Show london judy a conversation jn which a water waiter said that thai he was wa offered a line place in parts paris OTI oil condition that lie he learn french the explanation was that the native loom wallers waiters could not understand brench as spoken by the guests from london this Is amusing low how I 1 much it signifies pencil de on the IndA individual vIdual to learn to speak french tolerably well requires long time or much practice under a competent instructor not at one amerlean american in ten will have usie enough of the language in speaking to familiar with it quite other Is lit dt in the matter of reading all of the ten who have pone gone for far enough to tend read easy french at sight sigh I 1 might better keep keel on reading ni a little ali all along alone after school days tor ter enjoyment and culture others of them who he tire are thinking of at any pursuit in w which bi h frolic french cind authorities are important will find it desirable at times to consult them and they are not always to be had in the english version many who have thought themselves well up in french and german after completing tile the usual college courses have found themselves at serious disadvantage advant ace when undertaking graduate work in the more mora advanced universities otles one can see sec how haw thib this is in any department or section that la Is largely indebted to the blaids blains of prance ond and germany talk A as 9 we may of our own awn language and it growing influence abroad every soul of this tirrie rind of the next fifty years will discover that live five or six modern madern languages bolink belong to a liberal for the student world and ell ahr uin enan of affairs not to mention specialists while on this lille subject it may ila be eald that the groath drw th of the united states in strength Is calling our men mem of as al a l well as our citizens of at leisure to every quarter of the globe and the young men and women of the schools especially those who are looking orward forward to a business career or to wide travel arnay see gee hie elie possible im lance of linkages languages additional to those already named a p g the he spanish italian and ani the scandinavian for many who cannot have school tu there 13 the opportunity of private study the farm Tar merK erm son ron or daughter truly may do very well without goings ort oft to academy or college when such auch going oft off Js Is not within ther their means private study with no assistance beyond the few books they had was wag sufficient to t bring brine forward some come of the anost useful men the world has known do not talk ot of your discouragements discourage ments niente not a a fe few v of 0 r the greatest inen and women owe their h r greatti oss to their discouragements discourage ments Is the housekeeper |