SEARCHING FOR TROUBLE.
Have You the Mosquito Habit?
By Robt. MacWhirter. The other night we bad dinner on your neck. Isn't that stupid? | wi the MacPharrons. That That's worse to my mind than s sounds prosaic enough, I'll admit, tramp going to sleep in the lee' of but nousual, for let me tell you road roller and forgetting to Mrs. MacPherson'dosen a band out waken up in the morning. German free feeds like bills for a oirous troops in mass formation advano- Mac, himself, bo's all right and is ing in the face of machine gun fond o company when he's one of fire is like playing Boys Soouts in it, but he never seems to enjoy comparison. The military mind
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH;
BILINGUALISM.
Two Languages or One?
"TELEGRAPH SPECIAL] In view of the discussion that bas taken place in the Straits with regard to the learning of English, and in Hongkong with reference to the learning of Portuguese, it might be of interest to place before your readers an account of an
carried out in Wales over a period
Popular opinion probably is in second favour of teaching a language in the earliest possible period. It is only in this way, it
ad
manner of speech.
himerif quite the same at the end would call her reposted charges investigation that was recently o's table wi' his wife keeping tally heroism in the face of terrific odds. on everything from the kind oA simpler descriptica is stupidity, of three years with a view to Big sho ie, Mrs. Mac iens' finding out whether the acquisti. conversation right down to the last half bottle of soda. But every unlike the mosquito. She's just tion of a second language in the now and then, I suppose, the dabits as sharp and biting and never early years of a öbild's life was an on the social side got beyond count,, knows when she's beaten. You lotellectual advantage or not, an Mra. Mac gets into her semi can shoo her off a tender subject There has been no consensus of evening black and acts as if she to the point of insult but she opinion on the point, Eminent ran a salon for the sake o' the comes right on in her vindictive writers and speakers have bean thing. But that's by the way. way-with this difference that you found on both sides. What I started out to tell you canna' squash her and at the same was the queer ways o' mosquitoes. time eat her small stono laichées
No' that there's ony connection at 30 cents a pound. between Mrs. Mac and mosquitoes
Terrible Examples. 19 argued, that the correcti in a physical sense, except when
Ay, but she's not alone in this accent, the bast pronunciation they bite ber, and it was just
ability generally to them that started me thinking regard. I canna help comparing
speak the second", language the last time we were at ber the mosquito's intelligence wind house. Yon's a terrible house for the mental tendencies of lote like a native can be secured. folk and the human race in It is then that vocal organs are mosquitoes! I nearly always got. bitten alive there every time I go. general Lots of us are like the pliable and can form the habits of If there's onything I hate it mosquooter escaping from one speech which are difficult to ie to wrastle wi' a hen's leg and trouble only to rotum inquisitive-acquire when later the vocal organe have become "set" in the keep trying to scratch my own ly for another flirtation wi' disas
mother tongue and are less plastic w: the heel of a shoe at the same ter. That's how fo'k marry time. It's onything but dignified.second time; that's how a sore and accommodating to a now Of course, Mrs. Mac got her eye head and a taste in your mouth on the double performance. No like the inside o' chauffeur's
This much, can probably be mesquito is Pharper than sho in glove brings you again wi' your Anding out how to caure dis-feet leaning on the brass rail o'conceded, but the point is whether comfort. This is the period of the bar; that's how fat women eat something rather important is not the meal at which our Sanitary ewoeties and weakeyed folk go sacrificed in gaining this early Board invariably gets it in the to the picturer: that's how you perfection in a second language ealads grown goodnessnamely, intellectual develop- neck. I'm surprised myself that eat she doesna' blame Dr. Bun for knows where, and ride piilion on mest. It is thought by some that A motor opcle after neatly break the Welsh child and the Belgian If it's no' the watercress bads ating your neck the weak before. child, who have to study two Yaumati, it's everything else but Through the generatious humani-languages in schools, enjoy an the choked rhone pipes on the top ty has been taught by bitter ex. intellectual training more or less of her house." For myself, I'm perience the things to avoid. equivalent to the classical studies old fashioned enough no' to have Sanitary Boards keep reprinting which are in England the prive. in my own mind, divorced mos- booklets, but the hospitals stilllege of the wealthy and that a quitoes from dirt. Bat naturally keep full. Bathers get drowned, bilingual education is one of the ye canna' think out aloud when but their places are taken by greatest blessings bestowed on a
those who think their heads are fortunate land. you're busy putting back 28- paragus at 95 cents a tin. To harder than hard sand and who Dear Mrs. MacPherson speaking act" foolishly you'd think she'd been a fever nurse before sue married poor old Mac. She has a perfect horror o' the things. Wooeb! That's her two ham-sized bands coming to gether like & forehammer on the anvil. Everybody stops scratch. ingloaeewho's won. Zzzz zzbuzz.
Professor Laurio says words Love-fifreeb. Smack. Zzz-zoom.
Launches turn must be steeped in life to be living, Love-thirty. Slosh. Bizz-zz. Love-forty, Wump, Crash. (An turtle and it would seem that and, as we have not two livor, apple rolle into the butter) Zizz their passengers have yet to but only one, so we can only have Zop. Game.
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in the. water. ever really acquires a second Matsheds go on fire, but still language. The words of a second some blithering idiot must needs language can never have the smoke in them. Motors cars go samarich associations as the words. over embankments but still we of the mother tongue. The French must get home just that ten word "mere" is a pale, unemo- minutes earlier. They run down tional insignificant thing com- mother" to innocent pedestrians, but the pared with the word
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Lurn sensible. Like the moth one language. Even if it were to candle, the coakroach to possible, he continues, for a child, the slippar, the mosquito to the to live in two languages at-once swinging blow, we must return equally well, so much the worse.
And over
over again to His intellectual and spiritual danger.
growth would not thereby be
I don't know of anything as stupid as mosquito. There it comes mizzing around. You make a lam at the skeeter (herein after' referrelia in the femininegender) and miss, nine times out of ten. Now I'm no good at figures but I'd take a sporting bat that she is 18,000,000 smaller than a woman of the build of Mrs. Mac. Now if a strange beast that much bigger than me made a sudden
wipe
me and missed m perfectly willing to take
The experiments conducted in another bet, and tell the world, the flag and grown cut is last Wales seem to bear out this view.
bat you couldn't see me in the moments in filth and mud. It
D. J. Saer examined individually same vicinity for the next twelve would seem se if each new gene: 775 children under twelve years years. I'd run so hard that I'd be in ration thinks it has a corner ja Peking by the time the house boy wisdom and that the old f lks of age, using recognised mental From tea's, and found a clear superiority was pouring out your bedroom tea belong to an obsulatu ora. next morning. But not so re.the way our anart alecks ridicule in rural districts of the children Morquoeter.
Back she comes, the heritage of wisdom from the brought up in one language over little Maggie-on-the Spot, look-past, our ancestors may as well those who had been brought ing for more and all she's have saved their breath and up in two-English and Welsh. apparently concerned wi' is time and carried their know-
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It seems like yesterday since doubled, but halved. Unity of we were up to the neck in war mind and character would have war on a tremendous scale, dirty, great difficulty in asserting itself rotten, bloody war. We found in such circumstances. It seems that war didn't pay, no how. We possible, therefore, that the teach. might have learnt that from pre-ing of a second language, instead vious experience. But we're like of promoting the mental growth be mosquito; stupid. We ignored of young people, may actually the lessons of the past. The next hinder it by causing mental con- goreration will just be as madly fusion. anxious to beat the drum, wave
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not so marked, but there is evidence in urban districts of mental confusion which he traces entirely to the use of two languages before a power of using one language effectively has been acquired.
The second investigation ex- Fill in the stars shown in the tended over three years and was top line with a word of eight carried out by Mr. Frank Smith, There has been a good response Jotters. Then fill in the bottom with the assistance of students in to the appeal issued by the South line with the same word, brokop five representative schools in four: Ubina Athletic Association for into three parts as indicated by different parts of Wales. As a funds in connection with the the stars. If the proper word is result of these tests, be found that forthcoming tour of its football used, you will find a sentence of Monoglot children-ie, children team in Australia. The following six words which will indicate of one language between the ages amounts (totalling $1,440) have what a young man said after he of eight and eleven make better been recelyed
and a friend had visited a young progress than bilingual children lady who had consented to ac in their power of expression, their: company them to the theatre, choice of vocabulary and their
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