Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-08-28 | Page 2 | One Topic, Many Tongues

One Topic, Many Tongues. There were almost as many languages in tho room as there were people. Tho couple In the northwest corner babbled In French, the fat woman and her daughter scolded In Spanish, and the two girls at the big table said awful sounding things in Swedish. The benighted be-nighted woman who can express her thoughts in nothing but faulty English listened to the babel of voices with tho languid Interest peculiar to tho weary. "T wonder," she said, "what they aro talking nbout?" The man who finds fault, having 'been a globe-trotter and a student of many languages, emllod bonlgnently. "If you won't foel hurt," he said, "I will tell you. They are all aaylng it must he awfully windy, Judging by tho way your hair ia blown about your earB." For a moment the woman felt crushed, but hor natural audacity buoved her up. "Woll," Bhe said, "if r had all those tongues nt my command I think I could find something more Important to talk about." New York Press.