Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1893 — How Talmage Does It. [ARTICLE]

How Talmage Does It.

Many Americans abroad are exceedingly annoyed at the!r lack of skill in the use of the European languages, writes the Rev. DeWitt Talmage in the Ladies’ Home Journal. After a vain attempt to make a Parisian waiter understand French they swear at him in English. But I have always remembered when traveling abroad the art of the physician who put all the remains of old prescriptions into one bottle —the oil. and the calomel, and the rhubarb, and the assafoetida—and when he found a patient with a “complication of diseases, ” he would shake up his old bottle and give him a dose. And so I have compounded a language for European travel. I generally take a little French, and a little German, and a little English, with a few snatches of Chinese and Choctaw, and when I find a stubborn case of waiter or landlord who will not understand. I simply shake up all the dialects and give him a dose. It is sure to strike somewhere. If you cannot make him understand, you at anp'raite give him a terrible seate. r rw- rr ] I never had the anxiety of some in a strange land about getting thißgiJ to eat. I like everythlngjin all the round of diet except animated cheese and otjorous .codfish; always have a good appetite; never in mv life mißsed a meal save once', When I could not get any, arud knowtfijj that “eine gerostete rindfleisch s elite be” means a beefsteak, “eine messor” a knife, and “eine gftbel" a fork, and “ein©>serviette” a napkin, after that I feel perfectly reckless as to what I can or cannot '