up. 1t comes in very handy
to describe the new military art Of
distinguishing an object so the enemy
cannot recognize it. This manner Of
assembling or shamming or taking
was practiced during our Civil War
to some extent, but I cannot recall
now what and how it was done
many OF my readers, however, will
know.
The art of camooflazhing as done
IN the present war originated witt,
the French and was speedily taken
up by other allies. In America. an
association for camooflazhing was Or
gained by number Of artists early
IN 1917, and camooflazh division
later organized as branch of the
engineer corps.
There are probably several good
magazine articles in the Library ON
the really wonderful work done un-
der this department, only one Of
which our space permits" The bulls
OF vessels are painted to blend with
SKY and ocean, rendering them prac.
tically invisible at short distance.
or In such way as to give an err
roneous impression of character. size
or speed"
Now since we have mastered cam
oo1azh so easily, suppose we step
over to Ireland for a call, there is
something to learn in that wonderful
country that calls to mind stimuli
taneously, spats and humor, humor
and spats. Ireland quarrels at the
drop OF hat and jokes good ma
turedly at once the hasty word is
spoken.
Way back in 1906 some agrees
sive well-meaning Irishmen organ
lied a new society to promote Home
Rule. They named it Sim Fein. the
same being 9 Gaelic word pronoun-
ced like this: Shin-Fan, with the
long a. Now you may have known
how to say Shin Fan for long time
but the writer did not find it out
until year ago when Sagehurst in
vested her savings in new Encyc-
lopidia.
Shin Fan means yourselves Alone"
SO this society has for it's slogan ''for
and by Irish alone" Shin Tanners
mean to be very thoro going. thew
want an Irish parliament, army and |
navy, mint for making money, civil |
and consular service, judiciary and |
school system, industrial and eco
nomic reorganization by its own peo-
pie on a purely Irish basis.
Shin tanners would boycott all and |
English. They would go |
80 far as to expel from public and |
private service. all those not CONVEX
SAINT with Gaelic. 1t would promote
IN Irish language to take it's place
With the English and French, Latin
md Greek. 1t would encourage
irish agriculture after destroying
English founded works, but does not
OBJECT to English capital to found
md work Irish institutions.
Perhaps there is boy or girl, or
'everal of them, that does not quite
Understand what Gaelic means.
Briefly, the Gaels were people who
Inhabited the Highlands of Scotland
ma Ireland. The Gaelic language
s an early one of the Celts, or Gel
&c race. The earliest writings were
ouad. in Ireland, Wales, Devon,
lnd Cornwall, cut on stone in pecu-
lar script.
hope you are enjoying this visit
o Ireland. These Shin tanners will
'e promoting their cause vigorously
gain soon.