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Show paper?" "Oh, consistency, Hum art Jewel!" Mr. Park was unwilling t have these rules and I wus equally ui willing to have the match wlthoi j them. We finally agreed, and It wa announced to all present that In a much as we disagreed regarding rule governing spelling, ' that thero woul be no match as previously arrange r but for the pleasure of the listener - the schools would spell a few pagei j anil the contest would ke decided on I on the campus. Every one presen - knows this to be a fact. They spelled the Deseret pupils putting in capital and apostropulea and the Hlnckle - pupils not doing so. There wer twenty Deseret pupils and twenty two Hinckley pupils. Under these con dltlons the DcHcret pupils wer spelled down and one Hinckley pupl i standing. The schools then went ou on the grounds. The result was II , points for Hinckley and 69 for Des eret. At Hinckley all the rules of spelllni were observed, the result being sevei Deseret pupils standing when their op ponents were all down. The writer states that we had thte grades to choose from. Mr. Pad knew that I had only six pupils Ii the eighth grade, and It was under stood that I was to make up tho num ber to twenty-two to equal nls elgntl grade. To get this number I chom ALL the eighth grade and all the sev enth but two, who were absent, ant eleven from the sixth grade. No much choosing when my entire en rollment was twenty-nine and part o them quarantined! I further challenge the statement that our boys are older than tlx Hinckley boys. They are ill from H to 16 years of age, excepting one, whe is 17, and he entered only In buskei ball. Several of the Hinckley boyt are 17, I am Informed. The last context whs final because the Deseret school won In both con tests. When defeat comes our way we Intend In-tend taking it in the proper spirit and not kick at the victors. CI IAS. II. PKTTY, Plin. of Deseret School. THOSE SPELLING MATCHES. It appears from an article written y the Hinckley public school and itibllshed in last week's Chronicle, hat the pill of defeat which they ere compelled to take from the Des ret school, did not set well on their lellcate stomach. The writer did lot sign his name, but whoever he s, I wish him to consider hlnuelf as he object of these temarks. Speaking of the spelling match, he ays: "The first time, Hinckley won, ;mt Mr. Petty said that he did not et n-lider n-lider thst one a match." Why v nsii't t a match? The reason Is this: The iH'seret pupils had been taught to be-(in be-(in all proper nouns' lth a capltsl letter, let-ter, to put the hyphen In compound sords, and to put the aistrophe to ill possessive nouns; Just as ptven In Ihe book. The Hinckley pupils had en tsught tha Cuse rules belonged to fcrammar and no to sjie'lln;. For rxauiple. If a pu.i'i were In a nulling rlaas It would be correct to say "united states of america." but If It were l.t a grammar class It must be. "United States of America." I wonder whit It should be In a letter or a hUtory |
