Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1910 — LOSS OF MEMORY CORRECTED [ARTICLE]

LOSS OF MEMORY CORRECTED

American Woman Married Abroad Is Cured of Failing by a New York Physician. “Nothing disgusts me more,” said a woman who goes abroad every summer, “than to meet in Europe Americans who seem to be ashamed of their own language. I have often come across them, but a woman I met in Carlsbad last year , took the palm. “She was introduced to me as the Countess Komoffsky, or some name that sounded like that She married a Russian or a Pole about three years before, and so far as I can gather she had hardly been any nearer Europe than a New York table' d’hote before that time. She looked American, but her English was all broken into bits. She did not even say ‘the,’ but pronounced it ‘ze.’ She had great difficulty in recollecting phrases, and the result at times was a lot of French. “Next morning I was breakfasting in the Kaiserpark with a party of shawl-wrapped Americans who had drunk the requisite number of glasses from the Sprudel or Marktbrunnen and had walked out according to prescription. One of those at the table was a New York physician who is none the less popular because he is frank in speech almost to brutality and will not stand for affectation. The countess came along and was invited to join the party. The doctor, it turned out, had known her since sho was a child. “Somebody asked her a question, and she started to reply with that accent of hers. I saw the doctor fidget. Then she made another remark in half French. The doctor said something that sounded like ’Damn!’ Then he blurted out: “ ‘For God’s sake, Marla Smith, you don’t mean to say that three years in Europe have made you forget your native tongue?’ “There was a hush, and then some of the women in the party smiled; but when the countess next spoke it was in purest United States."