South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-10-10
A CHINESE STUDENTS
VIEW OF WILHELM
BY Il. V. LUCAS.

have recently fallen upon my CRATE
full ear-both from the lips of door
keepers Of restaurants.
The first touched upon the un-
timely, although welcome, heat
wave in mid-May.
1T is" I remarked with an af-
liability equalled only by want of
originality. almost too warm"
Yes" the porter replied; re OF,
e come all in one"
on the second occasion was
waiting for a guest who was late
1t is an old habit Of mine, and moth
ing seems to break it, After a while
/ commented, pleasantly 10 the
door-keeper on the tendency of the
fair sex 10 be behind time.
He laughed the light. easy laugh
Of one who has deep intimacy with
the world we live in. Ladies always
late" he said; Always make them
selves wish and desire for"
However faulty in construction.
both those phrases are epigramma-
tic. 1 should not go so far as to say
they could not be improved upon,
and yet Il would be difficult to make
them more vivid To endow the heat
with gender is assuredly to add to
its reality: a blast from Vulcan's
furnace, for example; while the re-
mark about the tarrying ladies en-
shrines a great verify such as res
taurant door-keepers are perhaps
better fitted to understand than
most of us. At any rate. if res
taurant door-keeper does not know
such things. who can?
Both phrases also show that
neither speaker. after 1 know not
how many years in England. is yet
making any effort TO talk English,
but is content to clothe his own ma
tive thoughts in the most adequate
English apparel that he can collect;
just as l. for one, never have done
other in France than translate more
or less faithfully my English SEN
fences into French. AS for talking
French-never! No such good for
tune. But L am quite sure that how
ever amusing my blunders have
been, no one has ever thought them
epigranmatic, because the English
syntax does not automatically tend
70 witty compression as the French
does.
From China comes to me a speci-
men Of English as fractured with
the best of motives by a Chinese stu
dent
The kaiser, having, with excellent
sagacity, been given as the subject
Of essays by the English class in
whatever celestial college it happen
ed 10 be some admirable documents
resulted from one Of which 1 take
a few salient sentences:
The German kaiser is not the
superior man as deciphered by the
Chinese literature he is surely a
mean fellow containing much fraud
ish cummings in his deceited heart.
The superior man is shown in the
merits Of excellent heart with much
loving kindness to all peoples. the
mean fellow is displayed in the
black heart of the ungenerated
devils Of the hell with much loving
/ kindness only-to himself. The Ger
man kaiser ne awfully wishing 70
slave the people and extinct the civ
ilizations OF the universe; he destroy
the literature books. and the arts.
and the ships, and mess the people
of allies nations together with the
intermediate outstanding nations.
Thus it will be clearly seen by whole
universal globe that the German
Hun kaiser he conceal much british
iniquity in his heart. and is not fit
10 sit in the pail Of the allies nations
including the Chinese republic"
There. again, the meaning Of the
writer could not be made more clear
hy narfect prose