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THE SCIENTIFIC DIAL 
 PRIMER 
 
 CONTAINING UNIVERSAL CODE 
 
 ELEMENTS OF UNIVERSAL 
 
 LANGUAGE, NEW BASE 
 
 FOR MATHEMATICS 
 
 ETC. 
 
 By 
 
 A. HALLNER 
 
 SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 
 1912 
 
 Sunset Publishing House, 1912 
 
COPYRIGHT 1912 
 
 BY 
 ANDREW HALLNER 
 
 Entered at Stationary Hall 
 London, 1912 
 
 All rights reserved. 
 
Motto: 
 Brevity 
 Simplicity 
 Legibility 
 
 239257 
 
AIM 
 
 Glory To God In The Highest, 
 On Earth Peace, 
 Good Will Toward Men. 
 St. Luke, 2:14. 
 
 OBJECT 
 
 International Inter-communication ; 
 
 Acknowledgment of Universal Brotherhood Realized in Actual Appli- 
 cation; 
 
 Development of the Human Race to the Highest Standard of Man- 
 hood and Womanhood: 
 In Stature and Soul; 
 In Truth and Righteousness; 
 In Knowledge and Efficiency; 
 In Wisdom and Dignity; 
 In Godliness and Nobility; 
 In Happiness, Enjoyment and Serenity; 
 
 In comprehending more fully the Divine purpose and object of 
 our existence and being under the present dispensation, and the 
 existence and activities of the faithful in God's kingdom. 
 
Preface 
 
 The Scientific Dial is in line with the telegraph, the telephone, and 
 the advanced business and trade methods in general, as is the aero- 
 plane in line with the steamship, the railroad, and electricity in rapid 
 transportation and the effort to escape the bondage of limitation; 
 it is an advance step in progress. Invention and improvement have 
 for their objects the shortening of distances and substitution of 
 mechanical operations for manual labor; or where this cannot be 
 effected, to make one's efforts easy and en joy able; to increase efficiency 
 and executive ability; to simplify methods and to make easier the 
 attainment of proficiency; to stimulate enterprise, and to enable 
 anyone to accomplish greater results in shorter space of time. 
 
 The U. S. Mail is too slow for the twentieth-century business man. 
 Even the average active farmer, who has become accustomed to 
 the telephone and the rural free delivery of mails once a day, is 
 wishing for more rapid long-distance communication. Our sphere 
 of observation and activity is widened as our knowledge increases 
 and our mind broadens; and as fast as our field of observation and 
 activity extends, must the facility and rapidity of communication 
 be increased. Electricity and electrical contrivances have made one 
 household of all nations, having placed all inhabitants on our globe 
 within reaching distance of one another. 
 
 The Scientific Dial is a natural evolution, a link, as it were, in the 
 chain of inventions and improvements, leading up to the twentieth- 
 century development toward higher attainments, loftier aspirations, 
 and grander achievements, animated by divine impulses and ennob- 
 ling motives to a higher standard of citizenship, and adding to the 
 general enjoyment and happiness of humanity; moving and develop- 
 ing steadily toward the fulfilment of prophecy, and a condition on 
 this globe in conformity with the Divine purpose, as manifested by 
 revelation. 
 
 The SCIENTIFIC DIAL PRIMER simply contains the rudiments of the 
 Scientific Dial System. Nevertheless, its contents has to be acquired 
 before the student can enter upon the mastery of that which is to 
 follow. 
 
 Americans are known to be alert in watching for advancement, 
 and ready always to support and encourage useful invention, and 
 to assist in hastening improvements. This knowledge and this assur- 
 
6 Preface 
 
 ance enables me now to add this mite of scientific research for the 
 enjoyment and benefit of the human family. 
 
 Profits derived from the sale of this book will be used for the develop- 
 ment of the system. The best talent obtainable will be employed. 
 My aim is to have the SYSTEM developed and available to the 
 world at the great Panama Exposition in San Francisco, 1915. 
 
 A. HALLNER, 
 San Francisco, CaL, Bamelapa. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Portrait Frontispiece 
 
 Title Page 1 
 
 Copyrights 2 
 
 Motto 3 
 
 Aim and Object 4 
 
 Preface 5 
 
 Introduction 7 
 
 Keyboard and explanations 12, 46 
 
 Sounds of letters and pronunciation of words 19 
 
 THE SCIENTIFIC DIAL PRIMER 
 
 Lesson I., Description 20 
 
 Lesson II., Numerical values 20 
 
 Lesson III., Decimal fractions 22 
 
 Lesson IV., Combining whole numbers with decimals 23 
 
 Lesson V., More than one consonant to the Grand Division vowel 24 
 
 Lesson VI., Vowels used outside Grand Divisions 24 
 
 Lessons VII., VIII. & IX., Analytical Exercises 26, 30, 35 
 
 Lesson X., Days, weeks, months, and years 37 
 
 Lesson XL, Analytical Exercises 39 
 
 Lesson XII., Telegrams and demonstration of keys 42 
 
 Code Department 47 
 
 Travelers' Code 63 
 
 Lovers' Code 77 
 
 Leap-year Code 99 
 
 Greetings 137 
 
 Pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs 143, 144 
 
 Vocabulary, English Dial 148 
 
Introduction 
 
 The clock dial has long been an object of close observation, few 
 objects having attracted so much attention or^being^looked upon so 
 attentively. " ;, 
 
 The reason forjthis is that the dial is an indicator of time. Some 
 dials indicate the^date of the month, the day of the week, and phases 
 of the moon. 
 
 The Scientific Dial is an evolution. It is an indicator of time on 
 a somewhat different scale, also of quantity and quality, and also 
 delving into mathematics and language, as the following pages will 
 explain and demonstrate. 
 
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 8 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 The dial of a watch or a clock needs no interpreter. Its language 
 is universal. Everybody reads it and understands it, including even 
 the illiterate, who, though unable to read a book, still intelligently 
 read the clock-dial, and call it into evidence in matters of meal-time 
 and quitting-time. 
 
 All nations have surrendered to the domination of its system, and 
 they are governed by its mandates without opposition or murmur. 
 
 It rules supreme in every royal court in the world. 
 
 Kings and emperors submit, and armies move according to its 
 direction; and the sound of its "gong" prompts the execution of 
 convicts. 
 
 By its mandate and direction church-bells toll, congregations 
 assemble, choirs sing, sermons are preached, and lectures are deli- 
 vered. 
 
 At the point of its hands justice dons its ermine, the priest his 
 surplice; the bride is attired and adorned, the bridal suite approaches 
 the altar, sacred vows are made, a family established; a cornerstone 
 of the community and state is laid, government instituted, laws 
 enacted, order and safety assured. 
 
 Yet the whole mechanism may be purchased for a dollar. 
 
 Nevertheless, it is the cherished daily companion of everybody; 
 and it is often appreciated as an adjunct to the diploma by -school 
 graduates. 
 
 Attired in gold and adorned with jewels, it is held in high esteem 
 as a present among admirers and friends. 
 
 The graceful disk form is pleasing to the eye, easily surveyed and 
 readily comprehended. Its form, Grand Divisions and Subdivisions 
 readily and effectively impress the mind and become fixed a mind- 
 picture, appearing at all times by auto-suggestion, or when called 
 upon for use or demonstration by outside influences. 
 
 But the Scientific Dial needs no mechanism. 
 
 It needs no interpreter. 
 
 Like the common clock dial, the Scientific Dial is self-explaining. 
 
 Any one who can group letters into syllables and arrange syllables 
 into words, can understand and make use of the Scientific Dial. 
 
 And -in so doing, one touches every language in the world. 
 
 Taking, for instance, the First Grand Division, we find among its 
 forty words of two letters each: ab, ad (prefixes), ah, am, an, as, 
 at; ba, fa, ka, la, ma, na, pa, that are English. In the three-letter 
 class of words, we find bad, bag, bah, bal, bam, ban, bap, bas, bat, 
 baw, bay; cab, cad, caf, cam, can, cat; dab, dad, daf, dal, dam, dan, 
 dap; fag, fan, fat, far; gab, gad, gag, gal, gam, gan, gap, gar, gas, gaw, 
 gay; had, hag, ham, hap, has, hat, hay; jab, jad, jag, jah, jam, jap, 
 jar, jaw, jay, etc., that are English words. 
 
 There are about 440 words of this class in the First Grand Division; 
 and it is remarkable to notice how many of these are English words. 
 The same will be found true in all Five Grand Divisions. 
 
The 
 
 SCIENTIFIC! DIAL 
 PRIMER 
 
 CONTAINING UNIVERSAL CODE, ELEMENTS OF 
 UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE, AND NEW BASE 
 FOR MATHEMATICS 
 
 - HAIXNER* 
 
10 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 The Scientific Dial contains: 
 
 200 one-syllable two-letter words. 
 
 2,525 one-syllable three-letter words. 
 
 8,000 two-syllable four-letter words; consisting of two vowels and 
 two consonants. Such as baeb (1.21), pail (12.49), dear (23.14), and 
 about 
 
 12,000 in the second class of four-letter words, such as baba (101), 
 baca (102), bada (103), bade (123), beda (1003), ceda (2003), etc. 
 
 Adding another letter, as, Elana (1911), swells the list of words 
 almost beyond calculation. 
 
 All these words follow one another in regular, natural succession, 
 without intervals and breaks; they are therefore especially adapted 
 for the use of 
 
 Code Words, 
 
 as any word may be readily found by the same rule as words are 
 found in a dictionary or the pages in a book. One other feature of 
 great importance in CODE-MAKING will be the secrecy afforded in 
 the system of Scientific Dial Codes, by the 
 
 Use of Keys, 
 
 just as in music the scale may be changed by sharps and flats, from 
 one to seven degrees in either, and the changing of the scale from 
 minor to major, and vice versa. 
 
 The Keyboard 
 
 The Scientific Dial Keyboard affords an endless combination of 
 keys. In music, we have an ascending and descending scale with 
 keys; so also in the Scientific Dial Arrangement. But the staff in 
 music affords only 14 keys 7 sharps and 7 flats while the Scientific 
 Dial System may lavish innumerable keys, and only one in the bundle 
 will open your door, whichever you may choose. 
 
Introduction 11 
 
 TWELVE DISTINCT CLASSES OF KEYS* 
 
 1. The Natural Key. Follows direct designation. 
 
 2. The Progressive Key. Follows the Dial in its natural course. 
 
 3. The Reverse Key. Turns in the opposite direction. 
 
 4. Complex Progressive. 
 
 5. Complex Reverse. 
 
 6. Inflected Complex Progressive. 
 
 7. Inflected Complex Reverse. 
 
 8. Complex Inflected Progressive. 
 
 9. Complex Inflected Reverse. 
 
 10. Inflected Complex Projected. 
 
 11. Complex Inflected Projected Progressive. 
 
 12. Complex Inflected Projected Reverse. 
 
 Each class of these, except the first or Natural Key, is capable of 
 innumerable variations. By a careful study of the diagrams, these 
 various keys are easily detected and understood, though to under- 
 stand and to penetrate all the variations in each and every class is 
 almost as impossible as it is to state the number of words the English 
 alphabet is capable of forming. 
 
 Suppose, then, that two persons or firms agree to correspond in 
 the key of "Da" (3) Progressive, which would mean three points or 
 code-words forward; then the third code-word, the one designated 
 included, would be the one intended; if the Reverse Key were agreed 
 upon, then the third code-word in the opposite direction, including the 
 designator, would be the one intended. 
 
 By Designator is meant the written code-word in the message. 
 
 The intended code-word may be found only by knowing the key 
 agreed upon by the corresponding parties. 
 
 Everybody would always know, or at least suspect, that the code- 
 word written or telegraphed as "designator" were not the one really 
 intended, but that by the use of a key some other one, which no one 
 could know without knowing the particular key agreed upon by the 
 corresponding persons or parties. 
 
 The Scientific Dial Code System is therefore universal in construc- 
 tion and character. If translated into every language in the world, 
 and if it were found in every hamlet and used by every intelligent 
 being on our globe, still every firm and every business institution 
 would in it have its own private code, by reason of its keys, which 
 makes the code of one a secret to another and to every other person 
 in the world. 
 
 This key feature of the Scientific Dial Code System may be further 
 illustrated by referring to the "Combination Safe-lock/' which no 
 one can open without knowing the combination, no matter if the 
 same kind of lock is used on every safe and vault in the world. 
 
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Introduction 13 
 
 THE KEY DIAGRAM 
 
 In the study of the Key diagram and the use of keys, it is important 
 to bear in mind and thoroughly understand: 
 
 1st. That by the Indicator is meant the intended code-word, 
 always found on the center line, and is equal to the Natural Key. 
 
 2nd. That by the Designator is meant the written Keyword, 
 intended to lead investigators and everybody else away from the 
 Indicator. 
 
 3d. That the Progressive Keys operate below the center line, as 
 demonstrated in figure No. 2. 
 
 4th. That the Reverse Keys operate above the center line, as 
 demonstrated in Fig. 1. 
 
 5th. That the Indicator always follows or rests upon the center 
 line, but that 
 
 6th. The Designator is located on the Keyline, whichever that 
 may be. 
 
 Take, for example, the code-word "Bab" on page 47. You want 
 to inform your friend that you want to go to the city the next day, 
 but you don't want any one but him to know it. You have agreed 
 with him upon the key of "fa," which he understands. Now you 
 start on "Bab," your Indicator, and count four downward: "Bab," 
 bac, bad, "baf," and find that " Baf" is your keyword or Designator, 
 which you wrote in your communication, whether it be letter or 
 telegram. Any one trying to decipher will read: "/ cannot do the 
 thing you asked of me." But your friend turns to page 47 and reads: 
 "Baf", bad, bac, "Bab": Aha, he is going to the city tomorrow, and 
 as he reads it he smiles, because he possesses a secret which no one 
 can find out. Therefore 
 
 7th. First write your Indicator on the line, then place your Desig- 
 nator on the key line for the message; and 
 
 8th. In deciphering the message commence with the Designator 
 and proceed to count in the opposite direction to the writer of the 
 message, and as many spaces or code-words as the key indicates. 
 
 9th. The Complex Keys are used in the same way, though Desig- 
 nators are placed above and below the center line alternatively) in a 
 zigzag manner, and in the unlimited variations which no one can 
 fully explain. For their intelligent use requires a thorough study 
 and knowledge of the system; and then they will appear as simple 
 and as easy to manipulate as the simplest examples in algebraic 
 equations. 
 
 IN CONCLUSION. 
 
 Proceed with all words in your communication in the same manner 
 as now indicated in the above example. 
 
14 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 Keys For Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy System 
 
 The following demonstration shows how the Scientific Dial System 
 of Keys is applicable to the Marconi wireless telegraphy system and 
 will make the same complete and applicable for all kinds of tele- 
 graphing, even more so than the common wire telegraph is now, 
 because it will make it perfectly secret and private to any and all 
 parties using it. 
 
 The following is an example: 
 
 PEKIN, November 8. It is reported that Liang Chi 
 Chiao, the exiled Chinese editor, a most influential Chinese 
 man of letters, is returning to the capital from Japan to 
 direct the activities of the reformers and to assist in the 
 formation of the new reformed cabinet. 
 
 The above telegram, in the key of "Ja" Progressive, would read 
 as follows: 
 
 PEKIN, Gaselaya. It is reprehensible that Liang Chi 
 Chiao, the exonerate Chinese eel a motive informant Chinese 
 man of lever, is revelation to the capon from Japan to dirge the 
 acumen of the refrain and to assortment in the fornication of 
 the new refrain cache. 
 
 In the key transformation of the above, Webster's Vestpocket 
 Dictionary has been used; therefore, in the deciphering, the same 
 dictionary has to be used. By certain improvements and the making 
 of it to conform to the system, a vocabulary of similar kind may be 
 utilized. 
 
 The Scientific Dial Key System may be used with the Armsby, or 
 the A. B. C., or any other code system, and made absolutely secret 
 and private between the parties or persons using it. 
 
 Brevity, Simplicity, Legibility 
 
 In catalogues and advertisements of machinery, improvement is 
 invariably claimed by showing reduction in wearing parts and sim- 
 plified mechanism. 
 
 Similar claims are made for the Scientific Dial. 
 
 In the small space is contained not only a large proportion of all 
 languages of the world, and a system of universal codes, but it also 
 affords expression in figures and numerical values, in condensed and 
 simplified form, less liable to confuse or to be misunderstood than 
 any other system, method or scheme in vogue. 
 
 Take, for instance, the writing of dates. 
 
 The shortest expression, known to business, for March first, 1911, 
 is 3-1-11 (three-one-eleven three words). 
 
 The Scientific Dial needs only one word, " Dabelana," and no ab- 
 breviation is used. In this word we have written in full the third 
 month, the first day of the month, and the mm hundred and eleventh 
 year. / f 
 
Introduction 15 
 
 Suppose we want to announce the opening of the Panama Expo- 
 sition in San Francisco, April first, 1915, at ten o'clock in the fore- 
 noon, and we have at least seven words to account for. 
 
 But the Scientific Dial needs only two words, " Fabelasa mazzo" 
 In these two words, the elements are not only intimated but they are 
 plainly written in full. 
 
 This is so simple, so plain, so easily understood that mistakes are 
 impossible. 
 
 What a saving in time and energy ! And what has here been shown 
 as a matter of demonstration, is true respecting the entire Scientific 
 Dial System, as the student will find by carefully studying the fol- 
 lowing lessons. 
 
 One more example may be given here. Suppose you want your 
 bank to send you $8,796.95, and you send a telegram to that effect. 
 You then have to write "eight thousand seven hundred ninety-six 
 dollars ninety-five cents," and you have to account for ten words. 
 
 The Scientific Dial proudly disposes of the matter in one word, 
 "Kejatuszy." 
 
 Please notice: This word is not an arbitrary code sign or cipher, 
 but it is a regular Scientific Dial Numeral, which anyone can write 
 and understand, after a short study of the Scientific Dial and the 
 principles involved. 
 
 UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE ACQUIRED IN A WEEK 
 
 This assertion may appear preposterous, but an honest deter- 
 mined trial will convince any reasonable skeptic. Now, notice, 
 
 1. That the Scientific Dial Numerals are and will always be the 
 same, and written and understood alike all over the world, just as 
 the hours, minutes, seconds, and dates of the Clock Dial are the 
 same, and understood by all nations alike, without explanation or 
 interpretation, however different their languages may be. Take the 
 numeral twenty for an example: the Hebrew says esrim, the Greek 
 says eikosi, the Latin-Romans say viginti, Germans say swanzig, 
 Swedes say tjugu, and Danes say tyve, but with the Scientific Dial 
 all nations and tribes and dialects will say in harmonious chorus 
 "Ya", the shortest, neatest, nicest, and more effective expression for 
 twenty. 
 
 2. That the Scientific Dial Primer and System of Codes will be 
 translated into all languages of the world, but in them all the code- 
 words will remain exactly the same, though the inference or intended 
 meaning, idea, intelligence or information to be conveyed or trans- 
 mitted is translated. Thus will be revived and repeated the Pente- 
 cost marvel, when all nationalities heard and understood the 
 speaking in their own mother tongue. We quote: "Now when 
 this was noticed abroad, the multitude came together, and were con- 
 founded, because that every man heard them speak in his own 
 language. And they were all amazed and marveled, saying one to 
 another, Behold, are not all these which speak Galilaeans? And 
 how hear we, every man in his own language, wherein we are born? 
 
16 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 Parthians, and Medes and Elamites, and the dwellers in Meso- 
 potamia, and in Judea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus and Asia, in 
 Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and in the parts of Libya about 
 Gyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes, Cretes and 
 Arabians, we hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of 
 God." ACTS 2:6-11. 
 
 By writing or pointing to the Scientific Dial Code- Word, therefore, 
 you can communicate intelligently with any nationality on our 
 globe. 
 
 You can travel in or through any country, find the way, buy 
 tickets, give orders in hotels and restaurants, attend to toilet, address 
 the barber, arrange your baths, and do anything and everything 
 necessary in travel; and in ordering goods, in exchanging money, 
 and in carrying on general business transactions. 
 
 And all this knowledge may be acquired in a week! 
 
 For to acquire and make use of this knowledge is only to under- 
 stand the Scientific Dial and the principles involved. 
 
 Universal Language 
 
 Attempts have been made to invent universal languages for inter- 
 national use. First came "VOLAPUK," in 1879, by Johann M. 
 Schleyer, but his invention is too grotesque to become popular. 
 It is not adapted to poetry and song. 
 
 The "ESPERANTO," invented by Dr. Zamenhoff, is, as its 
 name indicates, more hopeful, as it contains only those sounds and 
 roots common to all languages. But an invented language is and 
 always will be a dead language. Business men have not the time to 
 give it attention. Some college students may become enthusiastic 
 about it for a while, then the interest diminishes, fickles and dwindles 
 away. For men will always love, cherish, and cling to their mother 
 tongue; they will learn and maintain only living languages. 
 
 A Substitute for Universal Language 
 
 But a substitute, thoroughly simple and practical, contained in 
 a small compass, easily and readily acquired, self-explaining as a 
 common clock dial, available also as a cipher code everywhere in 
 use, will be accepted and become universal for international com- 
 munication and correspondence. 
 
 Such a substitute may be found in the Scientific Dial. 
 
 Its Use in Merchandising 
 
 The simple way that wholesale and retail prices may be designated 
 by SCIENTIFIC DIAL NUMERALS must be apparent to every 
 merchant. By the use of keys, his prices will always remain a secret, 
 while his retail prices, written in the Natural Key, may be read 
 and understood by all. The simple fact that these keys exist and 
 are in use, will ever hold outside, uninformed parties in a state of 
 uncertainty. And a change of keys occasionally will always preserve 
 secrecy, when discharge of employes, who were informed, would 
 make that necessary. 
 
Introduction 17 
 
 In Schools and Homes 
 
 The time is not far distant when the Scientific Dial, printed in 
 large artistic chart form, will find a place in every school and home. 
 It will become as familiar as the old clock dial. It will become an 
 object of observation and discussion from childhood to old age. 
 Its wealth of usefulness and application will be found almost in- 
 exhaustible. 
 
 A Table Substitute 
 
 The Scientific Dial may become a substitute for all the various 
 and bewildering tables now imposed upon children in arithmetics 
 and other schoolbooks. This time-and-energy-wasting process of 
 learning tables of dry measure, tables of liquid measure, tables of 
 weights, tables of long measure and distances, tables of values all 
 constructed on different scales and based on different base units 
 is all wrong. The time and energy thus wasted and expended could 
 be put to better use. One table, arranged on the decimal and 
 centigrade plan, can be made applicable in all particulars, conforming 
 to the metric scheme, adopted in France and some other European 
 countries. This French scheme has one objection, though, the 
 conglomeration in names, which taxes the memory and compre- 
 hension of young children beyond their ability. 
 
 The Better Way 
 
 A better way will be to connect these tables and the names of 
 their gradation with objects familiar to the child by observation at 
 home. 
 
 The child understands the old clock. 
 
 It understands that the year is divided into months, the months 
 into weeks and days, the days into hours, the hours into minutes, 
 and the minutes into seconds. 
 
 It has become accustomed to distinguish, to measure and to 
 estimate the difference between the units and their subdivisions 
 on the old clock dial. 
 
 The Degree the Specific Unit 
 
 Let the degree of the Scientific Dial be considered the Specific 
 Unit, and this unit be the pound in weight, the gallon in liquid 
 measure, and bushel in dry measure, one yard or metre in long 
 measure, and a dollar in the measure of value. Let the gradation 
 into minutes, seconds and primers take the place of hard names of 
 all subdivisions and be applicable to all these. 
 
 The Scientific Dial makes the discernment of class, substance and 
 matter under consideration easy by its suffixes, as, for example, 
 "zy" designates dollars, money; "za," pounds, etc. Hence, "mamzy" 
 ($10.10), "mamza" (10.10 Ibs). 
 
 Leaving off the first consonant or whole number, we have fractions 
 or decimals, as, "atzy" (16 cents), "atzyz" (16 per cent), "atza" 
 
18 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 It requires no great genius to see the simplicity and ready appli- 
 cation of this system; and best of all it is so easy to learn and to 
 understand by children. For it follows in direct line with obser- 
 vations from infancy at home, whereupon will follow natural expan- 
 sion and development. 
 
 Having become familiar with the dial of the clock, and observing 
 the Scientific Dial as a chart on the wall and among its toys, the 
 child's natural inquisitiveness and curiosity will call out the meaning 
 and purpose, as it will not be contented until it has been told what 
 this, that and the other circle, division, letter, and figure stands for. 
 
 FORMULA 
 
 100 Primers make One Second. 
 100 Seconds make One Minute. 
 100 Minutes make One Degree. 
 100 Degrees make One Standard. 
 20 Standards make One Portico. 
 25 Porticos make One Arcade. 
 20 Arcades make One Base. 
 20 Bases make One Grand Division. 
 5 Grand Divisions make One Dial. 
 
 SECONDARY NUMERICAL VALUES 
 
 z equals (zero) 
 a aza " 100 
 e eza " 1,000 
 i iza " 10,000 
 o oza " 100,000 
 u uza " 1,000,000 
 
 Making the degree the specific unit, we find that the Dial contains 
 100,000,000 one hundred million such specific units, each unit 
 divisible into hundredths, ten thousandths, and a million parts. 
 The Scientific Dial is itself a grand unit, comprising as it does one 
 hundred million specific units, each specific unit divisible into one 
 million parts. 
 
Introduction 19 
 
 SOUNDS OF LETTERS AND PRONUNCIATION OF WORDS 
 
 1. VOWELS 
 a, as in far, calm, father. 
 
 e, as in bed, met (generally short) . 
 
 i, as in spin, ability (generally short). 
 
 0, as in note, old, soul. 
 u, as in pure, few, dew. 
 
 The following vowels have been adopted to designate the intended 
 meaning of a numeral, principally used as suffixes or endings of nu- 
 merals and preceded by "z," and when so used the accent or stress of 
 the voice always resting on the last designating vowel, as, "mapzy'," 
 $10.12; "mapza'," 10.12 Ibs., and "mapzaz'," 10.12 miles; "mapzo'," 
 10.12 o'clock in the forenoon, "mapzozzu'/' 10.12 o'clock P. M., time 
 proposed accepted. 
 
 y, as in they, prey. 
 
 a, as in road, toad, slow (long). 
 
 a, as in fate, hate, lake (long). 
 6, as in sir, fir, her, mirth. 
 
 ii, as in feel, steel, deem (long) . 
 
 2. CONSONANTS 
 
 b, as in ebb, bell, beat, ebony. 
 
 c, as "sh," in shade, ash, fish. 
 
 d, as in date, lad, had, day. 
 
 f, as in fad, after, father, rafter. 
 
 g, always hard, as in go, give, aggregate, anger. 
 h, as in hat, have, ah, aha. 
 
 j, as "dj" in jam, jack, joint, adjust, eject. 
 k, always hard, as in kettle, keg, keep, kick. 
 
 1, as in lamb, elad, kiln, film. 
 m, as in man, mam, mammal. 
 
 n, as in not, neat, fan, funny. 
 p, as in pat, put, up, upper. 
 q, as "kiu" in quad, quail, pique. 
 r, as in rate, arm, far, through, from, form, 
 s, as in sat, us, first, grass. 
 t, as in hat, tat, trust, cant, 
 v, as in vane, varnish, receive, leave, 
 w, as in water, with, now, thou. 
 x, as "ch" in cheap, which, chip, stretch, 
 y, soft and pliable, as in yield, year, toy. 
 z, as "dsee" in zebra, hazel, zone. 
 
 Scientific Dial numeral and code-words have a syllable for each 
 vowel. 
 
The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 LESSON I 
 
 DESCRIPTION 
 
 The Scientific Dial is a dial resembling the dial of a watch or clock 
 which indicates seconds, minutes, hours, dates of the month, etc. 
 
 The Scientific Dial is divided into divisions and subdivisions, 
 each one of which has a specific purpose and significance, easily 
 recognized, easily comprehended, and easily fixed in the memory. 
 
 1. We observe that the Dial presents nine circular rings from 
 the center to the circumference. 
 
 2. We also notice five lines radiating from a common point in 
 the center to the circumference. 
 
 3. These five lines, radiating from the center to the circumference, 
 divide the Dial into five equal parts. Now let us fix this well in our 
 minds, and call these divisions the " Grand Divisions," because they 
 are the largest of all the divisions on the Dial, and each one is divided 
 into a number of smaller divisions, which we will call Subdivisions. 
 
 4. Now the Five Grand Divisions and the Subdivisions, many 
 as they are, all and every one of them each one for itself and all in 
 relationship and in combination with one another have a special 
 significance and meaning, respecting weights and measures, meas- 
 uring quantity, measuring quality, measuring distance, measuring 
 time, and measuring value. 
 
 The Scientific Dial also contains elements of universal language, 
 new base for mathematical calculations, and universal code. 
 
 LESSON II 
 
 NUMERICAL VALUES 
 
 Contained in the Five Radial Grand Divisions and in the second 
 ring from the circumference, and controlled by a vowel letter in 
 each Grand Division. 
 
 1. Each Grand Division contains twenty Subdivisions, in the 
 second ring from the circumference, and in each of these Subdivisions 
 we find a consonant letter, from "b" to "y," the "y" considered and 
 used as a consonant. 
 
 NOTE. The use of "y" as a vowel, in conjunction with the letter 
 "z," will be explained and demonstrated in another chapter. 
 
 2. The vowels, a, e, i, o, u, control the Grand Divisions, each in 
 its order; "a," the first vowel, controls the First Grand Division, 
 from "ba" to "ya" (1 to 20); "e" controls the Second Grand Division, 
 from "be" to "ye" (21 to 40); "i" controls the Third Grand Division, 
 from "bi" to "yi" (41 to 60); "o" controls the Fourth Grand Di- 
 vision, from "bo" to "yo" (61 to 80); "u" controls the Fifth Grand 
 Division, from "bu" to "yu" (81 to 100). 
 
Numerical Values 
 
 21 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 
 Rule 1. Scientific Dial words, ending in a vowel, are whole 
 numbers. 
 
 Consonant Values 
 
 b equals 
 
 c 
 
 d 
 
 f 
 
 g * 
 h 
 
 j 
 
 k 
 
 m 
 n 
 P 
 
 q 
 
 r 
 
 s 
 t 
 
 V 
 
 w 
 
 X 
 
 y 
 
 i 
 
 2 
 3 
 4 
 5 
 6 
 7 
 8 
 9 
 
 10 
 11 
 12 
 13 
 14 
 15 
 16 
 17 
 18 
 19 
 20 
 
 GRAND DIVISION VALUES 
 
 First Grand Di- Second Grand Di- 
 vision, controlled vision, controlled 
 by "a" by "e" 
 
 ba equals 1 
 ca " 2 
 
 be equah 
 ce " 
 
 r 21 
 22 
 
 da " 
 
 3 
 
 de 
 
 u 
 
 23 
 
 fa " 
 
 4 
 
 fe 
 
 u 
 
 24 
 
 ga 
 ha " 
 
 5 
 6 
 
 ge 
 he 
 
 u 
 
 25 
 26 
 
 (t 
 
 ka " 
 
 7 
 8 
 
 je 
 ke 
 
 u 
 tl 
 
 27 
 28 
 
 la 
 
 9 
 
 le 
 
 u 
 
 29 
 
 ma " 
 
 10 
 
 me 
 
 It 
 
 30 
 
 na " 
 
 11 
 
 ne 
 
 " 
 
 31 
 
 pa 
 qa 
 ra 
 
 12 
 . 13 
 14 
 
 pe 
 qe 
 re 
 
 11 
 u 
 
 32 
 33 
 34 
 
 sa 
 
 15 
 
 se 
 
 11 
 
 35 
 
 ta 
 
 16 
 
 te 
 
 11 
 
 36 
 
 va " 
 
 17 
 
 ve 
 
 u 
 
 37 
 
 wa " 
 
 18 
 
 we 
 
 u 
 
 38 
 
 xa " 
 
 19 
 
 xe 
 
 It 
 
 39 
 
 ya " 
 
 20 
 
 ye 
 
 tl 
 
 40 
 
 Third Grand Di- 
 vision, controlled 
 by "i" 
 
 bi equals 41 
 
 ci 
 di 
 fi 
 
 gi 
 hi 
 
 
 
 li 
 
 mi 
 
 ni 
 
 PI 
 
 qi 
 
 ri 
 
 si 
 
 ti 
 
 vi 
 
 wi 
 
 xi 
 
 42 
 43 
 44 
 45 
 46 
 47 
 48 
 49 
 50 
 51 
 52 
 53 
 54 
 55 
 56 
 57 
 58 
 59 
 60 
 
 Fourth Grand Division, controlled by "o" 
 
 Fifth Grand Division, controlled by "u' 
 
 bo equals 61 no equals 71 bu equals 81 nu equals 91 
 
 CO 
 
 do 
 fo 
 go 
 ho 
 
 jo 
 ko 
 lo 
 mo 
 
 62 
 63 
 64 
 65 
 66 
 67 
 68 
 69 
 70 
 
 po 
 
 qo 
 
 ro 
 
 so 
 
 to 
 
 vo 
 
 wo 
 
 xo 
 
 72 
 73 
 74 
 75 
 
 76 
 
 77 
 78 
 79 
 80 
 
 cu 
 du 
 fu 
 gu 
 hu 
 
 r 
 
 ku 
 
 lu 
 
 mu 
 
 82 
 83 
 84 
 85 
 86 
 87 
 88 
 89 
 90 
 
 pu 
 
 qu 
 
 ru 
 
 su 
 
 tu 
 
 vu 
 
 wu 
 
 xu 
 
 92 
 93 
 94 
 95 
 96 
 97 
 98 
 99 
 100 
 
 OBSERVE: The value of common figures is changed by changing 
 the right-hand figures, the left-hand figures remaining unchanged 
 between the tens; as, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, etc. 
 
 Scientific Dial numerals retain their right-hand figures from b to 
 y (1 to 20), changing instead their left-hand figures; as, ma, na, pa, 
 qa, ra, sa, etc. Remembering that b=l after y, and n=l after m, 
 will aid in comprehending Scientific Dial numerals; as, ba= 1, ma= 10, 
 and na=ll, ya = 23, and be = 21; me = 30, and ne = 31, ye = 40, and 
 bi = 41; mi = 50, and ni = 51; yi = 60, and bo = 61; mo = 70, and 
 no = 71; yo = 80, and bu = 81; mu = 90 ; and nu = 91; yu = 100. 
 
22 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 EXERCISES 
 
 Translate the following Scientific Dial words into common figures: 
 Ba, ca, da, fa, ga, ha, ja, ka, la, ma, na, pa, qa, ra, sa, ta, va, 
 wa, xa, ya; be, ce, de, fe, ge, he, je, ke, le, me, ne, pe, qe, re, se, te, 
 ve, we, xe, ye; bi, ci, di, fi, gi, hi, ji, ki, li, mi, ni, pi, qi, ri, si, ti, vi, 
 wi, xi, yi; bo, co, do, fo, go, ho, jo, ko, lo, mo, no, po, qo, ro, so, to, 
 vo, wo, xo, yo; bu, cu, du, lu, mu, nu ; pu, qu, su, vu, yu. 
 
 Translate the following figures and numbers into Scientific Dial 
 words : 
 
 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 
 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 
 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 
 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 
 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 
 97, 98, 99, 100. 
 
 LESSON III 
 
 FRACTIONS AND DECIMALS 
 
 Rule 2. Monosyllable Scientific Dial words ending in a consonant 
 are decimals. 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 
 DECIMALS 
 
 ab 
 
 = .01 
 
 eb 
 
 = .21 
 
 ib 
 
 = .41 
 
 ob 
 
 = 
 
 .61 
 
 ub 
 
 = 
 
 .81 
 
 ac 
 
 = .02 
 
 ec 
 
 = .22 
 
 ic 
 
 = .42 
 
 oc 
 
 = 
 
 .62 
 
 uc 
 
 = 
 
 .82 
 
 ad 
 
 = .03 
 
 ed 
 
 = .23 
 
 id 
 
 = .43 
 
 od 
 
 = 
 
 .63 
 
 ud 
 
 = 
 
 .83 
 
 af 
 
 = .04 
 
 ef 
 
 = .24 
 
 if 
 
 = .44 
 
 of 
 
 = 
 
 .64 
 
 uf 
 
 = 
 
 .84 
 
 ag 
 
 = .05 
 
 eg 
 
 = .25 
 
 ig 
 
 = .45 
 
 og 
 
 = 
 
 .65 
 
 ug 
 
 = 
 
 .85 
 
 ah 
 
 = .06 
 
 eh 
 
 = .26 
 
 ih 
 
 = .46 
 
 oh 
 
 = 
 
 .66 
 
 uh 
 
 = 
 
 .86 
 
 ak 
 
 = .07 
 
 = .08 
 
 1 
 ek 
 
 = .27 
 = .28 
 
 ij 
 ik 
 
 = .47 
 
 = .48 
 
 ok 
 
 = 
 
 .67 
 .68 
 
 uk 
 
 = 
 
 .87 
 .88 
 
 al 
 
 = .09 
 
 el 
 
 = .29 
 
 il 
 
 = .49 
 
 ol 
 
 = 
 
 .69 
 
 ul 
 
 = 
 
 .89 
 
 am 
 
 = .10 
 
 em 
 
 = .30 
 
 im 
 
 = .50 
 
 om 
 
 = 
 
 .70 
 
 um 
 
 = 
 
 .90 
 
 an 
 
 = .11 
 
 en 
 
 = .31 
 
 in 
 
 = .51 
 
 on 
 
 = 
 
 .71 
 
 un 
 
 = 
 
 .91 
 
 ap 
 
 = .12 
 
 ep 
 
 = .32 
 
 ip 
 
 = .52 
 
 op 
 
 = 
 
 .72 
 
 up 
 
 = 
 
 .92 
 
 aq 
 
 = .13 
 
 eq 
 
 = .33 
 
 iq 
 
 = .53 
 
 oq 
 
 = 
 
 .73 
 
 uq 
 
 = 
 
 .93 
 
 ar 
 
 = .14 
 
 er 
 
 = .34 
 
 ir 
 
 = .54 
 
 or 
 
 = 
 
 .74 
 
 ur 
 
 = 
 
 .94 
 
 as 
 
 = .15 
 
 es 
 
 = .35 
 
 is 
 
 = .55 
 
 OS 
 
 = 
 
 .75 
 
 us 
 
 == 
 
 .95 
 
 at 
 
 = .16 
 
 et 
 
 = .36 
 
 it 
 
 = .56 
 
 ot 
 
 = 
 
 .76 
 
 ut 
 
 = 
 
 .96 
 
 av 
 
 = .17 
 
 ev 
 
 = .37 
 
 iv 
 
 = .57 
 
 ov 
 
 = 
 
 .77 
 
 uv 
 
 = 
 
 .97 
 
 aw 
 
 = .18 
 
 ew 
 
 = .38 
 
 iw 
 
 = .58 
 
 ow 
 
 = 
 
 .78 
 
 uw 
 
 = 
 
 .98 
 
 ax 
 
 = .19 
 
 ex 
 
 = .39 
 
 ix 
 
 = .59 
 
 ox 
 
 = 
 
 .79 
 
 ux 
 
 = 
 
 .99 
 
 ay 
 
 = .20 
 
 ey 
 
 = .40 
 
 iy 
 
 = .60 
 
 oy 
 
 = 
 
 .80 
 
 uy 
 
 =. 
 
 .100 
 
Fractions and Decimals 23 
 
 Translate the following exercises: 
 
 Ab, ac, ad, af, ag, ah, aj, ak, al, am, an, ap, aq, ar, as, at, av, 
 aw, ax, ay; eb, ec, ed, ef, eg, eh, ej, ek, el, em, en, ep, eq, er, es, et, 
 ev, ew, ex, ey; ib, ic, id, if, ig, in, ij, ik, il, im, in, ip, iq, ir, is, it, iv, 
 iw, ix, iy; ob, oc, od, of, og, oh, oj, ok, ol, om, on, op, oq, or, os, 
 ot, ov, ow, ox, oy; ub, uc, ud, uf, ug, uh, uj, uk, ul, um, un, up, uq, 
 ur, us, ut, uv, uw, ux, uy. 
 
 .01, .02, .03, .04, .05, .06, .07, .08, .09, .10, .11, .12, .13, .14, .15, 
 
 .16, .17, .18, .19, .20, .21, .22, .23, .24, .25, .26, .27, .28, .29, .30, 
 
 .31, .32, .33, .34, .35, .36, .37, .38, .39, .40, .41, .42, .43, .44, .45, 
 
 .46, .47, .48, .49, .50, .51, .52, .53, .54, .55, .56, .57, .58, .59, .60, 
 
 .61, .62, .63, .64, .65, .66, .67, .68, .69, .70, .71, .72, .73, .74, .75, 
 
 .76, .77, .78, .79, .80, .81, .82, .83, .84, .85, .86, .87, .88, .89, .90, 
 
 .91, .92, .93, .94, .95, .96, .97, .98, .99, .100. 
 
 LESSON IV 
 
 COMBINING WHOLE NUMBERS WITH DECIMALS 
 
 NOTE. In view of the fact that Scientific Dial whole number 
 words end in a vowel, and Scientific Dial decimal words end in a 
 consonant, the two words are written together or combined into one 
 word and pronounced as one word, each part being easily recognized 
 and distinguished. 
 
 Rule 3. When both the whole number and the fraction or decimal 
 belong to the same Grand Division, one vowel is dropped. 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 
 Ba=l; bab = 1.01; ca = 2; cab = 2.01; da = 3; dad = 3.03; la = 9; 
 lam = 9.10; ma=10; mam = 10.10; man= 10.11; map = 10.12; pam = 
 12.10; max=10.19; mat = 10.16; tam=16.10; bat = 1.16; has = 6.15; 
 tax= 16.19; lap = 9.12; pal = 12.09; be = 21; bet = 21.36; beg = 21.25; 
 hem = 26.30; pet = 32.36; bi = 41; bit = 41.56; lit = 49.56; his = 46.55; 
 bid = 41.43; bo = 61; bot = 61.76; cot = 62.76; rot = 74.76; tot = 76.76; 
 not = 71.76; rob = 74.61; rod = 74.63; bu = 81; but = 81.96; rut = 94.96; 
 hut = 86.96; lul = 89.89; lux = 89.99; sup = 95.92; cup = 82.92. 
 
 Rule 4. When the whole number belongs to one Grand Division 
 and the decimal to another, both vowels are retained. 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 
 Baem = 1.30; baeb = 1.21; meam = 30.10; doet = 63.36; suit = 95.56; 
 goes = 65. 35; seog = 35.65. 
 
 EXERCISES 
 
 Bab, cat, hat, fat, mat, mam, man, men, ten, hen, ken, pet, net, 
 him, sin, dim, mit, lit, bit, his, fit, tit, wit, vim, not, cot, tot, hot, 
 dot, ton, hog, pig, rip, kid, rib, but, sup, rut, hut, fun, cut. 
 
 Baeb, beab, baem, baen, mean, maem, doet, suit, gait, goet, goes, 
 bail, pail, hail, fail, hiat, bat, bait, baum. 
 
 1.30; 3.50; 50.10; 45.25; 20.10; 10.12; 10.14; 18.10; 5.60; 9.99. 
 
24 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 LESSON V 
 
 Scientific Dial words, containing more than one consonant to the 
 Grand Division vowel, in whole numbers or in decimals or in both. 
 
 Rule 5. The value of a consonant nearest to the Grand Division 
 vowel, which in a Scientific Dial numeral word is the last vowel 
 to the right, the first place consonant to the left or right whole 
 number or decimal is controlled by the Grand Division vowel, as, 
 ba=l, bab = 1.01, be = 21, beb = 21.21, bi = 41, bib = 41.41; bo = 61, 
 bob = 61.61; bu = 81, bub = 81.81. 
 
 Rule 6. Consonants in Scientific Dial numeral words, taking 
 second, third, fourth, or any other position to the left or right of 
 the Grand Division vowel, maintain their First Grand Division 
 values, as, la = 9, lat = 9.16, slat = 159.16, slats- 159.1615; la = 9, 
 lan = 9.11, bla=19, blan= 19.11, blank= 19.118, blanks = 19. 11815. 
 
 Ra=14, ran= 14.11, cra = 214, cran = 214.11, crank = 214.118, 
 cranks = 214.11815. 
 
 Ra=14, tra=1614, traw= 1614.18, straws = 151614.1815. 
 
 Ri = 54, rin = 54.51, trin= 1654.51, tring= 1654.515, string = 
 151654.515, strings = 151654.51515. 
 
 Po = 72, por = 72.74, spor= 1572.74; sports = 1572.741615. 
 
 Means = 30.1115; dreams = 334. 1015; streams = 151634.1015. 
 
 Should = 1566.893; could = 62.893; brief =154.24; chief = 246.24; 
 hour = 66. 94. 
 
 EXERCISES 
 
 Slash, clash, splash, feast, stretch, thresh, thought, fought, taught, 
 laugh, blunt, stunt, till, still, spill, spell, grunt, front, smut, smart, 
 start, dwells, swells, swamps, strength, field, shield, steam, cream, 
 screams, watch, straight. 
 
 LESSON VI 
 
 ^ Rule 7. Vowels used outside of the Grand Divisions have specific 
 values as follows: 
 
 a =100 
 
 e=l,000 
 
 1=10,000 
 
 = 100,000 
 
 u= 1,000,000 
 
 z = 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 
 Aza=100, aba=101, abab = 101.01, abe=121, dalem = 329.30, 
 abo = 161, abob = 161.61, habos = 661.75. 
 
 Ama=110, dama = 310, mama=1010, ema = 1010, papa=1212, 
 ecapa=1212. 
 
 Alas= 109.15, elas = 1009.15, ilas = 10,009. 15, olas = 100,009.15, 
 ulas = 1,000,009.15; xana=1911, elana=1911, belana=1911. 
 
Vowels Outside Grand Divisions 25 
 
 NOTICE. Xana reads nineteen hundred eleven; elana reads a thou- 
 sand nine hundred eleven, and belana reads one thousand one hundred 
 and eleven. This same number expressed in three ways indicates 
 the wealth and flexibility of Scientific Dial expression; each one is 
 perfectly legible and conveys but one meaning. 
 
 E = 1000, eza=1000, deza = 3000; deaza = 3100, felaput = 4992.96, 
 heating^ 6156.515; cheating- 26,156.515; pleading- 129,143.515. 
 
 1=10,000, iza- 10,000; ciza = 20,000; diza = 30,000; cieza = 21,000; 
 ciebama = 21,110; diecapa= 31,212; hifelase = 64,935; licfjawu = 
 94,798. 
 
 0- 100,000; oman = 100,010.11; joint=67.5116; joiner=710,031. 34; 
 olikehapost = 198,672.7516; loijapul = 910,792.89. 
 
 U = 1,000,000; uza= 1,000,000; suza= 15,000,000; sukotelapu = 
 15,816,992; guitar -5,010,016. 14; grunter = 514,001, 136.34. 
 
 Rule 8. Vowels preceding z in a polysyllable word retain their 
 Grand Division values and control, as, dazuzu = 3, 000,000; dezuzu = 
 23,000,000; mezuloma = 30,900,010 ; mezulonta = 30,901, 116; bizuza = 
 41,000,000; bozuza= 61,000,000; muzulpato = 90,091,276. 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 
 Xama, xame, elax, relax, petals, metals, most, post, toast, elama, 
 belana, lelama, jacapa, feago, goafe, amo, lamo, helamo, helamu, 
 hilamus, amat, make, take, flake, flakes, snake, sneak, thief, work, 
 sword, pozelama, pozulama, puzulapon, lojedasi. 
 
 Rule 9. "Y," used as a vowel and preceded by "z" (zy), desig- 
 nates $ and signifies money; as, "gamzy" equals $5.10, "patzy" 
 equals $12.16, "sawzy" equals $15.18, "hayzy" equals $6.23. 
 
 Rule 10. All the vowels, ending Scientific Dial numerals, and 
 preceded by some consonant and "z" (Iz, mz, tz, pz, etc.), have no 
 numerical values, but designate the import, meaning or intended 
 purpose or object of the numeral itself; as, "lapza" = 9.12 pounds, 
 "topzy"= $76.72, "trialzaz" = 1654.09 miles. 
 
 Rule 11. In a Scientific Dial numeral word, ending in a vowel, 
 the "z" is doubled to distinguish between "aza," 100, and "bazza," 
 one pound; "daza," 300, and "dazza," 3 pounds; "dazazza," 300 
 pounds; "dezza," 23 pounds; "dezazza," 3,000 pounds; "dezazzaz," 
 3,000 miles; "delepzaz," 3,029.32 miles; "dealeimzaz," 3,129.50 miles; 
 "helamzaz," 6,009.10 tons; "helamazzy," $6,910.00. 
 
26 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 MEANING OF SUFFIXES 
 
 zy is money. zoz is gross. 
 
 zyz is percentum. za is yard, meter. 
 
 za is Ibs., pounds. zaz is miles. 
 
 zaz is tons. za is days. 
 zazza is cental, one hundredweight, zaz is months. 
 
 ze is gallons, liquid measure. zo is time; hour in the forenoon. 
 
 zez is barrels, liquid measure. zoz is time; hour in the afternoon. 
 
 zi is gallon, dry measure. zu is accepted. 
 
 ziz is bushel, dry measure. zuz is rejected. 
 
 zo is dozen. ii is spacer, 
 
 a is the division line between numerator and denominator in 
 fractions, as, 
 
 LESSON VII 
 
 ANALYTICAL EXERCISES 
 
 TEACHER: Miss Ruth, step to the blackboard and write the 
 Scientific Dial numeral word "lam." 
 
 TEACHER: Good. To which Grand Division does this word be- 
 long? 
 
 RUTH: To the First Grand Division. 
 
 TEACHER: Why? 
 
 RUTH: Because the vowel "a" controls the First Grand Division. 
 
 TEACHER: Correct. What kind of numeral is "lam" whole 
 number, fraction, or mixed number? 
 
 RUTH: It is a mixed number, consisting of a whole number and 
 a fraction. 
 
 TEACHER: What part of the word constitutes the whole number? 
 
 RUTH: "La" equals 9 and is a whole number. 
 
 TEACHER: Recite the rule. 
 
 RUTH: Scientific Dial Numeral words ending in a vowel are 
 whole numbers. Rule 1. 
 
 TEACHER: What part of the word constitutes the fraction? 
 
 RUTH: "am" equals T x oV or -10- 
 
 TEACHER: Recite the rule. 
 
 RUTH : Monosyllable Scientific Dial words ending in a consonant 
 (except z) are fractions or decimals. 
 
 TEACHER: Correct. Now translate the Scientific Dial word 
 "lam" into common figures. 
 
 RUTH: 9 T Vo, or 9.10. 
 
 TEACHER: "lam," then, designates the value 9.10, but the value 
 of what? 
 
 RUTH: Of anything; the particular thing not designated. 
 
 TEACHER: Can this numeral word "lam" be written so as to 
 designate money? 
 
Analytical Exercises 27 
 
 RUTH: Yes, sir by suffixing zy "lamzy," designating $9.10. 
 
 TEACHER: Very good. How would you designate pounds? 
 
 RUTH: By suffixing "za" lamza, which equals 9.10 pounds. 
 
 TEACHER: Correct. Now recite the rule, please. 
 
 RUTH: All the vowels, ending a Scientific Dial numeral word, 
 and preceded by a consonant and "z," as Iz, mz, nz, pz, sz, tz, etc., 
 or "zz," have no numeral values, but designate, instead, the import, 
 meaning, and intended purpose of the numeral itself. 
 
 TEACHER: Very good. Now we will ask Roy to come to the 
 board and see what he can do. Roy, write the numerals pat, pet, 
 pit, pot, put, and analyze them in their order. 
 
 ROY: "pat" belongs to the First Grand Division, because the 
 controlling vowel is "a," and it is a mixed number, equal to 12.16; 
 "pet" belongs to the Second Grand Division, because the controlling 
 vowel is "e," and it is a mixed number, equal to 32.36; "pit" is a 
 Third Grand Division word, a mixed number, equal to 52.56; "pot" 
 is a Fourth Grand Division word, a mixed number, equal to 72.76; 
 "put" is a Fifth Grand Division word, a mixed number, equal to 
 92.96. 
 
 TEACHER: Very good. Now translate into Scientific Dial nu- 
 merals the following: $8.16, and analyze. 
 
 ROY: 8 equals "ka," .16 equals "at," and $ is designated by "zy," 
 hence, 8.16 equals "kat," and $8.16 equals "katzy." 
 
 TEACHER: Good. But you dropped one vowel, "ka" is 8, and 
 "at" is .16, which combined would be "kaat"; but in your combi- 
 nation you write the controlling vowel "a" only once; how is that? 
 
 ROY: It conforms to Rule 3 "When both the whole number 
 and the fraction or decimal belong to the same Grand Division, one 
 vowel is dropped." 
 
 TEACHER: Very good. Translate and analyze 61 T 1 Q 6 - miles. 
 
 ROY: 61 equals "bo," " T V 6 o" equals "at," and the designation for 
 miles is "zaz," hence, combined, "boatzaz" equals 61.16 miles. 
 
 TEACHER: Good: Now translate and analyze 26 T 5 o 4 g- tons. 
 
 ROY: 26 equals "he," " T 5 V' equals "ir," and zaz designates tons. 
 Hence, "heirzaz" equals 23.54 tons. 
 
 TEACHER: That's correct. Now translate and analyze 9 o'clock 
 P. M. 
 
 ROY: 9 equals "la," and "zoz" designates time in the afternoon; 
 "lazoz," then, equals 9 o'clock in the afternoon or evening. 
 
 TEACHER: Class, is that right? (Several hands up). Nelly, you 
 may inform Roy and the class what you think is wrong about it. 
 
 NELLY: "z" should be doubled between the vowels. 
 
 TEACHER: How so? 
 
 NELLY: Because in numeral words ending in a vowel, the "z" is 
 doubled to distinguish between "aza," 100, "bazza," one pound, 
 "daza," 300, and "dazazza," 300 pounds. 
 
 TEACHER: Very good. Now complete your analysis, Roy. 
 
 ROY: The Scientific Dial word should then be written, "lazzoz," 
 to designate 9 o'clock in the afternoon, or evening, as this would be. 
 
 TEACHER: Correct. Now translate 10:45 o'clock A. M. 
 
28 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 ROY: 10 equals "ma," :45 equals "ig," and A. M. is designated 
 by "zo"; hence "maigzo" is equivalent to 10:45 A. M. 
 
 TEACHER: Good. But suppose that you desired to convey the 
 idea that that time is proposed to someone as acceptable to you. 
 How would you write? 
 
 ROY: "zu" indicates acceptable, acceptance, etc.; hence "maig- 
 zozu" would convey the idea that 10:45 in the forenoon is acceptable 
 to me. 
 
 TEACHER: If the time designated were in the afternoon and 
 rejected, what would be the form of your Scientific Dial word? 
 
 ROY: I would add "zuz" and double the "z" and write "maig- 
 zozzuz." 
 
 TEACHER: Analyze. 
 
 ROY: "ma" equals 10, "ig" equals 45, "zoz" designates time in 
 the afternoon, and "zuz" means not acceptable, or rejected; hence, 
 "maigzozzuz" means that your time at 10:45 in the afternoon is not 
 accepted. 
 
 TEACHER: Good for Roy; that's correct. And it is a short, per- 
 fectly legible way of expressing a whole sentence if telegraphe 1 in 
 the usual way, in which each figure counts for a word. And this 
 form may be used with equal simplicity and legibility in all combi- 
 nations of designated values, numbers or quantities in measure or 
 distance. Now Roy, Ruth, Nelly, Frank, Maud, and Joe may go to 
 the blackboard, and each one is to write a telegram, expressing the 
 shortest way to convey the same meaning as the Scientific Dial 
 numeral word "maigzozzuz." 
 
 THE TELEGRAMS 
 
 MAUD: Ten forty-five, evening, rejected. (5 words) 
 FRANK: Ten forty-five in evening, not accepted. (7 words) 
 JOE: Rejecting ten forty-five in evening. (6 words) 
 RUTH: Ten forty-five, evening, unacceptable. (5 words) 
 NELLY: Time proposed rejected. (3 words) 
 ROY: Ten forty-five, evening, impossible. (5 words) 
 TEACHER: Now let us look at these six telegrams. Which one is 
 the shortest? 
 
 NELLY: Mine is only three words. 
 
 ROY: But hers is not a translation of the Scientific Dial word 
 "maigzozzuz." 
 
 TEACHER: You may give your reason for your translation, Nelly. 
 NELLY: The Scientific Dial word "maigzozzuz" seems to indicate 
 the proposal of that time by someone. Therefore, instead of repeat- 
 ing the time, which requires four words, the word proposed refers to 
 the same thing, and saves three words. 
 
 TEACHER: Your reasoning is excellent, and indicates indepen- 
 dence of mind and logical thinking. 
 
 ROY: That's the idea I intended to convey by supplementing the 
 word "impossible" for "rejected." For my substitute gives reason 
 for using the suffix "zuz," or unacceptance of the proffered time by 
 the responding party. 
 
Analytical Exercises 29 
 
 TEACHER: Here is another student with an independent trend of 
 mind and logical reasoning. Such students, exercising and develop- 
 ing their thinking, reasoning, and comparative faculties, in their 
 studies, will become leaders among men, and useful in the community, 
 state, and nation. Now, can you see any improvement to be made 
 in Nelly's and Roy's translations? 
 
 NELLY (swift and nimble as Dorcas): I can improve mine by 
 exchanging Roy's "impossible" for my "rejected," making it: "Time 
 proposed impossible." 
 
 TEACHER (smiling): That's a splendid proposal. Girls naturally 
 have a keen perception with regard to proposals, and this one is 
 certainly par excellence. 
 
 ROY: Ruth has also a substitute word "unacceptable." 
 
 TEACHER: That substitution speaks well for Ruth, for it gives 
 evidence of independence and originality. But how many letters 
 has she in that word? 
 
 ROY: Twelve. 
 
 TEACHER: How many letters are allowed to pass for one word in 
 a telegram? 
 
 No response. 
 
 TEACHER: Only ten letters to each word; hence Ruth will have 
 to pay for two words for that one; otherwise her translation is good. 
 What's the matter with Joe's translation? That also indicates 
 originality, though his sentence may be faulty. Can anyone in the 
 class find the literal meaning of his telegram? 
 
 MAUD: Joe has made out ten forty-five rejections in the evening, 
 or that he was rejecting ten forty-five in the evening. 
 
 TEACHER: The meaning of Joe's telegram is somewhat obscure. 
 I call your attention to this, because it is important to be able to 
 express exactly what you mean in the shortest possible way. I 
 appreciate Joe's efforts to be original, and will rather see a mistake 
 in this attempt than to be correct in a stereotype form, in the school- 
 room and class, but be sure to avoid ambiguity in application. Maud's 
 translation is literal and as nearly correct an expression of the literal 
 meaning of "maigzozzuz" as you could make it, indicating that she 
 will be an honest and reliable translator and interpreter. Frank's 
 telegram indicates a desire to be clear and definite, though his "not 
 accepted" for "rejected," the literal meaning of "zuz," might place 
 him in the wasting class. Joe needs to practice clearness and con- 
 ciseness. Ruth should also give special attention to conciseness, 
 never forgetting to count the letters in her telegraphic words. But in 
 this the Scientific Dial System will be a help to all of you, because of 
 its brevity, simplicity and legibility. Roy and Nellie exhibit marked 
 intelligence and independence, which will be very useful if used with 
 caution and prudence, but which may become harmful and dangerous 
 to themselves and others if used carelessly and indiscriminately. 
 For in substitution, or the using of words and expressions of our own 
 choosing, we may easily pervert the meaning and good intention of 
 others. 
 
30 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 LESSON VIII 
 
 ANALYTICAL EXERCISES. CONTINUED. 
 
 TEACHER: Good morning, class. I am glad to see you all here 
 so good looking and apparently interested. We will now take up 
 the larger numerals, going into the thousands and millions. Frank, 
 you may step to the blackboard and translate and analyze 51,936.75. 
 The first thing to determine in your translation and analysis is to 
 find out what Grand Division the numeral to be translated belongs 
 to. 
 
 FRANK: It belongs to the Second Grand Division. 
 
 TEACHER: Why? 
 
 FRANK: Because the translation of 36 is "te," and "e" controls 
 the Second Grand Division. 
 
 TEACHER: So far, you are right. But isn't something else to 
 be said about Grand Divisions before proceeding further? 
 
 FRANK: I don't see any. 
 
 NELLY (holding up her hand) : I do. 
 
 TEACHER: What? 
 
 NELLY: It also belongs to the Fourth Grand Division, because 
 of the decimal fraction "-3%," the translation of which is "os," and 
 "o" controls the Fourth Grand Division. 
 
 TEACHER: That's correct. Then where does this numeral be- 
 long? 
 
 FRANK: To the Second and Fourth Grand Divisions. 
 
 TEACHER: Very good. Now translate and analyze. 
 
 FRANK: The decimal fraction "-j 3 ^" equals "os" ; whole number 36 
 equals "te"; 900 equals "la"; 1000 equals "e," and 50,000 equals 
 "gi"; hence 51,936.75 equals "gielateos." 
 
 TEACHER: Very good, Frank. Now translate and analyze as 
 before 75,498.10. 
 
 FRANK: This numeral belongs to the Fifth and First Grand Di- 
 visions, because 98 equals "wu," and ' VA" equals "am," and "u" and 
 "a" control the Fifth and First Grand Divisions, respectively. Now, 
 "^CL" equals "am," and 98 equals "wu," 400 equals "fa," 5000 equals 
 "ge," and 70,000 equals "ji"; hence 75,498.10 equals "jigefawuam." 
 
 TEACHER: How do you make out that "ji" equals 70,000? 
 
 FRANK: Because "i" equals 10,000 outside its Grand Division 
 control, and "j" equals 7; hence 7 times 10,000 equals 70,000. 
 
 TEACHER: Pretty good; but haven't you omitted something in 
 your definition? 
 
 FRANK: I guess not. I don't know of anything left out. 
 
 TEACHER: Nelly's hand is up; let's hear what she has to say 
 about it. 
 
 NELLY: Except when preceding or followed by "z" in poly- 
 syllable words. 
 
 TEACHER: That's right. Frank, can you recite Rule 8? 
 
 FRANK: Yes, sir. I didn't think of that. Vowels preceding "z," 
 in polysyllable words, retain their Grand Division value and control. 
 
Analytical Exercises 
 
 31 
 
 TEACHER: Very good, Frank. Now I will show you and the 
 class another way to translate and analyze. We will take, for ex- 
 ample, the last number of common figures. Then we have, first, 
 70,000.10, then 5,000, then 400, then 98. Now we place these sums 
 in a column, as in addition, and then the Scientific Dial numeral in 
 the same way, thus: 
 
 70,000.10 jizzzam 
 
 5,000 gezz 
 400 faz 
 
 98 wu 
 
 75,498.10 
 
 jigefawuam 
 
 TEACHER: Now, do you see how extremely simple and easy this 
 translation and analysis is. At this stage of the demonstration, you 
 want to observe and fix in your minds that "z" is the Scientific Dial 
 Float or Zero, used merely to fill space. Joe, step to the blackboard, 
 translate and analyze 168,435. 
 
 JOSEPH: 
 
 TEACHER: 
 JOSEPH: 
 
 100,000 
 
 60,000 
 
 8,000 
 
 400 
 
 35 
 
 168,435 
 
 Good for Joe. 
 
 600,000 
 
 5,000 
 
 92 
 
 ozzzzz 
 
 hizzz 
 
 kezz 
 
 faz 
 
 se 
 
 ohikefase 
 
 Now translate and analyze 605,092. 
 
 hozzzz 
 
 gezz 
 
 pu 
 
 605,092 
 
 hogepu 
 
 TEACHER: If we had only 600,000, how would you translate and 
 analyze? 
 
 JOSEPH: "o" designating 100,000, it would simmer down to 
 "hoza." 
 
 TEACHER: That's correct, and a fine way of expressing it, too. 
 The Scientific Dial numerals grow only as the number of subordinate 
 values are expressed. That is to say: The cardinal numerals are 
 crowded to the left to make room for the lesser; but if no smaller 
 amounts are represented, in the sum total, then the cardinal occupies 
 the position next to the Grand Division vowel. 
 
 What has now been said with reference to "o," signifying 100,000, 
 is also true respecting "u," the million signifier, and "i" and "e" in 
 their respective functions. Thus, daza, 300; leza, 9,000; kiza, 80,000; 
 goza, 500,000; and muza, 10,000,000. Nelly, you may come to the 
 blackboard. Translate and analyze 49,416,999. 
 
32 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 NELLY: 49,000,000 lizu,zzz,zzz 
 
 400,000 foz,zzz 
 
 16,000 te,zzz 
 
 900 laz 
 
 99 xu 
 
 49,416,999 lizufotelaxu 
 
 TEACHER: Now analyze the same in the usual way. 
 
 NELLY: 49,000,000 equals "lizu," 400,000 equals "fo," 16,000 
 equals "te," 900 equals "la," and 99 equals "xu," hence lizufotelaxu. 
 
 TEACHER: Very good. Now tell the class what you have done 
 and why you did it. 
 
 NELLY: One million equals "u" and forty-nine equals "li"; hence 
 "lizu" equals forty-nine millions; one hundred thousand equals "o," 
 and four equals "f"; hence "fo" equals four hundred thousand; one 
 thousand equals "e," and sixteen equals "t"; hence "te" equals 
 sixteen thousand; "a" equals one hundred, and "1" equals nine; 
 hence "la" equals nine hundred; and "xu," a Fifth Grand Division 
 numeral, equals ninety-nine; hence the translation lizufotelaxu. 
 
 TEACHER: Very good. But how do you make 49 out of "liz?" 
 "i" stands for 10,000 in polysyllable words, does it not? and "1" 
 designates nine; then would not your numeral in this instance desig- 
 nate 90,000 instead of 49? 
 
 NELLY: It would, except for the "z," which follows and which 
 restores to "i" its Grand Division value, ranging from 41 to 60, the 
 specific value determined by the numeral consonant "1," which equals 
 nine; hence in this instance its designated value is 49 millions, not 
 90 thousand millions. 
 
 TEACHER (smiling in contentment): No use trying to lead you 
 off the track, Nelly. I'll soon have to turn the class over to you. 
 Now, then, if the "z" were omitted, and you had written "liu" 
 instead of "lizu," it would have been ninety thousand millions, 
 would it not? 
 
 NELLY: Yes, sir. 
 
 RUTH: But suppose you wanted to write just ninety millions? 
 
 TEACHER: That's right. How would you write ninety millions, 
 Nelly? 
 
 NELLY: That is just as easy as any other number, remembering 
 that vowels preceding "z" retain their Grand Division values, accord- 
 ing to Rule 8. "mu" equals 90; therefore ninety millions equal 
 "muzu," or to be more definite, "muzuza," which is the simplest 
 form for ninety millions in Scientific Dial numeral expression. 
 
 FRANK: But that way of writing it seems to indicate pounds 
 ninety million pounds. 
 
 TEACHER: How can you explain that, Nelly? 
 
 NELLY: In that case the "z" should be doubled between the last 
 two vowels. If pounds were intended the word should have another 
 syllable, and be written thus: "muzuzazza." 
 
 TEACHER: Why not write "muzuzza," Miss Nelly, designating 
 ninety million pounds? 
 
Analytical Exercises 33 
 
 NELLY: Because I could not then express First Grand Division 
 whole numbers or fractions. 
 
 TEACHER: Will you demonstrate by examples? 
 
 NELLY: Yes, sir. Suppose I have the fraction y 1 ^ to add to 
 the ninety millions, as, 90,000,000.15, which must be written "mu- 
 
 >ne unless the word ended in the First 
 But if I should have to add the whole 
 number 10, as, 90,000,010.15, then I must write "muzumas." The 
 insertion of the "z" next to the Grand Division vowel in this case, 
 it seems to me, simply indicates that the numeral as expressed con- 
 tains no units, tens, hundreds, thousands, etc., of value. 
 
 TEACHER: Class, is that plain to all of you? 
 
 CLASS: Yes, sir. 
 
 TEACHER: Nelly, I thank yOu very, very much, for having done 
 so much explanation and demonstration for me. You have demon- 
 strated that you are a thoughtful student; and I am glad to be able 
 to say that of all of you. 
 
 Rule 8 applies only to numerals exceeding twenty millions. But 
 it is good for you to fix this rule and the demonstrations well in your 
 minds, for you want to be able at all times to understand and to 
 make use of the entire system. 
 
 In closing the study of this lesson, I want each one of the class to 
 write the number 49,416,999 in the shortest way possible for a tele- 
 gram. 
 
 ROY: Forty-nine millions four hundred sixteen thousand nine 
 hundred ninety-nine. 
 
 NELLY: Forty-nine four sixteen nine ninety-nine. 
 
 TEACHER: I notice that your telegrams are all alike, except 
 Nelly's, which is the shortest, and yet she has seven words. 
 
 RUTH: But she hasn't expressed denominations at all. You 
 couldn't know if she meant millions, thousands, or hundreds or any- 
 thing. 
 
 NELLY: Yes, I do. I have first forty-nine, and write that down 
 in common numbers; then four sixteen, and place that sum down 
 to the right next to the first; then nine ninety-nine next again; and 
 the sum-total of the figures obtained expresses the millions, the 
 thousands, the hundreds, and the tens and units also. 
 
 RUTH: Yes, I see it now. 
 
 TEACHER: Well done. But how many letters have you in your 
 Scientific Dial numeral? 
 
 NELLY: Twelve. 
 
 TEACHER: Then, how does this compare with your common 
 figures in telegraphing? 
 
 NELLY: It accounts for two words against at least seven in the 
 old style mode of expression. 
 
 TEAC HER : It does. But as ten letters are allowed in a telegraphic 
 word, we can afford to have both fractions and designators added 
 without increasing the expense or obscuring the meaning or legibility 
 of the word. Miss Maud, you may take the numeral "lizufotelaxu" 
 and add y 7 ^ and also designate pounds. 
 
34 
 
 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 MAUD: y 7 ^ equals "os," and pounds are designated by "za"; 
 hence we have "lizufotelaxuosza," equivalent to 49,416,999.75 
 pounds. 
 
 TEACHER: How many words does that add to Nelly's telegram? 
 
 MAUD: Four words: "Seventy-five hundredths pound." 
 
 TEACHER: Very good. That makes eleven words for Nelly's 
 telegram, and yet she has not expressed her denominations distinctly, 
 which our Scientific Dial numeral -has and does legibly, distinctly, 
 unequivocally. And yet we have to account for only two words, 
 while the old way of expression requires eleven words. We will close 
 this session by learning another Rule. 
 
 Rule 12. Scientific Dial numeral letters may be used in all kinds 
 of mathematical calculation, just as common figures are used. 
 EXAMPLES: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, 1, z. 
 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. 
 
 
 ADDITIONS 
 
 10 
 
 bz 
 
 14 
 
 bf 
 
 18 
 
 bk 
 
 31 
 
 db 
 
 125 
 
 3698 
 
 65 
 
 3 
 
 beg 
 dhlk 
 
 hg 
 d 
 
 15 bg or sa 73 jd or qo 3891 dklb or dekanu. 
 
 TEACHER: Roy, you may work out a few examples in subtraction. 
 I will give you 
 numerals. 
 9376 
 6458 
 
 the numbers. Also transform into Scientific Dial 
 
 2918 
 
 Idjh 
 hfgk 
 
 clbk or celawa 
 
 2000 
 900 
 
 18 
 
 2918 
 
 cezz 
 laz 
 wa 
 
 celawa 
 
 TEACHER: Pretty good for Roy. Nelly and Maud, you may go 
 to the blackboard, Maud to work an example in multiplication and 
 Nelly one in division. 
 
 MAUD: 23614 cdhbf 
 
 2 c 
 
 NELLY: 
 
 47228 
 
 47228(2 
 4 
 
 fjcck or fijecake 
 
 fjcck(c 
 f 
 
 23614 
 07 
 $_ 
 12 
 12 
 002 
 2 
 
 08 
 8 
 
 cdhbf or cidehara 
 
 1 
 
 be 
 bc_ 
 zzc 
 c 
 
 ~zk 
 k 
 
Analytical Exercises 35 
 
 TEACHER: Very, very good. You are all making excellent prog- 
 ress, and a few sessions more will finish your primer course and enable 
 you to use the Scientific Dial intelligently and profitably, until ad- 
 vanced courses have been prepared and printed. Now study this 
 rule and its application diligently, until tomorrow, and you will find 
 that these numeral letters may be used in all kinds of mathematical 
 calculation, just as readily and easily as common figures; but that 
 their application and usefulness have a much larger range, owing to 
 their vast pliability, than common figures. 
 
 LESSON IX 
 
 ANALYTICAL EXERCISES. CONTINUED 
 FRACTIONS 
 
 TEACHER: Good morning, class. I am glad to see you all here 
 again all bright as the morning star, all happy as the lark, all good- 
 looking, and, best of all, all interested-looking. 
 
 We have a simple way to write decimal fractions, but we have not 
 yet learned how to write common fractions in Scientific Dial Numer- 
 als. We will therefore learn a few more rules before proceeding 
 further. 
 
 Rule'13. The German and Scandinavian vowel "a," as the Eng- 
 lish "a" in fake, stake, take, hay, lay, may, etc. This vowel we use 
 to designate the division line between the numerator and the denom- 
 inator in a common fraction, thus: -J- equals bac; f, cad; f, gak; 
 jV, lat; and mixed numbers, thus: 6f, hajak (ha-jak); 5-J-, gabac 
 (ga-bac, ga-bash); lOJf, masaes. 
 
 (The fact that this letter "a" is present in a word is an indication 
 that it is a numeral and contains a fraction.) 
 
 Rule 14. The fractional designator "a" always absorbs or takes 
 to itself only one numeral letter to the left of its own position, but all 
 that follows to the right, when joined to a whole number in Scientific 
 Dial numerals, as, pasalo, 12-J4; satapu, 15-j-f, etc. 
 
 Rule 15. The Swedish vowel "6," as "i" in fir, sir, flirt, shirk, etc., 
 is used as a spacer or link, designating the linking together of two or 
 more words into one word for the purpose of abbreviation, as, dotat, 
 3 cows; folay, 4 sheep; loalmax, 9 boys; loalmay, 9 girls; bopota, 1, 
 12, 16; beolope, 21, 9, and 32; puoteosomo, 92, 36, 15 and 70; tatolay, 
 cows and sheep; amaxoamay, sons and daughters. 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 
 Maud and Roy may go to the blackboard. Miss Maud translate 9 T 6 T , 
 
 and 25Jf 
 
 Roy may display the same examples in workable form, and ex- 
 press each one in Scientific Dial numerals. 
 MAUD: lahan, fanaeg, gevaev. 
 
36 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 ROY: 9-A- - W 
 
 bb na 
 
 41-4==^- = = 
 eg ge 
 
 lfc - laci 
 
 , . 
 
 dj ve 
 
 TEACHER: Class, any remarks? 
 
 NELLY: I can't see anything wrong with either. 
 
 TEACHER: How would you connect the last fraction, the nine 
 hundred and forty-two thirty-sevenths, or "laci ve," in telegraphing? 
 
 ROY: We could use the fraction designator "a" and write 
 "laciave." 
 
 NELLY: No. (and shaking her head suspiciously). 
 
 TEACHER: Why? 
 
 NELLY: Because Rule 14 says that the fraction designator "a" 
 controls or takes to itself one letter to the left; here, then, absorbing 
 "i," which, together with "c," is equivalent to 42. 
 
 TEACHER: That is correct. But then, what would you do with 
 this or similar numbers or fractions in telegraphing? 
 
 NELLY: I would reduce it to its natural mixed number form, 
 the way Maud has it, "gevaev," which is twenty-five and seventeen 
 thirty-sevenths. 
 
 TEACHER: What do you have to say to that? 
 
 ROY: I see the point now. 
 
 MAUD (smiling): You have to come back to me anyhow. 
 
 TEACHER (jestingly): May this intimation by Miss Maud become 
 a future reality. (Suppressed mirthfulness) . 
 
 MAUD: I didn't mean it that way. 
 
 TEACHER: Neither did I. I only meant for you to be correct and 
 precise in all your work, and that to such a degree that you and your 
 work may become a model and an example to be looked up to, and 
 thus become a beneficent influence in this world, a blessing. Now, 
 
 ss Maud, will you pardon me? 
 
 MAUD: Certainly I I need your pardon I misunder- 
 stood you. 
 
 TEACHER: Very good; then we are even, and will proceed. 
 Ruth and Joseph may go to the blackboard and do some examples 
 under Rule 15. Ruth, how will you combine or link together 10, 12, 
 25 and 95; f and T 9 ? ; $154.50 and 36.35? 
 
 RUTH: mopogeosu; dagolam; arimotes. 
 
 JOSEPH: Bread and butter, acacoameg; soda water, vanilla flavor, 
 ajahoagaf; Java coffee and Ceylon tea, ahamoahav; cube sugar and 
 cream, ahafoamef. 
 
 TEACHER: Good. These examples illustrate how two or more 
 words may be joined together without losing their respective identity 
 and meaning. 
 
Analytical Exercises 37 
 
 FRANK: I don't understand Ruth's combinations. 
 
 TEACHER: Why? How would you have it? 
 
 FRANK: Because 10 is ma and 12 is pa; hence I would write 
 maopaogeosu. 
 
 TEACHER: Ruthie will explain. 
 
 RUTH: I went over to Nelly's last night, and she had already 
 learned this rule in advance, so we worked a number of examples to- 
 gether; and we worked examples like this that way. We compared 
 Rule 12 with the diagram and found that we may treat all consonant 
 letters as numerals of natural first division values. Therefore 
 mopogeosu is just as legible as Frank's maopaogeosu would be, and 
 it makes the word two letters shorter and much easier to pronounce. 
 
 TEACHER: Class, what do you think of that? 
 
 ROY: That looks all right to me. These girls seem to be getting 
 ahead of their class. 
 
 NELLY: I always try to look over the lesson to follow in advance, 
 and I find that it helps me very much, as I have become acquainted 
 some with the appearance of it and its relation to the one under 
 consideration. 
 
 TEACHER: Nelly's method of study is commendable. And it 
 shows that a student may acquire the Scientific Dial System by self- 
 study, if diligently and perseveringly pursued. 
 
 Our next lesson will embrace days, weeks, months and years. 
 You will notice that the Scientific Dial names and designations 
 naturally grow or develop out of existing usage and practice and are 
 put to more practical use. There is, therefore, practically nothing new 
 about it except the application. With the progress in your studies 
 and the advancement in general knowledge which you have made, 
 the next lesson should be easily understood and remembered. 
 
 With two more lessons, our Scientific Dial Primary Course will 
 end. By using our code and vocabulary, you should now be able to 
 write telegrams and letters. I now want each one of you to bring 
 a telegram of his own make up to the next exercise. 
 
 LESSON X 
 
 DAYS, WEEKS, MONTHS, AND YEARS 
 
 Days, Weeks, Months, and Years are designated by numerals, con- 
 forming to the following rules: 
 
 Rule 16. Days of the month are designated by the simple decimal 
 numerals, from 1 to 31, 1 31-ab to en, ab en, as, ab, the first; 
 ca (sha) the second; da, the third, etc. 
 
 Rule 17. Days of the week are designated by the doubling of the 
 decimal consonant and adding the vowel a, as, Abba, the first day 
 or Sunday; Acca (asha), the second day of the week or Monday; Adda, 
 the third day of the week or Tuesday, etc. 
 
38 The Scientific Dial^Primer 
 
 Rule 18. The months are designated by whole numerals or in- 
 tegers, 1 to 12= ba pa, as, "Ba," the first month or January; "Ca," 
 the second month or February; "Da," the third month or March, etc. 
 
 Rule 19. The first and last numeral in combination in each class 
 constitute the name for the whole group, as follows: The first and 
 last numerals of days in each month are "ab" (the first) and "en" 
 (the last), as our longest months are 31 -days. Now, therefore, the 
 combination of these two decimal numerals, ab-en, is "Aben," hence 
 this is the Scientific Dial name for month, just as in general notation 
 we write 1 31, designating from first to thirty-first with all between 
 included. But to make a name out of first thirty-first would be 
 grotesque, while our Scientific Dial Notation is especially adapted to 
 combinations and abbreviations. Note also that the name itself con- 
 veys its meaning, needing no definition. The same is true with all 
 the rest of the group. Applying the same rule to week-days, we have 
 "Abba," the first day, and "Ajja," the seventh or last day; therefore 
 "Abaj" is the Scientific Dial name for week. Applying, again, the 
 same rule to the months, we have "Ba," the first month, and "Pa," 
 the twelfth or last month of the year; hence "Bapa" is the Scientific 
 Dial name for the year. The particular year intended is designated 
 by its number, as, 1910, "Elama"; 1911, "Elana"; 1912, "Elapa"; 
 1915, "Elasa," etc. 
 
 Notice, that the name for each group grows naturally out of the 
 combination of the first and last numeral name of each group, a 
 modus operandi in vogue, though executed in another form, as, 
 1 5 = 1 to 5, and includes all five, though only the first and the last 
 are expressed. 
 
 Rule 20. In writing date, month, and year, combine the numerals 
 designating day, month, and year intended, in the usual order, as, 
 "Bapelana." Ba-ap-e-la-na, January 12th, 1911. We sometimes 
 abbreviate our common notation by writing 1-12-11, but in this in- 
 stance we still have to account for at least three words. In the Scien- 
 tific Dial combined notation, we need not abbreviate, and yet we 
 have to account for only one word. Analyzing, we have "Ba," the 
 first month, "Ap," the twelfth day of the month, and "Elana," the 
 1911th year; which combined forms the word "Bapelana." Then, in 
 dating, we write, San Francisco, California, "Bapelana," and we have 
 San Francisco, California, January twelfth, 1911, clearly, legibly ex- 
 pressed in three words instead of seven in the old way. 
 
 Scientific Dial Names of Days, Weeks, Months, Quarters 
 and Years 
 
 Abba, First day; Devotion-day, Sunday; 
 
 Acca (Asha) Second day; Reflection-day, Monday; 
 
 Adda, Third day, Self- Examination-day, Tuesday; 
 
 Affa, Fourth day, Execution-day, Wednesday; 
 
 Agga, Fifth day, Complement-day, Thursday; 
 
 Ahha, Sixth day, Conciliation-day, Friday; 
 
 Ajja, Seventh day, Retribution-day, Saturday. 
 
Analytical Exercises 39 
 
 Bapa, Name of the year; 
 Aben, Name of the month; 
 Abaj, Name of the week; 
 Sola, Name of the day; 
 Bada, Name of first quarter; 
 Faha, Name of second quarter; 
 Jala, Name of third quarter; 
 Mapa, Name of fourth quarter. 
 
 LESSON XI 
 
 ANALYTICAL EXERCISES. CONTINUED. 
 
 TEACHER: Good morning, class. Have you found any difficulty 
 in understanding the Scientific Dial names for the year, the month, 
 the week, the quarter, the day? 
 
 CLASS: No; it's all simple and easy. 
 
 TEACHER: Frank, give the Scientific Dial name of the year and 
 define. 
 
 FRANK: Ba-Pa, Bapa, from "Ba," the first (month) and "Pa," 
 the twelfth (month); hence, first to twelfth, 1 12, Ba-pa, Bapa, year. 
 
 TEACHER: Good. I am glad to notice this advancement in your 
 perception and understanding, Frank. Joseph may give the Scien- 
 tific Dial name for month and define. 
 
 JOSEPH: Ab En, Aben, from "Ab," the first day of the month, 
 to "En," the thirty-first or last day of the longest months; hence, 
 first to thirty-first, 1 31, Ab En, Aben, month. 
 
 TEACHER: Why not "Abem," from 1 30? Months are generally 
 counted 30 days, are they not? 
 
 JOSEPH: For Rule 19 stipulates from "Ab" to "En," not from 
 "Ab" to "Em." 
 
 TEACHER: Can you give any good reason for that stipulation? 
 
 JOSEPH: Yes. Seven months of the year have 31 days while 
 only 4 months have 30 days, and one 28, though sometimes 29. 
 
 TEACHER: Joseph is right. This will not change the common 
 usage of counting 30 days for a business month in counting interest, 
 etc. Maud may give us the Scientific Dial name of the week and 
 define. 
 
 MAUD: Abba Ajja, Abaj, from "Ab," the first, to "Aj," the 
 seventh, the last day of the week; hence, first to seventh, 1 7, Ab 
 Aj, Abaj, week. 
 
 FRANK: I understand that Maud has worked her example in con- 
 formity with the rule, but there seems to me some inconsistency in 
 her work, nevertheless. The first day of the week is Abba and the 
 seventh day is Ajja; consistently, then, the name of the week should 
 be "Abbajja," or Abaja. 
 
40 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 TEACHER: Your remark, Frank, is much appreciated. I have a 
 high regard for students who think and reason and ask questions. 
 And your remark, too, is well worth considering. Has any one of 
 the class anything to say about it? 
 
 NELLY: The ending or the last syllable "ja" in Frank's name is 
 the name of the seventh month; therefore it would be a mixing up of 
 designators for days, which are the decimals, with designators for 
 months, which are whole numbers; and "Ja" is an integer and a 
 designator of the seventh month of the year, or July. 
 
 TEACHER: What have you to say about Nelly's explanation? 
 
 FRANK: I guess she is right. 
 
 ROY: Yes, Nelly is right. But it seems that the names of all the 
 week-days are subject to the same objection. In the name of the 
 First day, Sunday, which is "Abba," we have a decimal and a whole 
 number connected. "Ab" is a decimal .01, and "Ba" is the whole 
 number "1." 
 
 TEACHER: This is a singular combination for a purpose, which 
 will scarcely ever occur in any other combination, except in names 
 and code-words. For in actual numerals, designating quality or 
 quantity, the whole number or integer always precedes the decimal 
 or fraction; hence it is not liable to cause confusion or misunder- 
 standing. Besides, Abba is a very pretty and appropriate name for 
 Sunday, expressing submissive filial relation with God. 
 
 "Sweeter than father, mother, shall be found 
 The Abba on thy tongue," 
 
 says Browning. And it is fortunate for the Scientific Dial System 
 that it spells Abba, dear, loving Father, looking upward to him 
 
 "From whom all blessings flow," 
 
 with the very first letters in its system, thus entering with prayer 
 and praise right at the starting-point. Now, class, will this explana- 
 tion satisfy you? 
 
 NELLY: I am not only satisfied but pleased. 
 
 ROY: Something new, surprising but always pleasing, seems to 
 turn up all the time. What a wealth of new things must be revealed 
 in the next course of studies. 
 
 TEACHER: Certainly; but don't wait for a new book or an addi- 
 tional course for you to study. The development is and must be 
 made from the Scientific Dial itself, as presented in these twelve 
 lessons. The fountain is there for anyone to draw from; the mine 
 with its treasures is discovered, the shaft sunk into it inviting every- 
 body to seek and find. And I hope that by continued intelligent 
 study, application and practice, you will discover new chambers, lays, 
 and ledges of inestimable wealth to become a blessing not only to our 
 contemporaries, but even more to our descendants. It now remains 
 for a few observations with reference to the dating of correspondence 
 and legal documents. Roy may place November fourteenth, nine- 
 teen hundred eleven, on the blackboard and analyze for the class. 
 
Analytical Exercises ' 41 
 
 ROY: Narelana, from "Na," eleven, the eleventh month, "Ar," 
 fourteen, the fourteenth day; "E," one thousand, "La," nine hundred, 
 and "Na," eleven; hence "Narelana" = 11141911. 
 
 TEACHER: Any remarks? 
 
 NELLY: When expressed in that abbreviated form, it is customary 
 to write the date or day of the month first, thus, 1411 1911, or 
 just '11 for the year. 
 
 TEACHER: That is true, but it is an arbitrary form, founded on 
 custom but not on principle. In all printed, commercial and legal 
 dating, it is (1) the month, (2) the day of the month, (3) the number 
 of the year. Therefore, November 14th, 1911, or, as Roy has it, 
 "Narelana," is the correct commercial and legal form. We will now 
 call upon our young ladies to do some dating. 
 
 Nelly, take Christmas day, 1875. 
 
 Ruth, Declaration day, 1776. 
 
 Maud, Washington's birthday, 1925. 
 
 NELLY: Pa eg e ka so, from "Pa," the twelfth month, 
 "Eg," the twenty-fifth day, "E," one thousand years, to which is 
 added "Ka," eight hundred years, and "So," seventy-five years; 
 hence December 25th, 1875, Paegekaso. 
 
 RUTH: Ja af e ja to, from "Ja," the seventh month, "Af," 
 the fourth day, "E," one thousand, "Ja," seven hundred, and "To," 
 the Fourth Grand Division numeral for 76; hence July 4th, 1776, 
 Jafejato. 
 
 MAUD: Ca ec e la ge, from "Ca," the second month, "Ec," 
 the twenty-second day, "E," one thousand, "La," nine hundred, 
 and "Ge," a Second Grand Division numeral for twenty-five; hence 
 February 22nd, 1925, Caecelage. 
 
 TEACHER: Any remarks? 
 
 ROY: The young ladies seem to have performed their task well. 
 
 TEACHER: Indeed, they have. Now notice, 
 
 1. That the number of the year remains in each Grand Division 
 for twenty years, therefore changes only five times in a century. 
 We are now in the First Grand Division (A), where we will remain 
 yet for eight years. 1921 will usher us into the Second Grand 
 Division (E), where we will remain for twenty years, or until the close 
 of 1940, and so on. 
 
 2. That the month designators remain forever in the First Grand 
 Division (A), changing only the consonant numerals from "B," one, 
 or first, to "P," twelve, or the twelfth. 
 
 3. That the dates of the month remain in the First Grand Di- 
 vision (A) for twenty days, from the first to the twentieth, then con- 
 tinue in the Second Grand Division (E) for from eight to eleven days, 
 depending on the number of days in the month, from "eb," the 
 twenty-first, to "en," the thirty-first. Thus, Bam-elana, January 
 10th, 1911; Baem-elana, January 30th, 1911; Pak-elana, December 
 8th, 1911; Paek-elana, December 28th, 1911. 
 
 A good way to fix these few variations in the mind is to write them 
 in succession, thus, elaba, elaca, elada, elafa, elaga, elaha, elaja, 
 elaka, elala, elama, elana, elapa, elaqa, elara, elasa, elata, elava, elawa, 
 
42 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 elaxa, elaya; elabe, elace, elade, elafe, elage, elahe, elaje, elake, 
 elale, elame, elane, elape, elaqe, elare, elase, elate, elave, elawe, 
 elaxe, elaye; elabi, elaci, eladi, elafi, etc. 
 
 This may serve as an example: Proceed with the months and 
 days of the month the same way, until their form has been fixed in 
 the mind and may be perceived and written or read without hindrance 
 or exertion, as readily and easily as the old method has become to 
 you. 
 
 The time of our next and last lesson will be occupied mainly with 
 telegrams, which you will study out and write at home ready for 
 the blackboard. I want two telegrams from each one of you, one 
 of the telegrams to be in the natural key and the other in some key 
 of your own selection. 
 
 Goodby, class, until we meet again. 
 
 CLASS: Goodby. 
 
 LESSON XII 
 
 ANALYTICAL EXERCISES. CONCLUDED. 
 TELEGRAMS 
 
 TEACHER: Good morning, class. Very much pleased to see you 
 all here at this our concluding session. Each one of you may copy 
 his telegram on the blackboard, and then Roy may translate Nelly's 
 telegram, and Nelly may translate Roy's; Frank may translate 
 Maud's telegram and Maud may translate Frank's, and Joseph may 
 translate Ruth's telegram, and Ruth may translate Joseph's. 
 
 Class responds unhesitatingly. 
 
 NELLY: Yosemite Valley, California, Jahelana. Asec Yosemite 
 Jabelana faemzoz. Ased aset. Oban almaib Abba almal. 
 
 ROY'S translation: YOSEMITE VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, JULY 6th, 
 1911. My trip has been very pleasant in every way. I arrived at 
 Yosemite July first, 1911, at four thirty o'clock in the afternoon. 
 A number of friends met me at the station. I am just all right and 
 in the best of spirits. On Sunday I went to church worshiping. 
 
 ROY: Chicago, Illinois, Kamelana. Edolga Chicago Kapelana 
 maszoz. Aset. Ebodad baj. Eboya San Francisco Kavelana jaszoz. 
 
 NELLY'S translation: CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 10th, 1911. 
 I will leave Chicago August 12th, 1911, at fifteen minutes past ten 
 o'clock in the evening. I am just all right and in the best of spirits. 
 I have attended to the shipping. I regret that I cannot meet you 
 at the time and place proposed. I will arrive in San Francisco 
 August seventeenth, nineteen hundred eleven, at fifteen minutes 
 past seven o'clock in the evening. 
 
 MAUD: St. Paul, Minnesota, Lakelana. Loiha St. Louis, Mis- 
 souri. Adda Lamelana laemzoz. Xaq jah. Ebolra famoszy lota. 
 
 FRANK'S translation: ST. PAUL, MINNESOTA, SEPTEMBER 8th, 
 
Analytical Exercises 43 
 
 1911. Meet me in St. Louis, Missouri, Tuesday, September tenth, 
 nineteen hundred eleven, at half past nine o'clock in the evening. 
 Send the kitchen utensils by freight. I send check for four hundred 
 seventy dollars and seventy-five cents. 
 
 RUTH: Denver, Colorado, Hapelana. Ebogant Los Angeles 
 loiha. Patuoszy olraolowa. Areb New York. Ateig Paris. Aset. 
 
 JOSEPH'S translation: DENVER, COLORADO, JUNE 12th, 1911. I 
 didn't want^to meet you in St. Louis. Send me twelve hundred 
 ninety-six dollars and seventy-five cents in bank draft. Have my 
 baggage and appendage forwarded to New York. I am going to 
 Paris by steamer. I am just all right and in the very best of spirits. 
 
 JOSEPH: Grand Rapids, Michigan, Hatelana. Jak ahen bazzo 
 ahep aheq ahew. Ahey dazzo ajed ajef. 
 
 RUTH'S translation: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, JUNE 16th ; 
 1911. Ship by the American Express Company, 
 
 Men's everyday shoes one dozen Sunset welts, one dozen light- 
 weight Borded Kangaroo, one dozen men's tan Purside blue. 
 
 Ladies' fine dress shoes three dozen was gun-metal blue, and 
 3 dozen was Pat Pumps. 
 
 FRANK: Los Angeles, California, Daselana. Ebodanojal hazzo- 
 oadeb daiyzy baoafej baimzy mizz adages soegzy faimzy fugzy. 
 
 MAUD'S translation: Los ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MARCH 15th, 
 1911. I have shipped by Wells-Fargo Express Company, 
 
 6 dozen men's handkerchiefs $ 3 60 
 
 1 telescope 1 50 
 
 50 yards finest all-wool heavy serge 7525 
 
 10 ladies' close-fitting elastic union suits 4 50 
 
 $84 85 
 
 TEACHER: Examine closely now. Do you find any mistake 
 either in the Scientific Dial telegrams or their interpretation? 
 
 ROY: Nelly could have saved one word by connecting Abba with 
 almal, making it Abbaoalmal. 
 
 NELLY: But it doesn't sound well to have the connecting vowel 
 6 between two other vowels. 
 
 TEACHER: That's true; and yet the word becomes perfectly 
 pronounceable by placing the accent on the 6, as, Abba-6'-almal. 
 
 NELLY: Roy has left out the designator of time in his translation. 
 For faemzoz means literally thirty minutes after four o'clock in- the 
 afternoon. 
 
 ROY: I surrender. 
 
 TEACHER: You have both done very well. 
 
 MAUD: Roy could have saved one word by connecting Ebodad 
 with baj. 
 
 ROY: I see. But you have the same omission in yours. Xaqojah 
 wouldn't sound bad. 
 
 MAUD : Why didn't I think of that? 
 
 TEACHER: Look at Ruth. How did you ever get the notion to 
 sail by steamer to Paris in that surprisingly neat way? 
 
 RUTH: My cousin James Nobel suggested the idea to me. He 
 has become so intensely interested in the Scientific Dial System 
 
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 that he has already caught up with me, though he has been with us 
 only about a week. 
 
 TEACHER: I am delighted to hear that. Where is your cousin 
 from, and how long does he intend to stay? 
 
 RUTH: Uncle Nobel lives in Youngstown, Ohio, and James has 
 just come to California to see us and what chances are for starting 
 in business here. He will probably stay with us another week. 
 
 TEACHER: Why didn't you invite him to come with you to the 
 class? 
 
 RUTH: Oh, he knows already all that we know and more too. 
 He says he will interest the young people and start a class when he 
 gets home. 
 
 TELEGRAMS BY THE USE OF KEYS 
 KEY OF "DA" REVERSE 
 KEY TELEGRAM BY NELLIE 
 
 Bak aneb ajet Washington ajex arek gamoszy. 
 
 I have the pleasure to inform you that I can meet you at the time 
 and place proposed. How long will I have to wait at the exchange 
 station? How much is a first-class ticket to Washington, including 
 Pullman sleeper, lower berth? I need five hundred seventy dollars 
 and seventy-five cents, which send to me at Fresno. 
 
 The same in natural key: 
 
 I regret to say that I have other engagements. How much for a 
 third-class ticket to Washington, including lower berth in a tourist 
 car? Turn all the money due me over to my wife, and she will give 
 you receipt for same. 
 
 KEY OF "GA" PROGRESSIVE 
 KEY TELEGRAM BY ROY 
 
 Qabb San Francisco, Adda, Hapelana. Sabb Ebocant dac jaw. 
 
 I am going to the city of San Francisco, Tuesday, June 12th, 1911, 
 and will cheerfully do the thing you asked of me. I have attended 
 to the shipping of the lumber. Always carefully examine goods 
 before accepting them from the station or freight office. 
 
 The same in natural key: 
 
 Precipice San Francisco, Saturday, February seventh, 1906. 
 Stumble. Did not do gravel. Goods received in bad order, consider- 
 ably bruised. 
 
 KEY OF "JA" PROGRESSIVE 
 KEY TELEGRAM BY FRANK 
 
 Ebofan Abba Pamelafa asen fad Chicago baje Clark axah daerzo. 
 Ebogant xaj yas abab yar abah. 
 
 I have selected Saturday, June 17th, 1911, to go to Chicago. I 
 propose 144 Clark street as the place, and half past ten o'clock in the 
 morning as the time for our meeting. I am going to buy kitchen 
 utensils, a double iron bed, a dresser, a bedroom set and carpets. 
 
Analytical Exercises 45 
 
 The same in natural key: 
 
 I have seized Sunday, December 8th, 1904, to be sick in bed to 
 Chicago. I will cheerfully do the thing you ask of me. 137 Clark 
 storm at twenty-three minutes past three o'clock in the morning. I 
 did not choose the cellar, the chair, the frontroom set, the kitchen 
 table or sofa. 
 
 KEY OF "LA" PROGRESSIVE 
 KEY TELEGRAM BY JOSEPH 
 
 Ebobadt Nabelana nal cidazazza mad badzaz kaq gav. Ebocadt 
 baza gav babzy. 
 
 I have shipped today, June tenth, 1911, ten and one-half tons of 
 peaches and 9.12 tons of sugar prunes. What can you sell cantaloups 
 for, delivered f . o. b. Turlock? I have secured ten hundred crates at 
 one dollar and ten cents per crate. 
 
 The same in natural key: 
 
 I will not do pineapples at twenty-three hundred pounds. Fall 
 pears at 1.03 tons. Send your receipt for additional freight paid by 
 you to our office, and we will settle with the railroad company and 
 return to you the overcharge at Turlock. I will not do 100 paper- 
 shell almonds at one dollar and one cent per crate. 
 
 KEY OF "FA" REVERSE 
 KEY TELEGRAM BY MAUD 
 
 Jak baoaqeh abes, caoabev kaw. 
 
 Ship by American Express four packages unruled writing paper 
 for machine-writing and five packages envelopes, business size. 
 Collect on delivery. 
 
 The same in natural key: 
 
 All transportation prepaid. One package first grade and two 
 packages third grade. Goods shipped to Omaha refused, it being 
 claimed they are not as represented. 
 
 KEY OF "GA" PROGRESSIVE 
 KEY TELEGRAM BY RUTH 
 
 Kax New York haibzo Ajja Hapelaja. 
 
 The passengers have arrived by .steamer to New York and will 
 leave for their destination, Wednesday, October 16th, 1911, at 
 forty-five minutes after ten o'clock in the forenoon. 
 
 The same in natural key: 
 
 What shall we do with them? New York forty-one minutes after 
 six, Saturday, May 11, 1907. 
 
46 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 THE COMPLEX OR ZIGZAG KEYS* 
 
 We have still another class of keys, to which I will only call your 
 attention at this time. You will find no difficulty in using them, 
 though their number is as large as you may have a mind to make it 
 that is, they are virtually innumerable, and yet very simple and 
 easy of application. 
 
 Suppose your telegram consists of ten words, and you agree to 
 use the zigzag key of "Da"; then you choose your code-words on 
 the third line above or below alternately. The first word may be 
 chosen upon the third line above or below, just as you agree between 
 yourselves. But you must always agree upon the starting-point, 
 whether above or below the natural line. Then zigzag one word 
 above, the other below, the third again above, the fourth below, 
 and so on. 
 
 Then, again, you may agree upon the natural key for every other 
 word, thus, First word above, the second upon the line, the third 
 below, the fourth upon the line, the fifth above, etc. 
 
 These Complex or Zigzag Keys are so numerous, and have so many 
 variations, that no exact rules can be laid down; nor, indeed, do we 
 want any rules. These suggestions will be sufficient to enable you 
 to study them and to use them; but you will never know them all. 
 
 I now thank you for close attention, diligent study and excellent 
 progress. 
 
 These sessions have been very pleasant to me. I shall be much 
 pleased to hear from you occasionally, and I shall follow your prog- 
 ress and development with unabated interest. 
 
 I wish you all success in life and much happiness in being useful 
 and doing good. Goodby. 
 
 * See diagram of Keys on page]12. 
 
Code Department 
 
 The following twenty code-words are thus arranged for those who 
 are using the Progressive Keys or Reversed Keys. Correspondents 
 agree or have an understanding between themselves as to what key 
 to use; but all keys are used in accordance with the following rules: 
 
 1. The Natural Key takes the word designated. 
 
 2. The Progressive Key. Count downward as many code- words 
 as are designated by the stipulated key. Always commence counting 
 with the written code-word. For example: You are corresponding in 
 the key of "Da," which means that you have to count three words, 
 including the written word, downward. Suppose, then, that your 
 intended code-word was "Ka," you would count ka, la, "Ma," the 
 last being the designated code-word for you to notice and to be 
 directed by. 
 
 3. The Reverse Key is precisely the opposite to the Progressive 
 Key. You count upward, and the written code-word is to be counted 
 as the first one. Thus, if your key is "Ga," then you count five. 
 Suppose the written code- word to be "Pa," you will count pa, na, 
 ma, la, "Ka," and this last one will be the code intended. 
 
 In this simple way we can have a general code used by everybody, 
 and yet everybody's secret code; and just as much so as if only the 
 two correspondents had it and knew about it. 
 
 These Sham Code-Words are thus placed at the beginning to 
 enable correspondents to apply keys to the first and last code expres- 
 sions, which otherwise they could not do. 
 
 SHAM 
 
 Try the next door, please. 
 
 April fool. 
 
 Labyrinth. 
 
 Mistaken. 
 
 Lost. 
 
 Probing into our secrets, 
 
 Babb. 
 Cabb. 
 Dabb. 
 Fabb. 
 Gabb. 
 Habb. 
 hey? 
 
 Jabb. Wrong key. 
 Kabb. 400 keys; which one? 
 Labb. A keyboard. 
 Mabb. Perplexity. 
 
 CODE 
 
 Nabb. 
 
 Pabb. 
 
 Qabb. 
 
 Rabb. 
 
 Sabb. 
 
 Tabb. 
 
 Vabb. 
 
 Wabb. 
 
 Xabb. 
 
 Yabb. 
 
 Bewilderment. 
 Pitfall. 
 Precipice. 
 Ramble. 
 Stumble. 
 Tag. 
 Amiss. 
 Aimlessness. 
 Failure. 
 Despair. 
 
 SCIENTIFIC DIAL CODE 
 
 Ba. ENGAGEMENTS AND MEETINGS 
 
 Bab. I am going to the city (tomorrow), 
 
 Bac. I went to the (city) (yesterday). 
 
 Bad. I will cheerfully do the thing you ask of me. 
 
 Baf. I can not do the thing you asked me to do. 
 
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 Bag. Please meet me at (state place and time).* 
 
 Bah. I have the pleasure to inform you that I can meet you at 
 the place and time proposed. 
 
 Baj. I regret to say that I can not meet you at the time and 
 place proposed. 
 
 Bak. I regret to say that I have other engagements. 
 
 Bal. I propose as the place and as the 
 
 time for our meeting. 
 
 Bam. I can not accommodate you for 
 
 Ban. I can not meet your request. 
 
 Bap. CONTRACTING 
 
 Baq. Please favor me (us) with an opportunity to figure on your 
 job. 
 
 Bar. Do you wish figures on the labor alone, or on material and 
 construction in the same bid? 
 
 Bas. Where can I find drawings and specifications? 
 
 Bat. Please send plans and specifications to me by express at 
 my expense. 
 
 Bav. I guarantee first-class workmanship, grade material 
 
 and satisfaction in all particulars. 
 
 Baw. I possess facilities for efficient and speedy performance of 
 any and all obligations involved in the premises. 
 
 Bax. Sufficient bond or security for faithful performance in con- 
 formity with plans and specifications will be cheerfully furnished. 
 
 Bay. Plans and specifications have been sent to you by express. 
 
 Cab. The bids will be opened (Jabelana). 
 
 Cac. Sir, your bid has been accepted. 
 
 Cad. Sir, your bid has been rejected. 
 
 Caf. Contract and bond has been sent you by mail for execution. 
 
 Cag. Contract only has been sent for your signature. 
 
 Cah. When will you begin? 
 
 Caj. I shall start in the 
 
 Cak. I intend to come to for the purpose of prep- 
 aration. 
 
 Cal. Dear Sir: It affords me much pleasure to inform you that 
 your work has been examined and approved. For your encourage- 
 ment and recommendation, it shall be said that our relationship with 
 you has been the pleasantest from beginning to finish. Your work 
 as well as material are in all respects perfectly satisfactory, which 
 indicates that you and those under your supervision are honorable, 
 conscientious, reliable gentlemen, f 
 
 *We have no code expression for locations and places, but we have for time, page 26. 
 
 If the meeting-place intended is Chicago, you write first the code-word ^/k? 1 ? 
 
 designated, then the name of the place of meeting and follow with the time, as (Ala) 
 
 Chicago, Hatelana maszo, which means, Meet me in Chicago June 16th, 1911, at ten o clock 
 in the forenoon. 
 
 tThe Scientific Dial Code has no room for rogues and scoundrels. They should be 
 relegated to the rear as soon as possible. Dishonest, lazy, careless, indifferent men and 
 women and employers, who will starve and maltreat employes, find no favor with us. 
 They belong to the barbarism of bygone ages, and it is to be hoped that the twentieth- 
 century Christianity and therefrom resulting civilization will eradicate, weed out or rather, 
 in kindness steadfastness, determination and unfaltering loyalty to God in righteousness 
 choke, smother, expunge evil tendencies and infuse new life, lofty aspirations, and divinely 
 born and nurtured ideals. 
 
Code Department 
 
 49 
 
 Cam. BUILDING MATERIAL 
 
 Can. Steel rails. 
 
 Cap. Steel beams. 
 
 Caq. Standards .... long and 
 ... .in diameter with. . . .inches 
 square ground face and .... upper 
 face plate rest. 
 
 Car. Concrete with reinforce- 
 ment. 
 
 Cas. Terra-cotta. 
 
 Cat. Braces and bracing. 
 
 Cav. Furnish .... bolts .... 
 long and .... diameter. 
 
 Caw. Machine bolts. 
 
 Cax. Common bolts. 
 
 Cay. Furnish (Mizza) pounds 
 of (ma) penny nails. 
 
 Dab. Crushed rock. 
 Gravel. 
 Gravel to be sifted and 
 
 Dae. 
 Dad. 
 
 clean. 
 
 Daf. 
 kegs. 
 
 Dag. 
 
 Dah. 
 
 Daj. 
 
 Dak. 
 
 Cement in barrels or 
 
 Cement in sacks. 
 Lumber. 
 Redwood. 
 Pine. 
 
 Dal. Cedar. 
 
 Dam. Spruce. 
 
 Dan. Hemlock. 
 
 Dap. Sugar-pine. 
 
 Daq. Shingles. 
 
 Dar. Sheeting. 
 
 Das. Flooring. 
 
 Dat. Windows. 
 
 Dav. Doors. 
 
 Daw. Studding. 
 
 Dax. Joist. 
 
 Day. Sills. 
 
 Fab. Mudsills. 
 
 Fac. Underpinning. 
 
 Fad. Rafters. 
 
 Faf. Rustic. 
 
 Fag. Siding. 
 
 Fah. Tar paper. 
 
 Faj. Roofing. 
 
 Fak. Lath. 
 
 Fal. Plastering. 
 
 Fam. Hard finish. 
 
 Fan. Decorations. 
 
 Fap. Casing. 
 
 Faq. Moulding. 
 
 Far. Chimney. 
 
 Fas. PAINTING 
 
 Fat. 
 
 Fav. 
 
 Faw. 
 
 Fax. 
 
 Fay. 
 
 Gab. 
 
 Gac. 
 
 Gad. 
 
 Gaf. 
 
 Gag. 
 
 Gaj. 
 
 Gak. 
 
 Gam. 
 
 Gan. 
 
 Gap. 
 
 Gaq. 
 
 Gar. 
 
 Gas. 
 
 Gat. 
 
 Gav. 
 
 Raw linseed oil. 
 Boiled linseed oil. 
 Oil of turpentine. 
 Spirits of turpentine. 
 White lead. 
 Yellow ochre. 
 Red lead. 
 Green ) 
 
 Yellow [ Pigment. 
 Blue 
 
 Had. Glass. 
 
 Haf. Putty. 
 
 Hag. Chalk. 
 
 Hah. Resin. 
 
 Haj. Coal tar. 
 
 Hak. Pitch tar. 
 
 Hal. Varnish. 
 
 Gah. HARDWARE 
 
 Hinges. 
 Mortise lock. 
 Latch lock. 
 Window locks. 
 Window stops. 
 Window springs. 
 Drawer and trunk locks. 
 Drawer nobs and handles. 
 Window pulleys. 
 Window sash. 
 
 Ham. Hammer. 
 
 Han. 
 
 Hap. 
 
 Haq. 
 
 Har. 
 
 Has. 
 
 Hat. 
 
 Hav. 
 
 Haw. 
 
 Hax. 
 
 (See next page for balance of columns') 
 
 Hatchet. 
 Hand ax. 
 Wood ax. 
 Drawing knife. 
 Ripsaw. 
 Cross cut saw. 
 Brace and bits. 
 Chisels. 
 Steel square. 
 
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 The Scientific Dial Primer 
 
 A camping community in the mountains using the Scientific Dial Code in corresponding with 
 
 their valley homes. 
 
 Gaw. Metal clothes line. 
 
 Gax. Fiber clothes line. 
 
 Gay. Rope. 
 
 Hab. Bolts. 
 
 Hac. Nails. 
 
 Hay. Black pipe. 
 
 Jab. Galvanized pipe. 
 
 Jac. Well casing. 
 
 Jad. Butcher knife. 
 
 Jaf. Bread knife. 
 
 Jag. SHIPMENTS 
 
 (In ordering from catalogues, transform numbers into Scientific 
 Dial Numerals, which is very easy). 
 
 Jah. Ship by freight. 
 
 Jaj. Ship by express. 
 
 Jak. Ship by American Express Company. 
 
 Jal. Ship by Wells Fargo Express Company. 
 
 Jam. Ship by Adams Express Company. 
 
 Jan. All transportation charges prepaid. 
 
 Jap. Transportation charges to be paid by receiver on arrival. 
 
 Jaq. Shipper to select best route for the goods ordered. 
 . Jar. Ship the goods to via 
 
 Jas. Goods to be shipped at the risk of the shipper. 
 
 Jat. Goods shipped at the risk of the receiver. 
 
 Jav. Goods received in good order. 
 
 Jaw. Goods received in bad order, considerably bruised. 
 
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 Jax. Some broken and some mutilated. 
 
 Jay. The railroad company is responsible, submit claim for 
 damage. 
 
 Kab. Have goods examined by station agent and receive his 
 certificate of condition of all the goods, send same together with 
 your statement to our house. 
 
 Kac. Always carefully examine goods before accepting them 
 from the station or freight office. 
 
 Kad. All goods are carefully examined before shipment and care- 
 fully crated, and delivered to railroad companies and express com- 
 panies in perfect condition and first-class order. 
 
 Kaf. The railroad company charged me extra freight to the 
 amount of 
 
 Kag. Send your receipt for additional freight paid by you to 
 our office and we will settle with the railroad company and return to 
 you the overcharge. 
 
 Kah. 
 
 Kaj. F. O. B. SHIPMENTS 
 
 Kak. We ship only F. 0. B. 
 
 Kal. A deposit of $ must be made in the 
 
 bank before loading. 
 
 Kam. Ship a carload dried at per pound. 
 
 F. O. B. 
 
 Kan. Ship a carload ( Albertas) at per crate. 
 
 Kap. What can you sell us dried (Muirs) for F. O. B ? 
 
 Kaq. What can you sell for by crate F. O. B ? 
 
 Kar. SHIPMENTS C. O. D. 
 
 Kas. Collect on delivery. 
 
 Kat. Examination of goods or wares before acceptance and pay- 
 ment allowed. 
 
 Kav. Goods shipped to refused and ordered re- 
 turned. 
 
 Kaw. Goods shipped to refused, it being claimed 
 
 that they are not as represented. 
 
 Kax. What shall we do with them? 
 
 Kay. We are awaiting your orders. 
 
 Lab. Goods shipped to at returned as per your 
 
 orders and direction this 
 
 Lac. NOTICE OF ARRIVALS 
 
 Lad. Passengers arrived by the steamer at will leave for 
 
 their destinations by o'clock the 
 
 Laf . Your freight has arrived. Freight charges are 
 
 Lag. Your freight still remains uncalled for, and extra charges 
 will be made. 
 
 Lah. Your baggage has come. Extra storage charges will be 
 made 48 hours from date of this notice. 
 
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 Lam. FRUIT 
 
 Lan. Lemons. 
 
 Lap. Oranges. 
 
 Laq. Valencia oranges. 
 
 Lar. Mediterranean oranges. 
 
 Las. Navel oranges. 
 
 Lat. Grapefruit. 
 
 Lav. Bananas. 
 
 Law. APPLES 
 Lax. Summer apples. 
 
 Lay. 
 Lays. 
 
 Fall apples. 
 Winter apples. 
 
 Mab. PEARS 
 
 Maj. 
 
 Mak. 
 
 Mai. 
 
 Mam. 
 
 Man. 
 
 Map. 
 
 Maq. 
 
 Mar. 
 
 Mac. Summer pears. 
 
 Mad. Fall pears. 
 
 Maf. Winter Nellis. 
 
 Mag.' Bartletts. 
 
 Mah. PLUMS 
 
 Wickson Plum. 
 Burbank Plum. 
 Setzuma plum. 
 French prunes. 
 Sugar prunes. 
 Silver prunes. 
 Hungarian prunes. 
 Persimmons. 
 Pomegranate. 
 
 Mat. VEGETABLES 
 
 Mav. Cabbage. 
 
 Maw. Cauliflower. 
 
 Max. Asparagus. 
 
 May. Lettuce. 
 
 Nab. Radish. 
 
 Nac. Parsnip. 
 
 Nad. Carrots. 
 
 Naf. Turnips. 
 
 Nag. Beets. 
 
 Nah. Egg-plants. 
 
 Naj. Celery. 
 
 Nak. Spinach. 
 
 Nal. Pineapple. 
 
 Nam. Tomatoes. 
 
 Nan. Cayenne pepper. 
 
 Nap. Green peas. 
 
 Naq. String beans. 
 
 ar. Onions. 
 
 Nas. 
 
 Ripe fresh fruit. 
 
 Nat. 
 
 Dried evaporated fruit. 
 
 
 Nav. PEACHES 
 
 Naw. 
 
 Freestone. 
 
 Nax. 
 
 Clings. 
 
 Nay. 
 
 Early Crawford. 
 
 Pab. 
 
 Foster. 
 
 Pac. 
 
 St. John. 
 
 Pad. 
 
 Elberta. 
 
 Paf. 
 
 Susquehannah. 
 
 Pag. 
 
 Muir. 
 
 Pah. 
 
 Lovel. 
 
 Paj. 
 
 Salaway. 
 
 Pak. 
 
 Sellers orange cling. 
 
 Pal. 
 
 Elberta cling. 
 
 Pam. 
 
 Phillips cling. 
 
 Pan. 
 
 Heath cling. 
 
 
 Pap. GRAPES 
 
 Paq. 
 
 Raisin grapes. 
 
 Par. 
 
 Wine grapes. 
 
 Pas. 
 
 Table grapes. 
 
 
 Pat. BERRIES 
 
 Pav. 
 
 Dewberries. 
 
 Paw. 
 
 Raspberries. 
 
 Pax. 
 
 Loganberries. 
 
 Pay. 
 
 Blackberries. 
 
 Qab. 
 
 Mammoth blackberries. 
 
 Qac. 
 
 Phenomenal berries. 
 
 Qad. 
 
 Gooseberries. 
 
 Qaf. 
 
 Currants. 
 
 Qag. 
 
 Strawberries. 
 
 Qah. 
 
 Red whortleberries. 
 
 Qaj. 
 
 Cranberries. 
 
 Qak. 
 
 Cloudberries. 
 
 
 Qal. NUTS 
 
 Qam. 
 
 Walnut. 
 
 Qan. 
 
 English walnut. 
 
 Qap. 
 
 French walnut. 
 
 Qaq. 
 
 Chestnut. 
 
 Qar. 
 
 Pecan. 
 
 Qas. 
 
 Hazelnut. 
 
 Qat. 
 
 Soft shell almonds. 
 
 Qav. 
 
 Papershell almonds. 
 
 Qaw. 
 
 Hardshell almonds. 
 
 Qax. 
 
 Bitter almonds. 
 
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 Qay. Potatoes. 
 
 Rab. Sweet potatoes. 
 
 Rac. Squash and pumpkins. 
 
 Rad. Watermelons. 
 
 Raf. Muskmelons. 
 
 Rag. Cantaloups. 
 
 Rah. Cucumbers. 
 
 Raj. Raisins. 
 
 Rak. Muscatel raisins. 
 
 Ral. Malaga raisins. 
 
 Ram. Thompson seedless rais- 
 ins. 
 
 Ran. Seedless Sultana raisins. 
 
 Rap. Seeded Muscatels. 
 
 Raq. Seeded Malagas. 
 
 Rar. BARN 
 
 Ras. Hay mow. 
 
 Rat. Stall. 
 
 Rav. Manger. 
 
 Raw. Halter. 
 
 Rax. Wagon harness. 
 
 Ray. Carriage harness. 
 
 Sab. Buggy harness. 
 
 Sac. Bridle. 
 
 Sad. Lines. 
 
 Saf. Collar. 
 
 Sag. Hames. 
 
 Sah. Traces. 
 
 Saj. Saddle. 
 
 Sak. Girth. 
 
 Sal. Stirrup. 
 
 Sam. Spur. 
 
 San. FEED 
 
 Sap. Hay. 
 
 Saq. Clover. 
 
 Sar. Timothy. 
 
 Sas. Alfalfa. 
 
 Sat. Grain hay. 
 
 Sav. Wheat hay. 
 
 Saw. Barley hay. 
 
 Sax. Oat hay. 
 
 Say. Crushed barley. 
 
 Tab. Bran. 
 
 Tac. Mill feed. 
 
 Tad. Oil cake. 
 
 Taf. GRAIN 
 
 Tag. Wheat. 
 
 Tab. Winter wheat. 
 
 Taj. Spring wheat. 
 
 Tak. Rye. 
 
 Tal. Barley. 
 Tarn. Oats. 
 
 Tan. Buckwheat. 
 
 Tap. Indian corn. 
 
 Taq. Kafir corn. 
 
 Tar. DOMESTIC ANIMALS 
 
 Tas. Bull. 
 
 Tat. Cow. 
 
 Tav. Heifer. 
 
 Taw. Calf. 
 
 Tax. Steer. 
 
 Tay. Sheep. 
 
 Vab. Ram. 
 
 Vac. Ewe. 
 
 Vad. Lamb. 
 
 Vaf. GOAT 
 
 Vag. Billy goat. 
 
 Vah. Nanny goat. 
 
 Vaj. Kid. 
 
 Vak. HORSES 
 
 Val. Stallion. 
 Vam. Mare. 
 
 Van. Colt. 
 
 Vap. Mule. 
 
 Vaq. Ass. 
 
 Var. Dog. 
 
 Vas. Hens. 
 
 Vat. Chickens. 
 
 Vav. Cockerel. 
 
 Vaw. Pullet. 
 
 Vax. Duck, Ducks. 
 
 Vay. Goose, Geese. 
 
 Wab. Turkey, Turkeys. 
 
 Wac. Dove. 
 
 Wad. Swine. 
 
 Waf. Boar. 
 
 Wag. Sow. 
 
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 Wah. Pig. 
 Waj. Hog. 
 
 Wak. DWELLING HOUSE 
 
 Wai. 
 
 Warn. 
 
 Wan. 
 
 Wap. 
 
 Waq. 
 
 War. 
 
 Was. 
 
 Wat. 
 
 Wav. 
 
 Waw. 
 
 Wax. 
 
 Way. 
 
 Xab. 
 
 Xac. 
 
 Xad. 
 
 Xaf. 
 
 Xag. 
 
 Xah. 
 
 Xaj. 
 
 Xak. 
 
 Xal. 
 
 Xam. 
 
 Xan. 
 
 Xap. 
 
 Room. 
 
 Parlor. 
 Sitting room. 
 Dining room. 
 Kitchen. 
 Pantry. 
 Porch. 
 Veranda. 
 Portico. 
 
 Stairway. 
 Upstairs. 
 Bedroom. 
 Bathroom. 
 Closet. 
 Toilet. 
 Window. 
 Bay window. 
 Attic. 
 Cellar. 
 Chimney. 
 Stovepipe. 
 
 Elbow. 
 
 Heating stove. 
 Base burner. 
 
 Xaq. KITCHEN UTENSILS 
 
 Xar. 
 
 Xas. 
 
 Xat. 
 
 Xart. 
 
 Xav. 
 
 Xaw. 
 
 Xax. 
 
 Xay. 
 
 Yab. 
 
 Yac. 
 
 Yad. 
 
 Yaf. 
 
 Yag. 
 
 Yah. 
 
 Yaj. 
 
 Yak. 
 
 Yal. 
 
 Range. 
 
 Reservoir. 
 
 Waterfront. 
 
 Kettle. 
 Frying pan. 
 
 Skillet. 
 Gridiron. 
 Griddle. 
 Tea kettle. 
 Coffee pot. 
 Teapot. 
 Strainer. 
 Breadpan. 
 Dishpan. 
 Sink. 
 Pump. 
 Hydrant. 
 
 Yaq. Center table. 
 
 Yar. Kitchen table. 
 
 Yas. Chair. 
 
 Yat. Rocking chair. 
 
 Yav. Dining-room chair. 
 
 Yaw. Sideboard. 
 
 Yax. China closet. 
 
 Yay. Office chair. 
 
 Abab. Front-room set. 
 
 Abac. Bedroom set. 
 
 Abad. Double iron bed. 
 
 Abaf. Single iron bed. 
 
 Abag. Lounge. 
 
 Abah. Sofa. 
 
 Abaj. Dresser. 
 
 Abak. Bureau. 
 
 Abal. Washstand. 
 Abam. Washbowl. 
 
 Aban. Chamber. 
 
 Abap. Carpets. 
 
 Abaq. Brussels carpet. 
 
 Abar. Velvet carpet. 
 
 Abas. Rug. 
 
 Abat. Curtains. 
 
 Abav. Roller curtains. 
 Abaw. Lace curtains. 
 Abax. 
 Abay. 
 
 Acab. PROVISIONS 
 
 Acac. 
 
 Acad. 
 
 Acaf. 
 
 Acag. 
 
 Acah. 
 
 Acaj. 
 
 Acak. 
 
 Acal. 
 
 Acam. 
 
 Acan. 
 
 Acap. 
 
 Acaq. 
 
 Bread. 
 
 Wheat bread. 
 Rye bread. 
 Graham bread. 
 Biscuits. 
 A loaf of bread. 
 Crackers. 
 Cookies. 
 Gingersnaps. 
 Snails. 
 Doughnuts. 
 Sandwiches. 
 
 Acar. BREAKFAST FOOD 
 Acas. Wheat flakes. 
 
 Yam. FURNITURE 
 Yan. Table. 
 Yap. Extension table. 
 
 Acat. 
 Acav. 
 Acaw. 
 Acax. 
 
 Corn flakes. 
 Oat flakes. 
 Rolled oats. 
 Germea. 
 
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 Acay. PIES 
 
 Adab. Apple pie. 
 
 Adac. Peach pie. 
 
 Adad. Pumpkin pie. 
 
 Adaf. Custard pie. 
 
 Adag. Mince pie. 
 
 Adaj. Blackberry pie. 
 
 Adak. PUDDING 
 
 Adal. Bread pudding. 
 
 Adam. Custard pudding. 
 
 Adan. Tapioca pudding. 
 
 Adap. Rice pudding. 
 
 Adaq. FISH 
 
 Adar. Salmon. 
 
 Adas. Sole. 
 
 Adat. Mackerel. 
 
 Adav. Herring. 
 Adaw. Trout. 
 
 Adax. Whitefish. 
 
 Aday. Cod. 
 
 Afab. Halibut. 
 
 Afac. Oysters. 
 
 Afad. Shrimp. 
 
 Afaf. Lobster. 
 
 Afag. Pike. 
 
 Afah. Perch. 
 
 Afaj. Bass. 
 
 Afak. Carp. 
 
 Afal. Catfish. 
 Afam. Eel. 
 
 Afan. CANNED GOODS 
 
 Afap. Canned tomatoes. 
 
 Afaq. Canned peas. 
 
 Afar. Canned string beans. 
 
 Afas. Canned sweet corn. 
 
 Afat. Boston beans. 
 
 Afav. Canned peaches. 
 
 Afaw. Canned pears. 
 
 Afax. Canned apricots. 
 
 Afay. Canned corned beef. 
 
 Agab. Canned ham. 
 
 Agac. Canned dried beef. 
 
 Agad. FLAVORS 
 
 Agaf. Vanilla. 
 Agag. Lemon. 
 Agah. Banana. 
 
 Agaj. Pineapple. 
 Agak. Strawberry. 
 Agal. Raspberry. 
 
 Agam. Flour. 
 
 Agan. Wheat flour. 
 
 Agap. Rye flour. 
 
 Agaq. Graham flour. 
 
 Agar. Buckwheat flour. 
 
 Agas. Corn meal. 
 
 Agat. Rice. 
 
 Agav. Tapioca. 
 
 Agaw. Starch. 
 
 Agax. Corn starch. 
 
 Agay. SUGAR 
 
 Ahab. Cane sugar. 
 
 Ahac. Beet sugar. 
 
 Ahad. Granulated sugar. 
 
 Ahaf . Cube sugar. 
 
 Ahag. Loaf sugar. 
 
 Ahah. Dominoe sugar. 
 
 Ahaj. Brown sugar. 
 
 Ahak. Glucose. 
 
 Ahal. COFFEE 
 
 Aham. Java coffee. 
 
 Ahan. Mocha coffee. 
 
 Ahap. Green coffee. 
 
 Ahaq. Roasted coffee. 
 
 Ahar. Blended coffee. 
 
 Ahas. Ground coffee. 
 
 Ahat. TEA 
 
 Ahav. Ceylon tea. 
 Ahaw. Japan tea. 
 Ahax. Paraguay tea. 
 Ahay. Kafta tea. 
 Amhab. Hyson tea. 
 Amhac. Gunpowder tea. 
 Amhad. Green tea. 
 Amhaf. Black tea. 
 Amhag. Chinese tea. 
 
 Ajab. DRINKS 
 
 Ajac. Water. 
 
 Ajad. Milk. 
 
 Ajaf. Buttermilk. 
 
 Ajag. Lemonade. 
 
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 Ajah. Soda-water. 
 Ajaj. Milk soda. 
 Ajak. Egg soda. 
 Ajal. Root beer. 
 Ajam. Juniper ale. 
 
 Ajan. VEHICLES 
 
 Ajap. Wagon. 
 
 Ajaq. Carriage. 
 
 Ajar. Buggy. 
 
 Ajas. Buggy top. 
 
 Ajat. Buggy shaft. 
 
 Ajav. Pole. 
 
 Ajaw. Cart. 
 
 Ajax. Automobile. 
 
 A jay. Tourist car. 
 
 Akab. Roadster. 
 
 Akac. Bicycle. 
 
 Akad. FARMING UTENSILS 
 
 Akaf. Plow. 
 
 Akag. Plow handle. 
 
 Akah. Mouldboard. 
 
 Akaj. Plowlay. 
 
 Akak. Gang-plow. 
 
 Akal. Sulky plow. 
 
 Akam. Cultivator. 
 
 Akan. Harrow. 
 
 Akap. Seeder. 
 
 Akaq. Drill. 
 
 Akar. Manure spreader. 
 
 Akas. Mower. 
 
 Akat. Sickle. 
 
 Akav. Rake. 
 
 Akaw. Hay rake. 
 
 Akax. Reaper. 
 
 Akay. Selfbinder. 
 
 Alab. Scythe. 
 
 Alac. Handrake. 
 
 Alad. Shovel. 
 
 Alaf. Spade. 
 
 Alag. Hoe. 
 
 Alah. Pitchfork. 
 
 Alaj. Hayfork. 
 
 Alak. Carrier. 
 
 Alal. Track. 
 
 Alam. Wagon tire. 
 
 Alan. Tire setting. 
 
 Alap. Buggy tires. 
 
 Alaq. Wheel. 
 
 Alar. 
 
 Alas. 
 
 Alat. 
 
 Alav. 
 
 Alaw. 
 
 Alax. 
 
 Alay. 
 
 Amab. 
 
 Amac. 
 
 Amad. 
 
 Amaf. 
 
 Amag. 
 
 Amah. 
 
 Amaj. 
 
 Amak. 
 
 Amal. 
 
 Reach. 
 
 Axle. 
 
 Bolster. 
 
 Tongue. 
 
 Wagon bed. 
 
 Wagon hayrack. 
 
 Doubletree. 
 
 Whiffletrees. 
 
 Singletree. 
 
 Hub. 
 
 Spokes. 
 
 Fellows. 
 
 Kingbolt. 
 
 Fore hounds. 
 
 Hind hounds. 
 
 Running gear. 
 
 Amam. HUMANITY 
 
 Aman. 
 
 Amap. 
 
 Amaq. 
 
 Amar. 
 
 Amas. 
 
 Amat. 
 
 Amav. 
 
 Amaw. 
 
 Amax. 
 
 Almax. 
 
 Amay. 
 
 Almay. 
 
 Anab. 
 
 Anac. 
 
 Anad. 
 
 Anaf. 
 
 Anag. 
 
 Anak. 
 
 Anaj. 
 
 Anak. 
 
 Anal. 
 
 Anam. 
 
 Anan. 
 
 Anap. 
 
 Anaq. 
 
 Anar. 
 
 Anas. 
 
 Male. 
 Female. 
 
 Man. 
 Women. 
 Husband. 
 Wife. 
 
 Father. 
 
 Mother. 
 
 Son. 
 
 Boy. 
 
 Daughter. 
 
 Girl. 
 Child. 
 Brother. 
 Sister. 
 Uncle. 
 Aunt. 
 Nephew. 
 Niece. 
 Cousin. 
 Family. 
 Relative. 
 Relation. 
 Ancestor. 
 Generation. 
 Offspring. 
 Genealogy. 
 
 Anat. POLITICAL DIVISIONS 
 
 Anav. Community. 
 
 Anaw. Township. 
 
 Anax. County. 
 
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 Anay. State. 
 
 Apab. Nation. 
 
 Apac. Village. 
 
 Apad. Town. 
 
 Apaf. City. 
 
 Apag. Ward. 
 
 Apah. Precinct. 
 
 Apaj. OFFICERS 
 
 Apak. President. 
 
 Apal. King. 
 
 Apam. Emperor. 
 
 Apan. Secretary of State, Pre- 
 mier. 
 
 Apap. Secretary of the Interior. 
 
 Apaq. Secretary of War. 
 
 Apar. Secretary of the Navy. 
 
 Apas. Secretary of the Treasury. 
 
 Apat. Secretary of Agriculture. 
 
 Apav. Secretary of Commerce 
 
 and Labor. 
 
 Apaw. Attorney-General. 
 
 Apax. Postmaster-General. 
 
 Apay. Ambassador. 
 
 Aqab. Consul. 
 
 Aqac. Vice-Consul. 
 
 Aqad. Governor. 
 
 Aqaf. State Secretary. 
 
 Aqag. Controller. 
 
 Aqah. Commission. 
 
 Aqaj. Senate. 
 
 Aqak. Assembly. 
 
 Aqal. Congress. 
 
 Aqam. Legislature. 
 
 Aqan. Senator. 
 
 Aqap. Assemblyman. 
 
 Aqaq. Council. 
 
 Aqar. Mayor. 
 
 Aqas. Alderman. 
 
 Aqat. Judge. 
 
 Aqav. Sheriff. 
 
 Aqaw. Court. 
 
 Aqax. Attorney. 
 
 Aqay. Plaintiff. 
 
 Arab. Defendant. 
 
 Arac. Witness. 
 
 Arad. Justice court. 
 
 Araf. Superior court. 
 
 Arag. Supreme court. 
 
 Arab. Jury. 
 
 Araj. 
 
 Arak. 
 
 Aral. 
 
 Aram. 
 
 Aran. 
 
 Arap. 
 
 Araq. 
 
 Arar. 
 Aras. 
 
 Interpreter. 
 Bailiff. 
 Verdict. 
 Guilty. 
 Innocent. 
 Sentence. 
 Arrest. 
 Bail. 
 Prison. 
 Penitentiary. 
 
 Arat. Supervisor. 
 
 Arav. County Clerk. 
 Araw. Assessor. 
 
 Arax. Auditor. 
 
 Aray. Recorder. 
 Arlay. Engineer. 
 
 Asab. HUMAN BODY 
 
 Asac. Head. 
 
 Asad. Forehead. 
 
 Asaf. Temple. 
 
 Asag. Brain. 
 
 Asah. Eyebrow. 
 
 Asaj. Eyelid. 
 
 Asak. Hair. 
 
 Asal. Ear. 
 Asam. Hear. 
 
 Asan. Nose. 
 
 Asap. Smell. 
 
 Asaq. Nostrils. 
 
 Asar. Eye. 
 
 Asas. See. 
 
 Asat. Tongue. 
 
 Asav. Taste. 
 
 Asaw. Throat. 
 
 Asax. Lungs. 
 
 Asay. Voice. 
 
 Atab. Breathing, respiration. 
 
 Atac. Heart. 
 
 Atad. Arteries. 
 
 Ataf. Veins. 
 
 Atag. Circulation. 
 
 Atah. Blood. 
 
 Ataj. Lips. 
 
 Atak. Teeth. 
 
 Atal. Liver. 
 Atam. Kidneys. 
 
 Atan. Bladder. 
 
 Atap. Urin. 
 
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 Ataq. Womb. 
 
 Atar. Testicles. 
 
 Atas. Mouth. 
 
 Atat. Stomach. 
 
 Atav. Intestines. 
 
 Ataw. Colon. 
 
 Atax. Bile. 
 
 Atay. Digestion. 
 
 Avab. Hand. 
 
 Avac. Thumb. 
 
 Avad. Fingers. 
 
 Avaf. Fingernails. 
 
 Avag. Foot, feet. 
 
 Avah. Toes. 
 
 Avaj. Shoulders. 
 
 Avak. Elbows. 
 
 Aval. Wrists. 
 
 Avam. Palm of the hand. 
 
 Avan. Neck. 
 
 Avap. Breast. 
 
 Avaq. Back. 
 
 Avar. Loins. 
 
 Avas. Hip. 
 
 Avat. Thigh. 
 
 Avav. Knee. 
 
 Avaw. Skin. 
 
 Avax. Sweat. 
 
 Avay. Mastication. 
 
 Awab. Swallow. 
 
 Awac. Vomit. 
 
 Awad. Look. 
 
 Awaf. Cheek. 
 
 Awag. Chin. 
 
 Awah. Whiskers. 
 
 Awaj. Ankle. 
 
 Awak. Leg. 
 
 Awal. Arm. 
 
 Awap. MISCELLANEOUS 
 
 Awaq. Wages. 
 
 Awar. Salary. 
 
 Awas. Donation. 
 
 Awat. Business. 
 
 Awav. Strap. 
 Awaw. Rope. 
 
 Awax. Parasol. 
 
 Away. Umbrella. 
 
 Axab. Morning. 
 
 Axac. Evening. 
 
 Axad. Noon. 
 
 Axaf. Night. 
 
 Axag. Day. 
 
 Axah. Storm. 
 
 Axaj. Nonsense. 
 
 Axak. Nuisance. 
 
 Axal. Harm. 
 
 Axam. Danger. 
 
 Axan. Meal. 
 
 Axap. Tourist. 
 
 Axaq. Traveler. 
 
 Axar. CHURCH 
 
 Axas. Altar. 
 Axat. Pulpit. 
 Axav. Pews. 
 Axaw. Aisle. 
 Axax. Auditorium. 
 Axay. Gallery. 
 Ayab. Anteroom. 
 Ayac. Vestry. 
 Ayad. Usher. 
 Ayaf. Elder. 
 Ayag. Deacon. 
 Ayah. Trustee. 
 Ayaj. Singing. 
 Ayak. Choir. 
 Ayal. Quartette. 
 Ayam. Duet. 
 Ayan. Solo. 
 Ayap. Music. 
 Ayaq. Piano. 
 Ayar. Organ. 
 Ayas. Organist. 
 Ayat. Cornet. 
 Ayav. Flute. 
 Ayaw. Violin. 
 Ayax. Guitar. 
 Ayay. Singer. 
 Alyay. Instructor. 
 Alia. God. 
 Almab. Pastor. 
 Almaib. Church. 
 Almac. Congregation. 
 Almaic. Heaven. 
 Almad. Preaching. 
 Almaf. Sermon. 
 Almag. Praying. 
 Almah. Pleading. 
 Almaj. Beseeching. 
 Almak. Imploring. 
 
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 Almal. Worshiping. Alnal. 
 
 Almam. Singing. Alnam. 
 
 Alman. Revival. Alnan. 
 
 Almap. Atonement. Alnap. 
 
 Almaq. Converting. Alnaq. 
 
 Almar. Forgiveness. Alnar. 
 
 Almas. Thanksgiving. Alnas. 
 
 Almat. Hallowing. Alnat. 
 
 Almav. Baptism. Alnav. 
 
 Almaw. Baptizing. Alnaw. 
 
 Almax. Lord's Supper. Alnax. 
 Almay. Young Men's Christian Alnay. 
 
 Association. Alpab. 
 
 Alnab. Epworth League. Alpac. 
 
 Alnac. Christian Alliance. Alpad. 
 
 Alnad. Sunday School. Alpaf. 
 Alnaf. Sunday School Superin- Alpag. 
 
 tendent. Alpah. 
 Alnag. Sunday School Teacher. Alpaj. 
 
 Alnah. Collection. Alpak. 
 
 Alnaj. Subscription. Alpaik. 
 Alnak. Offering. 
 
 Tithe. 
 
 Mission. 
 Home Mission. 
 Foreign Mission. 
 Jewish Mission. 
 Jew. 
 
 Christian. 
 Catholic. 
 Protestant. 
 
 Heathen. 
 Mohammedan. 
 Buddha. 
 Buddhism. 
 Brahma. 
 Brahminism. 
 Infidel. 
 Atheist. 
 Agnostic. 
 Sinner. 
 Ungodly. 
 
 Hell. 
 
 Abeb. STATIONERY 
 
 Abec. I want to buy some writing paper. 
 
 Abed. Very good. What kind do you want? 
 
 Abef. I want some commercial note paper, fairly good. 
 
 Abeg. I want some fancy writing paper . . by . . size. 
 
 Abeh. Please show me some fancy envelopes. 
 
 Abej. I can make my own selection. 
 
 Abek. Legal cap. 
 
 Abel. Fools cap. 
 
 Abem. Common letter size. 
 
 Aben. Paper that is ruled for pen-writing. 
 
 Abep. Paper unruled for machine writing. 
 
 Abeq. Envelopes, letter size. 
 
 Aber. Envelopes, business size. 
 
 Abes. First grade. 
 
 Abet. Second grade. 
 
 Abev. Third grade. 
 
 Abew. Black ink. 
 
 Abex. Red ink. 
 
 Abey. Fountain pen. 
 
 Aceb. Steel pens. 
 
 Acec. Stub pens. 
 
 Aced. Fine pointed pens. 
 
 Acef. Postage stamps, some one-cent and some two-cent. 
 
 Aceh. Carbon paper. 
 
 Acej. Carbon eraser. 
 
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 Acek. Library paste. 
 Acel. Clips. 
 
 Aceg. GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING DEPARTMENT 
 
 Alceh. Men's Fine Golf Dress Shirts. 
 
 Alcej. Men's Fine Soft Dress Shirts. 
 
 Alcek. Men's Burgalines Ties. 
 
 Alcel. Men's Taus in hand Ties. 
 
 Acem. Men's Batwing Ties. 
 
 Acen. Men's Teck Ties. 
 
 Acep. Star Suspenders. 
 
 Aceq. President Suspenders. 
 
 Acer. Men's Fine Hose. 
 
 Aces. Men's Fine Sox. 
 
 Acet. Men's Fine Ribbed Underwear. 
 
 Acev. Men's Fine Balbriggan Underwear. 
 
 Acew. Men's All-Woolen Underwear. 
 
 Acex. Men's Heavy and Warm Winter Underwear. 
 
 Acey. Men's Light Summer Underwear. 
 
 Adeb. Men's Handkerchiefs. 
 
 Adec. Linen Collar. 
 
 Aded. Celluloid Collar. 
 
 Adef. Rubber Collar. 
 
 Adeg. Standing Collar. 
 
 Adeh. Turn Down Collar. 
 
 Adej. Men's Every Day Shirt. 
 
 Adek. Overalls. 
 
 Adel. Jumpers. 
 
 Adem. Sweater. 
 
 Aden. Men's Khaki Pants and Jumpers. 
 
 Adep. Painters' and Carpenters' Overalls. 
 
 Adeq. HAT DEPARTMENT 
 
 Ader. Men's Fine Dress Hats. 
 
 Ades. Men's Vienna Telescope. 
 
 Adet. Men's Middy Straw. 
 
 Adev. Men's Mexican Straw. 
 
 Adew. Men's Peno Straw. 
 
 Adex. Men's Ventilated Straw. 
 
 Adey. Men's Derby Hats. 
 
 Afeb. Men's Soft Wide Brim Hats. 
 
 Afec. Men's Warm Winter Caps. 
 
 Afed. Men's Utility Automobile Caps. 
 
 Afef. MEN'S MISCELLANEOUS 
 Afeg. Suit Cases. 
 Afeh. Club Bags. 
 Afej. Telescopes. 
 
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 Afek. Razor. 
 
 Afel. Shaving Soap. 
 Afem. Shaving Brush. 
 
 Afen. Shaving Mirror. 
 
 Afep. Shaving Outfit. 
 
 Afeq. Safety Razor. 
 
 Afer. Shaving Mug. 
 
 Afes. LADIES' FURNISHING 
 
 Afet. Ladies' Underwear. 
 
 Afev. Ladies' Pants and Vest. 
 
 Afew. Ladies' Fine Rib Union Suits. 
 
 Afex. Ladies' Close Fitting Elastic Union Suits. 
 
 Afey. Ladies' Light Weight Summer Garments. 
 
 Ageb. Corset. 
 
 Agec. Corset Cover. 
 
 Aged. Ladies' Gowns. 
 
 Agef. Ladies' Hose. 
 
 Ageg. Petticoat. 
 
 Ageh. Kimono. 
 
 Agej. Wrapper. 
 
 Agek. Garters. 
 
 Agel. Children's Underwear. 
 
 Agem. DRYGOODS 
 
 Agen. Dress Patterns. 
 
 Agep. Silk. 
 
 Ageq. All-wool Broadcloth. 
 
 Ager. Cheviot. 
 
 Ages. Finest all-wool Heavy Serge. 
 
 Aget. Diagonal Weave Worsted Suiting. 
 
 Agev. All Wool Basket Weave Suiting. 
 
 Agew. Ginghams. 
 
 Agex. Prints. 
 
 Agey. Outing Flannels. 
 
 Aheb. Muslin. 
 
 Ahec. Cambric. 
 
 Ahed. Sheeting. 
 
 Ahef. Tubing. 
 
 Aheg. Silk Taffeta Ribbons. 
 
 Aheh. SHOE DEPARTMENT 
 
 Ahej. The Brown Shoe Company, and Watson Plummer. 
 
 Ahek. White House Shoe for men Zy Da, Daim, Fa, Ga. 
 
 Ahel. Watson Shoes Zy Daim, Fa, Faim, G. 
 Ahem. Men's Ox. Patent Sea and Gun Metal Zy Da, Daim, Fa. 
 
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 Ahen. MEN'S EVERY DAY SHOES 
 
 Ahep. Sunset welts Zy Fa. 
 
 Aheq. Light weight Borded Kangaroo Blue Zy Daig. 
 
 Aher. Olive Glove Blue Dazzy. 
 
 Ahes. Borded Vici Dazzy. 
 
 Ahet. Olive Glove Bike Blue Caimzy. 
 
 Ahert. Boys' Olive Glove Bike Blue Caimzy. 
 
 Ahev. Men's Brown Kroshew Blue Daimzy. 
 
 Ahew. Men's Tan Purside Blue Caoszy. 
 
 Ahex. Blue Ribbon Shoes for boys and girls. 
 
 Ahey. LADIES' FINE DRESS SHOES 
 
 Ajeb. Patent Sea Blue Zy Da, Daeg, Daim, Daos, Fa. 
 
 Ajec. Was Kid Blue Zy Caeg, Cairn, Da, Daim. 
 
 Ajed. Was Gun Metal Blue Zy Cairn, Da, Daim, Fa. 
 
 Ajef. Was Pat. Pumps Zy Caeg, Cairn, Da, Daim. 
 
 Ajeg. Was Pat. Sea Oxf. Zy Cairn, Da, Daim. 
 
 Ajeh. Was Kid Oxf. Pumps Zy Cairn, Da, Daim. 
 
 Ajej. Ladies' Noiseless Juliet Zy Baeg, Bairn, Baos. 
 
 Ajek. Misses' Shoes Gun Metal, Kid, Pat. Sea Zy Bairn, Baos, 
 Ca, Caeg. 
 
 Ajel. Girls' Shoes Gun Metal, Kid, Pat. Sea Zy Caeg, Cairn. 
 
 Ajem. Youths' Shoes Gun Metal Pat. Sea Zy Baos, Ca, 
 Caeg. 
 
 Ajen. Boys' Shoes Gun Metal and Pat. Sea, Oxf Zy Caeg, 
 Cairn, Caos 
 
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 Ajep. AT THE RAILROAD STATION 
 
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 Ajeq. Railroad ticket. 
 
 Ajer. How much for first-class ticket to 
 
 Ajes. How much for second-class ticket to 
 
 Ajet. How much for third-class ticket to 
 
 Ajev. Sleeping car, lower berth. 
 
 Ajew. Sleeping car, upper berth. 
 
 Ajex. Tourist car; lower berth. 
 
 Ajey. Tourist car, upper berth. 
 
 Akeb. Please check my trunk. 
 
 Akec. Please check my telescope and valise. 
 
 Aked. May I take the chair car? 
 
 Akef. Yes, if you have first-class ticket. 
 
 Akeg. JLet me see your ticket. 
 
 Akeh. I have lost my ticket. 
 
 Akej. No, you have only second-class ticket. 
 
 Akek. 
 
 Akel. Take second-class car. 
 
 Akem. Take third-class car. 
 
 Aken. Please show me my car. 
 
 Akep. Smoking is allowed only in the smoking car. 
 
 Akeq. Come, I will show you your car. 
 
 Aker. You may have this seat. 
 
 Akes. Is there a ladies' toilet in or at this station? 
 
 Aket. Is there a gentlemen's toilet at or in this station? 
 
 Akev. Where is the toilet, please? 
 
 Akew. 
 
 Akex. ON THE TRAIN 
 
 Akey. How far is it to ? 
 
 Aleb. What time will this train arrive at ? 
 
 Alec. Is there a dining car attached to this train? 
 
 Aled. Yes, in the rear of the train. 
 
 Alef. How much for meals in the dining car? 
 
 Aleg. No, this train stops at dining stations for meals. 
 
 Aleh. How long does this train stop for meals? 
 
 Alej. This train stops twenty or minutes for meals. 
 
 Alek. Please show me the dining room. 
 
 Alel. Where may I find the lunch counter? 
 
 Alem. What will you have, Madam? 
 
 Alen. AT THE LUNCH COUNTER 
 
 Alep. Ham sandwich, apple pie and coffee. 
 
 Aleq. Eggs, bread and butter, sausage, rice pudding, tea or coffee. 
 
 Aler. Oyster soup and crackers. 
 
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 Ales. Ham and eggs. 
 
 Alet. Bacon and eggs. 
 
 Alev. Soft boiled eggs. 
 
 Alew. Omelet. 
 
 Alex. Shredded wheat biscuits and cream. 
 
 Aley. Cornflakes and cream. 
 
 Ameb. Grapenuts and cream. 
 
 Amec. Cocoa. 
 
 Amed. Bread, butter, and cheese. 
 
 Amef. Cream. 
 
 Ameg. Butter. 
 
 Ameh. Cheese. 
 
 Amej. Ice cream soda pineapple flavor. 
 
 Amek. Coffee. 
 
 Amel. Tea. 
 
 Amem. How much is my bill? 
 
 Amen. Hurry up or your train will leave you. 
 
 Amep. Which one is my train? 
 
 Ameq. Where are you going? Show your ticket. 
 
 Amer. I am going to 
 
 Ames. CHANGE OF CARS 
 
 Amet. Will I have to change cars? 
 
 Amev. Conductor: Yes, I will keep you informed. 
 
 Amew. Conductor: No, this train will take you to your destina- 
 tion. 
 
 Amex. How long will I have to wait at the exchange station? 
 
 Amey. If the other train is on time, only (Aszo 15 min.) 
 
 Aneb. I want a train for 
 
 Anec. * Which side of the depot will my train come in on? 
 
 Aned. I notice a number of tracks; on which track may I find my 
 train? 
 
 Anef. In what direction is from here? 
 
 Aneg. When is the train due to arrive there? 
 
 Aneh. Please favor me with a time-table. 
 
 Anej. Your train will come in on the track. 
 
 Anek. Which way will it be heading? 
 
 Anel. It will head in that direction ( Here point the direction) . 
 
 Anem. FINDING DESTINATION 
 
 Anen. Please direct me to No on street. 
 
 Anep. What street-car will take me to No on street? 
 
 Aneq. Take this car and show your address to the Conductor, he 
 will let you off at the right place. 
 
 Aner. Please tell me how to find No on street. 
 
 Anes. Street-car. 
 
 Anet. Street. 
 
 Anev. Block. 
 
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 Anew. South. 
 Anex. North. 
 Aney. East. 
 Alney. West. 
 
 Apeb. LIVERY STABLE 
 
 Apec. Furnish me rig and driver to bring me to Mr 
 
 Aped. One-horse rig. 
 
 Apef. Two-horse rig; carriage. 
 
 Apeg. How will I find an expressman to bring my baggage out? 
 
 Apeh. I want my baggage today. 
 
 Apej. Checks. 
 
 Apek. Hand me your baggage checks. 
 
 Apel. Here you have my baggage checks. 
 
 Apem. Bring my baggage to 
 
 Apen. What time may I expect my baggage? 
 
 Apep. I must have my baggage before o'clock. 
 
 Apeq. 
 
 Aper. AT THE GARAGE 
 
 Apes. Please take me to 
 
 Apet. Can you carry my baggage or grip also? 
 
 Apev. Baggage. 
 
 Apew. Luggage. 
 
 Apex. Knapsack. 
 
 Aqeb. Trunk. 
 
 Aqec. Bundle. 
 
 Aqed. Package. 
 
 Aqef. Tools. 
 
 Aqeg. Toolchest. 
 
 Aqeh. How can I get my brought out? 
 
 Aqej. What will be your charge for taking me (us) Persons 
 
 to 
 
 Aqek. CHARGES 
 
 Aqel. Our charge is per passenger per mile. 
 
 Aqem. Our charge is per passenger per hour. 
 
 Aqen. Our charge is per day. 
 
 Aqep. Our charge. 
 Aqer. Per passenger. 
 Aqes. Per hour. 
 Aqet. Per mile. 
 Aqev. Per day. 
 Aqew. Per week. 
 
 Aqex. COMMUNICATION 
 
 Aqey. My baggage has gone astray or been left behind. 
 
 Areb. Have my baggage and appendage forwarded to 
 
 Arec. The number of my baggage checks are 
 
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 Ared. My baggage consists of pieces, as follows: 
 
 Aref. I have a tourist ticket good for days. 
 
 Areg. I bought my ticket at (state date and number of 
 
 ticket, also the name of Railroad Company purchased from, as : . . 
 Southern Pacific, dapo (372), Fapelana (April 12, 1911). 
 
 Areh. I need dollars, which send to me at 
 
 Arej. Send the money due me before Hamelana (June 10th, 1911). 
 
 Arek. Turn all money due me over to my wife and she will give you 
 receipt for the same. 
 
 Arel. Send your promissory note to the bank at and I (we) 
 
 will make payment as agreed. 
 
 Arem. Payment on your contract of Lapaszy ($912.15) will become 
 due Kapelana (August 12th, 1911). 
 
 Aren. I have sent payment in the sum of as agreed. 
 
 Arep. I have sent payment in the sum of as stipulated in 
 
 contract. 
 
 Areq. I have received payment from you in the sum of , 
 
 the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged (signed ) . 
 
 Arer. I have received payment from (here write name of payer) 
 in the sum of the receipt of which is hereby acknowl- 
 edged, being payment in full to date Payee. 
 
 Ares. Received from (Payer) (Payee) . 
 
 Aret. 
 
 Arev. Payment in full. 
 
 Arew. Payment in part. 
 
 Arex. Payment on contract. 
 
 Arey. Payment on promissory note. 
 
 Arley. Payment on account. 
 
 Aseb. CORRESPONDENCE 
 
 Asec. My trip has been very pleasant in every way. I arrived 
 safely at (New York, July 12th at 8:15 o'clock in the morning) 
 Japelana Kaszo. 
 
 Ased. A number of friends met me at the station. 
 
 Asef. My health has been poor. 
 
 Aseg. I have felt miserable. 
 
 Aseh. I am suffering from 
 
 Asej. Chills. 
 
 Asek. Headache. 
 
 Asel. Fever. 
 
 Asem. Toothache. 
 
 Asen. Sick in bed. 
 
 Asep. Have been taken to the Hospital. 
 
 Aseq. Health improving. 
 
 Aser. Doctor says I will soon be able to resume my business. 
 
 Ases. I am able to be around and will be at my post in a few days. 
 
 Aset. I am just all right and in best of spirits. 
 
 Asev. I hope to be able to return home in (Amazza 10 days) if all 
 goes well. 
 
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 Asew. My business has been very poor and work very hard, prof- 
 its small. 
 
 Asex. My business has been just excellent; good sales, good 
 profit, good standing, better reputation. 
 
 Asey. I hope to hear from you with a heap of news to meet me at 
 , where I will stop for days. 
 
 PAPA'S KISSES 
 
 Ateb. Say, dear, don't forget to kiss and baby .... 
 
 times for me and say to them that these are papa's kisses, and have 
 been sent to them by telegraph, and then explain to them what the 
 telegraph is and how it works won't you, sweetheart, please. 
 
 LOVELY TELEGRAMS 
 
 Atec. Dearest hubby, thank you a thousand times for all these 
 
 loving and lovely telegrams. I have explained it all to 
 
 and the baby; and they looked so intensely interested that I am sure 
 the seed fell into good, acceptable, deep and fertile soil, and will 
 bring forth an abundant golden harvest to the great satisfaction 
 and enjoyment of dear, loving papa, in due season. In return they, 
 one and all, send papa filial embraces and kisses innumerable. 
 
 HUGGING AND KISSING BY TELEGRAPH 
 AN AMUSING STORY 
 
 Ated. Dearest , I have something very amusing to 
 
 relate. It is with reference to the hugging, embracing and kissing 
 processes by telegraph. (Irene) has been studying about it all day 
 without finding out exactly how to hug and kiss papa by telegraph. 
 She fancies that some little girl, just like her, would appear at the 
 other end of the line, just as she sees herself in the mirror, hugging 
 and kissing papa just the way she hugged and kissed papa's photo- 
 graph. I could not afford to disturb or mar her childish enjoyment, 
 so I said, "all right, but if you will hug this message by pressing it hard 
 to your little heart, and also kiss it, then we will send it to darling, 
 loving papa, and he will feel your little hands and arms patting him 
 and hugging him and your soft and warm little lips kissing him." So 
 all the children went at it ; and this message, and every other message 
 we send you, will contain the loving filial embraces and kisses innu- 
 merable from our little angel-like loving and lovely children, and last, 
 but not the least, from your devoted loving and longing lifemate. 
 You cannot but feel their patting, caressing, hugging and kissing at 
 this very moment, while reading this message. Let darling baby 
 have his inning first, then , , , .... 
 
 in their order, or wrap them all in your parental embrace, while little 
 arms will clasp your neck like the tender vine the sturdy oak; and, 
 darling, give anxious me_also a chance at you, won't you? 
 
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 HOME SWEET HOME; No PLACE LIKE HOME 
 
 Atef. Dearest darling wife and lovely little tots and all of you. 
 I thank you most sincerely for the tender, affectionate and charming 
 messages. Your caressing, hugging and kissing message became so 
 real to me that I was brought into ecstasy. I certainly felt the little 
 arms and hands clasp me around my neck, and the sweet kisses oh, 
 I esteem it all of greater value than the wealth and glory of the whole 
 world. Home, sweet home. No place like home. I appreciate more 
 and more the inestimable treasure and priceless jewels I have in a 
 dear, sweet, lovely, devoted wife, and under motherly tenderness 
 and affectionate training this divine endowment, our lovely children. 
 Every word from you adds fuel to the fire of love and devotion in my 
 heart which you are entitled to and so well deserve. 
 
 NOTHING MYSTERIOUSLY VEILED OR HIDDEN 
 
 Ateg. Darling wife, let me tell you something. It isn't your face, 
 though handsome, it isn't your voice, though sweet, it isn't the form 
 of your body, though graceful not one of these nor all of these 
 that make you as a woman so lovely and attractive it is your entire 
 being, your personality, your soul; nothing in you or of you myste- 
 riously veiled or hidden. There isn't another woman in all the world 
 that would or could be for me what you are. Dearest darling sweet- 
 heart, more so now than ever before, I notice a certain anxiety or 
 
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 uneasiness about me, in some of your letters and messages. I there- 
 fore give you this testimony and assurance of my heart's feeling 
 toward you and my appreciation of you. Should I in any way 
 prove to be unfaithful to you, the lowest, most agonizing and horrible 
 place in hell would be too good for me. Your so frequent messages 
 of love while I am away, and your most charming attention and 
 entertainment when at home are mighty influences for good and a 
 help I might say a shield against temptations and the mixing in 
 with evil associates. 
 
 Atbeb. TOUCHED, AND PLAYED ON NERVE-STRINGS 
 
 Atbec. Dearest, loveliest, darling hubby! Your charming tele- 
 gram letter from Baltimore of the Jafelana has touched 
 
 and played on every nerve-string in my whole being. But I have 
 been misunderstood in one respect, and I hasten to make correction. 
 
 Atbed. Have I been so careless in my communication with you, 
 so ambiguous, as to impress upon your mind and heart the taint of 
 jealousy of you on my part? Dearest, loveliest darling, mine, how 
 could you ever think of me as being so foolish, so narrow-minded, of 
 so small a caliber as that? No, dearest, not the slightest feeling, 
 not the remotest fathom of thought in that direction have disturbed 
 my entire and absolute confidence in you. 
 
 Atbef. Now, darling, if you have the same confidence in me, 
 you will accept my denunciation and brush away the last vestige 
 of that mist of misapprehension which carries with it a deadly 
 poison. 
 
 Atbeg. This matter disposed of, I want to thank you a thousand 
 times for that sweet and assuring letter; and if I had you here with 
 me at this moment I would convince you of my earnestness and sin- 
 cerity in a very effective manner. But I realize that hugs and 
 kisses become stale on the way at so long a distance; and yet, this 
 letter has felt the beating of my heart and the impressions of my lips 
 and has been dampened by my tears so much that I could hardly 
 finish writing it; but the genuine articles are stored, awaiting the 
 sweetest and loveliest darling hubby in all the world on his arrival 
 home. 
 
 Atbeh. It is the many accidents which we hear and read about 
 which makes me uneasy. I many times wonder if I am ever to see 
 you alive any more. You will realize that there are many wives 
 who kiss their husbands goodby for the last time, when they start 
 out on a journey. Every day some wife sees her husband for the 
 last time alive, to have him brought home mutilated or dead. 
 
 Atbej. Oh, that I could keep you at home all the time. Can't 
 we start some kind of business or something of our own? I would 
 go on a farm or any place with you if I could only keep you at home. 
 
 Atbek. I have thought of a cheaper cottage or flat to live in, so 
 that we may save something in house rent. 
 
 Atbel. I don't care how simple it is, only so that we can get along. 
 For the luxury indulged in while we are yet young will afford small 
 consolation in old age. 
 
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 Atbem. I don't know whether you have ever noticed that I have 
 made use of and remodeled our old clothes for the children. I made 
 a jacket for Charley out of an old coat of yours the other day, and 
 you ought to have seen how proud he was in the clothes that mother 
 had made for him. 
 
 Atben. I have figured out that I saved at least thirty-five dollars 
 last spring in this way. 
 
 Atbep. I am also studying and experimenting about making our 
 provisions reach further than usual. I find that we can dispense 
 with a number of things or use them for a better purpose than for- 
 merly, and our health has improved by doing it. 
 
 Atbeq. So, for instance, in the selection and use of fruits and nuts. 
 You know how we used to serve these after we had finished our 
 meals, often overloading our stomachs and causing flatulence, drowsi- 
 ness and sometimes headaches. 
 
 Atber. Now I use fruits and nuts as a part of our meals, dimin- 
 ishing largely all kinds of meats and flesh foods, and you have no 
 idea how much may be saved to benefit both the purse and the 
 stomach. 
 
 Atbes. Arrange, if possible, to stay at home with me at least 
 two weeks on your next turn. I really believe that we can live 
 together from this on, maintain our family and raise and educate 
 our children respectably, either by starting a business in a small 
 way in town or by going out on a small farm. 
 
 Atbet. I see other people not so well equipped as we are doing it; 
 why should not we be able to do just as well? 
 
 Atbev. This would at once relieve me from this continuous 
 anxiety about your safety. 
 
 Atbew. All the children send you their greetings with hugs and 
 kisses in the usual way, and they all want to know how soon their 
 darling papa is coming home. 
 
 Lovingly, 
 UPERVILLE, ALA., JAHELANA. AMALIA. 
 
 Atbex. THE CRIMINAL 
 
 Atbey. Dearest, loveliest sweetheart. Your admirable telegram 
 of Jahelana has made a miserable criminal out of me. 
 
 Atceb. You propose to move into cheaper quarters to save house- 
 rent; you are working over and remodeling old clothes of ours for 
 the children to save money; you are even extending your economy 
 to your table in order to prepare, as I now understand it, a fund for 
 the starting of business of our own of some kind ; and 
 
 Atcec. In the meantime I have been squandering money by 
 
 burning it in the form of cigars for oh, I am ashamed to confess 
 
 it. 
 
 Atced. Thoughtlessly have I thrown a quarter, a half-dollar, 
 sometimes a dollar to the cigar dealer for cigars; and this has often 
 happened several times a day. I have been in the habit of carrying 
 some change loose in my pockets, never paying any attention to 
 how much or how used. 
 
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 Atcef. Your admirable telegram of Jahelana has awakened me 
 as from a dream, and I now find that my cigar account runs up to 
 something like $12.50 per week, or $600 per year. These figures 
 are now accusing me, burning me, almost murdering me; for they 
 
 have created in me a craving, a passion; they have chained me 
 
 in slavery. 
 
 Atceg. I have now commenced a fight for freedom, a struggle, 
 the equal I have never had any apprehension of. But I am going 
 to win out. Your matchless modesty, prudence, example, and pray- 
 ers give me the strength and unfaltering determination. 
 
 Atceh. When I married you, I knew I had found a fine silver 
 mine; later, I found it to be a very rich gold mine; now, the shaft 
 having been sunk still deeper, I have discovered in it a mine of silver, 
 gold and precious stones in combination. May God ever bless your 
 pure and precious soul ; and I know that I am being blessed for your 
 sake. 
 
 Atcej. Well, darling sweetheart, I will make arrangement to stay 
 at home with you. You may look for me in ten days. 
 
 Atcek. Submissively and lovingly yours forever, 
 
 FLOYD. 
 
 Atcel. THE WELCOME 
 
 Atcem. Dearest hubby. Just a few lines in acknowledgment of 
 your lovely and most welcome telegram of Japelana. It has made 
 me so exceedingly happy that I can hardly write for joy. I have 
 asked myself all the morning: "Is it a reality or only a deceptive 
 dream?" Oh, thank God, it is a reality, a real reality; more good 
 for me than I ever dared to expect. Blessed be the Lord. Welcome 
 home, darling, dear. 
 
 Lovingly, AMALIA. 
 
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 TRAVELERS' CODE, BY STEAMER 
 
 Atleg. I am going by steamer to 
 
 Ateh. I have nothing subject to duty. 
 
 Atej. The baggage contains nothing but my personal traveling 
 outfit and a few .small presents. 
 
 Atek. I have succeeded in locating all but one of my trunks. 
 
 Atel. Officer, will you kindly direct me? my trunk is marked 
 (A. H.) on the lid *. 
 
 Atem. My trunk ought to be in section (H). 
 
 Aten. No, I have not been to section (A). 
 
 Atep. You think it must be there? 
 
 Ateq. Thank you, I hope you will find it. 
 
 Ater. There it is now, just coming from the steamer. 
 
 Ates. My baggage is all examined; will you please check it for me? 
 
 Atet. I am going to (Du Nord) , and will have the 
 
 baggage sent for in (an hour, "Bazzo"). 
 
 Atev. Is this the (Grand Hotel) omnibus? 
 
 Atew. What are your rates? 
 
 Atex. I wish room and bath, floor for days f. 
 
 Atey. Here are my baggage checks. 
 
 Aveb. Dock No S. S (La France). 
 
 Avec. This is a hallroom. 
 
 Aved. I wish a room with sunlight and fresh air. 
 
 Avef. This room will do. 
 
 Aveg. It is (two francs) more than the other. 
 
 Aveh. I think it worth the difference. 
 
 Ayej. Where is the bell? 
 
 Avek. Please show me the elevator. 
 
 Avel. Kindly direct me to the dining room. 
 
 Avem. How far is it to (Notre Dame) ? 
 
 Aven. Will the electric cars take me there? 
 
 Avep. The (blue) car, coming from the (harbor) 
 
 and crossing this street blocks from here, will take you al- 
 most to the door. 
 
 Aveq. I wish to stop at (Notre Dame) ; please let me 
 
 know when we are there. 
 
 Aver. Please send for a cab. 
 
 Aves. Take me (us) to 
 
 What is the fare? 
 
 The speed-recorder registers miles. 
 
 That, then makes francs. 
 
 Come back at (10:30, "Maemzo") and wait for 
 
 Avet. 
 Avev. 
 Avew. 
 Avex. 
 me (us). 
 Avey. 
 Aweb. 
 Awec. 
 Awed. 
 
 *IrTmaking this request, write or draw the mark or marks on a piece of paper. A better 
 way is to have a copy of all marks on baggage and trunks made before embarkation, and 
 to have this available for presentation at any time. 
 
 |One day "bazza," two days "cazza," three days "dazza," etc. For designation of the 
 floor desired, merely write the number: ca, da, or fa, etc., as the case may be. 
 
 What is your number? 
 
 Are there any letters or papers for Mr. 
 
 Is there any mail for me? 
 
 Is there any for Mrs. or Miss 
 
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 Awef. WITH THE BARBER 
 
 Aweg. Where is the barbershop? 
 
 Aweh. I will show you the barbershop. 
 
 Awej. Take this seat, sir. 
 
 Awek. Do you wish a haircut or shave? 
 
 Awel. I want my hair cut. 
 Awem. A shave only. 
 
 Awen. Do you want a face massage? 
 
 Awep. Do you want a shampoo? 
 
 Aweq. Do you take oil on your hair? 
 
 Awer. Do you wish your hair combed dry or wet? 
 
 Awes. Yes, you may shine my shoes. 
 
 Awet. You had better remove your collar. 
 
 Awev. Do you wish your neck shaved? 
 
 Awew. Yes, sir. 
 
 Awex. No, sir. 
 
 Awey. Requests. 
 
 Axeb. Please bring my bill. 
 
 Axec. What is my bill? 
 
 Axed. I wish to settle my bill. 
 
 Axef. I intend to depart in an hour. 
 
 Axeg. Bring this trunk (or these trunks) to station 
 
 and wait there until I come. 
 
 Axeh. I am coming with the omnibus. 
 
 Axej. I am coming in an automobile. 
 
 Axek. I take the street-car. 
 
 Axel. Two tickets for , please. 
 
 Axem. How much per ticket first-class? 
 
 Axen. How much per ticket second-class? 
 
 Axep. How much per ticket third-class? 
 
 Axeq. Where is the baggage checked? 
 
 Axer. Please check this baggage for 
 
 Axes. Please show me your sailing list. 
 
 Axet. I wish to go by a swift steamer. 
 
 Axev. Are there any first-class cabins left? 
 
 Axew. I prefer an outside two-berth cabin. 
 
 Axex. I will take this cabin, it is well located, and it is on the 
 saloon deck, I believe. 
 
 Axey. I have trunks. 
 
 The steamer trunk is wanted. 
 
 I will mark it myself, to avoid mistake. 
 
 What time does the steamer leave? 
 
 What date are we expected to arrive at. 
 
 here are the tickets. 
 
 Axteb. 
 Axtec. 
 Axted. 
 Axtef. 
 
 York)? 
 Axteg. 
 Axteh. 
 Axtel. 
 Axtem. 
 Axten. 
 Axtep. 
 
 . . (New 
 
 How many saloon passengers are registered? 
 How many passengers on second-class? 
 How many steerage passengers? 
 Is this steamer a new vessel? 
 Has this vessel installed wireless apparatus? 
 Will you kindly furnish me a description of this ship 
 
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 length, width, depth, displacement, passenger capacity in each class, 
 freight capacity, regular trips, etc., and the crew. I want to make 
 use of this information in writing up an account of my journey. 
 
 Axteq. Does she also carry much mail? 
 
 Axter. Will we touch Queenstown? 
 
 Axtes. CONDITIONS OF WEATHER 
 
 Axtet. The thermometer registers degrees in the shade. 
 
 Axtev. The thermometer registers degrees out in 
 
 Axtew. The open sun, where men and teams have to work. 
 
 Axtex. The weather is hot and sultry. 
 
 Axtey. The weather is endurable, enabling the performance of 
 a reasonable day's work. 
 
 Ayteb. The weather is cool and refreshing and stimulating, and 
 to work is a pleasure. 
 
 Aytec. The weather is turning quite cold, requiring change of 
 underwear. 
 
 Ayted. Springtime is coming; warm balmy days make heavy 
 underwear uncomfortable guess will have to change. 
 
 Aytef. A thunderstorm visited this part of the country (yester- 
 day) (NOTE: The shortest and surest way is to state date and 
 hour of time by regular Scientific Dial numerals). 
 
 Ayteg. The thunder and lightning were terrible. 
 
 Ayteh. The lightning has struck 
 
 Aytej. The rain is falling moderately. 
 
 Aytek. It is raining, but just a sprinkle. 
 
 Aytel. It rained just enough to settle the dust. 
 
 Aytem. The rain has done much good, giving us a thorough 
 soaking, making plowing and cultivating easy. 
 
 Ayten. The rain came in torrents, swelling creeks and rivers and 
 doing much damage. 
 
 Aytep. The damage from the flood is estimated at 
 
 for the loss of property, including damaged goods, washed-out 
 houses and bridges and the loss of livestock. 
 
 Ayteq. The flood has craven the lives of persons, 
 
 among whom may be enumerated men, women and 
 
 children. 
 
 Ayter. We have indication of frost it may freeze tonight. 
 
 Aytes. If the wind continues it will not freeze. 
 
 Aytet. A calm in the morning may bring frost. 
 
 Aytev. The wind kept up all night, holding off the frost. 
 
 Aytew. A light frost was noticeable last night. 
 
 Aptex. A severe frost visited us last night. 
 
 Aytey. The ground is frozen. 
 
 Aeteb. Winter is approaching. 
 
 Aetec. Snow is falling fast; the flakes, almost as large as mittens, 
 are falling gracefully in the calmest weather. 
 
 Acted. The snow is drifting. 
 
 Aetef. It is a regular midwinter blizzard. 
 
 Aeteg. Causing delay in traffic. 
 
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 Aeteh. Street-cars are blockaded. 
 
 Aetej. Trains are hours late. 
 
 Aetek. Sledding and skating are good. 
 
 Aetel. The bright warm sun is melting the snow. 
 
 Aetem. It is thawing. 
 
 Aeten. The ice is becoming brittle and dangerous. 
 
 Aetep. The road is slippery. 
 
 Aeteq. The road is muddy. 
 
 Aeter. The road is impassable. 
 
 Aetes. The road is just fine and automobiling excellent. 
 
 Aetet. WEATHER CONDITIONS AS AFFECTING CROPS 
 
 Aetev. Weather conditions could not be better suited to fruit. 
 Aetew. It is feared that the continuous rainy and foggy weather 
 may prevent pollenizing and cause a fruit failure. 
 
 Aetex. The almond tree, the indicator of spring, is bursting into 
 bloom. 
 
 Aetey. The (apricots) are blooming. 
 
 Aiteb. Present indications point to an average crop of 
 
 Aitec will be almost total failure this year. 
 
 Aited. Frost has hurt some early varieties. 
 
 Aitef. The Muscatel, Malaga and Thompson seedless grapes 
 have been seriously injured by frost, reducing the average crop to 
 
 per cent. 
 
 Aiteh. The (state kind of fruit or crop) will turn out 
 
 per cent of an average crop. 
 
 We have foggy forenoons and sunny afternoons, generally. 
 
 It is cloudy. 
 
 We have miserable soggy weather; no work in orchards 
 
 to be. . . 
 
 Aitej. 
 
 Aitek. 
 
 Aitel. 
 possible. 
 
 Aitem. 
 
 Aiten. 
 
 It is raining nearly every day. 
 
 It is raining almost every Sunday, enabling almost con- 
 tinuous undisturbed work during the entire week. 
 
 Aitep. Autumn is approaching, leaves are turning in color and 
 beginning to fall. 
 
 Aiteq. Our harvest has been favored with excellent weather. 
 
 Aiter. The September rain did some damage to raisins and dried 
 fruit on trays. 
 
 Aites. Alfalfa in cocks was damaged to some extent by the 
 recent rains. 
 
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 Beb. THE LOVERS' CODE 
 
 It is fit and proper to include in the CODE DEPARTMENT a LOVERS' 
 CODE. Love should be, must be, it is, the mainspring in all noble, 
 elevating and edifying emotions, aspirations and actions. 
 
 Bee. "The soul may sooner leave off to subsist than to love; and, 
 like the vine, it withers and dies if it has nothing to embrace." South. 
 
 Bed. "It is the heat of the universe. Philosophers tell us that 
 without heat the universe would die. And love in the moral universe 
 is what heat is in the natural world. It is the great germinating 
 power. It is the ripening influence. It is the power by which all 
 things are brought steadily up from lower to higher forms." Beecher. 
 
 Bef. "Love is the queen of the graces; it outshines all the others, 
 as the sun the lesser planets." Watson. 
 
 Beg. "Love is the bond that unites all holy intelligences." 
 
 Beh. "Love is the heart of religion, the fat of the offering: it is 
 the grace which Christ inquires most after, Teter, lovest thou Me?' 
 Love makes all our services acceptable, it is the musk that perfumes 
 them." Watson. 
 
 Bej. "Its excellence is manifest in its influence on the heart and 
 life."' 
 
 Bek. "Love and fear are like the sun and moon, seldom seen 
 together." Newton. 
 
 Bel. "Nothing is difficult to love: it will make a man cross his 
 own inclinations to pleasure them whom he loves." Tillotson. 
 
 Bern. "Love is like wings to the bird, like sails to the ship; it 
 carries a Christian full sail to heaven. When love cools, obedience 
 slacks, and drives heavily, because it wants the oil on its wheel that 
 love used to drop." Watson. 
 
 Ben. "Labors of love are light. Routine is a hard master. Love 
 much, and you can do much. Impossibilities disappear when zeal is 
 fervent." Spurgeon. 
 
 Bep. "If you wish to go from one side to the other of a steep, 
 high hill, and there is a road through it, how much better it is to take 
 the road than to climb over the top of the hill. Now there is such 
 a road as this to the performance of duties, and that is the road of 
 love. If a man does the things that he has to do in any other spirit 
 than that of love, they are irksome tasks; but if he does them in a 
 spirit of love, how his face laughs; how his hands tingle; how radiant 
 is every part of his life." Beecher. 
 
 Beq. "Think of the things a mother does for her child. She 
 gives it her life. She cannot serve it enough. To her there is nothing 
 but, 'My babe.' It is her joy, her pleasure, night and day. There 
 are offices that she has to perform toward it that are disagreeable for 
 the moment, but her love for it enables her to perform them with 
 willingness, and forget all connected with them which is unpleasant. 
 And thus are fulfilled the words of Christ when he says, 'My yoke is 
 easy, and my burden is light.' Not that the things which you do 
 from love are not sometimes hard, but that there is a way in which 
 you can engineer hard things and make them seem easy. Love, 
 and love enough, and your burdens will not seem heavy. Love is 
 
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 able to steer you over all difficulty. Employ it, and it will carry you 
 through life with power adequate to your exigencies." Beecher. 
 
 Ber. Love makes the soul beautiful. 
 
 Bes. "The love of Jesus Christ in the heart of man is like a ray of 
 sun shining through the painted windows of a cathedral, coloring 
 and embellishing it, but destroying and displacing no thing. "- 
 Vienney. 
 
 Bet. "Love, that geyser of the soul, can melt the ice and snow of 
 the most frozen regions; wherever its warm springs well up, there 
 glows a southern climate." 
 
 Bev. "With love, the heart becomes a fair and fertile garden, with 
 
 'As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice 
 
 over thee." 
 
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 sunshine and warm hues, and exhaling sweet odors; but without it, 
 it is a bleak desert covered with ashes." 
 
 Bew. "True love alone can awaken and evoke all the nobility and 
 grandeur of human nature." Braden. 
 
 Bex. "To love as Christ loves, is to let our love be practical, and 
 not merely a sentimental thing. Some are in danger of becoming 
 mere religious sentimentalists. They revel in poetry of feeling; 
 they are easily wrought into an effervescence of tenderness; they 
 delight in a storm of emotional vehemency. All this they suppose 
 to be Christian love. Yet it is a love that costs them nothing. They 
 feel much, do little. They are ready for sympathy, but not for sac- 
 rifice. They try, in effect, to divorce benevolence from beneficence. 
 They are the sensitive plants of the church, and not the fruit-bearing 
 trees of righteousness." Stanford. 
 
 Bey. "Love is its own perennial fount of strength. The strength 
 
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 of affection is a proof not of the worthiness of the object, but of the 
 largeness of the soul that loves. Love descends, not ascends. The 
 might of a river depends not on the quality of the soil through which 
 it passes, but on the inexhaustibleness and depth of the spring from 
 which it proceeds. The greater mind cleaves to the smaller with 
 more force than the other to it. A parent loves the child more than 
 the child the parent; and partly because the parent's heart is larger, 
 not because the child is worthier. The Savior loved His disciples 
 infinitely more than His disciples loved Him, because His heart was 
 infinitely larger. Love trusts on, ever hopes and expects better 
 things; and is a trust springing from itself, and out of its own deeps 
 alone/' Roland Hill. 
 
 Ceb. " Alexander, Gaesar, Charlemagne, and I myself, have 
 founded great empires: but upon what do these creations of our 
 genius depend? Upon force. Jesus, alone, founded His empire 
 
 upon love, and to this very day millions would die f or jHim 
 
 I think I understand something of human nature; and I tell you, all 
 these were men; and I am a man: none else like^Him. Jesus Christ 
 was more than man." Napoleon I. 
 
 Cec. "A loving wife, when her husband returns home^from a far 
 country, as soon as she is sensible of his approach or hears his voice, 
 although she be ever so much engaged in business, or forcibly detained 
 from him in the midst of a crowd, yet her heart is not withheld from 
 him, but leaps over all other thoughts to think of her husband who 
 has returned. It is the same with souls that love God." Francis 
 de Sales. 
 
 Ced. "We would please those whom we greatly love. No praises 
 are as sweet as theirs. We can bear the frown of others if they 
 only smile. We often care for no other compensation for toil, and 
 pain, and suffering than their approval. The affectionate child who 
 contends at school or college for some prize of youthful ambition, 
 knows of no stimulant to his industry and exertion like that which 
 he feels when he thinks what may be the joy one day of father and 
 mother, brother and sister, on his account. When he has succeeded 
 in the strife he is not moved by the commendation of his teachers, 
 or the plaudits of his companions, as he is by what he knows will be 
 
 thought, and felt, and said at home It is of the nature of true 
 
 love thus to prize the joy and approval of its object." David Thomas. 
 
 Cef. WINNING A BRIDE 
 
 Ceg. "And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man should 
 be alone; I will make an help-meet for him." Bible. 
 
 Ceh. "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruit- 
 ful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it." Genesis 
 1:28. 
 
 Cej. "For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons 
 marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall 
 thy God rejoice over thee." Isaiah 62:5. 
 
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 Cek. Are you under obligation to anyone? 
 
 Cel. Are you engaged? 
 
 Cem. May I ask your pleasant company to church Sunday? 
 
 Cen. May I call on you Thursday evening? 
 
 Cep. Do your folks seem to have any objection to my calls? 
 
 Ceq. I enjoy and appreciate your company exceedingly. 
 
 Cer. Dear Miss Alma: Please accept this copy of the SCIENTIFIC 
 DIAL PRIMER. It contains expressions for feelings and emotions in 
 young people's hearts, and a mode of communication that is direct, 
 pleasing, and strictly private to the parties using it, by resorting to 
 its marvelous arrangement of keys. It is at the same time a novelty 
 and a revelation. Let us use it in our confidential correspondence. 
 I suggest the key of "Ca" as a starter, as that key is easy to remember, 
 it being one degree only on the descending scale. That is, for ex- 
 ample, when you intimate "La," you write "Ka," just one degree 
 above the one intended in your correspondence. Sincerely and 
 lovingly, MARVIN. 
 
 Ces. Dear Miss: Scarcely had I the pleasure of becoming ac- 
 quainted with you, when I felt the most ardent desire of being 
 united to you for life. Should your heart be still disengaged, and 
 you feel that you can return the affection that I entertain for you, 
 you would make me the happiest man on earth. 
 
 Get. I claim nothing but your amiable person; and your hand is 
 more valuable to me than all the riches of the world. 
 
 Love Triumphant. 
 
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 Cev. Please to decide my fate as soon as possible. 
 Cew. You favorable answer will fill my heart with joy, for no one 
 can love you more than your affectionate friend. 
 
 WELL TESTED AFFECTION 
 
 Cey. Dear Miss: I am so well convinced of the generosity of 
 your character, that I do not hesitate in laying open before you the 
 inmost feelings of my heart. Since I had the pleasure of making 
 your acquaintance, my heart has constantly told me that in you I 
 had found the companion of my life. Your qualities, which I have 
 
 The Trio. 
 
 attentively observed, have produced in me, not a fleeting passion, 
 but a well tested affection. As however, not only my inclination, 
 but also my household obliges me to look for a companion for life, 
 I hesitate no longer to ascertain my fate by asking you the simple 
 question, if you can reciprocate my affection. You know that my 
 circumstances are good, and I assure you that I am firmly resolved 
 to make you happy if you consent to give me your heart and hand 
 for life. 
 
 DELIVER FROM TORMENT 
 
 Deb. Please explain yourself openly and frankly, and deliver me 
 from this torment of uncertainty. As I have unreservedly expressed 
 to you my sentiments, I am convinced that you will answer me in 
 
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 the same spirit, after consulting your heart. Whatever your de- 
 cision may be, I shall always esteem you highly, and if you should 
 return my affection, I entertain a feeling that my happiness will far 
 surpass my fondest hopes. Pardon my timidity if in this I have 
 communicated what I might have told you personally. Anxiously 
 awaiting your reply, I remain your most devoted. 
 
 Dec. Dearest : Indeed, I do not condemn you; stouter 
 
 hearts than a woman's have quailed under similar conditions. Yours 
 is tender and trusting, and needs a stronger one to lean on; so I now 
 come to you with an offer and proffer of marriage. 
 
 Ded. Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you 
 friendship, let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest, the dearest. 
 
 Def. I will teach you to love me, I will make you happy. 
 
 Deg. You couldn't love not yet. You haven't had the expe- 
 rience. You will have to learn. 
 
 Deh. You will make some man happier than ever man was before. 
 
 Dej. I have felt how much you will give how much you will 
 love. I have felt it from the second time I saw you perhaps from 
 the first. 
 
 Dek. I have never seen any woman who interested me as you do 
 who drew me as you do against my ambition, against my will. 
 
 Del. You are a mystery to me. I can't decide whether you are 
 very innocent or very concealing. 
 
 Dem. I have seen so much about faking in women as well as in 
 men that it is hard for me to believe that anyone is genuine. 
 
 Den. Yes, darling you will, you can't help loving where you 
 are loved so utterly. 
 
 Dep. Earth's flowers are maiden's eyes. 
 
 A LITTLE MARVEL 
 
 Deq. Dearest darling, mine: I thank you a thousand times for 
 your sweet, balmy, cordial communication of (Hapelana June 12th, 
 1911). I am also much pleased to learn that you appreciate the 
 simple gift of the SCIENTIFIC DIAL PRIMER. "Simple," I mean, in 
 the sense of value in dollars and cents. I realize, as you say, that 
 it is a little marvel that Dial with its manyfold contents and appli- 
 cations. After only 2 weeks' study during spare moments (I work 
 ten hours a day), I can clearly see how in it we have the elements of 
 universal language that will enable us to communicate with every 
 civilized nation in the world. I am already able to write and under- 
 stand SCIENTIFIC DIAL dating and numerals, and I can see what 
 a labor-saving device it is. 
 
 PURE AND UNALLOYED 
 
 Der. My dear miss: Your quiet domestic life, and the unpre- 
 tending amiability of your whole being, had attracted my attention 
 toward you, but since I have had the pleasure of visiting your 
 family circle, this attention has been converted into esteem, which 
 has since changed to unconquerable heart felt affection. I have 
 
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 Ripening into wifehood and motherhood. 
 
 strictly examined myself if these feelings could be of temporary 
 nature; but no it is sincere and lasting attachment, which neither 
 time nor circumstances can alter. Pardon me, dearly beloved, for 
 thus expressing in language unadorned, the feelings of my heart. 
 My sentiments for you are as pure and unalloyed as my language is 
 simple, and the hope that I am not entirely indifferent to you has 
 encouraged me to disclose them to you thus frankly. Whether I 
 have awakened in your breast similar sentiments, I can not presume 
 to decide, but I trust that if faults have not escaped your excellent 
 judgment, you will also have found in me some good qualities that 
 would plead my cause. I remain with love and esteem yours. 
 
 Des. Charming, lovely Bilane. * 
 
 Det. Even in the still walks of female retirement, the noble and 
 estimable qualities of the heart and head cannot remain concealed. 
 
 Dev. If your parents have no objections to allowing an honest 
 young man, who is without any ties, to visit your family, I shall 
 appreciate the favor to wait upon you personally, to assure you of 
 my esteem, and to ask for your friendship. I shall consider myself 
 happy to be your companion, the confidant of all your hopes and 
 wishes, and your sympathizing friend in all situations of life. 
 
 Dew. If circumstances, of which I am not aware, should make 
 my offer unacceptable, I trust you will treat my importunity with 
 indulgence. 
 
 Dex. My dearest : I thank you for your prompt answer. Though 
 you did not feel ready to answer directly in the affirmative, but prom- 
 ise to take my proposal under consideration, still your answer 
 gives me some hope of favorable results. 
 
 m *Parties corresponding by means of the Scientific Dial Code may agree upon code names 
 to be used in their correspondence. The value of the name here given is $10,931. 
 
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 Dey. Think of it days seem like weeks and weeks like months 
 in waiting. 
 
 UNDER ADVISEMENT 
 
 Feb. My dear : Your prompt answer again reveals to me 
 another virtue, punctuality, which you possess, and which makes 
 you still dearer, sweeter, lovelier in my estimation; and it also makes 
 me happier in the anticipation of the bright morning star in the home, 
 which I hope soon to have established your determination to con- 
 sult your mother has a double meaning for me : it evidences your good 
 sense, and loyalty to the one dearest in our memory, and it also 
 assures me that you appreciate my proposal enough to take the 
 same under advisement. I hope that I have not in any manner 
 made myself unworthy the confidence of your esteemed mother, 
 whom I respect as a lady of high and noble attainments. 
 
 UNDER PROBATION 
 
 Fee. Dearest Alvina. I thank you, dear, for the acceptance, 
 though made conditionally. Like Jacob of old, I shall have to pur- 
 chase a bride with a price, and that price you denominate a sacrifice 
 for you. Now let me state the case. You are making a sacrifice for 
 me, while I, poor wretch, clean up. Well, I was a little bit surprised; 
 but I am persuaded, convinced, subdued, captured and brought a 
 captive to your feet by your logical, consistent, scholarly reasoning. 
 Oh, how that one sentence of yours has burnt itself into my heart, 
 and it is still singeing: "I have had the great opportunity of a 
 Christian mother," you say, "who has concerned herself about the 
 
 A child shall drive them. 
 
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 virtues and purity of her daughters; and I much desire an equally 
 virtuous, clean and pure husband." 
 
 Fed. I wish I could say the same of my mother. She was a good, 
 lovely, kind mother, caring more and working harder for the temporal 
 
 My Diploma. 
 
 welfare of her children than she ought; but she had no concern for 
 their spiritual or moral welfare. So I got into the tobacco habit, as 
 other neglected boys do, without a warning word from home, which 
 could hardly be expected, as father is both a chewer and smoker 
 himself. But, darling sweetheart, I buried both the pipe and a half 
 pound of tobacco several feet into the ground the moment I got your 
 
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 communication. I now promise you and my God never to touch the 
 nasty weed again. And when I shall have the next pleasure to meet you, 
 honey sweetheart, I shall claim a kiss for it. But that long year of 
 probation! I intended to establish our new home in three months, 
 if you were ready, and now I find out that it is that bad habit of mine 
 which has made me unfit for wedlock for a whole year. 
 
 Fef. I submit. Should or would I in any manner be the cause of 
 misery or aptitude for bad habits, or lack of energy, or abnormal 
 tendencies, communicated to coming generations? Rather would I 
 resolve upon continency forever or be dead than to be a propagator 
 of disease among my offspring. 
 
 Feg. I thank you, honey, most cordially and sincerely for the 
 stand you have taken. I hope to become a worthy and grateful 
 disciple under your tutelage during the coming year. I rejoice that 
 henceforth you are mine. In return I am assigned unreservedly with 
 all my belongings to you. 
 
 Feb. Dearest Alvina, I have considered all the morning what 
 present might be most agreeable to you ; at last I determined to send 
 you my miniature, and to request you to wear it as a token of my love. 
 
 INSULTING TREATMENT 
 
 Fej. Dear Miss Lela. I could never have supposed that a lady, 
 whom I have always treated with the utmost respect, would so far 
 insult the feelings of a man, whose heart beats for her alone. Your 
 conduct has convinced me that the happiness of him, who is so sin- 
 cerely devoted to you, is of no importance to you, and if your conduct 
 toward me does not change I shall be obliged to bid you farewell 
 forever, however miserable such a separation would make me. 
 
 Fek. A QUEEN, A RULER OF THE HOUSE 
 Servants may be hired for money 
 
 Fresno, California, Japelana. 
 
 Fel. Dearest (Ruth): Your most entertaining and interesting 
 and sensible letter just at hand and contents carefully perused. I 
 read it to father and mother, and they have become so enthusiastic 
 over your proposition that they have requested me to inform you 
 that they have decided to support you during your proposed studies. 
 Your letter opened wide the door to their hearts. They were some- 
 what reluctant before, not so that they opposed, and yet a certain 
 something kept them from cordial sympathy and a whole hearted 
 welcome. But now why, mother is talking about you all the time; 
 and how she rejoices in anticipation of your coming into our family. 
 
 RESPLENDENT AND BEAUTIFUL 
 
 Fein. Only one thing in your letter is causing me grief. You 
 seem to think of nothing else than to please and to serve me. Dearest 
 darling, how could I think for a moment that you should become a 
 better housekeeper and of better service to me! Though I most 
 cheerfully favor your proposition, though I appreciate exceedingly 
 
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 your honest and earnest efforts to prepare yourself for a useful life: 
 I assure you that both your efforts and mine will and shall redound 
 in a happy home, resplendent and beautiful, and in that home shall 
 MY Love, the one who owns me wholly, entirely, and who by her 
 untarnished virtues, her unselfish love and self-sacrificing devotion 
 has captured and made subservient a whole family, will in time exert 
 a dominating influence in the community; and, darling, by becoming 
 a blessing, as you are preparing yourself to be, rivers and oceans of 
 blessing will redound to you, and to lucky me, by way of combination 
 and co-operation. 
 
 Fen. Dearly beloved, I am not looking for a housekeeper, nor am 
 I looking for a servant, for such I can hire for money, but I am look- 
 ing for a queen, a ruler of my house, a life-partner, life-mate; a 
 genuine home-maker, home-establisher, home-maintainer; a home- 
 attraction, a home embellishment, a persona grata and this I 
 have the happy assurance of having in you, prospectively, as yet, 
 but in reality in faith and hope. 
 
 Fep. Oh, how I long and pant for the day you shall enter our home 
 to depart no more. May the Lord which we both endeavor to serve 
 and to glorify, lead us in his path and grant our prayers. 
 
 Feq. Mother sends you a letter, too. Open it carefully, for I 
 suspicion something may drop out. 
 
 Fer. I send a little package by express which I hope will be ac- 
 cepted as a token of love and appreciation. 
 
 Sincerely and lovingly (Louis). 
 
 THE CAPTURED MOTHER-IN-LAW 
 
 Fresno, California, Japelana. 
 Miss (Ruth Johnson), 
 Loversville, Amoria. 
 
 Fes. My dear daughter: Your recent letter has captivated my 
 heart for you. I want to apologize and ask your pardon for any 
 feeling I may have had against you. I had a notion that you were 
 too young for Louis and that you wanted him for the purpose of 
 getting into our family and home to find plenty of everything, and 
 what we have saved for many years might soon melt away. 
 
 Fet. But your thoughtful letter represents an entirely different 
 girl from what I thought you to be. I want to welcome you into our 
 family and home as a dear daughter, for now I understand that I can 
 turn over the house to you and know that it will be in safe hands. 
 
 Fev. And I want to pay for the additional education, which you 
 propose. I suggested that to father, and he is delighted and agrees 
 with me in this, so we both bid you welcome. 
 
 Enclosed find draft for (mizzy $50.00) for a starting, 
 
 and more will follow when needed. I have sent you a dress pattern 
 and some other little things by express. Receive and accept these 
 as a token of our sincerity and love. 
 
 Affectionately, 
 
 (Juliana Jones). 
 
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 HAVE IT YOUR OWN WAY, DARLING 
 
 Fresno, Cal., Javelana. 
 
 Few. Dearest (Ruth): I never expected you to pour out 
 your soul the way you do. Your last letter is a GEM and you are the 
 PEARL. It is not the appreciation of yourself but our appreciation 
 of you that counts. You would not prevent me from considering 
 you in the terms I have expressed, would you? You admitted that 
 much when you wrote that admirable sentence, "Well, have it your 
 own way, darling." I consider you fully competent and qualified for 
 the position tendered. you, and the additional preparation, as pro- 
 posed, will more than meet my highest anticipation and my most 
 exaggerated claims. Now, therefore, beloved, rest easy. Don't 
 worry. Don't overwork. Personally, I would prefer to fix an early 
 date for our marriage. Four, and perhaps six months, appear as so 
 many years to me, to my anxious yearning, longing heart for you. 
 However, we will make the best of it on either side. I pray God to 
 bless you, to give you strength, and to make' our lives useful and 
 blissful. 
 
 Sincerely, longingly and lovingly, 
 
 Louis. 
 
 AN ANSWER TO PRAYERS 
 
 Fresno, California, Jaselana. 
 
 Fex. Dearest Daughter (Ruth) : Your lovely letter received, and 
 I have read it and re-read it, and I have soaked it in tears. It is your 
 humbleness, your self-abasement that makes you so dear and lovely, 
 dear Ruth. How different you are from other girls. I have continued 
 in prayer to God to give Louis a wife of His own selection; and I re- 
 joice now in the assurance, that you, dear Ruth, are that gift of God I 
 have been asking for; that you are the answer to my prayers. You 
 have changed my prayers to thanksgiving. 
 
 Fey. I again send you a few little trinkets as tokens of our love. 
 Father sends his love, too. You are always in our minds and prayers. 
 Louis is having the house re-painted and renovated both outside and 
 inside. The boy is planning and working early and late as never be- 
 fore. But he is not alone, for father and I are doing all we can to fix 
 things in first-class shape for the arrival of our beloved. 
 
 Geb. Dear Ruth, our correspondence may have been somewhat 
 exciting for you as it has for us. You now need quiet and composure 
 for the prosecution of your studies. I think that you are now satis- 
 fied in your own mind that we all esteem you highly and that a 
 hearty welcome awaits you when your course is finished. 
 
 Gee. I shall be pleased to receive a few lines from you occasionally. 
 We have arranged to pay all your expenses, so your own savings must 
 not be used for any part thereof. 
 
 Affectionately, 
 
 JULIANA JONES. 
 
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 Ged. A PEARL AMONG WOMEN 
 
 Gef . Dearest (Louie) : Don't you think I had better take a course 
 in Domestic Science before we marry? I feel much inclined that way. 
 I want to know more about the Science of Housekeeping, the care of 
 the sick, and such other matters as will be serviceable in the family. 
 I have taken a course in dressmaking and millinery, enough to make 
 my every day clothing at least; and by taking an additional four or 
 six months course in Domestic Science I think I could consider myself 
 qualified for housekeeping. You have qualified yourself for your 
 occupation and life work. I should consider myself as a good-for- 
 nothing companion to you if I failed to do the same. 
 
 Geg. The grammar and high-school courses we have taken have 
 given us some idea of ourselves and the world which we live in, but 
 we were not taught the science of making good and wholesome bread, 
 the nutritious properties and value of cereals, fruits, nuts and meats, 
 and the various modes of preparation to make palatable, wholesome 
 nourishment for. the human body, suitable for various ages and con- 
 ditions. 
 
 Geh. Some instruction in nursing and the care of the sick would 
 not be amiss, either, -and may relieve suffering and save doctor's 
 bills. 
 
 Gej. I think that by acquiring some knowledge and practice along 
 these lines I would become a better and more useful housekeeper and 
 of better service to my darling, prospective husband. 
 
 Gek. It is better to endure a little more now, before we come to- 
 gether to establish our home, than for you to find out my ignorance, 
 shortcoming or incompetency afterward. 
 
 Gel. May I ask for your pleasure in the matter hinted at at your 
 earliest convenience. 
 
 Lovingly, RUTH. 
 
 IT MAKES ME BLUSH 
 
 Gem. Dearest Louie: I am in receipt of your wonderful letter 
 and the fine presents. Darling mine, the thing makes me blush. I 
 am afraid that I can never, no, never, come up to your ideals of a wife. 
 If I didn't love you the way I do, and if I didn't know what a dear, 
 affectionate, patient, forbearing soul you are, I would feel constrained 
 to back out. 
 
 Gen. Well, have it your own way, darling. For my part, I feel 
 that I shall be happy only in your company, and that there isn't 
 another young man in all the world that could make me happy. 
 
 Gep. If, therefore, there is anything in me, and if there is any- 
 thing that I can be or do to make you happy, and to please your dear 
 and lovely parents, that would I be and do for the pleasure there is 
 in the act of pleasing you, and to know and see that you are happy; 
 and, darling, if I may have the consciousness that you are pleased 
 and happy because of me, that will fill my cup of joy and satisfaction 
 to overflowing. 
 
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 A lover of flowers. 
 
 Geq. I have received a letter and a lot of nice things from your 
 mother, and I will mail an answer to her letter at the same time that 
 I mail this letter to you. I am glad and thankful for the change of 
 sentiment in your parents. May I be worthy of their affection and 
 sacrifices! which I well understand is coming to me for your sake. 
 Your loving kindness, thus already overflowing, is adding greatly to 
 my enjoyment and happiness. What divine favor and grace for me 
 to be the choice to enter into and to become engrafted into such a 
 respectable family as yours. 
 
 Kindest greetings and love to all. 
 
 Lovingly, RUTH. 
 
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 WHEN LOVE is GENUINE 
 
 Ger. Dear Mrs. Jones: Many ; many thanks for your kind letter 
 and the presents. It all came as a surprise, but all the more appre- 
 ciated. While I rejoice in the anticipation of becoming the wife of your 
 son, the loveliest and handsomest young gentleman in all the world, 
 and while I consider it a great favor and a matchless opportunity to 
 enter your family, and to esteem you, and to adore you as mother, 
 still, your letter, and that of Louie also, is placing me way above my 
 
 actual worth and ability. Dear mother (Jones) I am nothing 
 
 but a poor, ignorant, silly girl, just trying just trying to fit myself 
 for life's duties. If you will accept me as I am, have patience with 
 me, will allow me the position of your own daughter, to be guided by 
 your long life of practice and experience in housekeeping, I shall be 
 happy and do the very best I can. That is all I can do. The object of 
 my whole life is and shall be to make dear Louie and you happy in such 
 measure as it is within me to do it. / say "within me," for I know that 
 when love is genuine, and I and my being am truly acceptable, lovable and 
 loved, then will my doings be gauged thereby, and my failures and short- 
 comings condoned, or at least kindly considered. 
 
 Greetings and love to all, 
 
 RUTH. 
 
 RESPONSORY 
 
 Ges. Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above 
 rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he 
 shall have no need of spoil. House and riches are the inheritance of 
 fathers, and a prudent wife is from the Lord. Whoso findeth a wife 
 findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor of the Lord. Every wise 
 woman buildeth her house; but the foolish plucketh it down with her 
 hands. A virtuous woman is a crown to .her husband. Solomon. 
 
 Get. If I am engaged? Surely, to the broom and dishpan, and 
 that old monarch the cook-stove. 
 
 Gev. I am not engaged, am under no obligation, am as free as the 
 robin on his bough to fly whither ever he pleaseth. 
 
 Gew. Yes, sir, I am engaged. 
 
 Gex. Sir, your attention is too intimate and becoming embarrass- 
 ing to me. I therefore wish to inform you that my inclinations are 
 tending in another direction. Therefore you must seek your com- 
 panion elsewhere, and I wish you the best success and abundant 
 happiness. Sincerely, .Lou ISA. 
 
 Gey. Dear Sir: I don't feel inclined to accept a wooing substi- 
 tute. If your estimable friend does not consider me worth the wooing 
 in person, I surely am not worth the winning. 
 
 Heb. That is the way with you men; you don't understand us 
 women; you cannot. When you have made up your minds, after 
 thinking of this one and that one, choosing, selecting, rejecting, com- 
 paring one with the other, then you make known your desire with 
 
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 abrupt and sudden avowal, and are offended and hurt, and indignant, 
 perhaps, that a woman does not respond at once to a love that she 
 never suspected; does not attain at a bound the height to which you 
 have been climbing. This is not right nor just: for surely a woman's 
 affection is not a thing to be asked for, and to be had for only the 
 asking. Longfellow. 
 
 Hec. When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it. 
 
 Hed. You will forgive me, I hope, for the sake of friendship be- 
 tween us, which is too true and too sacred to be so easily broken. 
 
 Hef. No, you are angry with me, for speaking so frankly and 
 freely. It is wrong, I acknowledge; for it is the fault of woman long 
 to be patient and silent, to. wait until some questioning voice dissolves 
 the spell of silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women 
 sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers, running through 
 caverns of darkness, unseen, unheard and unfruitful. 
 
 Heg. He is a little chimney and heated hot in a moment. 
 
 Heh. Truly I thank you for this; how good you have been to me 
 always. 
 
 Hej. You have been in love. 
 
 Hek. I'd want someone of my own age. 
 
 Hel. I couldn't ever think of you in that way. 
 
 Hem. You mustn't come again; I don't like some kinds of secrets. 
 
 Hen. No, it isn't my dream. My dream can never, never, become 
 true. 
 
 Hep. Do you think I am trying to deceive you about what? 
 
 Heq. I don't believe I could ever think of you in that way. 
 
 Her. I don't know whether you are sincere as yet. So for the 
 present I will give you the benefit of the doubt. I don't want you to 
 kiss me as yet it wouldn't be the proper thing to do. You must 
 respect a young woman's modesty, and understand that she has an 
 invaluable asset in her dignity. 
 
 THE OLD CLOCK DIAL 
 
 Hes. Dearest Simon: For that wonderful little marvel you sent 
 me, the Scientific Dial, I thank you most cordially and sincerely. 
 Reading the introduction, I have found more in the old clock dial 
 than I have ever thought of or heard of before. How little we realize 
 and appreciate the actuating, controlling influences about us. I 
 never before realized the congruence and universal use of the clock, 
 nor the other fact that that dial speaks all languages of the world. 
 The same is claimed for this new the Scientific Dial, and I believe 
 it. It is such a novelty that I don't know which to admire the most 
 its construction or contents. Anyway, it is giving us immeasurable 
 amusement. The boys and girls have abandoned their other toys 
 for this one, deciphering the value of their names and every other that 
 they can think of. The temptation was too great even for me, so I 
 have figured out that your "sweetheart is worth three hundred 
 thousand and fourteen dollars, and that my darling beats me more 
 than five to one, his Scientific Dial value being $1,600,070.71. But 
 that is as it should be, for woman's real value may be realized only 
 
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 in her relation with man. I have also found out that by means of 
 the Dial code I can order my millinery and trinkets directly from 
 Paris, if I want to; but don't get scared, dear, I ain't. Really, I 
 despise that kind of doing. 
 
 See if my figuring and deciphering are correct. I will use the 
 Scientific Dial as much as possible in our correspondence. 
 
 Kindliest greetings, 
 
 DORA. 
 Het. Dreams of gold make young hearts old. 
 
 HAVE NOT RECIPROCATED 
 
 Hev. Sir: Your assurance of love and the proposal to marry 
 you, have been carefully and prayerfully considered. In your com- 
 pany, I have also noticed your inclination for some time; and, I think, 
 you have also noticed that I have not reciprocated. The main reason 
 for this is that you have several times slighted your mother. You 
 have shown disregard and contempt of her who has reared you, 
 nursed you, watched over you, and coddled you in your infancy and 
 weakness. She is therefore worthy of your regard, respect and filial 
 devotion. A young man who in any way disregards and slights his 
 mother will not become a kind and devoted husband. My answer 
 must therefore be in the negative. For as a young man treats his 
 mother, so will he eventually treat his wife. 
 
 THROUGH THE DRAMSHOP 
 
 Hew. Sir: I hasten to inform you that I esteem it a hazardous 
 thing for any young woman to become the life-mate of a young man, 
 however talented and promising in other respects he may be, who 
 starts in life through the dramshop and may be seen at the gambling 
 table. The filthiness of these institutions poisons the system and 
 besmirches the character of any young man. And, besides, your 
 passion for tobacco, continuously chewing, smoking, spitting 
 Pshaw! Your corpus has become so saturated with poisons and 
 filth that your company is undesirable by any respectable young 
 woman who is in any way concerned about her future home and 
 happiness. I, therefore, respectfully decline. 
 
 DISGUSTING PROFANITY 
 
 Hex. Sir: Your profanity has disgusted me. Your conversation 
 reveals the company which you cherish, and your prayers are indica- 
 tions of the god which you worship and the place you have chosen 
 for your eternal abode. As I don't wish to meet you there, I shall 
 decline to accompany you on the road thither. 
 
 THE FOOL SAITH 
 
 Hey. Yes; a fool saith in his heart, "There is no God." Such 
 a fool can find no enjoyment in my company; nor would I in his; for 
 our ways and destinies are as far apart as light is from darkness, 
 Christ from Satan, Heaven from hell. 
 
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 PARENTS REFUSE 
 
 Jeb. Dear Sir: My parents absolutely refuse their consent. The 
 thought of our possible union brings mother to tears. I can not deny 
 that I feel a certain attraction toward you, though I can not say that 
 I am really in love, as yet, but I could not entertain any proposition 
 from you under present conditions; nor would I lead you into expecta- 
 tions that might become disappointing. I also believe in the guidance 
 and paternal care of my Heavenly Father, in all matters, and partic- 
 ularly in this; I therefore look upon this obstacle as a sign, that the 
 contemplation is not in accordance with his good will. Anyway, 
 were our union according to His will, He would remove the obstacle. 
 
 CONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE 
 
 Jec. My Dearest: Your offer and proffer has been carefully con- 
 sidered. I am convinced of your sincerity and earnestness. I have 
 also examined myself for some time, as our association has been so 
 intimate for some time that our affection and attraction toward one 
 another have naturally paved the way for this mutual outburst of 
 sentiment and sacred avowals. Now, darling, assuring you of my 
 affection and love, I will accept on one condition. I have thought 
 of calling your attention to that several times, but have felt awkward 
 and timid; and, perhaps, it would have been unbecoming for a young 
 woman to mention it, as up to this time our relation has been only 
 that of intimate friendship. But now, since you have made your 
 request, it seems the proper time for me to open my heart to you 
 without reservation, as I know of your manliness, your determination 
 and perseverance in doing what is right, becoming, benefiting, ele- 
 vating, edifying; and, not the least but the noblest, your forbearance 
 and long suffering, assuring me that you will not take offense. 
 
 Jed. Now, darling, dear, do you know that the tobacco habit, 
 acquired in youth, becomes a passion, leading good men into bondage? 
 Do you know that the nicotin, found in the leaves of the tobacco 
 plant, is a poisonous alkaloid, which saturates the system? Do you 
 know that this poison, and the effect it has on tissues, becomes heredi- 
 tary, and thus affects and weakens offspring? Thus coming genera- 
 tions will be made to suffer from indulgences of the present. You 
 and I are old enough to look at conditions, present and future, se- 
 riously. For my part, I realize, in part at least, the responsibility of 
 wifehood and motherhood. I fully realize, too, that it is the mother 
 who has to endure the most in nursing and taking care of sickly, 
 cross or deformed children. And as I have had the inestimable ad- 
 vantage of a Christian mother, who has concerned herself about the 
 virtue and purity of her daughters, I much desire an equally clean, 
 virtuous and pure husband. 
 
 Jef. The condition, therefore, of my acceptance, is this: That 
 you quit the use of tobacco in all its forms. If you are sincere in your 
 love, if your many assurances and flatteries are expressions of genuine 
 devotion, if you take the view of our present and future welfare and 
 happiness for ourselves and the usefulness for God and society se- 
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 easy, and determined efforts made. It will take at least a year to 
 eradicate from your system the poison already contracted, therefore 
 at any time a year hence you may arrange our wedding feast, and I 
 shall regard myself unreservedly yours. With love and devotion I 
 am and forever shall be your sweetheart, 
 
 ALVINA. 
 
 UNFEIGNED FAITH AND PURITY 
 
 Jeg. Dearest Theodore: I thank you most sincerely for kind 
 attention and the many flattering epithets and assurances of love and 
 devotion. It is now important that we should turn our minds to 
 more serious phases of life and the meaning of our existence in this 
 world, and the purpose of that existence. We believe in Providence, 
 don't we, dear? 
 
 Jeh. Both of us have the advantage and benefit of Christian 
 parents. I have listened to my mother's fervent prayers ever since 
 I can remember, and my father's prayers too. How often have I 
 heard mother pray, sometimes in tears, that her children may con- 
 tinue her Christian life in faith; and that they may grow stronger 
 through grace to the glory of God, than she has been. 
 
 Jej. She has often repeated the words of Paul the apostle to 
 Timothy: "I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, 
 which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; 
 and I am persuaded that in thee also, wherefore I put thee in remem- 
 brance that thou stir up the gift of God." She has continued in the 
 faith of her mother, and so beautifully embellished her life in the life 
 of her own; and now it is her desire and daily prayer, that her faith 
 and Christian life shall be continued and embellished in her children, 
 to the glory of God and the elevation of humanity, to better use and 
 greater enjoyment in this life of the bounteous blessings bestowed 
 upon us by our beneficent Heavenly Father. You can well under- 
 stand, how these prayers and admonitions by a saintly, loving mother 
 have impressed me with a desire to realize and carry into effect and 
 development in my life, and resulting and growing out of my life or 
 very existence the ideals cherished by her, rather advancing than 
 retrograding, or reaching merely to her level. Think of this. 
 
 Jek. Tell me frankly, sincerely, as in the sight of God, your own 
 standing and life ideals in this respect. Can I expect in you a life 
 companion who has this inborn tendency and disposition by the 
 Spirit of God, a burning desire to receive God's highest and noblest 
 blessings in order to become a blessing to our age, reverting to God 
 in praise and glory and honor to His holy name? 
 
 THE BLOOM INTACT 
 
 Jel. Just one other thing. I recognize and appreciate your 
 religious ancestry. I know that your parents have endeavored to 
 rear a pure and virtuous son. But has your craft been piloted safely 
 by the cliffs and rocks into the haven of ripe manhood without 
 scratches and wounds, leaving life-long scars and tormenting mem- 
 ories, defiling, perhaps, trusting innocence? A young woman, who 
 
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 has been reared by a saintly mother in virtue and purity of mind 
 and body and like the virgin grapevine would offer its first fruit with 
 bloom intact to its husbandman, has she not the right to claim in 
 return consideration of similar kind? We are old enough, and should 
 have intelligence enough, to consider seriously the problems of life. 
 Jem. t- 1 have decided upon certain ideals and qualifications with 
 reference to my life-mate and I am praying daily to God to lead me 
 to my destiny, as He has it mapped out for me. I firmly believe that 
 He will lead me tenderly to the plot in His vineyard, reserved for me, 
 in His good and acceptable time. Until then, I have my Sunday- 
 school class, which is steadily growing in numbers and interest. 
 
 Beautiful Spring An emblem of youth. 
 
 Jen. This communication is longer than I at first intended; but 
 what I have to say had better be said now. I think it will help us 
 both to come to some conclusion, either one way or the other. 
 
 Your sincere friend, 
 
 NAOMI. 
 CAUSE OF FEMALE AILMENTS 
 
 Jep. Dear Charles: I hasten to acknowledge receipt of your 
 letter. It is somewhat of a surprise to me, the way you state your 
 feelings and affection toward me; but this I know, that I have not 
 in any way, by look or act, aroused these sentiments. 
 
 Jeq. I am glad to learn that you gave yourself to Christ during 
 the revival meetings in your town. And I rejoice to greet you and to 
 consider you a Christian friend. But your request to marry you is 
 entirely another matter. In the first place, I don't know what effect 
 your life in sin has had on your body though your soul has now 
 been healed. 
 
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 Jer. I heard in a Woman's Christian Temperance Union lecture 
 recently that eighty per cent of female ailments and diseases among 
 married women, requiring surgical operation, were caused by hus- 
 bands having led an immoral life in their youth. How terrible! I 
 can think of wifehood and motherhood without anxiety, but quiver 
 at the thought of the operation table or the divorce-court. Though 
 I am yet free to accept or reject, I shall do neither at the present, but 
 will abide further development. Cling to the Rock of Ages, and 
 commit yourself unreservedly unto the blessed Saviour. He is a 
 Healer and Saviour of both soul and body. 
 
 Your sincere friend, LOTTIE. 
 
 Jes. You propose Kaselana for our wedding, but that date is not 
 suitable for me. Lamelana will suit my conditions better. 
 
 Our Boys. 
 
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 Jet. THE LEAP-YEAR CODE 
 
 This chapter of the Scientific Dial Code has been suggested by 
 three incidents of so much importance that they demand serious 
 attention. 
 
 Jev. THE STORK verms THE POODLE-DOG 
 
 Is the proper heading of the first incident. 
 
 Jew. An elderly lady, belonging to the Old Maid Class, had a 
 poodle dog, which she fondled and cuddled and caressed most ten- 
 derly, decorating him with ribbons and various ornaments, which 
 she would be engaged in changing and rearranging for hours at a 
 time, seemingly forgetting everything else. 
 
 Jex. A gentleman, having noticed this for some time, spoke 
 harshly of her, denouncing her as foolish, perverted, childish, and 
 using other similar epithets. 
 
 Jey. A visiting lady, the sister to the harsh gentleman, hearing 
 this, and having become acquainted with the derided lady, one day 
 took her brother to task for his sneering epithets, saying in fact: 
 
 Keb. "Frank, how little you understand the real nature, feeling, 
 sentiment and affection of women. That fondling, coddling, car- 
 essing, and, perhaps, as you contend, kissing of the poodle dog, is 
 simply the outburst of suppressed or inclosed and shut-up motherly 
 affection and love; it is feminine motherly instinct just as much as 
 the fondling of the doll by your little darling daughter is feminine, 
 motherly instinct. Why don't James and George fondle dolls too? 
 They follow their masculine instinct and play railroads and horse 
 racing. Now, Frank, don't you see? 
 
 Kec. "Much rather would this poor lady have had a baby, a 
 loving and lovely child of her own to caress and fondle. But her 
 opportunity has passed her by; her chance is gone, lost; she has been 
 left behind. Instead of this sneering and ridicule of yours, Frank, 
 show her sympathy." 
 
 Ked. "But she may have had many and excellent proposals, but has 
 refused, and then she has no one but herself to blame," maintained 
 Frank. 
 
 Kef. "She may and she may not," reproved Mrs. B. "She may 
 have had her eye on some young man, an ideal in her estimation, 
 and she waited for him to propose. He may have shown her some 
 attention, justifying her anticipation. But her ideal did not pro- 
 pose, and custom has made it undignified for women to inquire, to 
 ascertain. Had custom and public sentiment allowed her to propose, 
 or in some way to make known her feeling toward this young man, 
 she might have found ready response; or a refusal from him would 
 have relieved her, and she could have turned her attention in another 
 direction." 
 
 Keg. "You cannot imagine the disappointment of this woman. 
 She has been ambitious and energetic. In her younger days, she 
 may have fancied herself the proud mother of a statesman like 
 Sumner or Gladstone, an orator like Daniel Webster or Wendell 
 
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 Phillips, an inventor like Thomas Edison or Marconi, a soldier 
 like U. S. Grant or von Moltke, a preacher like Talmage or Bishop 
 Ireland; or, at least, a successful merchant or a progressive farmer. 
 
 Keh. "You have no idea how in her girlhood innocence she 
 planned her home, caressed, encouraged and assisted her anticipated 
 husband, and how she raised and schooled her children. 
 
 Kej. "Lost! Lost!! All this is lost to her. All these fancies 
 were at one time in her life possibilities; now they are bygone dreams. 
 I once heard a woman in this perdition say, 'No hope;' and I noticed 
 something, glittering like a diamond, rolling down her pale cheeks. 
 
 Kek. "Oh, that lamentable, melancholy, despairing, sobbing out- 
 burst, 'No Hope!' Think what it means for a woman and have 
 compassion with her, and throw a ray of sunshine on her path when 
 you can." 
 
 Kel. These are heart touching words, burning with the fervent 
 animation of womanhood, wifehood, motherhood. 
 
 Kem. The Scientific Dial Code System offers a remedy. It 
 would fall short of its purpose and aim if it did not. 
 
 Ken. The second instance now follows, and it is self-explaining. 
 
 Kep. ALL-CONQUERING LOVE 
 
 Keq. "Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine 
 arm; for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave (sheol); 
 the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame." 
 
 Ker. "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods 
 drown it: if a man would give all his substance of his house for love, 
 it would be utterly contemned." 
 
 Kes. "I am a wall, and my breasts like towers; then was I in his 
 eyes as one that found favor." 
 
 Ket. "My vineyard, which is mine, is before me; thou, O Solo- 
 mon, must have a thousand thou that dwellest in the gardens. 
 
 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young 
 
 hart upon the mountains of spices." Solomon's Songs, Chapter 8. 
 
 Kev. BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION 
 
 Kew. The power of genuine love and the efficacy of true, noble, 
 loyal hearts are beautifully demonstrated in the following brief 
 sketch. 
 
 Kex. True love is never blind, though often so misjudged. 
 
 Key. The story of a frail woman marrying a blind man, nearly 
 twenty years her senior, both without means for their support, yet 
 raising a family of children, all well fed and well clothed, and, besides, 
 buying real estate and accumulating wealth not by speculation, 
 chances in lotteries or the kind, but by day labor at small wages. 
 
 Leb. How WAS IT DONE? 
 
 Lee. The following pages tell the simple story: 
 Led. August Olson, known as the "Blind Olson" (Swedish, 
 "Blinde Olson"), was for ten years (from 1888 to 1898) an inmate in 
 
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 the Swedish Home of Mercy at Bowmanville, Chicago, Illinois, 
 having been admitted into this institution as an invalid and a desti- 
 tute. 
 
 Lef. Mrs. Betty Olson (Swedish Bengta) was admitted into the 
 Swedish Covenant Hospital (situated near the Home of Mercy), in 
 May, 1890, as an invalid. She regained health and strength and was 
 discharged in February, 1891. 
 
 Leg. But she was confined to her bed for several months during 
 the first period of her infirmity in the hospital. 
 
 Leh. Mr. Olson had committed to memory many passages of 
 Scripture and Gospel hymns, while having the use of his eyes. 
 
 Lej. And his memory became even more nimble, receptive and 
 retentive, in his blind state. 
 
 Lek. He, therefore, spent many an hour in the invalids' wards. 
 
 Lei. Comforting, encouraging, praying and singing. 
 
 Lem. This greatly delighted the inmates. 
 
 Len. It relieved them, 
 
 Lep. And helped them to forget their pain or misery for the 
 while, 
 
 Leq. And made the dreary hours shorter. 
 
 Ler. One of the most attentive listeners was our Bengta, 
 
 Les. And she would not forget to say a word of appreciation. 
 
 Let. A thank you very much, 
 
 Lev. God bless you, brother Olson ( ), 
 
 Lew. Call again, 
 
 Lex. Call often. 
 
 Ley. "The sound of the familiar steps was eagerly longed for" 
 
 Meb. She writes. 
 
 Mec. Being able to sit up 
 
 Med. By her bed, 
 
 Mef . She would entertain her friend 
 
 Meg. By reading magazine articles and 
 
 Meh. By reading newspaper articles, and 
 
 Mej. By reading passages of Scripture, and 
 
 Mek. By reading new songs and hymns that were sung in 
 
 Mel. Revival meetings. 
 
 Mem. These he soon learned by heart and would then 
 
 Men. Entertain her in return 
 
 Mep. By singing them. ( ) 
 
 Meq. So PASSED THE AUTUMN AND 
 
 Mer. So passed the winter until February ( ) when 
 
 Met. Betty ( ) left the hospital and 
 
 Mev. Went to San Jose, California. 
 
 Mew. But no one missed her more than the blind Olson, for 
 
 Mex. No one had entertained him as she did. 
 
 Mey. THREE YEARS PASSED 
 
 Neb. During that time, correspondence was carried on between 
 them 
 
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 Nee. As Christian friends. ( ) Olson had a room 
 
 mate, Carlson, by name, a cripple and invalid, who wrote 
 
 Ned. To Olson's dictation. 
 
 Nef. Betty had become the favorite maidservant in 
 
 Neg. A wealthy family in San Jose, with 
 
 Neh. A salary of forty dollars ( ) per month. 
 
 Nej. Of this she sent five dollars per month ( ) reg- 
 ularly to her father in Sweden ( ). 
 
 Nek. On her return from Sweden ( ) in 1897, (....) 
 
 Nel. She came through Chicago ( ), 
 
 Nem. At the same time visiting the hospital ( ), where 
 
 she had been an inmate ( ), and 
 
 Nen. Seeing also her old friend, the blind Olson ( ). 
 
 Nep. The attraction toward one another had grown stronger 
 
 Neq. It had become more than intimate friendship, 
 
 Ner. It had become fervid, unquenchable love. 
 
 Nes. They talked the matter over, and 
 
 Net. Agreed to submit Jtheir*case and themselves, unreservedly 
 to the will and guidance of God. He could open a way, if, indeed, 
 their affection for one another were imbued by Him. 
 
 Nev. So they departed, Betty again started for California, and 
 found employment in Oakland. ( ) 
 
 New. Here she joined the Swedish Mission Church ( ) 
 
 and was soon appointed deaconess ( ), which indicates her 
 
 standing and earnestness and zeal as a Christian. 
 
 Nex. Olson had fifty dollars (....)> which a certain person had 
 been owing him for many years, and 
 
 Ney. The collection of the same was doubtful. 
 
 Peb. He, therefore, made it a condition in his prayers and plead- 
 ing with God, that if this amount were voluntarily paid to him, and 
 
 Pec. This amount being about the second-class fare to California, 
 ( ) then it would indicate God's will for him to marry Betty. 
 
 Ped. But if this money were not to come, then he would consider 
 that an indication that their desire did not meet with God's favor. 
 
 Pef. The money ($50) was paid in January, 1898, and with it 
 came the assurance which hejhad been praying for. 
 
 Peg. He now informed his fiancee that God had made it clear to 
 his mind that they should marry and that he wanted to come to Oak- 
 land the following summer. 
 
 Peh. This news almost stunned Betty. How could she now 
 save money for his ticket and for furniture and other things needed 
 in a family? 
 
 Pej. "O God," she prayed, "what shall become of us? 
 
 Pek. "For we are both helpless. O God, place some hindrance 
 in his way and 
 
 Pel. "Stop him from coming if our union is not in accordance with 
 
 thine will" "For I had been very sickly up to the time of our 
 
 marriage," she writes. She had hardly been able to support herself 
 for lengthy periods. How would she be able to support a family? 
 
 Pern. She had a plan, however. Olson, though totally blind, 
 
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 Pen. Could rock a washtub, and 
 
 Pep. He could also rock a cradle, and 
 
 Peq. He could rock both washtub and cradle at the same time. 
 
 Per. Thus assisted by her prospective blind husband, she could 
 make a living by washing and ironing. 
 
 Pes. Betty's assurance came to her in April, 1898. 
 
 Pet. She then left her place as a domestic and worked by the day, 
 
 Pev. Doing housecleaning and washing. 
 
 Pew. A few pieces of furniture were purchased. 
 
 Pex. OLSON ARRIVED JUNE 24, 1898 
 
 Pey. Betty met him at the station and 
 Qeb. Conducted him to a room, 
 Qec. Previously secured. 
 
 THE REAL CRISIS HAD Now COME 
 
 Qed. How would it look for a young lady to lead an old, blind 
 sweetheart around? 
 
 Gef . Could they secure a marriage license, Olson being blind and 
 helpless and penniless? 
 
 Qeg. Could any minister be found who would marry them? 
 
 Qeh. Her own minister hesitated. When he heard that the blind 
 Olson was to come, and suspecting that he would be asked to offi- 
 ciate, he called his deacons together and asked their opinion in the 
 matter. 
 
 Qej. These wise men of the church advised their pastor to refuse 
 his services. 
 
 Qek. But a committee was appointed to see Miss Betty, 
 
 Gel. To promise money for a ticket ( ) 
 
 Gem. To send Olson back to Chicago, 
 
 Qen. To use all their persuasiveness and Christian influence 
 
 Qep. To convince her of her foolishness and risk 
 
 Qeq. In marrying a "blind old man." 
 
 Qer. "We will send him right back to Chicago," ( ) 
 
 Qes. They said, cheeringly. 
 
 Qet. BUT BETTY HAD A MIND OF HER OWN 
 
 Qev. Her beloved arrived at eight o'clock ( ) in the evening, 
 
 Qew. She met him and conducted him to a lodging place, 
 
 Qex. License was secured without suspected difficulty, 
 
 Qey. A Methodist minister 
 
 Reb. Performed the sacred ceremony, 
 
 Rec. And before people really knew 
 
 Red. What Betty was about, 
 
 Ref. She had become a bride. 
 
 Reg. A FLAT WAS LEASED AND A LAUNDRY STARTED 
 
 Reh. Olson attended to the washing machine and turned the 
 wringer. 
 
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 Rej. THIS WENT ON FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS 
 
 Rek. But had to be abandoned, 
 
 Rel. Because wood and coal were high and prices for washing low, 
 
 Rem. And they found it impossible 
 
 Ren. To compete with the steam laundries. ( ) 
 
 Rep. In the meantime their first child, Joseph, was born. 
 
 Req. IN 1904 THEY BOUGHT PROPERTY ON GLEN AVENUE, 
 ., OAKLAND 
 
 Rer. Fifty dollars ( ) was required to make the first pay- 
 ment, but 
 
 Res. They had only ten dollars ( ) in cash, therefore 
 
 Ret. Had to borrow forty dollars ( ) 
 
 Rev. The price of the property was $850, to be paid in monthly 
 instalments. 
 
 Rew. Again a step by many considered foolish. 
 
 Rex. These silly, shortsighted people, how will they ever pay 
 the interest, much less meet the monthly instalments? 
 
 Rey. But they did make good. 
 
 Seb. With improvements of the house and the street 
 
 Sec. The property cost them about $1,500 ( ), but 
 
 Sed. It is worth all of $2,500 ( ). 
 
 Sef. In 1902, Mrs. Olson commenced house cleaning and wash- 
 ing in families. 
 
 Seg. Her usual wages have been $2.00 per day and carfare. 
 
 Seh. But she has taken Saturdays free to attend to her own 
 housework. 
 
 Sej. Thus she has earned about $10.00 per week. 
 
 Sek. Though some weeks considerably more, 
 
 Sel. She having taken some washing home, and 
 
 Sem. Doing washing and ironing mornings and evenings. 
 
 Sen. Her strict honesty in her work, 
 
 Sep. Her cleanliness and neatness have gained for her the 
 
 Seq. Confidence and sympathy and good will wherever her ser- 
 vices have been solicited. 
 
 Ser. How this frail woman has been able to bear four children 
 and do all this work besides, is a mystery. 
 
 Ses. She has forced herself through prejudice, criticism and 
 opposition; yet she has neither shirked motherhood nor any other 
 obligation or duty. 
 
 Set. A BLESSING IN THE GUISE OF A SERIOUS ACCIDENT 
 
 Sev. Though generally fortunate and prosperous, 
 
 Sew. Their paternal hearts have been rent by sorrow and anguish. 
 
 Sex. Their favorite son, Floyd, came very nearly being killed. 
 
 Sey. It happened in this way: 
 
 Teb. Floyd was sent some distance after milk 
 
 Tec. At 8 o'clock in the evening of May seventeenth, 1911. 
 
 Ted. It was a dark evening. 
 
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 Tef. Just as the boy stepped off the sidewalk to cross the street, 
 he stepped into the glare of an automobile which he had not pre- 
 viously observed; and 
 
 Teg. The motive power being electricity, it was soundless. 
 
 Teh. Neither did the driver observe the boy, until he stepped 
 into the light, but then 
 
 Tej. It was too close to the boy to swing the car away from him. 
 
 Blind August Olson and his family. 
 
 Tek. The boy was struck on the side and thrown violently on the 
 sidewalk, 
 
 Tel. Receiving three concussions ( ), one behind the ear 
 
 and two on his back. ( ) 
 
 Tern. The driver was a lady and 
 
 Ten. She had a lady companion, and 
 
 Tep. They immediately stopped and returned 
 
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 Teq. To see about the child, 
 
 Ter. Whom they tenderly brought home to the mother, 
 
 Tes. Summoned a doctor and 
 
 Tet. Promised to pay all expenses in any hospital. 
 
 Tev. But the tenderly loving mother insisted that their home 
 should be the hospital and that she would be the nurse herself. 
 
 Tew. Now becoming more intimately acquainted with the Olson 
 family, 
 
 Tex. Which they learned to love and respect, an d 
 
 Baby Emil, a later addition to 
 the family. 
 
 Tey. Finding that a mortgage of five hundred dollars 
 
 Veb. Beclouded the title to their little home, 
 
 Vec. The matter became the subject of family conference in the 
 
 home of these wealthy women, 
 
 Ved. Resulting in the payment of the mortgage, besides the 
 
 Vef . Payment of the doctor's bill and the mother for the nursing 
 of her child; 
 
 Veg. One happy day surprising the astonished family 
 
 Veh. By presenting to them the 
 
 Vej. Canceled mortgage, 
 
 Vek. Having removed the encumbrance. 
 
 Vel. We can more easily imagine than describe 
 
 Vem. The rejoicing and gratitude of this 
 
 Ven. Contented and happy family, now 
 
The Olson home, No. 4107 Glenn r Avenue, Oakland, California. Little Olga is missing. She 
 has departed to live with the angels. Baby Emil has taken her place. 
 
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 Vep. Doubly blessed they were, 
 
 Veq. Their darling son restored to health, 
 
 Ver. Unblemished; and 
 
 Ves. Their cozy, lovely home restored to them. 
 
 Vet. It almost seemed too good and too magnanimous to be true. 
 
 Vev. For thirteen years this God-loving and God-trusting woman 
 has worked and saved to establish a home, during which time she 
 has raised four children, and, now, she lives in an unencumbered 
 home of her own. 
 
 Her husband, though blind, can cook a good meal; he can hone 
 and strop his razor and shave himself, thus rendering much assistance. 
 
 Vew. Her oldest son, Joseph, now eleven years old, distributes 
 about 100 newspapers daily, for which he receives four dollars per 
 month, and an additional dollar per month for collecting. Out of 
 this he pays his brother Floyd one dollar per month for his assistance 
 in the business. 
 
 Vex. AMUSING CLEVERNESS 
 
 Vey. "You have never seen your wife," I said to Olson. 
 
 Web. "No, sir, I have not," 
 
 Wee. He answered, reluctantly. 
 
 Wed. "How can you love a woman whom you cannot see and 
 never have seen?" I asked. 
 
 Wef. "Oh, I know how she looks," 
 
 Weg. He answered with much concern; 
 
 Weh. "She is the prettiest looking and loveliest woman in the 
 world; and I know the looks of my children, too, and of our friends 
 and acquaintances as well; and I don't miss it much." 
 
 Wej. This he said in a tone and with an expression that was con- 
 vincing. 
 
 Wek. He has mind-pictures of his wife, his children and his 
 friends, just as we have of ours in their absence. 
 
 Wei. THE ROBIN REDBREAST 
 
 We will introduce the code department of this chapter by relating 
 an interesting occurrence which happened a number of years ago. 
 It will be related in code form, so that parts or sentences thereof 
 may be designated or referred to in code correspondence. 
 
 Wem. FROM FRIENDSHIP TO LOVE 
 
 Wen. Willie and Hilma were both servants on farms, about one- 
 half mile apart. 
 
 Wep. Willie made frequent visits to Jones', where Hilma worked, 
 resulting in mutual, though unexpressed love. 
 
 Wer. Hilma expected Willie to express his feelings toward her 
 in some way; and, with the ingenuity of woman, she would lead the 
 conversation into realms of lovers and engagements, and weddings 
 and honeymoons, etc., to which Willie listened with much interest, 
 
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 sometimes asking a question, but there he stopped, and stopped 
 short of Hilma's cherished anticipation. 
 
 Wes. One Sunday evening Hilma thought, well, she really felt, 
 
 that Willie was trying very hard to say something to say just 
 
 those deciding words, so often turned over in her mind but he 
 didn't. 
 
 Wet. "Well, I'll have to go/' he said repeatedly, twisting and 
 rolling his cap rather comically, and she expected every moment 
 the proposal to hatch out, but each time the thing slipped off, some- 
 how, in another direction. Finally, Willie touched the doorknob, 
 the door opened, and much to Hilma's disappointment, he hardly 
 said 'good-night' to her as he used to do. 
 
 Wev. She followed him to the gate, and when he tried to open it, 
 she held back and said: 
 
 Wew. "Willie, didn't you intend to say something, but couldn't?" 
 
 Wex. "Oh, I don't know; nothing particular," answered Willie, 
 somewhat puzzled. 
 
 Wey. "Yes, sure," insisted Hilma, "you intended to say some- 
 thing, but couldn't or didn't." 
 
 Xeb. "Well, what do you think I would have said if I had said it, 
 Hilma?" 
 
 Xec. "Will you marry me?" she answered with a bewitching 
 smile, such as is possible only by a lovely loving maiden. 
 
 Xed. "What makes you think so?" queried Willie, confused. 
 
 Xef. "Because you come to see me so often," answered Hilma, 
 sweetly and artlessly. 
 
 Here we have to drop the curtain for a while. Someway or some- 
 how Willie slipped out of the gate and went home without giving 
 Hilma an answer. 
 
 Xeg. But Willie could not sleep. "What a fool, a dunce, a coward 
 I am," he said to himself. "Hilma was right, she understood me, 
 
 she wanted to help me out of my predicament she did 
 
 Such an unworthy coward, fool idiot Well, my chance 
 
 is gone. That noble, sensible lady can have no respect, much less 
 to love such a dunce as I. I shall be ashamed to meet her, to see 
 her charming lovely face any more. Any kind of treatment is well 
 deserved Oh, if I only had! " 
 
 Xeh. Thus he kept on, reproving, accusing, bewailing. 
 
 Xej. And Hilma, well, she fared no better. 
 
 Xek. "Of course, Willie is too much of a gentleman ever to look 
 at such a frivolous flirt as I am," she sighed, wetting her pillow with 
 tears. "Oh, how foolish, silly, contemptible, shameful was this 
 attitude of a girl to treat an honorable, well-bred, high-minded young 
 gentleman the way I did tonight. Oh, he will never degrade himself 
 to come near enough to give me a chance to apologize, even. 
 I can see him look at me with contempt and scorn now. Rose, over 
 there, will have him all to herself now. She has been looking after 
 
 him, I know, but he has ever been true to me always shown a 
 
 preference for me; but it is all off now all lost lost forever. 
 
 Xel. "Wonder if he will tell about it! tell what a frivolous flirt 
 I am. I am ashamed to see anybody to meet anybody. Oh, I 
 
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 wish I was dead! Life after this will have no meaning will 
 
 have no interest there is no future for me. Oh, dear; oh, dear 
 
 Oh my heart my head." 
 
 Xem. Thus wailed poor Hilma. 
 
 Xen. The following day very much resembled the night. 
 
 Xep. But she kept looking toward Willie's place constantly. 
 She couldn't help herself. 
 
 Xeq. At eventide, Willie hurried with his chores as never before. 
 He was going to see Hilma, probably for the last time, but he would 
 see her once more, anyhow. 
 
 Xer. He would explain. He would confess. He would apolo- 
 gize. 
 
 Xes. THE CURTAIN LIFTED 
 
 Xet. Willie is at the gate. Hilma, having been constantly 
 longing, waiting, meets him. 
 
 Xev. "Good 'evening, Willie. I thought I'd never see you any 
 more," she said and hid her face in the apron, weeping. 
 
 Innocence. 
 
 We protest! 
 
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 Xew. "Yes, 1 know what an idiot and a coward I was last night 
 and how cruelly I wounded your tender feelings, and I have now 
 come to confess and to apologize." 
 
 Xex. "Oh, Willie," cried Hilma, half weeping and half laughing. 
 
 Xey. "Yes, your feminine instinct was correct. You tried to 
 meet me halfway, but I was such a dunce to turn you down. Hilma, 
 dearest, sweetest, loveliest among women, will you, can you forgive 
 me?" 
 
 Yeb. "Oh, Willie! if I can if I will. ." she hesitated, almost 
 
 afraid to say another word. 
 
 Yec. "Yes, if you will, if you can; it now rests upon just that 
 'if,'" Willie repeated with much earnestness. 
 
 Yed. "Do you mean to say that you would still consider me a 
 friend?" asked Hilma, sighing. 
 
 Yef. "As a friend," repeated Willie; "if I hadn't been an idiot, 
 a dunce, a coward last night, you would have been my sweetheart, 
 my betrothed today." 
 
 Yeg. "Do you love me still, really, honestly, Willie?" Hilma 
 asked with a suppressed, hardly audible voice. 
 
 Yeh. "More than ever if I may if my treatment of 
 
 you last night did not blast to fathoms every vestige of love and 
 kindly feeling for me," continued Willie, yet unable to penetrate 
 Hilma's sadness or to understand her rather reluctant attitude in 
 assuring him of the forgiveness he had repeatedly pleaded for. 
 
 Yej. "Oh, Willie, if you really love me still, then I can love you 
 a thousand times more than ever before." 
 
 Yek. "Oh, Hilma, darling, sweetheart, is that possible?" Willie 
 now said with deep emotion and hopefulness. 
 
 Yel. "I want to tell you something. I have been afraid to 
 propose to you because I have no home of my own, neither am I 
 able to secure one for some time yet. I have, therefore, hesitated. 
 For I felt that if I should have asked you to marry me, you would 
 justly have confronted me with the question: 
 
 Yem. " i Where are you going to keep me and how will you support 
 me? ; and these questions I am not yet prepared to answer." 
 
 Yen. "Why can't we do as the Robin Redbreast does?" Hilma 
 asked, having now regained her composure and poise. 
 
 Yep. "Well, how does the Robin Redbreast do?" Willie asked 
 with a peculiar tenderness. 
 
 Yeq. "Why? the male and female build their nest together, 
 after mating," was Hilma's calm answer. 
 
 Yer. "Do you mean that we could marry and then work together 
 for a home?" Willie put the question with a certain strain of doubt 
 in his mind, which was easily discernible in both look and voice. 
 
 Yes. "That is just what I mean and intend to do if you still 
 consider me your sweetheart," asserted Hilma, reassuringly. 
 
 Yet. "But how could I ever think of you working out to earn 
 money for the purchase of a home? Hilma, dear, it looks too shock- 
 ing to contemplate; and what enjoyment would there really be in 
 wedlock if we should have to work separately that way?" 
 
 Yev. "There are many ways for a woman to earn money and to 
 
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 help her husband, if she has a mind to," said Hilma with a gentle 
 smile and a conviction which indicated matured plans and a knowl- 
 edge of ways and means. 
 
 Yew. "I surrender wholly, entirely, unreservedly. With you I 
 shall have home and all;" and saying this he stretched out his arms 
 for an embrace. But Hilma stepped backward, saying gently: 
 
 Yex. "Not just yet, Willie. We have only talked about the mat- 
 ter, but we are not yet really engaged. Let us now think the matter 
 over for a week, and in the meantime study out plans. I want to 
 inform my parents, too, that I am about to be engaged to you. I 
 don't anticipate any objection on their part, for they know that we 
 have kept company for some time, and they have never objected." 
 
 Yey. "All right, Hilma, dear; but where will we meet?" 
 
 Eba. "Right here next Saturday evening, if convenient for you," 
 proposed Hilma; and it was so agreed. 
 
 Eca. Two happy hearts now parted. What a pleasant change! 
 
 Eda. The threatening thunderstorm had subsided and passed, the 
 star of hope shone brightly in the east, boding the dawn of a happy 
 day and a joyous, peaceful future. 
 
 Our limited space will not permit to relate the doings of the inter- 
 vening days. Both planned and worked with the view of finishing 
 early Saturday evening. Both had a fixed purpose in view, some- 
 thing intensely interesting; a special interest in one another, and 
 moreover, a common, mutual interest, the interest of a home; the 
 interest of their home. 
 
 THE ENGAGEMENT 
 
 Efa. After pleasant greetings, so different from the Monday 
 evening greeting, the main question was put by Willie, who said: 
 
 Ega. "It all depends upon your plans now, Hilma, for I haven't 
 any. My whole treasury is only five hundred dollars; and there 
 won't be much left after having bought furniture and other little 
 things necessary for a home." 
 
 Eha. "You have five hundred and I have two hundred; that 
 makes seven hundred dollars, see, dear." 
 
 Eja. "I can get all we need of furniture for $150, and our wedding 
 need not cost more than twenty-five, leaving us $525 to start business 
 with. That will buy a team, a wagon, a couple of cows and five 
 dozen chickens; and 
 
 Eka. "I have learned how to raise chickens, to construct nests 
 for the hens and to take care of eggs; and I know that I can raise 
 chickens and sell eggs enough to maintain our family, at least. 
 That will leave all we can make on the farm a net profit. 
 
 Ela. "I hain't afraid of work. . . .1 hate idleness. . . .1 can help 
 you in many ways, 
 
 Ema. "Milk cows, sometimes, and do lots of things you would 
 never think of " 
 
 Ena. "You are a surprise and a wonder, dear Hilma," said Willie 
 with deep emotion; "I never could think of so much common sense 
 in a young girl like you. I see older wives and some farmers' daugh- 
 
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 ters do these things, but never could I expect anything like that of 
 you." 
 
 Epa. "When would you propose to have our wedding?" Willie 
 finally asked, hardly knowing what he said for ecstasy. 
 
 Eqa. "Just as soon as we can find a couple of rooms to move 
 into to start housekeeping," answered Hilma cheerfully. "Let us 
 inquire to see if we can find a small farm to rent; or if we can't find 
 more than a good large yard for my chickens, I can start business." 
 
 Era. "Oh, Hilma! you are wonderful you are a surprise you, 
 I'd 
 
 Esa. "It's nothing more than I see other women do, Willie. And 
 I can do what other women are doing, I assure you if you will 
 trust me, Willie will you?" 
 
 Eta. "Trust," repeated Willie; "this is certainly a trust on your 
 part, rather than on my part." 
 
 Eva. "All right, then, Willie but how about our engage- 
 ment', we are only talking about things aren't we?" 
 
 Ewa. "That's so, Hilma, dear dearest and loveliest, the 
 
 pearl among all the maidens I have ever seen, will you marry me .... 
 will you become my wife. . . .on your own terms and conditions?" 
 
 Exa. "Dearest Willie, the gem among young men, clean, hand- 
 some, free from the tobacco stench and from the pollution of the 
 liquor poison, I have watched you closely for over a year, and I find 
 in you an ideal young gentleman for a husband; / therefore promise 
 to marry you. . . .to become your wife', 
 
 Eya. "And my lips have never been touched by any male person, 
 except father's and brother's, since my infancy; but now I will seal 
 my vow to you by what I refused Monday evening, for a purpose, 
 with the maiden kiss." 
 
 Beba. And the warm, soft lips of the two lovers met 
 
 Beca. And the curtain fell. 
 
 Beda. THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY 
 
 Befa. Twenty years of happy married life had passed. The 
 children, nine in number, five boys and four girls, all pulling and 
 working together, like bees in an apiary, Willie and Hilma now 
 planned to invite relatives and friends for a twentieth anniversary 
 celebration. They now owned a neat comfortable home and one of 
 the best farms in the New England States, and were respected and 
 honored in the community. 
 
 Bega. Many were the congratulations and well-wishes by the 
 guests, and 
 
 Beha. Presents, souvenirs and memorials were presented by 
 friends 
 
 Beja. As emblems and tokens of genuine esteem and friendship. 
 
 Beka. The hosts, sitting side by side, arose, bowed, courtesied, 
 
 Bela. With emotion and dignity, to the right and to the left, 
 
 Bema. In cordial appreciation and gratitude to their kins and 
 friends 
 
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 Bena. For the friendship, honor and esteem exhibited in oratory 
 and presents, 
 
 Bepa. Worth more than mountains of gold and silver, because 
 giving more real, genuine pleasure and enjoyment, and 
 
 Beqa. More precious than the most esteemed and costly jewels, 
 because its luster radiates more widely, over hills and vales, to the 
 end of the world, and because it is more lasting. 
 
 Bera. In his closing remarks, the host amused their guests by 
 relating the Robin Redbreast story, 
 
 Besa. Picturing eloquently the Sunday evening departure and 
 the night's retribution and punishment for the 
 
 Beta. Piercing of an innocent maiden's heart with a two-edged 
 sword, 
 
 Beva. And the Monday evening's reconciliation meeting, when 
 for the first time he learned what a precious, priceless jewel the inno- 
 cent, artless and lovingly lovely maiden is; 
 
 Bewa. The Saturday evening engagement meeting, 
 
 Bexa. And two months later, their wedding feast, 
 
 Beya. And fifteen months thereafter the visit of the stork, 
 
 Ceba. Placing a ten-pound boy in a most happy and proud 
 father's arms, while the happiest wife and mother on earth watched a 
 performance, both amusing and singular. 
 
 Ceca. But the vigorous protest of the newcomer sovereign 
 aristocrat effected speedy return of him to the delicious table spread 
 for his entertainment; 
 
 Ceda. And keeping the poodle dog nuisance forever away from 
 our premises so far that his name and kind are hardly known, assist- 
 ance rendered by coming brothers and sisters, in regular order and at 
 regular intervals, continually strengthening the line of defense. 
 
 Cefa. Thus he went on, sometimes interrupted by mirth and 
 applause, waxing warmer and more eloquent, until, reaching the 
 climax, certifying in words burning with earnestness and conviction: 
 
 Cega. "For twenty years I have tried and experienced married 
 life, and I can .... I want to testify to its many blessings and unspeak- 
 able enjoyment and innumerable advantages, and that in getting 
 into the full married bliss, 
 
 Ceha. "The Robin Redbreast method works admirably, especially 
 
 Ceja. "For timid, reluctant, backward, awkward swains; 
 
 Ceka. "For as it has with us, so it will with others. But, be it 
 said, first and last, in poetry and prose, in recitation and in song, 
 near and far, to present and coming generations, that 
 
 Cela. "Hilma and her chicken business did it!" (Applause). 
 And the curtain fell. 
 
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 REVERSAL 
 Cema. LEAP- YEAR PRIVILEGES 
 
 Cena. Dear Phillip: I have a feeling, a something within me, 
 which leads me to think that you have some attraction toward me; 
 and I want to be frank and say that I am much concerned about 
 you. You seem to me an ideal young man for a good, loving and 
 lovely husband, just such a one as it would be my greatest pleasure 
 to assist in the establishment of a comfortable, happy home. 
 
 Cepa. I realize that young men often hesitate to propose to a 
 young lady, for the reason that many wives are extravagant and 
 exacting. 
 
 Ceqa. Many young ladies are also extravagant in dress, dis- 
 couraging sensible young men from entering into married relation 
 for fear of the keeping up of such vanity. 
 
 Cera. I want to say to you that I disapprove of this. 
 
 Cesa. Much rather would I fall in line with the Robin Redbreast 
 story and help to build the nest, living within our means and saving 
 for a rainy day. 
 
 Ceta. I agree with Hilma that there are many things in which 
 a wife can assist her husband, if she has a mind to; I have a small 
 fund saved up to help begin with. 
 
 Ceva. If your inclination is in the direction indicated I shall be 
 much pleased to correspond further with you; if not, please inform 
 me frankly at your earliest convenience. 
 
 Sincerely, AMY. 
 
 Cewa. Dearest Amy: I hasten to answer your communication 
 of the , which came as a pleasant surprise to me. 
 
 Cexa. You are right in your supposition with respect to my 
 inclination toward you, and I am now filled with hope and pleasant 
 anticipation. 
 
 Ceya. This must certainly be the guiding hand of God, for I did 
 not dare to give vent to my feelings until getting more intimately 
 acquainted, for fear that you would turn me off. 
 
 Deba. May I have the pleasure of meeting you personally at 
 some place of your own choosing, when we may talk the matter over 
 more particularly? 
 
 Deca. Dear Miss Amy, let me assure you that the way you have 
 presented this delicate subject has increased my respect for you 
 and my admiration of you many fold. And you have relieved me of 
 many worries, fears and hesitation. 
 
 Deda. Your sweet disposition has also been revealed in a most 
 lovely manner, making you dearer and lovelier in my estimation 
 than ever before. 
 
 Defa. May God, our Heavenly Father, lead us to our destiny, 
 where he may bestow upon us his richest blessings! 
 
 Dega. Yours in anticipation, 
 
 PHILLIP. 
 
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 Deha. ARTLESS AND TRUE 
 
 Deja. Mr. (Fred Jones): This is a leap-year privilege, giving 
 women the opportunity and ways and means to propose marriage. 
 
 Deka. I want to inform you that I love you most dearly and 
 therefore ask you to marry me, or, in other words, I want to make 
 you my husband. 
 
 Dela. I think it would be so much nicer to have a home of our 
 own, and I am sure you would be pleased with me as your wife. 
 Lovingly, LULU. (See page 121). 
 
 BUSINESS MAN LED INTO CAPTIVITY 
 
 Dema. Dear (Charles Fost) : We have known one another for a 
 long time and associated as friends. You have always seemed to 
 appreciate my company and I have appreciated and enjoyed your 
 company. 
 
 Dena. I have tried by close watching to find out if you leaned 
 toward another girl, or if any other girl seemed especially attracted 
 toward you. 
 
 Depa. I may be mistaken, but I find nothing to indicate any 
 real attachment or attraction either way. 
 
 Deqa. I therefore suggest to you the thought of closer relation- 
 ship. Your mind seems so absorbed and occupied with your busi- 
 ness, that you have no time to think seriously about the future. 
 
 Dera. I also want to remind you of the fact that the energy and 
 vigor of youth will soon pass away, and we may find ourselves 
 standing alone in this cold world without kins of our own to look up 
 to; and then we may look back and lament our mistake. 
 
 Desa. These thoughts and sentiments have occupied my mind 
 for a long time, and, strange as it may seem to you, you have always 
 been my ideal. But it has been considered unbecoming and undigni- 
 fied for a woman to make known her choice and sentiment in advance, 
 neither have I really known how to express myself, until now the 
 Scientific Dial System has opened a way. 
 
 Deta. Depending upon your good sense, nobility and chivalry, 
 I venture to address you in this way. 
 
 Sincerely, (JULIANA) . 
 
 Deva. THE CAPTIVE 
 
 Dewa. Dearest (Juliana): Your remarkable and most extraor- 
 dinary communication of the is at hand and read and 
 
 pondered over several times. And it has had the effect on me that 
 I haven't thought so much about marriage for the last ten years as 
 I have now these last twelve hours. 
 
 Dexa. Why, you little mischief you, you spoiled my sleep last 
 night, causing me to think about you and the wedding and the 
 honeymoon all the time. Say, is that fair! 
 
 Deya. Well, now, you have trapped your bird all right; but if 
 it is a Robin Redbreast remains to be seen. 
 
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 Feba. Write me at once and let me know if you are ready for the 
 wedding and a two weeks' honeymoon in thirty days. 
 
 Sincerely your captive, (CHARLES FOST). 
 
 Feca. Dearest (Charles) : Everything seems to be business with 
 you, even your love affairs. Well, I thank you for ready and speedy 
 response, though I am accused of having caused you a night's loss of 
 sleep, which, however, I hope to make good in making it up for you 
 during the proposed honeymoon. 
 
 Feda. I am glad, however, that I got my bird safely caged. 
 
 Fefa. It is a Robin Redbreast all right; 
 
 Fega. This I knew to my satisfaction before I set the trap for 
 him. 
 
 Feha. A captive! Yes, like Gustavus Adolphus II, king of 
 Sweden, the Lion of the North, when on his victorious campaign in 
 Germany and Austria. The queen, hearing of the defeat of Tilly 
 and the victorious conquest by the Swedish arms, started to salute 
 the victorious warriors. The king, learning of her arrival, started 
 to meet her. The queen, seeing the king coming at a distance, 
 ordered her coachman to stop and her escorts to open the door of 
 the chariotee; she alighted, tore loose from her escorts and suit and 
 tripped hastily in the direction of the approaching royal cortege. 
 The king dismounted and in a moment he was captured, and sur- 
 rendered to the embrace of his royal visitor. Now, securely holding 
 him in her firm embrace, she announced to the cortege and escorts, 
 jestingly, "The Lion of the North, Gustavus Adolphus, king of 
 Sweden, who scattered Tilly's forces, the Conqueror and Liberator, 
 has surrendered and is now a captive." 
 
 Feja. Remarkable, isn't it ! What united armies of great nations 
 could not do, a loving woman did. 
 
 Feka. Is this the kind of captivity you refer to? Well, dear, I 
 assure you you shall not fare ill in it; I rather surmise that you will 
 find so much pleasure in your bondage that you will prefer strength- 
 ening to relaxing; "strings" that tie more taut, rather than 
 slackened; or, to use your own figure, the bars of the cage more se- 
 curely fastened, rather than thrown open, purposing the freedom of 
 the bird to occupy its old roost in the woods as of old. 
 
 Fela. Say, is this fair? I simply proposed a proposal, and here 
 you propose a wedding and a two weeks' honeymoon in thirty days, 
 without even as much as stating who is to be the bride; and you must 
 have an answer at once. 
 
 Fema. Suppose you'd ordered goods from a wholesale house in 
 such a fashion, what would you get? 
 
 Fena. Well, darling, you shall have it your own way only 
 
 this: a week or ten days later would suit conditions a little better, if 
 agreeable to you. 
 
 Fepa. This is suggested by feminine peculiarities, purporting a 
 week or ten days after crossing the line and affording three weeks' 
 uninterrupted allowance, making more enjoyable the honeymoon. 
 However, I can get ready in thirty days, 
 
 Feqa. If for some special reason you prefer that time. 
 
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 Fera. Having taken the initiative, and now having my bird 
 securely caged, I have planned a few adornments for him, a few 
 trinkets, sent by express, which please receive as a token of genuine 
 submissiveness and esteem of your condescending affability. 
 
 Sincerely and lovingly (JULIANA) 
 
 [ L Fesa. FIXING THE DATE FOR WEDDING 
 
 Feta. Dearest (Juliana) : Your most welcome communication of 
 the and also the trinkets sent by express, at hand. 
 
 Feva. Considering the beauty and value of the things which you 
 call "trinkets," 
 
 Fewa. I am curious to know what a present from you would look 
 like. 
 
 Fexa. Why, dearest and loveliest among women, if of any value 
 in excess of your "trinkets," it can be nothing less than the present- 
 ment of yourself, your lovely personality, wholly, unreservedly as a 
 present 
 
 Feya. To be caged securely with the caged bird in a cage 
 
 Geba. Like the one your heroic Gustavus Adolphus was caged in, 
 when his queen had him caged; and had firmly secured, bolted, 
 riveted, clinched and closed all bars and crevices and recesses of the 
 
 cage, she jubilantly and exhilaratingly exclaimed you 
 
 know! 
 
 Geca. Well, dear, since you have proclaimed me a king, I will 
 
 Geda. Affably condescend to grant your most humble petition, 
 which is to allow you to postpone the wedding just one week, deciding 
 upon the date of Paemilana for our wedding; and I hereby appoint 
 Miss Juliana Cordelia to the elevated position of bride, and I hereby 
 further authorize, empower and commission her to appoint, arrange 
 and command her own cortege. 
 
 Gefa. Enclosed find check for two hundred dollars as aid in 
 equipment, and 
 
 Gega. Some specials with private orders and regulations by ex- 
 press. 
 
 Amoroso, Nayelana, (CHARLES). 
 
 UNASSUMING MODESTY 
 
 Geha. Dearest Charles: Your wonderful letter with inclosure 
 Nayelana at hand. So is also the express. Many, many thanks! 
 
 Geja. Now a word respecting my wedding gown. 
 
 Geka. A modest costume is most becoming to me and gives 
 greatest satisfaction. 
 
 Gela. I am aware of the fact that our friends and relatives expect 
 our wedding expenses to total at least five or six hundred dollars. 
 
 Gema. But I am also aware of the fact that we can celebrate our 
 wedding feast with less than half that amount, and have all the 
 luxury in dress and entertainment that can be reasonably expected, 
 or, in other words, properly enjoyed without extravagance or useless 
 waste. 
 
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 Gena. Suppose, dear, that we appropriate the other half for 
 charity and missionary purposes, wouldn't that be a worthy dedi- 
 cation of ourselves to one another and a new-born family to the 
 church, to the community, to the state and to the nation in which 
 we live? 
 
 Gepa. That way of entering upon married life will, I am heartily 
 persuaded, bring with it greater blessings, and sweeter contentment 
 and satisfaction than the selfishness and vanity so often displayed 
 on such occasions; and God, our Heavenly Father, and His holy 
 angels, who are the invisible witnesses, would look down upon us 
 with delight and complacency. This act on our part would also be 
 instrumental in thanksgiving and praise to God, which is the sole 
 purpose of our lives, and many fervent prayers for God's blessing 
 upon us. 
 
 Geqa. Dearest darling Charles, knowing your modesty and 
 chivalry in all things, you will not object to this arrangement, I 
 know. 
 
 Gera. May I also suggest that we invite the Rev 
 
 to officiate and that the wedding ceremony take place in the 
 
 Gesa. Church. 
 
 Amorsville, Naefelana, JULIANA. 
 
 MAGNANIMITY 
 
 Geta. Dearly beloved: Your forethought and sweet disposition 
 is becoming more prominent and pleasing, the more I learn to know 
 you. A proposition like the one in your last letter is something 
 extraordinary and surprisingly pleasing, coming as it does from a 
 young lady of your environment and standing. 
 
 Geva. I am much pleased, myself, over the more serious aspect 
 of our correspondence. 
 
 Gewa. Our wooing started in such a comical, romantic way, 
 that it became a matter of pleasantry and merriment. I felt that I 
 indulged in it a little too far myself, but now you have brought me 
 back to my senses again. 
 
 Gexa. Well, beloved, I not only agree with your planning for 
 our wedding, but I very highly appreciate your forethought and 
 Christian devotion to those higher and nobler ideals which should 
 always be an object in our lives to reach. 
 
 Geya. I now know that I shall have an ideal wife. It is a mys- 
 tery to me that I have not discovered these sweet and lovely charac- 
 teristics in you before. 
 
 Heba. I have always looked upon you as a nice and sensible girl, 
 but never did it occur to me that in you were hidden such a wealth 
 of gold and gems as I have found these last days. 
 
 Heca. I am coming to the city in a week or ten days, will then 
 see you and make further arrangements for our wedding. I am 
 already making arrangements for a few weeks' absence after our 
 wedding for a wedding trip. 
 
Home, Sweet Home. 
 
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 Heda. I will inform you of the day of my trip to the city as soon 
 as arrangements have been made. 
 
 Moroso, Naejelana, CHARLES FOST. 
 
 Hefa. STRAIGHT TO THE POINT* 
 
 Hega. Dear Lulu: Your kind and straight to the point com- 
 munication of Mamelana at hand. 
 
 Heha. If I could find nothing else to admire about you, this 
 mode of presenting a delicate subject is admirable, and in me you 
 have awakened a certain interest in you, above every other girl, by 
 doing it. 
 
 Heja. I am not ready at this moment to say that I am in love, 
 but I am aware that your personality and presence will have a dif- 
 ferent meaning to me from this on. 
 
 Heka. It is asserted by diligent investigators and observers that 
 woman instinct and feminine intuition nearly always lead her aright, 
 in the choice of her life-mate 
 
 Hela. If she is free to choose from the inner instinct and intuition 
 of her heart. 
 
 Hema. That is one reason why marriages in the middle classes 
 are happier and more successful, because the young folks have 
 greater freedom in the selection of their mates than is the case in the 
 higher classes. 
 
 Hena. I can not thoughtlessly and carelessly turn down the 
 tender of yourself to me, but will suggest continued correspondence 
 and personal association for a while. 
 
 Hepa. A question: Which weighs the most in your heart, my 
 individuality and personality or the establishment of a nice hornet 
 
 Heqa. Suppose that I were only a poor day laborer with a com- 
 paratively small income, able only to establish a plain, simple home, 
 and able only to furnish you the necessaries of life, devoid of luxuries, 
 how many degrees would be lowered your thermometer of love in 
 fervency and affection? 
 
 Hera. Such things may happen; what would happen then? 
 
 Hesa. Really, friend Lulu, what is it that has turned your atten- 
 tion toward me, there being so many other young gentlemen for you 
 to select from? 
 
 Heta. These questions are asked in all sincerity and earnestness, 
 with a view of finding the real, genuine truth. 
 
 Sincerely, FRED JONES. 
 
 Heva. DEFINITION OF TRUE LOVE AND A REAL HOME 
 
 Hewa. Dearest Fred: Your interesting communication of Mar- 
 elana at hand, and I have read and re-read it many times over, 
 and yet I am not quite sure that I understand you. 
 
 Hexa. I am glad anyway that you didn't turn me down, but your 
 reasoning about woman's instinct and feminine intuition I don't 
 understand. 
 
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 Heya. Why I love you? Why, dear, I don't know, I have never 
 reasoned about that at all. 
 
 Jeba. I like you; I feel an attraction toward you; I want to see 
 you, to look at you, to associate with you and to live with you, 
 rather than with anybody else. I don't know any other explanation 
 for this state of mind and heart or tendency and impulse than love. 
 It is an affection much like what I feel toward my mother, though, 
 now intensified by some inward sensitiveness and emotion of longing 
 for you; and when I think of you, which I do in the day and the 
 waking hours of night; and when I hear your name, or see you, or 
 hear your voice, something, I can not explain, turns and moves in 
 my heart, causing pain or joy: pain in anticipation of being turned 
 down by you; joy^when you appear ever so little concerned about 
 me, for that inspires hope. 
 
 Jeca. Which weighs the most, your personality or the establish- 
 ment of a "nice home?" 
 
 Jeda. Dearest darling Freddie, how could I ever think of any 
 kind of a home at all without you? The kind of a home I have 
 reference to is a place where husband and wife live together, do their 
 housekeeping, take their meals and sleep together; a place where I 
 could lock everybody else out and lock you in, and fondle and 
 caress you to my heart's content that would be my ideal home; 
 whether large or small, luxurious or plain, cuts no figure. 
 
 Jefa. The saying is, "What is home without a mother?" 
 With me it is, "What is a home without a loving, fondling husband?" 
 
 Jega. And this question has been uppermost in my mind ever 
 since I was sixteen years old. 
 
 Jeha. Dearest Freddie, I have now laid open my heart the best 
 I know how. It is now for you to determine whether you consider 
 my motives and impulses genuine love or just an attempt to secure 
 a "nice home." 
 
 Jeja. On my part I deem it of no less importance to find in you 
 the ready response and reciprocation, and a mutual attraction, 
 affection and love necessary for happiness in marriage relationship 
 and association. 
 
 Jeka. There may be more in your letter that I don't understand, 
 but this much ought to make clear to you my disposition and con- 
 dition of heart toward you. 
 
 Sincerely, LULU. 
 
 Jela. DELICATELY BEAUTIFUL 
 
 Jema. Dearest Lulu: Your most remarkable communication of 
 Matelana at hand and contents carefully and cheerfully perused. 
 
 Jena. I never expected such a fine delineation of your character 
 nor such an exquisite description or definition of love and true de- 
 votion, as I find it in this letter of yours. 
 
 Jepa. I congratulate you. 
 
 Jeqa. Your whole letter, from the beginning to the end, is deli- 
 cately beautiful. 
 
 Jera. Dear Lulu, you have opened up a new world to me. New 
 
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 thoughts, new views, new impulses, new object of life. In short: 
 you have impressed yourself upon my mind in a most agreeable and 
 fascinating manner. 
 
 Jesa. In reading your letter to find out if you were honestly, 
 earnestly and sincerely in love, something happened to me, I must 
 confess, very similar to the feeling, emotion, inclination, admiration 
 and longing which you describe so admirably; and if yours are the 
 genuine symptoms of love, and I have an attack of the same kind of 
 microbes, then I must be in love, too. 
 
 Jeta. I am now convinced that you, dear ^Lulu, are a noble, 
 virtuous woman, just such a one as has been my ideal for a wife, 
 though I did not know how or where to find her. 
 
 Jeva. But your ingenious feminine advancement has met and 
 obviated the anticipated difficulty in discovering these virtues in 
 an ideal woman for a good, lovingly lovely, charming wife. 
 
 Jewa. I am satisfied. 
 
 Jexa. My only desire now is to be able to meet your expectation 
 of an ideal husband as fully as I am sure you will more than meet 
 my expectation of an ideal wife. 
 
 Jeya. My concern has therefore now been turned upon myself, 
 since you have been measured and weighed and have proven yourself 
 to be a genuine pearl of greatest magnitude, set in the purest gold. 
 
 Keba. My only desire now is permission to see you personally, 
 and will call, if permitted, 
 
 Keca. Next (Saturday) at such time in the afternoon 
 
 as you may designate, and 
 
 Keda. I would then offer you a ride in the park, which will afford 
 us an opportunity for private conversation regarding future arrange- 
 ments. 
 
 Sincerely yours, in anticipation, 
 
 FRED JONES. 
 
 Kef a. CORDIAL ACCEPTANCE 
 
 AND 
 Kega. A NEW PROPOSAL 
 
 Keha. Dearest Freddie: Your most welcome and appreciative 
 communication of Mavelana received and read with much feeling 
 and rejoicing, though with some apprehension, because you seem to 
 drop into my embrace almost too suddenly, taking for good my 
 presentation without further investigation or proof. 
 
 Keja. You may not know that I have followed you closely for 
 nearly two years. 
 
 Keka. The time has come when sensible girls should select for 
 their husbands and fathers of their children clean, temperate, in- 
 dustrious and brave men. 
 
 Kela. The last words of my saintly mother, when she departed 
 for that better land, three years ago, were these: 
 
 Kema. "Lulu, choose for your husband only one who is pious, 
 industrious and brave," 
 
 Kena. I promised her, and ever since have these words oh, I 
 
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 can see her angelic face -and hear her faint though sweet voice at 
 
 this moment as plainly as then been ringing in my ears and 
 
 affecting my heart and conduct. 
 
 Kepa. Well, a two years watching, and finding the ideals per- 
 manent, but the general faults of youth tobacco habit, drinking, 
 card-playing, etc. wanting, I concluded that you were just about 
 such a youth as my mother would have chosen for me; at any rate, 
 she would cheerfully consent, were she yet living. 
 
 Keqa. I write this to show you that my first communication to 
 you was not prompted, as you seemed to think, by frivolous motives 
 or impulses, but after mature consideration. 
 
 Kera. I approve of a meeting with you and next Saturday, 
 Mayelana, Daemzoz will be convenient to me. Dear Freddie, I have 
 
 ANOTHER PROPOSAL 
 
 Kesa. We are writing and saying so many nice things to one 
 another now. Just think if the same consideration, the same kindly 
 feeling, the same assurances and postulations of the appreciation 
 and high regard for one another could follow us uninterruptedly 
 through our married life, what a vestibule to Heaven our family 
 
 and home would be ! Dear, darling Freddie, I think I know it 
 
 to be possible. And 
 
 Keta. I propose for the purpose of promoting this, that we 
 carefully record all that we now write to and about one another, 
 before our marriage; and I shall place the records of my sayings and 
 expressions to and about you now under your photograph and have 
 it all framed and thus preserved and hung on the wall in the bed- 
 chamber for a reminder. 
 
 Keva. Of course, I did not intend to, dictate to you what to do 
 with me and yours. I rather think that you are of such sweet dis- 
 position and noble character that any such reminder will not be neces- 
 sary, unless you should feel inclined to do it for the sake of sym- 
 metry and harmony in decoration and appearance. 
 
 Kewa. Well .... well, darling, I just love to think about the 
 most proper arrangement and fitting up and decoration of a simple 
 and yet cozy and attractive home, where my darling husband shall 
 love to stay rather than any other place on earth, and when away 
 from it he shall pant in longing to return to it. 
 
 Keya. Considering myself from this on, your sweetheart, I am 
 
 Lovingly yours forever, LULU. 
 
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 Leba. THE WIDOW 
 Leca. A DELICATE POSITION 
 
 Leda. Dear Mr. Knox: The time has come when women may 
 vent their feelings and sentiment without being branded as flirts 
 and lunatics. 
 
 Lefa. I now feel constrained to avail myself of the opportunity 
 afforded, and in so doing, I use the Scientific Dial Code, which has 
 come into general use. 
 
 Lega. You are aware that my position is a very delicate one, as I 
 have children; 
 
 Leha. And I would not dare thus to address you if it were not 
 for the fact that you have shown so much tender sympathy with me 
 and my children in various ways that our hearts have become 
 attached to you. 
 
 Leja. I therefore feel that you will become a lovely husband and 
 a kind father to my children. 
 
 Leka. You may hesitate for perhaps three reasons: 
 
 Lela. (1) In taking upon yourself the responsibility and diffi- 
 culty with another man's children; 
 
 Lema. (2) In marrying a woman who is the mother of several 
 children already; and, perhaps 
 
 Lena. (3) A third reason, likely to be treated with a second-hand 
 devotion and love. 
 
 Lepa. W T ell, now, in the first place, I desire to have these my 
 children treated, and for you to have the same authority over them, 
 as if they were your own. Allow me also to call your attention to 
 the further fact that you will have assistance sooner from these 
 than you will by waiting for your own children to grow up, if marrying 
 a maiden. 
 
 Leqa. I am able and willing to bear several children yet, thus 
 affording you the pleasure of fondling your own babes, giving you 
 the same satisfaction and enjoyment in family relationship as if 
 you married a maiden. 
 
 Lera. I assure you that I entertain fully as deep and whole- 
 hearted love for you as I did for my first husband. You will there- 
 fore not be the recipient of a second-class or second-hand love, or 
 anything of the kind, but the genuine first-class fresh-from-the-heart 
 love and devotion, 
 
 Lesa. And you will find, too, that my knowledge and experience 
 in marriage relationship will be helpful to you in many ways, where 
 a maiden is ignorant. 
 
 Leta. So you see, dear, that the widow has some virtues, some- 
 thing specifically her own, that speaks for her, though she has to 
 present it herself; and, besides, she has a special claim on a man to 
 assist her in raising her children. 
 
 Leva. THE WIDOW-LONESOMENESS 
 
 Lewa. Shall I speak of the widow-lonesomeness ! The memory 
 of the association, the assistance, the encouragements, the fondling 
 and caressing occasionally of a former husband makes the life of the 
 
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 widow extremely dark and hopeless. But she must not say anything 
 about it. She has to shed her tears in the closet, but look cheerful 
 in company, though her heart aches and is ready to burst. 
 
 Lexa. But now this condition of things has happily changed; 
 and with me thousands of widows in this land and in the world 
 thank God for it. 
 
 Leya. I don't know how it is or the cause of it, but I have felt a 
 singular attraction toward you, dear Mr. Knox, just the same as I 
 felt toward my former husband during our courtship, though, of 
 course, now with more common sense, if I may use that expression, 
 with regard to aptitude and fitness, than on the former occasion, as 
 I now also have my children to look out for. Therefore, as I find a 
 lovely husband for myself I must also find a tender father for my 
 children; and I am sure that I have found both in you, dear Mr. 
 Knox. 
 
 Meba. It does not become me to be impetuous in the pleading of 
 my own case, but from my knowledge of circumstances and condi- 
 tions, the widow has special advantages to offer for her spouse to 
 enjoy, and she has also an established family and a home, needing 
 only that missing member, which God will provide, to fill a vacancy 
 and to make it complete. 
 
 Meca. May I expect an answer at your convenience? 
 
 Sincerely, MRS. JULIA SMITH. 
 Romona, Hafelana. 
 
 Meda. THE MOST FORTUNATE YOUNG MAN 
 
 Mefa. Dear Mrs. Julia Smith: I hasten to answer your very 
 interesting letter of the Hafelana. Though a surprise, it is none the 
 less welcome and appreciated. 
 
 Mega. I have also to acknowledge a singular attraction toward 
 you and a special interest in your lovely children. 
 
 Meha. But, being only a simple laborer, and not yet able to offer 
 a comfortable home for a wife, I have considered it foolish on my 
 part to entertain any inclination in that direction; in fact, any inti- 
 mation from me might have been considered an insult to you, though 
 I have greatly admired your friendliness and affability, and there- 
 fore enjoyed your company exceedingly. 
 
 Meja. This, however, I have ascribed to your kindness of heart 
 and lovely disposition. 
 
 Meka. But finding now that your kindness and lovely disposition 
 have been imbued with genuine love, embracing such a simple object 
 as me, I consider myself the happiest and most fortunate among 
 young men; and my heart is thrilled with blissful anticipations. 
 
 Mela. Talk about responsibilities I Dearest Julia, your conde- 
 scension and loveliness tower so high, and your tender affection and 
 kindness, like the radiance of the midday sun, embracing me, so 
 largely overbalance any responsibility that may devolve upon me 
 by accepting your proposal, that there is absolutely no comparison. 
 
 Mema. Dearest Julia, I accept your proposal, I will marry you, 
 hoping that I may be to you what I know you will be for me. 
 
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 Mena. The time for our wedding and matters connected there- 
 with, you determine upon to suit your idea; I shall be ready at your 
 call. 
 
 Devoutly and lovingly, LON B. KNOX. 
 Tuscan, Hajelana. 
 
 Mepa. FINAL ARRANGEMENT 
 
 Meqa. Dearest Lon: Your assuring letter of the Hajelana just 
 received. I am much pleased with your noble answer, as I find in it 
 the response and consonance I expected. 
 
 Mera. I was aware of your inclination toward me, and I have 
 expected you to mention something in that direction for some time; 
 but I thought that you hesitated because I am the mother of several 
 children, and that I, therefore, might treat you more as a servant 
 than as a husband and head of a family. 
 
 Mesa. With these objections removed, which I thought it in- 
 cumbent upon me to do, I felt that you would not hesitate in accept- 
 ing a proposal of marriage from me; and I now find that my sup- 
 position was correct. 
 
 Meta. DIVISION OF PROPERTY 
 
 Meva. Now, one-half of our home belongs to my present children 
 and the other half to me. But my husband provided in his will 
 that the estate should remain undivided in my charge as adminis- 
 tratrix and guardian, until our youngest child, little Ellen, shall be 
 eighteen years old. 
 
 Mewa. She is only 5 years now, and we, you and I, are 
 
 both yet young; we can therefore easily accumulate enough and 
 plenty for the maintenance and education of your children, also. 
 
 Mexa. I mention this now, so that we may have a correct under- 
 standing beforehand and from the beginning. 
 
 Meya. I want to say, too, dearest, darling Lon, that I have had 
 several suitors since my husband died; they even began their atten- 
 tion shortly after the funeral. 
 
 Neba. WOULD NOT RISK MOTHERHOOD 
 
 Neca. But I would not risk motherhood in union with any man, 
 who thoughtlessly strikes a match for his own gratification and 
 enjoyment, without any real benefit, but on the contrary, detrimental 
 to himself and posterity and sets fire to a cigar and burns from 
 five cents to twenty-five cents at a time. The cigarette or pipe is 
 just as obnoxious as the other, because it is not only a waste, but it 
 poisons the system. 
 
 Neda. But in you I have a clean young man, who is both pious 
 and industrious; and when you caught the runaway team in town 
 the other day and thus saved^the life of a woman, you also proved 
 yourself a brave young man, a hero; and I determined then and 
 there that you were mine, if I could get you; and I have now 
 
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 got you, and am happy as a lark; for I shall again have a complete 
 home, forgetting the travail of my widowhood. 
 
 Nefa. And I shall consider it a great favor and divine blessing 
 to become the mother of sons and daughters, if it pleases God to 
 make me worthy, with your amiable characteristics and lovely 
 disposition predominating. 
 
 Nega. The world is in need of clean, pious, brave, industrious, 
 noble-minded, self-restraining men and women; and it requires 
 parents with these same characteristics to produce them. 
 
 Neha. And happy motherhood has a double function to perform : 
 To conceive, fashion and bring into existence inhabitants for heaven 
 and citizens for the community and the state. Someone will be the 
 mother of a president, a governor, a senator, a congressman, a min- 
 ister or missionary, or the happy and honored wife of someone of 
 these, and I have as good a chance at it as any other woman in the 
 land. 
 
 Neja. Should I neglect, refuse or prevent, I would be guilty of 
 robbing both heaven and earth; for I believe that God has ordained 
 for each and every one his lot, even to the number and sex of chil- 
 dren; and I should not like to meet God in judgment if I were short 
 or lacking in this or any other respect, where negligence, refusal or 
 prevention could be pointed to as the cause. 
 
 Neka. Dearest Lon, pardon me! but I have seized this oppor- 
 tunity to express myself in this respect, for I can do it better in 
 writing than I could say it. And I want to say it now in order to 
 prepare your mind for the holy divine purpose of our coming together 
 in holy wedlock, for I believe that in this will be found our real and 
 lasting happiness. 
 
 Nela. This correspondence has now opened the way. I will be 
 ready for our wedding in two weeks (cabaj). Let us keep the thing 
 quiet, just inviting a dozen or so of our nearest relatives and friends. 
 We will ask our pastor to marry us at home. 
 
 Nema. Please call at my house Ajja, Hamelana, jaemzoz to plan 
 and make arrangements for our marriage to be celebrated Ajja, 
 Haefelana, Kaemzoz. 
 
 Lovingly, JULIA. 
 
 Romona, Hakelana. 
 
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 Lovely childhood 
 
 LITTLE THINGS 
 
 When God makes a lovely thing, 
 
 The first and completest, 
 He makes it little, don't you know? 
 
 For little things are sweetest. 
 
 Little birds and little flowers, 
 
 Little diamonds, little pearls; 
 But the dearest things on earth 
 
 Are the little boys and girls. 
 
 LADIES' HOME JOURNAL. 
 
 Nena. A HOLY PURPOSE 
 
 Nepa. In reading your last letter, I have found an entirely new 
 world, opening up to me. I must confess that my idea of marriage 
 has been crude, almost barbarious a home, a family, provision for 
 the future and old age, that's all. 
 
 Neqa. But now, you, Dear Julia, have conceived of a higher aim, 
 a nobler purpose that of inhabitants for heaven and a higher type 
 of citizens for the community and the state. This gives a new mean- 
 ing to marriage. 
 
 T.Nera. Strange that I have never heard this made any mention of 
 in sermons from the pulpit. 
 
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 Nesa. ARE OUR MINISTERS IGNORANT OR NEGLIGENT 
 
 in this the most important question, as it now seems to me? 
 
 Neta. For in the winning of souls for Christ, in revivals or otherwise, 
 it is a great grand thing for women and wives to participate; but 
 other mothers have an interest in these, however, for their prayers, 
 their tears, their admonitions and warnings, their precepts, and their 
 examples enter in as factors in the winning of them; 
 
 Neva. But above them and ranking much higher stands the mother 
 who brings her own child, son or daughter, to Christ, for she has been 
 instrumental in bringing a new being into existence, which no one 
 
 What will become of him ? 
 
 else could bring, and therefore all the credit, joy and reward will 
 come to her undivided. 
 
 Newa. In closing, I want to thank you for this valuable informa- 
 tion. It opens up a new world to me and it also brings with it a new 
 subject for my prayers, which I have never thought of before. 
 
 Tuscan, Halelana. Lovingly, LON. 
 
 Nexa. MOTHER'S OBLIGATION 
 
 Neya. Dearest Lon: I admire your promptness to respond and 
 your readiness to receive and embrace those higher and nobler ideals, 
 aims and purposes of our existence on this globe, than just the living 
 for the eating and the eating for the living. 
 
 Peba. This carnal existence is mere emptiness and the search for 
 
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 enjoyments and pleasures that do not exist; for these are found only 
 in conforming ourselves strictly with divine purposes. 
 
 Peca. All selfish searching, striving, exerting for pleasure and 
 enjoyment results in dismal disappointment. 
 
 Peda. MOTHER'S UNDIVIDED REWARD 
 
 Pefa. You mention a mother's undivided credit, joy and reward. 
 Dear Lon, you have advanced marvelously in your perception of 
 higher ideals and nobler motives, and yet, I think, one step further 
 will open wider 
 
 Pega. THE GATES OF PARADISE, 
 
 Peha. For a desire to receive undivided credit, joy and reward 
 is tainted with selfishness, and selfishness destroys happiness and 
 enjoyment. 
 
 Peja. Really, Lon, there can be no such a thing or condition as 
 undivided credit, enjoyment or reward. For our ancestors have a 
 credit, and a reward is due them, for what we are, you and I, and it 
 is by reason of this that we will be able to advance a step farther, 
 which is not only our privilege but our duty. 
 
 Peka. But suppose that our mothers had shirked motherhood in 
 the fashion of wives of today, then neither you nor I would have 
 been in existence, my prayers and praises would never have 
 been heard, for I am the eleventh of twelve children; nor would your 
 beautiful and charming voice ever have been heard in the church, nor 
 in the choir, nor in heaven, for you are the seventh of 10 children. 
 
 Pela. Had wives been shirkers in the early days of our history, 
 as they are now, this country could not boast of a Washington, a 
 Jefferson, a Wendell Phillips, a Charles Sumner, an Abraham Lincoln, 
 and many other shining lights in our brilliant history, 
 
 Pema. For great men generally come from large families, either 
 directly or in the first preceding generation. 
 
 Pena. One or two children to a family rarely become great and 
 useful. 
 
 Pepa. Two REQUISITES 
 
 Peqa. In this advancement in the development of the human 
 race, I realize two very important requisites, devolving upon the 
 wife and mother, namely, opportunity and responsibility; for she has 
 the opportunity to accomplish great things and to become a blessing; 
 but with this opportunity is intermingled responsibility responsi- 
 bility commensurate with her possibilities; her possibilities com- 
 mensurate with her feminine functioning in reproduction, in her 
 aptitude and ability to conceive and to bring into existence new be- 
 ings. And of these new beings she has the shaping, molding and 
 fashioning of mind and character in her keeping from the conception 
 to the manhood of her children. With her mind, disposition, taste, 
 impulses, emotions, devotion, exertion in short, her whole being, 
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 and with all she wields an unappreciated influence and power, and all 
 combine in the molding, shaping, fashioning of aptitudes, tendencies, 
 characteristics, nobleness, and ability of their children as to their 
 personal makeup, and their ability to exert an influence and to 
 become benefactors to the race and true factors in the development 
 of the next generation for still higher ideals and nobler purposes, 
 of which our present limitations may not now have the faintest ap- 
 prehension. 
 
 Pera. Hence her 
 
 LIABILITY 
 
 For non-performance of her feminine obligations, and her 
 RESPONSIBILITY 
 
 In the actual performance of them, to her God, to her state and to 
 her community. 
 
 Pesa. Don't consider me a fanatic or factitious, dear Lon. Three 
 nights and two days at the bedside of my beloved husband, and 
 finally seeing him pass away, portrays yet the seriousness of our lives 
 to me. Before that time, I was a thoughtless girl, looking only for 
 enjoyments and pleasures as other young women do, cloaking my 
 frivolity with a sort of cheap Christianity. But I thank God for the 
 opening of my eyes and heart for pleasures and enjoyments beyond, 
 unalloyed and lasting. My soul has found other realms for its 
 revelries and meditations, infinitely dearer and sweeter than carnal 
 amusements and merriment. 
 
 Peta. But think not, dear Lon, that my concern in higher ideals 
 and heavenly things, and the acknowledgment of my feminine 
 obligations and responsibilities, will make me forget my obligations 
 toward my intended husband. Far from it; rather tending toward 
 a keener perception and fuller realization of everything that works 
 for the happiness and enjoyment of the beloved, without reservation. 
 
 Peva. It is a great relief, a profound satisfaction to my mind to 
 have found one to whom I may open my heart, hoping to be under- 
 stood, to find sympathy, and to behold participation. 
 
 Pewa. ENVIRONMENT AND LITERATURE 
 
 Pexa. Just one other thing and I am through. This is with re- 
 gard to environment and literature. The intending mother should 
 never see one of our common dailies, with its caricatures and absurd- 
 ities and striking headlines of murder, robberies and accidents, 
 which must make unfavorable impressions on the mother's mind. 
 Neither should she attend any theater or picture show or anything 
 sensational or of a questionable character. In these things I want 
 you to become my guardian, dear Lon, in order that the best possible 
 results of our union may be attained. And I have presented this 
 most important problem to you in writing before our marriage, 
 that we may be ready for our varied duties and obligations at the 
 entering in upon our married life, not missing a single opportunity. 
 
 Lovingly, JULIA. 
 Romona, Hamelana. 
 
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 Peya. GROWING INTEREST 
 
 Qeba. Dearest Julia: You are growing in interest. I am amazed. 
 Your last letter I received from your own hand on my visit to your 
 home Ajja, Hamelana, maigzoz, and a dearer, sweeter and more 
 important communication was never placed in a man's hand by a 
 woman. 
 
 Qeca. And I want to say, too, that you are becoming sweeter 
 and lovelier the more I associate with you, since I now dare to look 
 you squarely in the face and in your eyes. 
 
 Qeda. Dearest sweetheart, I say this not to flatter your vanity, 
 for you are too modest to tolerate cheap and thin flattery, but I say 
 it because I know that you will appreciate to know my feelings and 
 opinion of you. To my mind, feeling and heart there can be found no 
 being handsomer, sweeter, lovelier, more virtuous and devoted to 
 God in Heaven and humanity on earth than you are. 
 
 Qefa. Were all wives and mothers of your kind, there would be 
 no divorces, but a new race would come forth, accepting the Kingdom 
 of God, peace would dwell upon earth and good-will would rule 
 among men. 
 
 Qega. DIVINE GUARDIANSHIP 
 
 Qeha. Am I to be entrusted with the guardianship of that sacred 
 and divine institution, the motherhood of the coming generation? How 
 different this responsibility appears to me now from what it did 
 five or six weeks ago. 
 
 Qeja. Well, beloved, I hopefully and joyfully accept the respon- 
 sibility. I shall seek wisdom and strength and discernment at the 
 mercy-seat; for I realize, in part at least, my ignorance and weakness, 
 and I therefore rely wholly upon the guidance of the Holy Spirit, 
 having surrendered myself and all to my Lord and Savior Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 Qeka. Well, we are fortunate in having our church and Sunday- 
 school to occupy our time and attention on Sundays, leaving no 
 room and no desire to attend theaters or picture shows on that 
 sacred day. 
 
 Qela. When feeling lonesome, we will visit friends and ask them 
 to visit us, thus benefiting by the association with advanced, sancti- 
 fied men and women in our community. 
 
 Qema. We shall discard all Sunday newspapers, for these are the 
 chief sinners and tempters, being themselves Sabbath-breakers, and 
 maintain but one or two dailies. But these you need not look at, 
 for I will read to you such articles and extracts as relate to Congress 
 and general intelligence, profitable and elevating to know about. 
 
 Qena. Aside from these we will have our church and missionary 
 journals, one or two horticultural and agricultural journals; the 
 Ladies' Home Journal, The Youths Companion, The Vindicator and 
 the Literary Digest, which gives the world's news in a condensed 
 form. A few magazines should also find a way into our library, but 
 these we will select with great care and discrimination. 
 
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 Qepa. Dearly beloved, I write this to let you know that I am also 
 planning a little bit, but I shall not decide upon any of these things 
 until having conferred with you. So this is to be considered then 
 in the way of suggestion only. 
 
 Qeqa. So much, then, in answer to parts of your letter. 
 
 Qera. VISIT TO PONDEROSA 
 
 Qesa. I cannot close this letter without disseminating a piece of 
 news, which I think will both interest and amuse you. 
 
 Qeta. I informed you, you will remember, that I had to attend 
 to some private business in the city of Ponderosa the following week. 
 I started accordingly Affa Harelana, kaemzo, and arrived safely 
 daegzoz on Elucidea street. Here I noticed an announcement that 
 Dr. Philomath was to lecture in the Divinity Church that evening 
 on the subject: 
 
 Qeva. THE THIRD DISPENSATION 
 
 Qewa. I am too poor a scribe to give you much of this remarkable 
 lecture, but I shall try to scribble a few extracts. Dr. Philomath 
 said in part : 
 
 "That the present Dispensation, often called the New Dispen- 
 sation, is near its close. Great changes are going to be made for the 
 improvement and development of the human race. In the past, 
 attention has been given chiefly to plants and stock, now the atten- 
 tion must be turned to men. 
 
 "This change is going to be brought about by 
 
 Attraction, affection and 
 
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 Qexa. EVOLUTION OR REVOLUTION 
 "The morning star, announcing the approach of the 
 
 GREAT DAY 
 
 is discernible by the sages of our time, but a thorough purging and 
 cleaning of the church and the body politic must be done before that 
 day. 
 
 Qeya. "If the confessing Church of Christ can be revived to its 
 primitive fidelity, purity and activity, it is the institution and has 
 the means by which the body politic may be purged. But if she 
 fails to see and acknowledge her duty as well as her opportunity, 
 then the 
 
 Reba. FIRE OF REVOLUTION 
 
 and famine and pestilence will be resorted to, for the purpose of 
 God must and shall be accomplished. 
 
 Reca. "The Jewish nation was warned by her prophets, but 
 heeded not. They were therefore committed to the purgatory in 
 Babylon for seventy long and dreary years, until the old and stubborn 
 sinners had passed away. God has ways and means to clear obstacles 
 out of the way, all right, but He is patient awaiting our repentance." 
 
 Reda. STORED-UP BLESSINGS 
 
 Refa. "Among the many blessings in store for God's children to 
 enjoy is the utility and control of the force of gravitation, which 
 will make aerial navigation a complete success. Time will come 
 when men, women and children will move as readily and as easily in 
 the air as the fish in the sea, ascending and descending at will, and 
 soaring like the mighty eagle in the blue; and man will never be 
 satisfied until this feat is accomplished. Then whole families will 
 be seen ascending, their children playing hide and seek in the clouds, 
 having been emancipated from the bondage of natural forces, which 
 have now come under the new man's direction and control. For 
 his Creator has ordered him to be fruitful and multiply, and to re- 
 plenish the earth and to subdue it. (Gen. 1:28; Ps. 8:3-6). By 
 subduing means the utility and control of natural forces upon and 
 surrounding the earth. 
 
 Rega. "This the prophet Isaiah saw, though dimly, 3,000 years 
 ago: 'Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as doves to their 
 windows?' he asks. Isaiah 60:8. Then shall a person a hundred 
 years old be considered as a child, for the days of a tree shall be the 
 days of God's children then.' And so well will mothers understand 
 their duties and so well will mothers be cared for that infant deaths 
 shall be almost unknown. See Isaiah 65:19-24. 
 
 Reha. "Then shall aerial navigation and crafts of various kinds 
 become as general and common, and as easily controlled, as the bi- 
 cycle and automobile are now, and much safer. But the nearness or 
 remoteness of that happy, enjoyable period depends on the elevation 
 of society and the standard of citizenship. 
 
 Reja. "The now degrading factors and influences, such as the 
 
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 liquor traffic, the saloon evil and prostitution, gambling, prize- 
 fighting and all barbarian games and sports must be entirely abolished 
 and eradicated before the full 
 
 Reka. EMANCIPATION 
 
 of the human race from the bondage of limitation and subjection to 
 the forces of nature will or can be proclaimed by the 
 
 Rela. RULER OF THE UNIVERSE 
 
 and beneficially enjoyed by humanity. For as long as man chooses 
 the lesser of two evils, contrary to the ordinance of his God, which is 
 to shun all appearance of evil, or tolerates transgression of law, 
 defiance of law, interference in the execution of law; so long will he 
 and must he, necessarily, by the unrelenting law of cause and effect; 
 by natural sequence of action and reaction; by the natural similarity 
 and relation of seeding to harvesting he must in a large measure 
 remain a prisoner in bondage, subjected to the punishments of the 
 laws he trespasses, and be limited in his sphere of activity. 
 
 Rema. " Successful aerial navigation under our present conditions 
 would be a fearful curse, a deplorable misfortune. Just think what 
 would happen if vicious men could pick up their victims like the 
 eagle a lamb or the cruel hawk the chicken and ascend with it to 
 their cliffs for a feast, who would be safe? Aerial navigation shall 
 therefore crave many sacrifices, but remain a failure, for the simple 
 reason that man is not ready for that higher blessing and more refined 
 pleasure and enjoyment." 
 
 A typical Swedish-American family. 
 
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 Rena. Thus spoke that wonderful man. The next evening it 
 was announced that he would deliver a lecture on the subject 
 
 Repa. GOD is LOVE 
 and his theme The Manifestation of God's Love. 
 
 Reqa. Of this I can simply say that it was wonderful. God had 
 revealed his power and wisdom in creation, He had revealed His 
 majesty and righteousness in dealing with the fallen angels, but two 
 other attributes, so dear to us, his Love and His Mercy, He had not 
 yet had occasion or opportunity to reveal. And it was with reference 
 to these that our globe was chosen for His field of attention and 
 operation, making of the human race an object-lesson for all intelligent 
 beings in the universe, whether they be angels or other intelligent 
 creatures, of His divine love, His loving kindness and His mercy, 
 that these attributes might be known, understood and appreciated. 
 For the existence of love can be known and appreciated only by its 
 manifestation. 
 
 Rera. Well, dearest beloved, these are crumbs only from the rich 
 man's table. We hope to see these lectures in print and available 
 in all their fullness and richness in the near future. 
 
 Resa. I long for the happy day when I shall have the great 
 pleasure of remaining with you uninterruptedly and then to put 
 into practice what we have outlined in these pleasant, and for my 
 part, so instructive communications. 
 
 Affectionate greetings! 
 Tuscan, Hatelana. Lovingly, LON. 
 
 Reta. GREETINGS 
 
 Reva. BIRTHDAY GREETINGS 
 
 Rewa. BEAUTY OF EARLY MARRIAGE 
 
 Rexa. My Dear Wife: I want to congratulate you on your 
 birthday and hope that you will be spared for me and our beloved 
 children until ripe old age, and seeing your children in the third or 
 even the fourth generation. 
 
 Reya. A number of our friends thought that we married too 
 early, as a bride of fifteen was something unusual. You could not 
 develop into a strong, robust woman, it was said. And then, when 
 the stork made his call fifteen months later, we couldn't take care of 
 a baby or anything. But that baby is now a grown woman, and you, 
 dear sweetheart, look so young that when you and your daughter 
 walk, ride or sit together, people take you to be sisters, though you 
 are just now entering upon your thirty-fifth summer and have borne 
 and raised eight children. And during the nineteen years of our 
 married life, you have not only taken care of your house, but you 
 have been of great assistance to me, a wife, a worthy helpmate, 
 indeed. 
 
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 Seba. I have every reason to ascribe our success in life and the 
 establishment of our sweet, cozy home to your masterly housekeeping 
 and ability to save every crumb and to make proper use of it, while 
 others are kept poor by wasting. 
 
 Seca. And you are a queen of the very first order, and your hus- 
 band and children and generations to come will bless you. You 
 have been and you are a blessing, and your lovely disposition, your 
 sweet temperament, your sacrifices for my comfort and the family, 
 which I never can compensate you for, has made you dearer and 
 sweeter and lovelier day by day and year by year, until now r , at this 
 year's birthday, I recall these things in my mind, and I find that 
 love is growing stronger and sweeter and our conjugal association 
 increasingly pleasing. 
 
 Seda. When I married you I knew that I had secured a neat 
 little silver mine; sinking the shaft a little deeper through trials and 
 hardship, I found it developing into a gold mine; now it has developed 
 
 In the shade of the orange tree. Happy grandma surrounded by her grandchildren. 
 
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 into a mine of gold, silver and precious gems and stones of rarest quality 
 and brilliancy. 
 
 Sefa. Accept, darling sweetheart, congratulations and cordial 
 well-wishes from 
 
 HUBBY. 
 
 Sega. BLISSFUL MATRIMONY 
 
 Seha. Dearest Wifie Sweetheart . . I hasten to extend to you 
 my cordial congratulation on this birthday of yours. And I want to 
 say now that I never understood what love meant until I found 
 myself in the warm, tender and caressing embrace of a fondling 
 lovely bride. 
 
 Seja. At first I thought that it would pass away with the honey- 
 moon; but in our case, at least, it seems that the honeymoon is 
 growing brighter and its silver rays sweeter every day. 
 
 Seka. This is a wonderful thing, for one who has been out in the 
 cold world alone, to find a cozy home, a pretty, lovely lifemate, an 
 amiable companion always at hand, always ready to serve, and 
 always serving without grumbling. 
 
 Sela. I thank you for what you have been and what you are for 
 me, and I hope to be able to evidence my appreciation in a substan- 
 tial way; but accept from my hand and heart at this time this little 
 worthless trinket as a token of love and appreciation. 
 
 Your loving husband. 
 
 Sema. WIVES APPRECIATE CLEAN HUSBANDS 
 
 Sena. Dearest Darling Husband: It is with much pleasure and 
 satisfaction that I send you a birthday congratulation. 
 
 Sepa. I also send you a few little things which bear fingermarks 
 of my hands. Accept these tokens of genuine, fresh-from-the-heart 
 love and appreciation. 
 
 Seqa. The more I see of other dirty, stinking men, who drink, 
 chew and smoke, the more intensely I love you, as a clean, sweet, 
 lovely husband, and the more I respect you as a man of character 
 and noble principles. 
 
 Sera. I am proud of you as my beloved husband, whose tender- 
 ness of heart and cordial sympathy with me in my feminine weak- 
 nesses and peculiarities, always taking my condition, feelings and 
 preparation into consideration, has brought me so much pleasure 
 and enjoyment, and 
 
 Sesa. I am also proud of you as the father of my children. Be- 
 cause of your tenderness of heart and lovely tending and consider- 
 ation during expectant motherhood, my children have not been 
 cross and restless as many other children are, and I think that I can 
 see in them your noble disposition, amiability, aptitudes and char- 
 acteristics. God bless them all, and God bless you. 
 
 Seta. Darling, I have set your line beyond the 100 mark. Now 
 you know! 
 
 Lovingly, your devoted wife. 
 
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 Seva. SON TO HIS MOTHER 
 Sewa. FILIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT 
 
 Sexa. Dear Mother: I am just reminded that your birthday is 
 coming and that I ought to send you a congratulatory message. 
 I wish you many happy days and years to come, and I hope that we 
 shall have the pleasure of celebrating many more of your birthdays. 
 
 Seya. It is impossible for me to express or even to apprehend the 
 full meaning of your life, your motherly love, care, forbearance, 
 prayers, tears and forgiveness to me and to all of us. 
 
 Teba. I am glad to be able to acknowledge, and will have it 
 inscribed on your tombstone, which shall and will be a monument, 
 that your motherly concern about me and us all embraced our 
 spiritual welfare as well as temporal and bodily development and 
 need. This training in a lovely, delightful home has been and is 
 still of inestimable value to a young man when he starts out in life. 
 
 Teca. I send you a small token of love and filial acknowledgment, 
 by which I want to convey to your mind and heart the assurance 
 that you are not forgotten; nor have I lost sight of the suffering, the 
 fatigue, the worry and the tender motherly care you have had for me. 
 
 Teda. My desire is to be fitted for life's duties and responsibilities, 
 so that my being and my doing shall bring gladness and joy to your 
 heart. 
 
 Tefa. By continual prevailing prayer, I hope that your work 
 and care shall not have been in vain. 
 
 Tega. Greetings of love and filial gratitude, 
 
 Affectionately, your son. 
 
 Teha. DAUGHTER TO HER MOTHER 
 Teja. A BLISSFUL HARVEST 
 
 Teka. Dearest Mother: Your birthday has come around again, 
 and I am awfully glad that we have you among us here for the 
 celebration of it. 
 
 Tela. We all congratulate you and extend our sweetest sentiments 
 to you. 
 
 Tema. For many years you have planted the good seed, some- 
 times in suffering, sometimes in tears; now is your time for a blissful 
 harvest and a happy old age. 
 
 Tena. God bless you, mother, and make your days still useful 
 and happy and your years many among us! 
 
 Tepa. With the tenderest embrace and barrels of love and kisses 
 I am proud to acknowledge you as my mother and to subscribe my 
 name to this birthday congratulation as your loving daughter. 
 
 * * * 
 Teqa. My birthday wish comes to you nigh, may clouds ne'er dim 
 
 your summer sky, 
 
 When'er in life your feet shall tread, God be your guide 
 and guard o'erhead. 
 
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 Tera. Gather ye the rosebuds while ye may, 
 
 Old time is still a-flying; 
 And 'tis same flower that smiles today, 
 
 Tomorrow may be dying. 
 
 Tesa. Heaven give you many, many merry days! 
 Teva. The best wishes that can be forged in our thoughts be 
 servants to you. 
 
 Tewa. Whatever joy or success comes to you will make me glad. 
 Texa. May good fortune spin her shining wheel right merrily for 
 you. 
 
 Teya. I am thinking of you today because it is your birthday, 
 and I wish you happiness, and tomorrow, because it will be the day 
 after your birthday, I shall wish you happiness; and so on clear 
 through the year. 
 
 Veba. Peace be thy portion, no more to depart! 
 
 Bright be life's blossoms, friend of my heart. 
 Veca. The ladder up to fame is long, 
 
 The rounds are very far apart; 
 So he who climbs must be a man, 
 And always bravely do his part. 
 Veda. The world of Romance, Life and Love, 
 
 Is like the ebb and flow of tide, 
 Affected by the sun and moon, 
 The man or maiden at our side. 
 
 Vefa. HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 
 Vega. CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 
 
 Veha. A very merry Christmas-tide and happiest New Year 
 
 To you and yours from me and mine, wealth and joy and 
 
 cheer ! 
 
 A brimful cup of friendliness, for all you hold most dear. 
 Veja. 'Tis Christmas-tide, the time of happy thoughts and re- 
 membrances. 
 
 Veka. May blessings fair and cloudless be sent you from above! 
 Vela. Christmas greeting, kind and true, 
 
 I send this day, dear friend, to you. 
 Vema. Many blessings Christmas brings, 
 On its wide and glowing wings, 
 May the brightest of them all, 
 
 On your path this season fall. 
 
 Vena. Unshadowed may thy Christmas be! A dear day that 
 foretells of many a bright return for thee, on all its chiming bells. 
 
 Vepa. The old wish and the best A Merry Christmas and a 
 Happy New Year. 
 
 Veqa. Hail happy Christmas-tidel May it impart joy to your 
 household, and peace to your heart. 
 
 Vera. When on your listening ear the chimes of Christmas sound, 
 May Peace and Plenty bless your Home, and Happiness 
 abound. 
 
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 Vesa. NEW YEAR GREETINGS 
 
 Veta. Again the silent wheels of time, their annual round have 
 driven. 
 
 Veva. From day to day and year to year, may every happiness 
 be yours. 
 
 Vewa. Good health and all prosperity and much happiness in 
 days to be. 
 
 Vexa. May the century that's new, bring much happiness to you, 
 
 And your fortune in the old multiply a hundredfold. 
 Veya. With all kind thoughts and best wishes 
 
 May your hopes be fulfilled, 
 And your bright dreams come true, 
 
 And life smile right gaily on yours and you. 
 
 Weba. Let us settle all accounts and differences and forgive and 
 forget those who may have insulted or harmed us, and enter the new 
 year with a balanced ledger and clear balance sheet with our God 
 and with humanity, determined to live a better life, exhibit more 
 kindness and love during the coming year. 
 
 Weca. EASTER GREETING 
 
 Weda. Like the sunshine after rain, 
 
 Easter gladness comes again; 
 The risen Lord with you abide 
 And bless for you this Eastertide. 
 
 Wefa. A COMMONPLACE LIFE 
 
 Wega. A commonplace life we say and we sigh; 
 
 But why should we sigh as we say? 
 The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky 
 
 Makes up the commonplace day. 
 The moon and the stars are commonplace things, 
 
 And the flower that blooms and the bird that sings, 
 But dark were the world and sad our lot 
 
 If the flowers failed and the sun shone not, 
 And God who studies each separate soul, 
 
 Out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole. 
 
 Susan Coolidge. 
 
Parts of Speech 
 
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 ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS 
 
 NOTE. Adjectives are compared by adding "m" to the positive 
 for the comparative, and "ma" to the comparative for the superlative, 
 as uba, fine; ubam, finer; ubama, finest. 
 
 Adjectives are formed into adverbs by adding "1" to the positive, 
 as, ubal, finely. 
 
 Uba. Fine. Buja. Heavy. 
 
 Uca (Usha). Delightful. Buka. Light. 
 
 Uda. Pleasant. Burka. Dark. 
 
 Ufa. Excellent. Bula. Right. 
 
 Uga. Elegant. Buma. Wrong. 
 
 Uha. Nice. Buna. Straight. 
 
 Uja. Cheerful. Bupa. Crooked. 
 
 Uka. Many. Buqa. More. 
 
 Ula. Lovely. Bura. Less. 
 
 Uma. Grand. Busa. Near. 
 
 Una. Fair. Buta. Far, remote. 
 
 Upa. Few. Buva. Durable. 
 
 Uqa. Simple. Buwa. Adjacent. 
 
 Ura. Good. Buxa. Nothing. 
 
 Usa. Cheap. Buya. Nowhere. 
 
 Uta. Dear, expensive. Ulba. Very. 
 
 Uva. Enough, sufficient. Ulca. Now. 
 
 Uwa. Excessive. Ulda. Soon. 
 
 Uxa. Inferior. Ulfa. False. 
 
 Uya. Unusual. Ulga. Honest. 
 
 Buba. Long. Ulha. Dishonest. 
 
 Buca. Short. Ulja. Farewell. 
 
 Buda. Strong. Ulka. Fashionable. 
 
 Bufa. Weak. Ulla. Fast. 
 
 Buga. Much. Ulma. Slow. 
 Buha. Little, small. 
 
 PRONOUNS 
 
 Ebo. I, myself, me. 
 
 Ebom. My, mine. 
 
 Eco. (Esho). You, thou, thee. 
 
 Ecom. (Eshom). Your, yours, thine. 
 
 Edo. We. 
 
 Edom. Our, ours. 
 
 Efo. He, him, it. 
 
 Efom. His, its. 
 
 Ego. She, her. 
 
 Egom. Her, hers. 
 
 Eho. They, them. 
 
 Ehom. Their, theirs. 
 
 Ejo. Himself, herself, itself (all genders). 
 
 Ejom. His, hers, its (all genders). 
 
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 VERBS 
 
 (NOTE. Verbs ending in a vowel signify presence or action now; 
 ending in "n" signify action in the past; ending in "d" signify action 
 in the future, and ending in "t" signify the negative, denial, protest, 
 as "Oba," go, walk; "Obat," do not go or walk; "Oban," did go, did 
 walk, went; "Obant," didn't go or walk; "Obad," will go, will walk; 
 "Obadt," will not or won't go or walk. The negative ending in "t" 
 will be easy to remember for all English, German and Swedish speak- 
 ing people, as we have the " 'nt" in English, "nicht" in German, and 
 "intet" in Swedish. Also the Latin nations, who use the Latin 
 "nihil" to designate nothing, will readily comprehend the negative 
 idea indicated. Reminding always that the object of this work is 
 Brevity, Simplicity, Legibility, we contract and bring as many ele- 
 ments together in one word or sentence as may easily and distinctly 
 produce a mind-picture, just as a landscape or a painting brings a 
 picture to the mind, imbuing perceptions and fashioning ideas and 
 ideals) . 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 Ebo. I myself. 
 Oba. Go, walk. 
 Eboba. I go, I walk. 
 Eboban. I did go, I went. 
 Ebobad. I will go, I will be going. 
 Ebobat. I am not going, I am not walking. 
 Ebobant. I didn't go or walk. 
 Ebobadt. I won't go, I am not going to walk. 
 
 EXAMPLES 
 Edo. We. 
 Oka. Sell. 
 Edo-oka. 
 Edoka. We sell. 
 
 Edokan. We have sold, we did sell. 
 Edokad. We will, are going to sell. 
 Edokadt. We are not going to sell, we won't sell. 
 Edokat. We will not sell. 
 Edokant. We did not sell. 
 
 Oma. VERBS 
 Oba. To go, to walk. 
 Oban. Have gone, did go, went. 
 Obad. Will go, will be going. 
 Obat. Not to go, not going. 
 Obant. Didn't go, haven't gone. 
 Obadt. Won't go, shall not go. 
 Oca (Osha). Do, make, work. 
 Ocan. Did do, did make, did work. 
 Ocad. Will do, will make, will work. 
 Ocat. Not to do, not to make, not doing. 
 Ocant. Did not do, did not make, did not work. 
 
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 Ocadt. Will not do, shall not make, am not going to work. 
 
 Oda. To ship, shipping attended to. 
 
 Odan. Have shipped, the shipping has been attended to. 
 
 Odad. Will ship, will attend to the shipping. 
 
 Obat. Not to ship, not shipping. 
 
 Obant. Did not ship, did not attend to shipping. 
 
 Obadt. Won't ship, shall not do or attend to shipping. 
 
 Ofa. To take, to seize, to secure. 
 
 Ofan. Have taken, seized, secured. 
 
 Ofad. Will take, seize, secure. 
 
 Ofat. Not to take, seize, secure. 
 
 Ofant. Did not take, seize, secure. 
 
 Ofadt. Will not take, seize, secure. 
 
 Oga. Choose, select. 
 
 Ogan. Have chosen, did select. 
 
 Ogad. Will choose, will select, will be selecting. 
 
 Ogat. Not to choose, not selecting. 
 
 Ogant. Did not choose, have not selected. 
 
 Ogadt. Will not choose, shall not select. 
 
 Oha. To prefer. 
 
 Oja. To will, to desire, to want. 
 
 Oka. To sell, to dispose of. 
 
 Ola. To buy, to purchase, to secure. 
 
 Oma. To manage, to handle. 
 
 Ona. To attend to, to take care of. 
 
 Opa. To make charges, to charge to account. 
 
 Oqa. To pack, packing attended to. 
 
 Ora. To talk, to speak, to converse. 
 
 Osa. To accept, to receive. 
 
 Ota. To refuse, to decline, to reject, to deny, to repel. 
 
 Ova. To order, to demand, to request. 
 
 Owa. To receipt, to acknowledge, to admit. 
 
 Oxa (Ocha, Otja). To return, to send back. 
 
 Oya. To come. 
 
 Sorba. To control, to direct, to govern. 
 
 Sorca (Sorsha). To neglect, to ignore. 
 
 Sorda. To inflict, to impose. 
 
 Sorfa. To cry, to shout, to yell. 
 
 Sorga. To weep, to bewail. 
 
 Sorha. To pity, to deplore, to lament. 
 
 Sorja. To sorrow, to sadden, to distress, to grieve. 
 
 Sorka. To admonish, to reprove, to counsel, to advise. 
 
 Sorla. To rejoice, to gladden. 
 
 Sorma. To excuse, to condone, to vindicate. 
 
 Sorna. To forgive, to pardon. 
 
 Sorpa. To regret, to lament, to remorse. 
 
 Sorqa. To chastise, to punish. 
 
 Sora. To anguish, to despair, to remorse. . 
 
 Sorsa. To help, to assist, to support. 
 
 Sorta. To administer, to control, to govern. 
 
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 Sorva. To serve, to minister, to obey. 
 
 Sorwa. To appoint, to nominate, to select, to choose. 
 
 Sorxa (Sorcha). To petition, to entreat, to supplicate, to solicit. 
 
 Sorya. To reconcile, to reunite, to adjust. 
 
 Loba. Can. Loya. To be. 
 
 Loca. Is, am, are. 
 
 Loda. Have. 
 
 Lofa. Shall. 
 
 Loga. Balance. 
 
 Loha. Debit. 
 
 Loiha. To meet. 
 
 Loja. Credit. 
 
 Loka. Consign. 
 
 Loika. Money. 
 
 Lola. Exchange. 
 
 Loma. Fluctuate. 
 
 Lona. Protest. 
 
 Lopa. Honor. 
 
 Loqa. Quote. 
 
 Lora. Advance. 
 
 Losa. Lose, loss, lost. 
 
 Lota. Check. 
 
 Lova. Profit. 
 
 Lowa. Draft. 
 
 Loxa. Snow. 
 
 Rora. Rain. 
 
 Oliba. To eat, eating. 
 
 Olba. To breakfast, to eat breakfast. 
 
 Olca (Olsha). To dine, to eat dinner. 
 
 Olda. To supper, to eat supper. 
 
 Olfa. To arrive. 
 
 Olga. To leave. 
 
 Olha. To like, to appreciate. 
 
 Olja. To love, to cherish. 
 
 Olka. To feel, to sympathize. 
 
 Olla. To hate, to abhor, to detest. 
 
 Olma. To please, to satisfy. 
 
 Olna. To delight, to enjoy. 
 
 Olpa. To see, to behold, to observe. 
 
 Olqa. To burn, to consume. 
 
 Olra. To send, to be sent. 
 
 Olsa. To stipulate, to contract, to lease. 
 
 Olta. To check, to hinder, to delay. 
 
 Olva. To move, to change. 
 
 Olwa. To deceive, to delude, to mislead by falsehood. 
 
 Olxa (Olcha). To cheat, to defraud, to delude, to deceive. 
 
 Olya. To continue, to be consistent. 
 
 Soba. To add. 
 
 Soca (Sosha). To subtract. 
 
 Soda. To multiply. 
 
Parts of Speech 147 
 
 Sofa. To divide. 
 
 Soga. To remember. 
 
 Soha. To affect. 
 
 Soja. To effect. 
 
 Soka. To educate. 
 
 Sola. To increase. 
 
 Soma. To decrease. 
 
 Sona. To diminish, belittle, degrade. 
 
 Sopa. To cleanse, to purge. 
 
 Soqa. To encroach, to interfere. 
 
 Sora. To feed, to nourish. 
 
 Sosa. Txfpreserve, to keep in safety. 
 
 Sota. To'cut, to slash. 
 
 Sova. To sleep. 
 
 Sowa. To rest, to recreate. 
 
 Soxa (Socha). To write. 
 
 Soya. To subscribe. 
 
 Roba. To ratify. 
 
 Roda. To decipher. 
 
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 VOCABULARY 
 
 ENGLISH DIAL 
 
 Abhor. Olla. 
 Accept. Osa. 
 Acknowledge. Owa. 
 Admit. Owa. 
 Admonish. Sorka. 
 Advise. Sorka. 
 Add. Soba. 
 Adjust. Sorya. 
 Adjacent. Buwa. 
 Administer. Sorta. 
 Advance. Lora. 
 Affect. Soha. 
 Agnostic. Alpah. 
 Aisle. Axaw. 
 Alfalfa. Sas. 
 Almonds, soft shell. Qat. 
 Almonds, paper shell. Qav. 
 Almonds, hard shell. Qaw. 
 Almonds, bitter. Qax. 
 Altar. Axas. 
 Am. Loca. 
 Ambassador. Apay. 
 Ancestor. Anap. 
 Anguish. Sorra. 
 Ankle. Awaj. 
 Anteroom. Ayab. 
 Apricots, canned. Afax. 
 Apples. Law. 
 Apples, summer. Lax. 
 Apples, fall. Lay. 
 Apples, winter. Lays. 
 Appoint. Sorwa t 
 Appreciate. Olha. 
 Arm. Awal. 
 Arrest. Araq. 
 Arteries. Atad. 
 Arrive. Oya, alfa. 
 Asparagus. Max. 
 Ass. Vag. 
 Assist. Sorsa. 
 Assessor. Araw. 
 Atheist. Alpag. 
 Attend. Ona. 
 Attic. Xah. 
 Atonement. Almap. 
 Attorney general. Apaw. 
 Auditorium. Axax. 
 
 Auditor. Arax. 
 Aunt. Anag. 
 Automobile. Ajax. 
 Axle. Alas. 
 
 B 
 
 Back. Avaq. 
 Baggage. Apev. 
 Bailiff. Arak. 
 Balance. Loga. 
 Bananas. Lav, agah. 
 Baptism. Almav. 
 Baptizing. Almaw. 
 Base-burner. Xap. 
 Bass. Afaj. 
 Barley. Tal. 
 Barley, crushed. Say. 
 Bathroom. Xab. 
 Bay window. Xag. 
 Beans, canned string. Afar. 
 Beans, Boston. Afat. 
 Bedroom. Way. 
 Bed, double iron. Abad. 
 Bed, single iron. Abaf. 
 Beef, canned corn. Afay. 
 Beef, canned dried. Agac. 
 Beets. Nag. 
 Behold. Olpa. 
 Belittle. Sona. 
 Berries. Pat. 
 Beseeching. Almaj. 
 Bewail. Sorga. 
 Bicycle. Akac. 
 Bile. Atax. 
 Biscuits. Acah. 
 Blackberries. Pay. 
 Blackberries, mammoth. Qab. 
 Bladder. Atan. 
 Block. Anev. 
 Blood. Atah. 
 Boar. Waf. 
 Bolster. Alat. 
 Brain. Asag. 
 Brahma. Alpac. 
 Brahminism. Alpad. 
 Bran. Tab. 
 Bread. Acac. 
 Bread, wheat. Acad. 
 
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 Bread, rye. Acaf. 
 
 Bread, graham. Acag. 
 
 Bread, butter, and cheese. Amed. 
 
 Bread pan. Yag. 
 
 Breakfast. Olba. 
 
 Breakfast food. Acar. 
 
 Breathing. Atab. 
 
 Breast. Avap. 
 
 Bridle. Sac. 
 
 Brother. Anac. 
 
 Bug. Oka. 
 
 Buggy. Ajar. 
 
 Buggy harness. Sax. 
 
 Buggy top. Ajas. 
 
 Buggy shaft. Ajat. 
 
 Buddha. Alnay. 
 
 Buddhism. Alpab. 
 
 Bull. Tas. 
 
 Bureau. Abak. 
 
 Burn. Olqa. 
 
 Business. Awat. 
 
 Buttermilk. Ajaf. 
 
 Butter. Ameg. 
 
 C 
 
 Cabbage. Mav. 
 Calf. Taw. 
 Call. Kail. 
 Can. Loba. 
 Canteloupes. Rag. 
 Canned goods. Afan. 
 Cambric. Ahec. 
 Carrier. Alak. 
 Carriage. Ajaq. 
 Carp. Afac. 
 Carpets. Abap. 
 Carpet, Brussels. Abaq. 
 Carpet, velvet. Abar. 
 Carrots. Nad. 
 Cart. Ajaw. 
 Catfish. Afal. 
 Cauliflower. Maw. 
 Cayenne pepper. Nan. 
 Catholic. Alnat. 
 Celery. Naj. 
 Cellar. Xaj. 
 Chamber. Aban. 
 Chair. Yas. 
 Chair, rocking. Yat. 
 Chair, office. Yay. 
 
 Chair, diningroom. Yav. 
 Change. Olva. 
 Charge. Opa. 
 Chastise. Sorqa. 
 Cheese. Ameh. 
 Cherish. Olja. 
 Check. Olta, lota. 
 Cheat. Olxa. 
 Chestnut. Qaq. 
 Cheap. Usa. 
 Cheek. Awaf. 
 Cheerful. Uja. 
 Cheviot. Ager. 
 Chin. Awag. 
 Child. Anab. 
 Chimney. Xak. 
 Chickens. Vat. 
 Choose. Oga, sorwa. 
 Choir. Ayak. 
 Christian. Alnas. 
 Christian Alliance. Alnac. 
 Circulation. Atag. 
 City. Apaf. 
 Cloudberries. Qak. 
 Closet. Xac. 
 Clover. Saq. 
 Cleanse. Sopa. 
 Cockerel. Vav. 
 Cod. Aday. 
 Coffee. Ahal. 
 Coffee pot. Yac. 
 Coffee, Java. Aham. 
 
 " Mocha. Ahan. 
 
 " green. Ahap. 
 
 " roasted. Ahaq. 
 
 " blended. Ahar. 
 
 " ground. Ahas. 
 Colt. Van. 
 Collar. Saf. 
 Collection. Alnah. 
 Colon. Ataw. 
 Community. Anav. 
 Come. Oya. 
 Consume. Olqa. 
 Contract. Olsa. 
 Continue. Olya. 
 Consistent. Olya. 
 Converse. Ora. 
 Control. Sorpa, sorta. 
 Condone. Sorma. 
 
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 Consign. Loka. 
 Consul. Aqab. 
 Converting. Almaq. 
 Congregation. Almac. 
 Cookies. Acal. 
 Corn, Indian. Tap. 
 Corn, kaffir. Taq. 
 Corn flakes. Acat. 
 Cornmeal. Agas. 
 Corn, canned sweet. Agas. 
 Cornet. Ayat. 
 Counter. Anax. 
 County clerk. Arav. 
 Court, Justice. Arad. 
 
 " Superior. Araf. 
 
 " Supreme. Arag. 
 Counsel. Sorka. 
 Cousin. Anak. 
 Cow. Tat. 
 Crackers. Acak. 
 Credit. Loja. 
 Cry. Sorfa. 
 Crooked. Bupa. 
 Cranberries. Qaj. 
 Cream. Amef. 
 Cucumbers. Rah. 
 Currants. Qaf. 
 Curtains. Abat. 
 Curtains, roller. Abav. 
 Curtains, lace. Abaw. 
 Cultivator. Akam. 
 Cut. Sota. 
 
 D 
 
 Danger. Axam. 
 Day. Sola. 
 Daughter. Amay. 
 Deacon. Ayag. 
 Dear, expensive. Uta. 
 Debit. Loha. 
 Degrade. Sona. 
 Decrease. Soma. 
 Delude. Olxa. 
 Defraud. Olxa. 
 Deceive. Olwa. 
 Delay. Olta. 
 Delight. Olna. 
 Delightful. Uca. 
 Detest. Olla. 
 Despair. Sorra. 
 
 Deserve. Oja. 
 Decline. Ota. 
 Demand. Ora. 
 Deplore. Sorha. 
 Dewberries. Pav. 
 Decipher. Roda. 
 Digestion. Atay. 
 Dine. Olca. 
 Dining room. Wap. 
 Diminish. Sona. 
 Direct. Sorba. 
 Dispose. Oka. 
 Distress. Sorja. 
 Dishpan. Yah. 
 Dishonest. Ulha. 
 Divide. Sofa. 
 Do, did. Oca. 
 Dog. Var. 
 Donation. Awas. 
 Double-tree. Alay. 
 Doughnuts. Acap. 
 Dove. Wac. 
 Draft. Lowa. 
 Dresser. Abaj. 
 Drinks. Ajad. 
 Drill. Akaq. 
 Dry goods. Agem. 
 Duck, ducks. Vax. 
 Duet. Ayam. 
 Durable. Buva. 
 Dwelling house. Wak. 
 
 E 
 
 Ear. Asal. 
 Eat. Olza. 
 Educate. Soka. 
 Eel. Afam. 
 Effect. Soja. 
 Eggplants. Nah. 
 Egg soda. Ajak. 
 Elbow. Xam. 
 Elbows. Avak. 
 Elegant. Uga. 
 Elder. Ayaf. 
 Emperor. Apam. 
 Encroach. Soqa. 
 Engineer. Arlay. 
 Enough. Uva. 
 Enjoy. Olna. 
 Entreat. Sorxa. 
 
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 Epworth League. Alnab. 
 Evening. Axac. 
 Ewe. Vac. 
 Exchange. Lola. 
 Excuse. Sorma. 
 Excellent. Ufa. 
 Expensive. Uta. 
 Excessive. Uwa. 
 Eye. Asar. 
 Eyebrow. Asah. 
 Eyelid. Asaj. 
 
 Fair. Una. 
 Family. Anal. 
 False. Ulfa. 
 Falsehood. Olwa. 
 Far. Buta. 
 Farewell. Ulja. 
 Farming utensils. Akad. 
 Fashionable. Ulca* 
 Fast. Ulla. 
 Father. Amav. 
 Feed. Sora. 
 Feel. Olka. 
 Fellows. Amag. 
 Female. Amap. 
 Few. Upa. 
 Fine. Uba. 
 Fingers. Avad. 
 Finger nails. Avaf. 
 Fish. Adaq. 
 Flavors. Agad. 
 Flour. Agam. 
 Flour, wheat. Agan. 
 
 rye. Agap. 
 
 graham. Agaq. 
 
 buckwheat. Agar. 
 Fluctuate. Loma. 
 Flute. Ayav. 
 Foot, feet. Avag. 
 Forehead. Asad. 
 Foreign Mission. Alnap. 
 Forgive. Sorna. 
 Forgiveness. Almar. 
 Front room set. Abab. 
 Frying pan. Xav. 
 Fruit. Lam. 
 
 G 
 
 Gallery. Axay. 
 Genealogy. Anas. 
 Generation. Anaq. 
 Germea. Acax. 
 Ginger snaps. Acam. 
 Ginghams. Agew. 
 Girth. Sak. 
 Gladden. Sorla. 
 Glucose. Ahak. 
 Go. Oba. 
 Goat. Vaf. 
 Goat, billy. Vag. 
 Goat, nanny. Vah. 
 Goose, geese. Vay. 
 Gooseberries. Qad. 
 Good. Ura. 
 Govern. Sorba. 
 Grain. Faf. 
 Grapes. Pap. 
 Grapes, raisin. Paq. 
 
 " wine. Par. 
 
 " table. Pas. 
 Grapefruit. Lat. 
 Grand. Uma. 
 Green peas. Nap. 
 Grieve. Sorge. 
 Gridiron. Xax. 
 Griddle. Xay. 
 Guilty. Aram. 
 Guitar. Ayax. 
 
 H 
 
 Hail. Loga. 
 Hair. Asak. 
 Ham, canned. Agab. 
 Hames. Sag. 
 Halter. Raw. 
 Halibut. Afab. 
 Hallowing. Almat. 
 Handle. Oma. 
 Hand rake. Alac. 
 Hand. Avab. 
 Harrow. Akan. 
 Harm. Axal. 
 Hate. Alia. 
 Hay. Sap. 
 
 " grain. Sat. 
 
 " wheat. Sav. 
 
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 Hay, barley. Saw. 
 
 " oat. Sax. 
 Haymow. Ras. 
 Hay rake. Akaw. 
 Hay fork. Alaj. 
 Hay rack. Alax. 
 Have. Loda. 
 Hazelnut. Qas. 
 Heating. Xan. 
 Heathen. Alnaw. 
 Heavy. Buja. 
 Head. Asac. 
 Hear. Asam. 
 Heart. Atac. 
 Heifer. Tav. 
 Help. Sorsa. 
 Hens. Vas. 
 Herring. Adav. 
 Hinder. Olta. 
 Hip. Avas. 
 Hoe. Alag. 
 Hog. Wag. 
 Honor. Lopa. 
 Home, mission. Alnan. 
 Honest. Ulga. 
 Horses. Vak. 
 Hounds, fore. Amaj. 
 
 " hind. Amak. 
 Hub. Amad. 
 Human body. Asab. 
 Humanity. Amam. 
 Husband. Amas. 
 Hydrant. Yal. 
 
 Ignore. Sorca. 
 Imploring. Almak. 
 Impose. Sorda. 
 Increase. Sola. 
 Inflict. Sorda. 
 Infidel. Alpaf. 
 Inferior. Uxa. 
 Innocent. Aran. 
 Instructor. Alyay. 
 Interfere. Soqa. 
 Interpreter. Araj. 
 Intestines. Atav. 
 Is. Loca. 
 
 Jew. Alnar. 
 Jewish Mission. Alnag. 
 Jumpers. Adel. 
 Juniper ale. Ajam. 
 Jury. Arab. 
 
 K 
 
 Keep. Sosa. 
 Kettle. Xart. 
 Kid. Vaj. 
 Kidneys. Atam. 
 King. Apal. 
 King bolt. Amah. 
 Kitchen. Waq. 
 Kitchen utensils. Xaq. 
 Knapsack. Apex. 
 Knee. Avav. 
 
 Lament. Sorha. 
 Lamb. Vad. 
 Leave. Olga. 
 Lease. Olsa. 
 Leg. Awak. 
 Lemon. Agag, Ian. 
 Lemonade. Ajag. 
 Less. Bura. 
 Lettuce. May. 
 Light. Buka. 
 Like. Olha. 
 Lines. Sad. 
 Lips. Ataj. 
 Little. Buha. 
 Liver. Atal. 
 Loaf of bread. Acaj. 
 Lobster. Afaf. 
 Loins. Avar. 
 Loganberries. Pax. 
 Long. Buba. 
 Look. Awad. 
 Lose. Losa. 
 Loss. Losa. 
 Lost. Losa. 
 Lounge. Abag. 
 Lovely. Ula. 
 Lord's Supper. Almax. 
 Love. Olja. 
 Luggage. Apew. 
 Lungs. Asax. 
 
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 M 
 
 Make. Oca. 
 Mackerel. Adat. 
 Male. Aman. 
 Manage. Oma. 
 Manger. Rav. 
 Manure spreader. Akar. 
 Man. Amaq. 
 Many. Uka. 
 Mare. Vam. 
 Mastication. Avay. 
 Meal. Axan. 
 Milk. Ajad. 
 Milk soda. Ajaj. 
 Mill feed. Toe. 
 Mislead. Olwa. 
 Mission. Alnam. 
 Mohammedan. Alnax. 
 More. Buqa. 
 Morning. Axab. 
 Mother. Amaw. 
 Mouth. Atas. 
 Move. Give. 
 Mouldboard. Akah. 
 Mower. Akas. 
 Much. Buga. 
 Mule. Vap. 
 Multiply. Soda. 
 Music. Ayap. 
 Muskmelons. Raf. 
 Muslin. Aheb. 
 
 N 
 
 Nation. Apab. 
 Near. Busa. 
 Neck. Avan. 
 Neglect. Sorcha. 
 Nephew. Anah. 
 Nice. Uha. 
 Niece. Anaj. 
 Night. Axaf. 
 Nonimate. Sorwa. 
 Nonsense. Axaj. 
 Noon. Axad. 
 Nose. Asan. 
 Nostrils. Asaq. 
 Nothing. Buxa. 
 Nourish. Sora. 
 
 Now. Ulca. 
 Nowhere. Buya. 
 Nuisance. Axak. 
 Nuts. Qal. 
 
 
 
 Oats. Tarn. 
 Oat-flakes. Acaw. 
 Observe. Olpa. 
 Offering. Alnak. 
 Officers. Apaj. 
 Offspring. Anar. 
 Oilcake. Tab. 
 Onions. Nar. 
 Oranges. Lap. 
 Oranges, Valencia. Laq. 
 
 Mediterranean. Lav 
 
 navel. Las. 
 Order. Ova. 
 Organ. Avar. 
 Organist. Ayas. 
 Overalls. Adek. 
 
 Pack. Oqa. 
 Package. Aqed. 
 Palm. Avam. 
 Pantry. War. 
 Parasol. Awax. 
 Parlor. Warn. 
 Parsnips. Nac. 
 Pardon. Sorna. 
 Pastor. Almab. 
 Pay. Sta. 
 Pears. Mab. 
 Pears, summer. Mac. 
 " fall. Mad. 
 
 Bartlett. Mag. 
 " canned. Afaw. 
 Peaches. Nav. 
 Peaches, freestone. Naw. 
 
 clings. Nax. 
 
 " early Crawford. Nay. 
 Foster. Pab. 
 St. John. Pac. 
 Elberta. Pad. 
 " Susquehanna. Paf. 
 
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 Peaches, Muir. Paq. 
 Lovel. Pah. 
 
 " Salloway. Paj. 
 
 " Seller's orange cling. Pak. 
 Elberta cling. Pal. 
 
 " Phillip's cling. Pam. 
 
 " Heath cling. Pan. 
 
 canned. Afav. 
 Peas, canned. Afaq. 
 Pecan. Qar. 
 Penitentiary. Aras. 
 Perch. Afah. 
 Petition. Sorxa. 
 Pews. Axav. 
 Persimmons. Mav. 
 Phenomenal berries. Qac. 
 Pies. Acay. 
 Pie, apple. Adab. 
 " peach. Adac. 
 " pumpkin. Adad. 
 " custard. Adaf. 
 " mince. Adag. 
 " blackberry. Adaj. 
 Piano. Ayaq. 
 Pike. Afag. 
 Pineapple. Nal. 
 Pineapple flavor. Agaj. 
 Pitchfork. Alah. 
 Pity. Sorha. 
 Please. Olma. 
 Pleasant. Uda. 
 Pleading. Almah. 
 Plow. Akaf. 
 Plow handle. Akaf. 
 Plowlay. Akaj. 
 Plow, gang. Akak. 
 Plow, sulky. Akal. 
 Plums. Mah. 
 Plum, Wickson. Maj. 
 
 " Burbank. Mak. 
 Setzuma. Mai. 
 Pole. Ajav. 
 
 Political divisions. Anaf. 
 Postmaster-general. Apax. 
 Porch. Was. 
 Portico. Wav. 
 Pomegranate. Mas. 
 Potatoes. Qay. 
 Praying. Almag. 
 Preserve. Sosa. 
 
 Prefer. Oha. 
 Precinct. Apah. 
 President. Apak. 
 Premier. Apan. 
 Preaching. Almad. 
 Prints. Agex. 
 Prison. Arar. 
 Profit. Lova. 
 Promise. Proma. 
 Protest. Lona. 
 Provisions. Acab. 
 Protestant. Alnav. 
 Prunes, French. Mam. 
 " sugar. Man. 
 Silver. Map. 
 " Hungarian. Maq. 
 Pudding. Adak. 
 Pudding, bread. Adal. 
 
 custard. Adam. 
 
 tapioca. Adan. 
 
 rice. Adap. 
 Pullet. Vaw. 
 Pulpit. Axat. 
 Pump. Yak. 
 Pumpkins. Rand. 
 Punish. Sorqa. 
 Purchase. Ola. 
 Purge. Sopa. 
 
 Q 
 
 Quote. Loqa. 
 Quartette. Ayal. 
 
 R 
 
 Radish. Nab. 
 Rain. Rora. 
 Raisins. Raj. 
 Raisins, Muscatel. Rak. 
 Malaga. Ral. 
 
 " Thompson seedless. Ram 
 
 " seedless Sultana. Ran. 
 
 " seeded Muscatel. Rap. 
 
 " seeded Malaga. Raq. 
 Rake. Akav. 
 Range. Xar. 
 Raspberry flavor. Agal. 
 Raspberries. Paw. 
 Ram. Vab. 
 Razor. Afek. 
 
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 Ratify. Roba. 
 Reaper. Akax. 
 Reach. Alar. 
 Recreate. Sowa. 
 Receive. Osa. 
 Reconcile. Sorya. 
 Recorder. Aray. 
 Red Whortleberries. Qah. 
 Regret. Sorpa. 
 Refuse. Ota. 
 Reject. Ota. 
 Rejoice. Sorla. 
 Relative. Anam. 
 Relation. Anan. 
 Remote. Buta. 
 Remember. Soga. 
 Remorse. Sorpa. 
 Reservoir. Xas. 
 Reunite. Sorya. 
 Request. Ova. 
 Reprove. Sorka. 
 Return. Oxa. 
 Repel. Ota. 
 Rest. Sowa. 
 Respiration. Atab. 
 Revival. Alman. 
 Rice. Agat. 
 Right. Bula. 
 Rolled oats. Acaw. 
 Rope. Awaw. 
 Roadster. Akab. 
 Room. Wai. 
 Root beer. Ajal. 
 Rug. Abas. 
 Running gear. Amal. 
 Rye. Tak. 
 
 Sadden. Sorja. 
 
 Saddle. Saj. 
 
 Salary. Awar. 
 
 Salmon. Adar. 
 
 Sandwiches. Acaq. 
 
 Satisfy. Olma. 
 
 Scythe. Alab. 
 
 Secure. Ofa. 
 
 Secretary of State. Apan. 
 
 of the Interior. Apap, 
 of War. Apaq. 
 " of the Navy. Apar. 
 
 Secretary of the Treasury. Apas 
 of Agriculture. Apat. 
 of Commerce and 
 Labor. Apav. 
 
 See. Olpa, asas. 
 
 Seeder. Akap. 
 
 Seize. Ofa. 
 
 Send. Olra. 
 
 Sell. Oka. 
 
 Select. Oga. 
 
 Self-binder. Akay. 
 
 Sentence. Arap. 
 
 Sermon. Almaf. 
 
 Serve. Sorva. 
 
 Shaft. Ajat. 
 
 Shall. Lofa. 
 
 Sheep. Tay. 
 
 Sheeting. Ahed. 
 
 Ship. Oda. 
 
 Shout. Sorpa. 
 
 Shoulders. Avaj. 
 
 Short. Buca. 
 
 Shovel. Alad. 
 
 Shrimp. Afad. 
 
 Sickle. Akat. 
 
 Silk. Agep. 
 
 Singing. Ayag. 
 
 Single tree. Amac. 
 
 Singer. Ayay. 
 
 Sinner. Alpaj. 
 
 Simple. Uqa. 
 
 Sink. Yaj. 
 
 Sister. Anad. 
 
 Sitting room. Wan. 
 
 Skillet. Xaw. 
 
 Skin. Avaw. 
 
 Slash. Sota. 
 
 Sleep. Sova. 
 
 Slow. Ulma. 
 
 Small. Buha. 
 
 Smell. Asap. 
 
 Snails. Acan. 
 
 Snow. Loca. 
 
 Soda water. Ajah. 
 
 Sofa. Abah. 
 
 Solicit. Sorxa. 
 
 Sole. Adas. 
 
 Solo. Ayan. 
 
 Son. Amax. 
 
 Soon. Ulda. 
 
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 Sorrow. Sorja. 
 Sow. Wag. 
 Spade. Alaf. 
 Speak. Ora. 
 Spinach. Nak. 
 Spokes. Amaf. 
 Spur. Sam. 
 Squash. Vac. 
 Stall. Rat. 
 Stallion. Val. 
 Stairway. Waw. 
 Starch. Agaw. 
 Starch, corn. Agax. 
 State. Anay. 
 Steer. Tax. 
 Stipulate. Olsa. 
 Stirrup. Sal. 
 Stomach. Atat. 
 Storm. Axah. 
 Stovepipe. Xal. 
 Strainer. Yaf. 
 Straight. Buna. 
 Strap. Awav. 
 Street car. Anes. 
 Street. Anet. 
 String beans. Naq. 
 Strawberries. Qag. 
 Strawberry flavor. Agak. 
 Strong. Buda. 
 Subscribe. Soya. 
 Subscription. Alnaj. 
 Subtract. Soca. 
 Sufficient. Uva. 
 Sugar. Agay. 
 Sugar, cane. Ahab. 
 
 " beet. Abac. 
 
 " granulated. Ahad. 
 
 " cube. Ahaf. 
 
 " loaf. Ahag. 
 
 " dominoe. Ahah. 
 
 " brown. Ahaj. 
 Suitcases. Afeg. 
 Sunday-school. Alna. 
 Sunday-school Superintendent. 
 
 Alnaf. 
 
 Sunday-school teacher. Alnag. 
 Supper. Olda. 
 Supplicate. Sorxa. 
 Support. Sorsa. 
 Supervisor. Arat. 
 
 Swallow. Awab. 
 Sweat. Ayax. 
 Sweater. Adem. 
 Sweet potatoes. Vab. 
 Swine. Wad. 
 Sympathize. Olka. 
 
 Table. Yan. 
 
 Take. Ofa. 
 
 Talk. Ova. 
 
 Tapioca. Agav. 
 
 Taste. Asav. 
 
 Table, extension. Yap. 
 
 " center. Yaq. 
 
 " kitchen. Yar. 
 Tea. Ahat. 
 Tea, Ceylon. Ahav. 
 
 " Japan. Ahaw. 
 
 " Paraguay. Ahax. 
 
 " Kafta. Ahay. 
 
 " Hyson. Amhab. 
 
 " Gunpowder. Amhac. 
 
 " green. Amhad. 
 
 " black. Amhaf. 
 
 " Chinese. Amhag. 
 Teakettle. Yab. 
 Teapot. Yad. 
 Teeth. Atak. 
 Telescopes. Afej. 
 Temple. Asaf. 
 Testicles. Atar. 
 Thanksgiving. Almas. 
 Thigh. Avat. 
 Throat. Asaw. 
 Thumb. Avac. 
 Timothy. Sar. 
 Tires, buggy. Alap. 
 Tire setting. Alan. 
 Tithe. Alnal. 
 Toes. Avah. 
 Toilet. Xad. 
 Tomatoes. Nam. 
 Tomatoes, canned. Afap. 
 Tongue. Alav, asat. 
 Tools. Aqef. 
 Toolchest. Aqeg. 
 Top buggy. Ajar. 
 Tourist. Axap. 
 Tourist car. Ajay. 
 
English Vocabulary 
 
 157 
 
 Town. Apad. 
 Township. Anaw. 
 Traces. Sah. 
 Track. Alal. 
 Traveler. Axaq. 
 Trout. Adaw. 
 Trunk. Aqeb. 
 Trustee. Ayah. 
 Tubing. Ahef. 
 Turkey, turkeys. Wab. 
 Turnips. Nam. 
 
 U 
 
 Umbrella. Away. 
 Uncle. Anaf. 
 Ungodly. Alpak. 
 Unusual. Uya. 
 Upstairs. Wax. 
 Urin. Atap. 
 Usher. Ayad. 
 
 Vanilla. Agaf. 
 Vegetables. Mat. 
 Vehicles. Ajan. 
 Veins. Ataf. 
 Veranda. Wat. 
 Verdict. Aral. 
 Very. Ulba. 
 Vestry. Ayac. 
 Vice-consul. Aqac. 
 Village. Apac. 
 Vindicate. Sorma. 
 Violin. Ayaw. 
 Voice. Asay. 
 Vomit. Awac. 
 
 W 
 
 Wages. Awaq. 
 Wagon. A jap. 
 
 Wagon bed. Alaw. 
 Wagon harness. Rax. 
 Wagon tire. Alam. 
 Walk. Oba. 
 Walnut. Qam. 
 Walnut, English. Gan. 
 
 " French. Qap. 
 Want. Oja. 
 Ward. Apag. 
 Wash bowl. Abam. 
 Wash stand. Abal. 
 Water. Ajac. 
 Water front. Xat. 
 Watermelons. Rad. 
 Weak. Buga. 
 Weep. Sorga. 
 Wheat. Tag. 
 Wheat, buck. Tan. 
 winter. Tab. 
 
 " spring. Taj. 
 Wheat flakes. Acas. 
 Wheel. Alaq. 
 Whiffletrees. Amab. 
 Whiskers. Awah. 
 White fish. Adax. 
 Wife. Amat. 
 Will. Oja. 
 Window. Xaf. 
 Winter Nellis. Maf. 
 Woman. Amar. 
 Work. Oca. 
 Worshiping. Almal. 
 Write. Sorxa. 
 Wrists. Aval. 
 Wrong. Buma. 
 
 Yell. Sorfa. 
 
 Young Men's Christian Associa- 
 tion. Almay. 
 
CONTENTS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Portrait Frontispiece 
 
 Title Page 1 
 
 Copyrights -. 2 
 
 Motto 3 
 
 Aim and Object 4 
 
 Preface 5 
 
 Introduction 7 
 
 Keyboard and explanations 12, 46 
 
 Sounds of letters and pronunciation of words 19 
 
 THE SCIENTIFIC DIAL PRIMER 
 
 Lesson I., Description 20 
 
 Lesson II., Numerical values 20 
 
 Lesson III., Decimal fractions 22 
 
 Lesson IV., Combining whole numbers with decimals 23 
 
 Lesson V., More than one consonant to the Grand Division vowel 24 
 
 Lesson VI., Vowels used outside Grand Divisions 24 
 
 Lessons VII., VIII. & IX., Analytical Exercises 26, 30, 35 
 
 Lesson X., Days, weeks, months, and years 37 
 
 Lesson XL, Analytical Exercises 39 
 
 Lesson XII., Telegrams and demonstration of keys 42 
 
 Code Department 47 
 
 Travelers' Code 63 
 
 Lbvers' Code 77 
 
 Leap-year Code 99 
 
 Greetings 137 
 
 Pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs 143, 144 
 
 Vocabulary, English Dial 148 
 
 INDEX 
 
 PAGE PAGE 
 
 A commonplace life 142 Analytical Exercises, Lesson VII. 28 
 
 A blessing in disguise 104 Analytical Exercises, Lesson VIII 30 
 
 Adverbs. . . 143 Analytical Exercises, Lesson IX. 35 
 
 ItyS^:://////."^ HI Analytical Exercises, Lesson XL 39 
 
 Adjectives 143 Another proposal 
 
 All-conquering Love 100 Apples 
 
 Ai m 4 A pearl among women 
 
 A little' marveL '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 83 Artless and true 116 
 
 Amusing story 134 Answer to prayer 89 
 
 Amusing cleverness 108 A table substitute 17 
 
INDEX. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Attempted universal languages. 16 
 
 At the railroad station 63 
 
 At the garage. .*. 65 
 
 At the lunch counter 63 
 
 Are our ministers ignorant or 
 
 negligent ? 130 
 
 Barber, With the 73 
 
 Barn 53 
 
 Beautiful illustration 100 
 
 Beauty of early marriage 137 
 
 Berries 52 
 
 Betty had a mind of her own. ... 103 
 
 Birthday greetings 137 
 
 Blissful matrimony 139 
 
 Blissful harvest 140 
 
 Breakfast food 54 
 
 Building material 49 
 
 Businessman led into captivity. . 116 
 
 By steamer 72 
 
 Canned goods 55 
 
 Captive, The 116 
 
 Cause of female ailments 97 
 
 Change of cars 64 
 
 Charges 65 
 
 Children playing hide and seek 
 
 in the clouds 135 
 
 Christmas greetings 141 
 
 Church 58 
 
 Code Department 47 
 
 Codewords 10 
 
 Coffee 55 
 
 Combining whole numbers with 
 
 decimals, Lesson IV 23 
 
 Communication 65 
 
 Complex or zigzag keys 46 
 
 Conditional acceptance 95 
 
 Consonant values 21, 34 
 
 Contracting 48 
 
 Control of natural forces 135 
 
 Cordial acceptance and new pro- 
 posal 123 
 
 Correspondence 66 
 
 Curtain dropped 1 14 
 
 Curtain lifted 110 
 
 Days, weeks, months and years, 
 
 Lesson X 37 
 
 Daughter to her mother 140 
 
 Degree, the specific unit 17 
 
 Delicately beautiful 122 
 
 Delicate position 125 
 
 Deliver from torment 82 
 
 Description, Lesson 1 20 
 
 Division of property 127 
 
 Divine guardianship 133 
 
 Disgusting profanity 94 
 
 Domestic animals 53 
 
 Drinks 55 
 
 Dry goods 61 
 
 Dwelling house 54 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Easter greetings 
 
 Emancipation 
 
 Engagement 
 
 Engagements and meetings. . . 
 Environment and literature . . . 
 
 Esperanto 
 
 Evolution or Revolution?. . 
 
 142 
 136 
 112 
 
 47 
 132 
 
 16 
 135 
 
 Farming utensils 56 
 
 Feed 53 
 
 Filial acknowledgment 140 
 
 Final arrangement 127 
 
 Finding destination 64 
 
 Fish 55 
 
 Fixing the date for wedding. ... 118 
 
 Flavors 55 
 
 Flour 55 
 
 Formula 18 
 
 Fractions, Decimal, Lesson III . . 22 
 
 Fractions, Common, Lesson IX. . 35 
 
 From friendship to love 108 
 
 Fruit 52 
 
 Furniture 54 
 
 Gentlemen's furnishing depart- 
 ment 60 
 
 God is Love 137 
 
 Grain 53 
 
 Grand Division values 21 
 
 Grapes 52 
 
 Great Day 135 
 
 Greetings 137 
 
 Growing in interest 133 
 
 Gustavus Adolphus II., King of 
 
 Sweden; 117 
 
 Hardware : 49 
 
 Hat department 60 
 
 Have it your own way, darling . . 89 
 
 Have not reciprocated 94 
 
 Home, Sweet Home 68, 120 
 
 How it was done 100 
 
 Hugging and kissing by telegraph 67 
 
 Humanity 56 
 
 Human body 57 
 
 Introduction 7 
 
 Insulting treatment 87 
 
 It makes me blush 90 
 
 Its use in merchandising 16 
 
 Its use in homes and schools. ... 17 
 
 Key Diagram 13 
 
 Keys, twelve distinct classes. ... 11 
 Keys for Marconi's wireless 
 
 system 14 
 
 Key telegram 44 
 
 Kissing and hugging by telegraph 67 
 
 Kitchen utensils 54 
 
 Ladies' furnishing department. . 61 
 
 Leap-year Code 99 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Leap-year privileges. 
 
 Liability 
 
 Little things 
 
 Livery stable 
 
 Lovers' Code 
 
 Lovely telegrams. . . . 
 Love triumphant. . . . 
 
 PAGE 
 
 . 115 
 
 . 132 
 
 . 129 
 
 . 65 
 
 . 77 
 
 . 67 
 
 81 
 
 Magnanimity 119 
 
 Meaning of suffixes 26 
 
 Men's miscellaneous : . . . 60 
 
 Miscellaneous ' 58 
 
 More than one consonant to the 
 
 Grand Division vowel 24 
 
 Most fortunate young man 126 
 
 Mother-in-law, captivated 88 
 
 Motherhood would not risk, What 127 
 
 Mother's obligation 130 
 
 Mother's undivided reward 131 
 
 Motto 3 
 
 My Diploma 86 
 
 New- Year greetings 142 
 
 Notice of arrivals 51 
 
 Numerical values, Lesson II. ... 20 
 
 Nuts 52 
 
 Object 4 
 
 Officers. 57 
 
 On the train 63 
 
 Paint 49 
 
 Papa's kisses 67 
 
 Parents refuse 95 
 
 Pears 52 
 
 Peaches 52 
 
 Pies 55 
 
 Played on nerve strings 69 
 
 Plums 52 
 
 Political divisions 56 
 
 Preface 5 
 
 Pronouns 143 
 
 Pronunciation of words 19 
 
 Provision 54 
 
 Pudding 55 
 
 Pure and unalloyed 83 
 
 Queen of Sweden 117 
 
 Queen and ruler of the house .... 87 
 
 Responsibility 132 
 
 Resplendent and beautiful 87 
 
 Responsory 92 
 
 Reversal 115 
 
 Revolution, The fire of 135 
 
 Robin Redbreast story 108 
 
 Ruler of the universe 136 
 
 Scientific Dial, an evolution. ... 7 
 Scientific Dial, universal in con- 
 struction and character 11 
 
 PAGE 
 
 Secondary numerical values 18 
 
 Servants may be hired for money 87 
 
 Sham-code, its use 47 
 
 Shipments 50 
 
 Shipments, f .o.b 51 
 
 Shipments, c.o.d 51 
 
 Shoe department 61 
 
 Son to his mother. -. . . . 140 
 
 Sounds of letters 19 
 
 Stationery 59 
 
 Stork versus the poodle dog. ... 99 
 
 Stored up blessings 135 
 
 Straight to the point 121 
 
 Sugar 55 
 
 Tea 55 
 
 Telegrams 28, 42 
 
 The better way 17 
 
 The old clock dial needs no inter- 
 preter 8 
 
 The substitute 16 
 
 Travelers' Code 63 
 
 The Criminal 70 
 
 The Welcome 71 
 
 The old clock dial 93 
 
 Through the dramshop 94 
 
 The fool saith 94 
 
 The bloom intact 96 
 
 Three years passed 104 
 
 The real crisis 103 
 
 The twentieth anniversary 113 
 
 True love and a real home 121 
 
 The gates of Paradise 131 
 
 Two requisites 1 
 
 The third dispensation 134 
 
 Unassuming modesty 118 
 
 Under probation 85 
 
 Under advisement 85 
 
 Unfeigned faith and purity 96 
 
 Universal languages 16 
 
 Universal language acquired in 
 
 a week 15 
 
 Vegetables 52 
 
 Vehicles 56 
 
 Verbs 144 
 
 Visit to Ponderosa 134 
 
 Volapiik 
 
 Well-tested affection 82 
 
 Weather, conditions of 74 
 
 Weather, conditions affecting 
 
 crops 76 
 
 What will become of him? 130 
 
 When love is genuine 92 
 
 Winning a bride 80 
 
 Widow, The 125 
 
 Widow lonesomeness 125 
 
 Wives appreciate clean husbands 139 
 Wives, shirkers, defeat divine 
 
 purpose 128, 131 
 
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