| Show POOR SPELLING Usually a Result of Ones Own Carelessness Care-lessness or Neglect This year a very large number of applicants ap-plicants for admittance Into tho Northwestern North-western university near Chicago proved to be painfully defective as to spelling Also an Inability to spell afflicted an ex tiaoidlnary proportion of the graduating plans An ruination lois shown that lie percentage of poor spellers among tho public school teachers of Chicago IB very high Perhaps It N this which lion Induced n leidlng newspaper of tho placo lo advocate a phonetic system and to deform de-form Its columns with unnulhoilRod spoil logs The college authorities lire disposed dis-posed to explain the prevailing orthographic ortho-graphic eniullllon by condemning the way In which spilllng Is taught In Die I rrcJioolK Naturally there are mall Chicago jtco plq who IonIc upon tin ahllll to spoil uell as H l llI1i a power which cannot be acquired by any hiiinnn offrjct Jt Is true that t I there I have been many persons J I i if strong intellect and jf great deal of I book Icium ledge who have lint spelled OS well as I he father of hilt country who was hlnuulf I very far from a spelling school champion lOvon I Lie creit a mnatcr of wonto as Hubert Imils I Stevenson wus IllInliI lila particular llh v threo Corn C-orn n > Pppll lie won I ontoirh wore ca larji I iMtfirlih Jid It his last IK I obvious d111Ia lion Vatjirrrhhh t to Peisonn who aie afllliCed In this way consider It very hard Mint i the1 t uuhll II y to Spell correctly should 1m made IrM S of Intulllgencti and almost 1 of cef ppcUibillly tiiii I ilierc ire penoi who can in no way learn > to spoil all the words or 1 inrist of Iho wi ids of common n elfh accnrfl Ing to Hujlmniyi1 affirmed hv medical i < reholopHl3 No mnoiuit of application wo tire told nnil no rewards or punlsdi nicutn Including t ho ridicule and scorn of mauklim can enubly certain unf rtu notes trj muster he art Such peronr lusty justly ioinpUnn lint the I > nhonjd bi cursed by their orthographic sins while iinybotlv mav conf > fl9 to huvlng nr cat for music nr belnp unable lo draw a straight line without embarrassment It Is doubtful hovovoi if the grent majority ma-jority othosp vhh Jo nQt jjcll Wll ran plead anv Inherited delect They cannot spell simply bocnuite i they linv never gtn attention and time enoviRh to the Htudy Spelling romeu easily to I some addis add-is difficult to ci hors but all excepT a vei y few coifld IfiLTh tb ppollIf they could chooso to gIve the necesparv I line to It Still It 10 probable that most poor spoilers spoil-ers exaggerate thin popular contempt fur bad spelling Stevenson as an oxcrpllon seenled to havo no care about It but ul nUttwl his dofeillvenesa with na little lOuiine nt lie would inenllon u i htvidaeho U IK too hud though that piiplln nhould suitor through wrong methods of triteli Ing PhllMdolphlii Record |
