Life — August 19, 1920 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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312 LIFE’S Fresh Air Fund Inclusive of 1919, Lire’s Fres Air Fuso has been in operation thirty-three years, In that time t has expended $183,025.49 and has given @ fort night in the country to 40,802 poor city children, The Fund is supported’ entirely by bequests and voluntary contributions, which are acknowl- edged in this column, Checks ould be made payable to. Live's Fresn Air Fuxo, and ad- dressed to Live, 17 West 31st Street, New York. KE ssa : seca e $9,701.98 George Bausewine, Jr : J. Es Eyre Price. : ae Vroceeds of a lemonade and flower sale ted by Nancy Sands at Glen CANS Jae ss Kicmory’ of John Ames Alitcheil Mrs. Percy B. Mr. Hitchcock. “An Old Friend Herring... 3. WIL, and Alice Graeme Mrs. Wm. A, Lieber Richard Bateson, Jr. Mrs. George Miles, M. W. Lowe Clover”... Proceeds of ap ten little girls at ‘Pinew Camp, Roscommon, Mich. Marjorie W. Brown 0. Duncan Evelyn Maloon M.K Sidney 8. i “In Memory — of Talmadge Abbey " 10.00 C. BL Raker .2.. 10.00 “In Memory | of Chapin, Jr." Kitty, Lou and Dolly Chay Mrs. ‘Francis J. Danforth G. Roy Clark... In Memory of Archibald Children of the Junior Dept. of the Central Presbyterian Sunday School of Maver: straw, N.Y. Grace McCarthy 100 urrier McEwen 9.00 Caroline Leonard yyeesen.s 3.00 A Widow's Mite 19.00 Baw. Rice sees 10,00 James R. Thompson $00 J. L. Asselin .. 9.00 *'In Memory of A. 100.00 The H. HH. Family. JW. Packard ... John Wright Members Camp. 5.00 Seabury Mertz Etheloreda Hizabeth “D Miss K. W. Seventeen Bi Eykes. Shs Mrs. G. D.’ Warner Mrs. J. Stanley Smith L. V. : Another Contribution from. the Junior Quinibeck C South Fairlee, Vt.. Reader ieee 100.00 10.00 25.00 9.00 7.00 27.00 9.00 25.00 10.00 5.00 10.00 $0.00 ‘9.00 *Meintosh: | Gerard Douglas. . L. O. Ginn..... Jas. G. Campbell... ei Collected by “ Roger, Jane and Billy.” $10,826.13 (This statement includes all contributions re- ceived before July 20, 1920.) THUSELAH | must have taken good care of himself to have lived so long.” “Yes; he was no excess prophet.” ~LIFE: Some Little Memory Tests Wits what do you associate the name of Haig? Who succeeded him as Field Marshal? What is meant by “O. Henry's man- tle"? How many authors can you name on whom it has fallen? What was P. T. Barnum right about? What prompted him to say that war was hell? Why is Blasco Ibafez known as a sol- dier of fortune and “the soldier-poet”? What did he do in Fiume? LIFE’S HAPPIEST HOUR What magazine does George Jean Mencken edit? Why did he leave the Methodist ministry? Who was President of the French Re- public when Georges Carpentier was Premier? Why did Alexander Hamilton and Nathan Hale fight a duel? How did it come out? For what baseball team did Jack John- son pitch? did Grover Cleveland and Alex- ander escape? How many of Schubert's plays, musical comedies and revues can you name? Who was Huerta? Did he ever appear at the Metropolitan Opera House, and if so, what was his most successful rdle? What nation chose the famous pianist, Fritz Kreisler, as Prime Minister? What do you know of John Sousa Beethoven? Of Washington Irving Ber- lin? How True Purity and False Pedantry WE have seen in the past few years the disadvantages of foreign and unas- similated elements in our citizenship; and we ought to open our eyes to the corre- y when we take over words from alien tongues and fail to absorb them. English has al- ways been hospitable to words from other sponding danger to. our vocabul languages; and this hospitality has been helpful, but only when the newcomer re- nounces its ancient allegiance and agrees to obey the laws of English. If the verbal novices insist on making their plural in any other way than by the adding of an s, then they are undesirable citizens and they ought to be deported from our dictionary. Either a word is good Eng- lish or it isn’t. If it is, it takes an English plural. If it isn’t, it need not be used, since the im- mense majority of readers of English know no other language, and are puzzled and perhaps an- noyed by the obtrusion of an unrecognized word. It is fit and proper for brusque to become brusk, and for risqué to become risky, The fit and proper plural of cherub is cherubs, and not the Hebrew cherubim. The fit and proper plural of formula is for- mulas, and not the Latin for- mulac. So the fit and plural of memorandum is mew randums, and not Memorandums. may be bad Latin, but it is good English. No one would ever think of denying that certain sister words to memorandum —curriculum, forum, stadium, for exam- ple—have made good their right to a friendly welcome in our speech. We may not have occasion to employ them often, but we can employ them without hesita- tion and without apology. They do not offend the purity of our tongue if they take English plurals. Yet Mr. John Gals- worthy in a recent volume of essays has curricula—a piece of petty pedantry; and a professor of Princeton in a recent lecture has stadia and fora. Stadia? 1 know not stadia, although I have seen several stadiums in New York and in Cambridge and in Athens. . But fora? What outlandish creature is this? Fora? Is it animal, mineral or vegetable? Fora? Will it bite? proper memoranda. MM, ignorant person is one who dvesn't Know what you have just found out comicbooks.c@nn