Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1901 — Too Much Hygroscopic Moisture. [ARTICLE]

Too Much Hygroscopic Moisture.

When a cultivated American picks up some of these English novels and reads the description of the manners and speech of rich United Staters who go abroad he gets hot in the collar. It ia degrading to find how a lot of uneducated new rioh who have traveled have given foreigners ideas that we speak like levee hands and roustabouts and have an accent as wide as the Ohio at high water. Even the friends of these people who are guilty of assault and battery on the English las* guage are doomed to suffering. Here, according to every cultivated and polished man of the world, is an atrocity committed by a member of- a tourists’ party: “Did you go to Venice V asked an acquaintance, who wished to make himself, agreeable to the newly returned American. “To Venice? Ah, yes," replied the idiot, “but I saw little of the town. You see, when we got there it had been raining and the streets were under water, so we merely stopped over night and left in the morning without waiting for the place to dry off.” Then the polished man heaved % regular bridge of sighs and realized that Byron had missed a great deal in not meeting this friend.