Show REFORM J THE national educational association has been in session at gaii i leco the exercises and plans bave be been p published under the title ot of Iro grm forthe tor the week 11 this mode of spelling opening the word woid pro gramme is a meagre concession 19 the movement lor si spelling elling reforma reform which has sti struggled jud It boul making much progress for may many years there to is no literary reason why pro ro gra tram m I 1 should not come into gereral general use as telegram monogram mono M tend md similar words have bee been 11 ad adopted e in spite of all been urged by the necessity ol of preserving pro servi vig iture 8 present irrational orthography y in order to trace words to their root origin common sense aye that there are md ob might be made in open spelling g chat t won would oil t 0 00 oe 4 vast improvement beget we get along lost just 83 a well in america by leaving out u in colour bolour saviour elci as english writ ers era do by retaining it so with the single I 1 in w words that still km tw the U R in great britain there are many final anal vowels to words which are an entirely Us useless glow and tar taft t might be dropped ped to 0 ad advantage and it would not gle be long lo 10 before toe the old fashioned and stupid style would look as pe peculiar callar as the words 40 40 now DOW with the unnecessary ry floal fing letter omitted there have been many radical changes in english iiii for since the days and Sp eDair but litera the classics still survive it is not probable that a strict ly y phonetic system can be at once luau inaugurated ura ted the best beat that can be reasonably expected is a gradual approach to it by the omi of some utterly useless letters and even so reform cannot be effected without union of purpose and effort it if the newspapers of the country would enter into an agreement that certain superfluous letters should be omitted in all their issues a bis big stride would be taken in the right direction human beings are in some respects respect very much like sheep and it if the bell of the press were to break through the sap gap of custom and go on the other side of the fence of spelling reform t the he multitude would follow them in a hurry no doubt and there would be so much reform accod shed it is strange that so rational a movement as that for reform in the method of spelling has made so little advancement in this fast ase age and these times of general improvement and progress |