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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, chapter 36 (search)
from the mother, and her statements attracted little attention. It happened fortunately, however, that in the interval between these facts and their record a series of more exact observations was made and published by an Albany physician, Dr. E. R. Hun. In a periodical of small circulation, the Monthly Journal of Psychological Medicine, he gave what Mr. Hale calls a clear and scientific account of something more of the same kind. It was a language contrived by a little girl four years an soldier, music; odo, to send for, to go out, to take away; waia-waiar, black, darkness, a negro. The language 1had its own forms of construction, as in mea waiawaiar, dark furs, literally furs dark, when the adjective follows its substantive. Dr. Hun says the children talked in this way with the greatest rapidity and fluency. Further inquiries have shown, Mr. Hale says, that this phenomenon is not unusual, and the theory he founds upon it is very simple. The only question is, indeed, whe
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men, Index. (search)
hestnuts, the value of, 295. house of Cards, A, 138. House of Lords, English, decline of, 136. Household decoration, stages of, 161. household decorators, women as, 161. House-keeping in America, 72, 116; in England, 73. Howells, W. 1)., quoted, 40, 52, 64, 194. Also 102, 141, 157, 158, 180. Howitt, A. W., 45. Hugo, Victor, 309. Humboldt, Wilhelm von, 182. humility in Americans, on A certain, 95. Humility, the spring of; 309. humor of children, the, 217. Hun, Dr. E. R., 183, 181. Huxley, T. H., 99. I. Independent Purse, the, 115. Industry, female, changes in, 7. influence, the woman of, 17. Ingelow, Jean, cited, 133. Invalids, visits to, 227. Italian manners, 25. J. Jackson, Helen ( H. H. ), 158, 236. James, Henry, 157, 158. Jameson, Anna M., 103, 180. Janauschek, Madame, 221. Jefferson, Thomas, 296. Johns Hopkins University, the, 296. Johnson, Dr., Samuel, 283. Joubert, Joseph, quoted, 155. Journalism and lit