Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1911 — EVIDENTLY A HARD TASK [ARTICLE]

EVIDENTLY A HARD TASK

Bom«what Humorously Worded Epistle* the Result of Struggle With English Language. As the moat delightful example ah* has ever seen of the English the European uses in hia correspondence, & woman who haa Just returned from "the other aide’' ie ahowing her friendai. a letter that ahe declarea to be hen moat lntereatlng “souvenir.” "After we left Amsterdam,” ahe explaina, "my daughter discovered that ahe had left her ouff-llnka in our room at the pension. So I wrote back to the proprietress, whom I knew spoke Eng-* Uah, asking her to look for them. Her* is the reply.” Then ahe shows It. And this, wordl for word, la how it reads: "Dear Mrs. Thomas Grant; "Immediately upon receiving ‘ youri lettre I am going at once to looking ln| every drawer, and found this two but-i ton In the table near her bed. Can it) be this two things what your daugh-i ter lost? "In that way I am very glad to* found it "So not, be so good to send It me back, for it might be of another person who perhaps will write me he lest! something." I