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 dinarily useful but wholly artificial appendage to language.

The last thing that spelling-reformers wish to do is to cut it off. Their sole aim is to make it better serv the purpose for which it is needed and used. The process of alteration must be to some extent tentativ and experimental, but calls for no more simpathy than would the shortening of an alpenstock into a cane for a lame man, or the removal of caked mud, burs, and porcupine-quils from the tail of Ponto. The latter operation might giv some trouble and perhaps pain, but would universally be recognized as being for the benefit, not only of the tail, but of the dog that wagd it.

SIMPLIFIED SPELLING BOARD

1 Madison avenue, New York March, 1920