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Show SYMPATHY FROM ' ANDREW CARNEGIE i I NewYork, Jan. 12, Tho recent tid-' Ings from Welloslcy college, to the effect that half the young women students stu-dents there are deficient in spelling, I has aroused a sympathetic response I from Andrew Carnegie, and, In an ' open letter, he hastens to congratulate tho bad spellers on their indepen- j donee. He urges that the young ladles la-dles be allowed to follow their bent. "They no doubt spell their words ns they have been tought to pronounce," pro-nounce," he says, "and are. therefore, there-fore, to be complimented. If they continue they will improve our language. lan-guage. They have my sympathy. I hope they will continue to show "their good sense. It is the stupid old fogy educationalists who force tho teacei3 at Wellesley to spell wrongly and annoy an-noy the students, not the young ladles, la-dles, who are ai faulL" |