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TO ORIGIN OF SLANG WAS FILLED WITH CURIOSITY
Worda That Are Conaldered Staid and He Wae Just Waiting to 8ee Whether
Dignified Have a Meaning Known
W ife Would Carry Out Threat
Only to a Few Users.
to Go Back to Mother's.
Original «Inng la often poetic. Per
haps the beat wuy to prove thin to the
professors will he to remind them Hint
Home o f their own worthiest end most
eliiMfdc und respectable words are
themselves, If we go back to their
origin, Juat the auras slangy vagabonds
■in these. Examine, for Instance, the
word Inveigh, Mux Kustman writes In
the New Republic. There Is a staid
and dignified term, lit to he Incorporat
ed In a president's Inaugural: “I will
not at this time Inveigh ugulnst the
custom prevalent among my contem
poraries.’'
You ran Imagine how It
would sound. And yet. poetically, what
doe« that word mean? In means “into.”
Vehl means to sail. “ I will not at this
time sail Into my contemporaries 1”
Here Is another Latin word—Insult.
In Its origin It means to lump on— ex
actly what Is said everywhere by the
schoolchildren o f America when the
appropriate altuutlon arises.
1 Matrlhe Is a pretentious term. It
Implies something more thorough than
an Insult, u more lusting denunciation.
You not only '•Jump on” somebody, but
you “ rub It lu.** W e used to say of a
crazy person that he was “ ofT Ids trol
ley.” And the word delirious ineunt
substantially the same thing In un
earlier stage o f civilization. It came
from the Latin words do and lira,
which mean ofT or out o f your fur
row. The word precocious means pre
cooked, nr. ns wo suy, hulf baked.
<*aprlclous means like n goat, and the
slang correlatives here are Innumer
able.
Imagine some worthy, refined and
graduated m » u I being offended by n
young upsturt und responding some
what us follow s: “ It seems to me you
lire a trllle capricious. 1 would hard
ly expect any one to Inveigh ugalnst
me In this delirious manner, deliver
ing such a diatribe. Is It essentlui to
your precocity to Insult your elders?"
And then suppose we translated tills
somewhat according to the etymologic
al dictionary: “ You goat! You must
be off your trolley to Kali Into ine like
that and then rut* It In!- Just because
you're half-bilked you needn’t think
you can Jump on your elders 1"
Well, Hardly.
"Atlas held the world on his shoul
ders.”
“ That's the story.”
"Still, he probably didn't have his
hands us full us the chap who pitches
u crucial game In u world series.”
The man was standing behind a tree
In front o f an apartment house In a
cross street when the cop on that best
came pounding along on the sidewalk.
It was close to midnight and nuturully
the cop stopped and looked ut the mini
stundlng behind the tree.
‘‘Howdy," says the cop, by way of
opening conversation.
"You ’re another,” replied the man
good-naturedly.
"Whuchuh doin’— waitin’ for some
body?” Inquired the brave policeman.
"Nope.”
"Just stnndln’ there, hey?”
"You’ve hit It.”
"L ive near here, do you?"
‘‘Right In there,” says the citizen.
Jerking his thumb In the direction- of
the apartment horse he wus «funding
In front of.
The cop looked at him thoughtfully
for n minute.
“ Mebby It’« none of my business," he
says, “ und then again mebby It Is. I
don’t like to go ’round buttin’ Into any
body's private affairs, but tell me,
neighbor, what's your graft, anyhow?"
"W ell," loosened Up the citizen, "If
It's u cam- o f me a-tellln' you or you
croakin' from curiosity right in front
of my eyes, I’ll tell you how it Is—
provided It don't go any further. My
wife says to me when I started down
town this evenin', ‘I f you’re not home
by midnight I’m goln' to puck up and
go right hack to mother's. So th e r e !'”
“ W ell?" Buys the Cop.
“ Well,” repented the citizen, " It ’s
Just about midnight now. and I'm like
you— I ’ve got curiosity. I’m waitin'
tier*- to see If «he’s goln’ to keep her
word.”
The cop's curiosity censed at thut
iwilnt, und he walked on down the
street, whistling, without waiting to
see the thing out.—Cleveland I'lalu
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are now told by a Cincinnati authority
entlne merchant and explorer. And 11
to use a drug called freezone, which
Is In honor of his voyages o f explora CUTICURA HEALS
the moment a few drops are applied
tion to the new world that a Gerninn
SORE HANDS to any corn or callous the soreness Is
relieved and soon the entire corn or
geographer, Martin Waldseemuller hy
name, gave the name America to the That Itch, Burn, Crack, Chap and callous, root and all, lifts off with the
fingers.
Bleed— Trial Free.
continent.— Ladles' Home Journal.
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Handy Reference.
cases these fragrant, super-creamy callous without Inflaming or even Ir
’•nubby, do you love me?”
emollients succeed.
Soak hands on ritating the surrounding tissue or
“ Why, certainly, my dear. Just re retiring In the hot suds of Cutlcura skin. A small bottle of freezone will
fer to the letters I wrrote you during Soap, dry and rub Cutlcura Ointment cost very little at any of the drug
our courtship dnys.”
into the hands for some time. Re stores, but w ill positively rid one’s
move surplus Ointment with soft tis feet o f every hard or soft corn or
hardened callous.
I f your druggist
sue paper.
A Bit Mixed.
Free sample each by mall with hasn’t any freesone he can get It at
He— Do hurry. K ate; the train
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leaves In 20 minutes.
D ept L, Boston.
Sold everywhere.
She (absent-mindedly)— Oh, be quiet I — Adr.
No. 37, 1917
P. N. U.
You know It's bad form to be on tkna
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With the Fingers!
| Says Corns Lift Out
Without Any Pain