Show gra grave ve french scholars cut grammatical knot the french ore are particular about the niceties of culture even about such formalities as grammar yet for centuries the academy I 1 ous and wise as it Is had been helpless before irregularity not to say incongruity in reference to ships now at last these matters are to be better ordered the minister of marine has issued instructions to all naval and merchant marine authorities that in the future ships bearing feminine names shall be paid the compliment of the feminine article the trouble started in the dim past before caesar sought native triremes tri trl remes to tale take ills his legions accost the british channel tor hitpas it was ae decided then that ships were to be con masculine the custom prevailed through revolution and coun ter revolution so that today th the F reach french give elve them all the mas marcullus cullus article le ie bateau bitcas bit cau e to 1 for example As time went on some ships were named for famous women a few even for the th owners wife then the trouble began le Crol jeanne dare darc manifestly an absurdity nw now happily to be struck from the of the nation hartford bartford courant |