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Show W Learning The Alphabet THE principal of a young ladies' fashionable school in New York has made a rule that in : pronouncing such words as "last" and 'past" Hi the broad intonation shall be given the "a." They H must make it sound as though it had been sat H'. down upon and was struggling to extricate itself. H1 No young lady can graduate from that school H' with the highest honors until they master the in- H tricacies of the broad a. We hope that teacher M will not also insist on lapsing on the h' in house- Bi keeping, or horoscope, or smothering the 'o' in 1: omelet or orphanage. We want to take our 1 higher English by degrees, and can't assimulate M it too rapidly. , We may be prejudiced, too, if it is rushed M upon us toovrapidly and conclude that that New m York female expounder of knowledge is not a m jackrabbit, but the other one. New York is grid- m ironed by subways; her rivers run in vain above M the trains that are running below their waters, m but some of us do not want the tongue of our H mothers -undermined by some fools that have B spent a few days in Boston or London. We con't m see it, you see. |