Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1910 — The Languages of Paradise. [ARTICLE]

The Languages of Paradise.

Every language has its admirers: In “Lucile - ’ the author, “Owen Meredith,” maintained that when he heard French spoken as he approved he “found himself quietly falling in love.” Edward Hutton is another instance of thjs lingual fascination. In stating his preference in his enchanting “Cities of Spain,” he recalls an interesting medieval legend. He says: And as I listened to the splendid ■yllables of the Castilian tongue that rang eloquently through the twilight. I remembered the saying of that old Spanish doctor of whom James Howell tells us in his “Instructions for Forraine Travell," to wit, that Spanish, Italian and French, these three daughters of the Latin language, were spoken in Paradise: that God Almighty created the world in Spanish, the Tempter persuaded Eve in Italian, and Adam begged pardon in French.