Show tou nf lif lit gulmi lEngl fel by HENRY MILLS ALDEN editor of a magazine Madai lne forms a I 1 art of our manners and the man or ii woman oman who enunciate ti properly prop proper eriv lv is apt to show i 1 commendable degroe degree of cultivation cult nahon in other respects but I 1 should strongly condemn any an attempt to adopt a foreign method of the english 0 ni woman uses a peculiarity bf intonation in tensil cd ed in her diore than in an Fugl englishman 0 ishman that mal es her seem almost ill e a foreigner to us its our american kmer ican women should not try to ape this peculiar english info intonation nation any more atan than we should attempt in this country to restore the u in honor A general improvement of our speech as a part of our manners is 13 certainly necea but this v mill ill not bo be achien ed by the importation of arties which are foreign to us the intelligent 0 cultivated american ii woman oman pe iks uncommonly i well ell in my opinion this I 1 say not as corn com paring her ter with A ith I 1 ler er british sister ii whose hose speech is modeled on a different standard tan dard and who therefore should not be critico criticized criticised ed by us in this mattor matter the problem is to speak well as in Ame american and not as an imitator of the 0 I 1 here is a certain class cliss of our people who go to J england gland and perhaps fall hill into the anglish peculiarity of intonation in their speech tins this they retain on their return to tins this colmar col mtr with the result that to us they appear guilty of affectation fortunately this is rarely the case in men of marl mirl cd ed culture and andini lualis y our young people afe are proverbially lv quid to adopt slangy e expressions and their speech is thus corrupted not only as to phrase 1 t and imd diction b but ut as to enunciation in a way that to say the least appears anything but admirable to their elders that is where the chief danger to our spoken english 0 lies in the carelessness of our oung C people and ind thai that is where an educational movement may ma be of great usi changes 0 in the method of speaking aling come gradually as a t result of environment and it is undoubtedly true that broader national contacts will lead to a diatel uniformity of speech in this country as noil ell us as in fn ang 0 lan lani I 1 riia f lie ten lena to lingual carples mc among among our doting people is 1 a I pirna of an ci 1 l ting lavit lait in manners an improvement in the latter so far as it does not in imolee olac the inculcation of affectations is to be heartily welcomed ani ml should bo be s on by our educational |