Arnold College - Fall In Yearbook (Milford, CT)

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lliiilliiiigl. yan im, just large enough to fill my mouth. I ate my way 'through the coarser and meagre morsels to this delicious tidbit. A little sip of cordial or wine, just enough to moisten my lips, would be a further reward. And this was a daily performance. My grandfather would talk to me like a man and I would be held down to all the courtesies and politenesses of a most strict etiquette in dealing with him. No childish prattle or least of all, slang would be allowed at 'this time. Thus it is I still see him before me. Atother times, in his workshop, he would be the master tailor, the jovial companion and even my playmate without any restraint, but at these times, he would be the Polish grandee of the strictest observance. He must undoubtedly have left his native coun- try without much schooling, but with the help of my grandmother, he had learned to read and write German perfectly and he spoke German without any accent whatsoever. I take it then, that my linguistic abilities are in a measure, hereditary, the Poles being acknowledged linguists, at one time their polite language among the upper classes being Latin. I trace my frugality under ordinary circumstances, my saving up for the greater and finer joys of life to his teaching and influence. Of his quick and violent temper, I have written before in the pages of FALL IN. This I undoubtedly inherit from him. My mother though not of violent temper was of exceedingly lively and restless temperament and it is not difficult to trace that in me. My love for the arts, all of them, undoubtedly is a hereditary trait of my French ancestors. That both the French and Polish emigres should have been liberals is only natural, and that with such antecedents and my paternal influence tending the same way, I have always and shall always be a liberal follows as a mat- ter of course. A The hereditary influences of both strains of the family in my brothers and sisters average themselves pretty well according to schedule. The eld- est, a girl, altogether an Orzakowskyg I, the second, a mixture of Arnold and Orzakowsky heritage. The third, a girl, a Miller and Violg the fourth, a girl, althogether an Arnold, the fifth, a girl, an Arnold-Orzakowsky- Miller typeg the sixth, a boy, Arnold type, the seventh, a boy, pure Orza- kowsky type, the eighth, a boy, Arnold-Orzakowsky type. In physical make-up, in facial mold, in temperament and talents, the hereditary traits as indicated are well marked indeed. One of the peculiarities is the script, all of the Arnold type writing practically the same hand, all of the Orza- kowsky type writing the same kind of a hand, though their schooling was not received throughout at the same school, nor by the same teachers. So here we are as we are, to some extent, inevitably predestined by heredity. L1Z ,gy K K 1- I20l

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