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THE WORDJ’ANKLE."
Its Rost Shown In Many Words of
Many Difforont Tonguoo.
W e are not likely to think that
"ankle” and “ anchor” are closely
related, bat etymologically they are
fu ll sisters, having had the same
mother, and that mother has a
large family o f daughters, who are
to t>e found in all o f the branches
o f the Aryan tongue. And neither
"anchor” nor “ ankle” has any rela
tion to its uses, but entirely to its
form.
This mother o f the two words
was born at least a hundred cen
turies ago in some place likely not
far from the north shore o f the
Caspian sea, when the roots o f the
Aryan language were planted and
began to put forth shoots. When
that people began to lay the foun
dations o f a dozen tongues they
found a little word the sound o f
which we express by “ ank,” and
they applied it to what was bent
from a straight line or what we cell
an angle.
So it is that we use that little
root in most o f our words that im
ply what is bent or curved. The
ankle is at the bend o f the foot,
and for that reason we base its
name on the old root “ ank.” With
"anchor” we do the same thing be
cause its arms are bent at angles
from its shank.
Though our work "hook” has
com e to us through a different
channel, when we use a hook for,
Ashing we say that we are "an
gling” because we use an instru
ment that is made on an angle.
T h en we call it an "angle” for the
reason that our first known ances
tors said that what was bent was
"an k.”
Our more immediate ancestors,
th e Anglo-Saxons, made their word
"an gel” out o f this same root and
applied it to their fishing hooks.
T h e same word with the same
meaning is in the Danish and Ger
man.
When the Frenchman ialks about
an anchor he says "ancre,” and in
Latin it is "ancora,” from “ ancua,”
which means having a crooked arm.
In the Greek it is “ ogkos,” mean
in g a bend, from which comes "ag-
kura,” an anchor. From the same
root “ ank” our Hindoo brothers get
their “ anch,” which in Sanskrit
means a bend.
This little root shown in many
words o f so many different lan
guages, all pointing far back to a
union 6t tongues, is one o f the links
in the chain that leads to the
knowledge of the once sameness
in now widely separated tongues.
New York Herald.
Another Moving Job.
"Moving again, Fits ?” asked
Pullet as Fitzgoober came out of
the gate with a washtub tightly
clasped in his arms and trailing a
m irror behind him.
“ Yes,” moaned the afflicted man,
mopping his perspiring brow, “ I’m
goin g to leave this hole.” N
“ What for? Don’t you like the
neighborhood ?”
“ Oh, no, not th a t The neigh
bors are all right.”
“ Water not good, maybe?”
“ No better can be found.”
'T h e rent hasn’t been raised, has
it? ”
“ No. That’s the reason I ’m go
ing to seek another house.”
“ W hat!” exclaimed the surprised
Pullet. “ Moving from a place be
cause the rent has not been raised!
Surely you don’t object to that,
Fit*?;’ v
“ No, I do not,” sadly replied
Fit* as he started back for the
kitchen set o f furniture, “ but the
landlord does, you know.” — London
Answers. ________________
She Got Her Holiday.
A bright girl in a large school
applied to her teacher for leave to
be absent half a day on a plea that
her mother had received a telegram
which stated that company was on
the way.
" I t ’ s my father’s half sister and
her three boys,” said the pupil anx
iously, “ and mother doesn’t see how
she can do without me, because
those boys always act so dreadful
ly.”
The teacher referred her to the
printed list o f reasons which justi
fied absence and asked if her case
came under any o f them.
“ I think it might come under
this head, Miss Rules,” said the
girl, pointing as she spoke to the
words “ Domestic Affliction.” — Ex
change. ________________
Diffioutti«« of Womanlln««a.
T o be a man is the simplest thing
in the world— he has only to be as
nature has chosen— but the stren
uousness of a girl's life begins when
she is quite little. At all ages wo
men must keep up appearances, but
the ever present necessity to be bet
ter looking than she really is and to
maintain some illusion about her
self is only one o f the difficulties of
o f being a woman.— Sydney Austra
lian.
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IMITATING COQUEUN.
THE PEAFOWL
One Time That the Great Aetor Die- A Hardy Bird That Livat In th# Open
appointed His Audienee.
All tha Yaar Round.
The great French actor, Coque-
lin, used to tell with glee the fol
lowing experience in which he him
self played the leading part :
“ I was tired out and so made up
my mind to leave the theater for a
time and go and vegetate in some
isolated country ¡dace. 1 went
right into the center o f France and
soon found myself nicely settled in
a homely yet comfortable commer
cial hotel. I did not want to be
known, so I signed myself in the
book, ‘ Frederick Febvre, traveler
for wines, spirits, etc.’
“ At the table d’hote I soon be
came acquainted with those staying
at the hotel. My neighbor on the
right traveled for a firm which spe
cialized in table delicacies, my
neighbor on the left was in the
drapery line, another dabbled in
oils, another for a novelty in ba
bies’ feeding bottles. These gen
tlemen soon became known to me,
and I was myself asked the name
o f the house fo r which I traveled.
T o r Claretie ft Moliere,’ I replied.
“ Now, being a new hand at the
game, as I l said
sain I i was, I was imme-
diately inundated with tips, advice,
etc., ss to the value ana kinds o f
wine I ought to go in for. I care
fully made a note o f all these tips,
intending as soon aa I got by my
self to just as carefully light my
cigar with them.
"D uring dinner all went pleas
antly.
A certain little traveler,
full o f life and conceit, commenced
to give us a few recitations and im
itations, some o f them fairly clever,
I must confess. H e was applauded
tremendously, and, filled up with
confidence and wine, he said:
“ ‘ Now I am going to imitate a
few celebrated actors,’ etc. He im
itated Mounet-Sully as Hamlet, he
imitated Sarah * Bernhardt in ‘ La
Tosca’ and then finished by saying:
1 am now going to give you an
imitation o f Coquelin. Pay great
attention, and you will all swear
that it is Coquelin himself.’
“ He gave us this imitation, and
when he had finished I rose and
said:
‘“ Yes, you did that fairly Well;
but, although I may appear con
ceited, I really think I can give’ you
a better imitation. I will try, how
ever.’
“ I commenced. I gave somethin,
from one o f my favorite pieces and,
as I really think, quite excelled my
self.
“ Do you think they applauded
me ? Not at all. They smiled and
said, T h an k you,’ and almost ap
peared as though they felt sorry for
my ridiculous attempt. Later on,
when all except the little conceited
traveler had retired, he came up to
me and said:
“ ‘May I offer you a little friend
ly advice, sir? You are a young
hand at the traveling game, I plain
ly see, and perhaps wished to make
yourself agreeable this evening.
Never, however, try to imitate a
great actor whom you have never
seen. To imitate Coquelin one
must have seen him act. You did
your best, I dare say, but, oh,
dear!’ ” ________________
Cruel Woman I
The tramp narrated to a fellow
wanderer the story o f an intensely
tragic occurrence. “ Yus,” he said,
“ there was a bootiful lawn in front
o f the ’ouse, nicely kept, and it
looked a real good chance fer get-
tin’ a bit o f honest symperthy. So
I walks in, gets down on me ’ands
and knees and starts chewin’ the
grass. Out comes as kindly looking
a lidy as I ever seed and wanted to
know wot I was doin’ . Told her I
’adn’t 'ad grub fer weeks and was
obliged to eat grass. She looked
very symperthetidy at me and then
said: ‘My poor m an! Come around
behind the house. The grass is
longer there!’ ” — London News.
Origin of Word “Cooknoy.”
The old catch about the peacock
(of m j£ neighbor) who came into
my garden and laid an egg is recall-
by the derivation o f "cockn ey.”
A cockney was originally a small
or malformed egg, which the ig
norant were wont to imagine was
laid by the cock. From this it came
to be applied derisively to a child
suckled long, and hence to a milk
sop, whence it passed to the towns
man, who was supposed to be less
hardy than his country brother. So
the cockney was never a specialty
o f London, but could be found in
any large town.— London Chroni
cle.
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A Pailur*.
“ Well, Uncle Z e b ” said his
neighbor, “ your boy’s come back
from college, and I reckon he’s got
good ejication.”
“ No,” groaned Uncle Zeb. ‘T h em
four years is plumb wasted. I tried
’im on a railroad guide the other
day, an’ he couldn’t make head ner
tail o f it any more’n the rest o f us
could!” — Chicago Tribune.
Peafowls were undoubtedly the
first birds used by man for orna
mental purposes, and to this day
there is nothing more gorgeous in
nature than a flock o f full plumaged
specimens strutting about the lawn
o f an estate. The beautiful com
mon peafowl is too well known to
need deecritpng, although it is prob
ably the handsomest of the family.
The black winged differs from the
common in having a much darker
neck and blackish wings. The fe
male is almost white or splashed in
color.
The Java or green species is not
ed fo r beautiful metallic coloring,
the sexes being plumaged alike. Al
though this bird is lacking the long
train o f the former mentioned va
rieties, it is considered by many to
be the most beautiful bird in the
world.
The white peafowl is an exquisite
bird; 'when spreading is lacelike
train it resembles a huge fantail
pigeon and forms a pleasing con
trast with the colored birds. It
looks especially charming on a well
kept lawn.
Fw
ew people realize what a hardy
bird the pdafowl is. My flock is
never housed summer or winter,
even with the temperature below
zero and snow and ice on the
ground. The peafowls will roost
on a tree or on the ridge board of
the poultry house or stable.
If
confined in houses they soon con
tract disease and die.'» The adult
birds should be fed once a day only,
about an hour before sunset, on
four parts wheat and one part each
o f cracked corn, barley, buckwheat
and broken rice.
In the spring o f the year the
hen will wander off in search o f a
nesting place. When a suitable spot
is found Bhe will deposit six or
seven eggs and immediately settle
down to incubation. When the
chicks ,are hatched they should be
left to the care o f the peahen en
tirely, with the exception that a lit
tle chick food should be given them
about three times a day. Many
fanciers have made the fatal mis
take o f placing the peafowl eggs
under domestic fowls to hatch and
rear; but as chickens only brood
their young for a few weeks and
peafowls for about six or eight
months the youngsters soon perish
when left to take care o f them
selves in the early fall. In other
words, it j* almost impossible to
rear pea chicles with hens or brood
ers.— Country Life In America.
A Simple Expedient.
It was the custom o f Mr. Camer
on to fall into an easy attitude
wherever he might be. This habit
led to an occasional dialogue o f a
spicy nature, and the dialogues led
to a small, square package which
Mr. Cameron presented fo his wife
one night.
“ What in the world are these?”
inquired Mrs. Cameron as the un
wrapping o f the package revealed
few cards neatly marked, ‘ T o r
use,’ and two or three dozen mark
ed, “ For show.”
‘T h ose, my dear,” said Mr. Cam
eron. “ are for you to attach by the
small pin on the underside to the
various sofa cushions, chair backs
and unoccupied wall spaces in this
house. Then neither my head nor
that o f any chance visitor will rest
in or on any object designed for
ornament, and once more, even
with Christmas coming every year,
we shall have a happy home.” —
Youth’s Companion.
MEASURING
A TREE.
Different Ways In Which Tw o Bays
Aooompli«h«d th« Task.
"Near the end o f tbe season our
boy announced the height o f our
tall maple tree to be thirty-three
feet.
“ ‘Why, how do you know T waa
the general question.
" ‘Measured i t ’
" ‘How?*
‘“ Footrule and yardstick.’
‘ “ You didn’t climb that tall
tree ?’ his mother asked anxiously.
“ ‘ No’ m. 1 found the length o f
tbe shadow and measured that.’
‘ “ But the length o f the shadow
changes.’
“ ‘ Yes’ m. But twice a day the
shadows are just as long as the
things themselves. I ’ve been try
ing all summer. I drove a stick
into the ground, and when its
shadow was just as long aa the
stick I knew that the shadow of
the tree would be just as long as
tbe tree, and that’ s thirty-three
feet.’ ”
The above paragraph appeared
in one o f the daily papers which
oome to our office. The item was
headed “ A Clever Boy.” Now, we
do not know who this advertised
boy was, but we knew quite as clev
er a boy, one who could have got
the approximate height o f the tree
without waiting for the sun to
shine at a particular angle or to
shine at all, fo r that matter. Tbe
way boy No. 2 went about the same
problem was this: He got a stick
and planted it in the ground and
then cut it off just at the level o f
his eyes. Then be went out and
took a look at the tree and made a
rough estimate o f the tree’s height
in his mind, and, judging tbe same
distance along tbe ground from the
tree trunk, he planted his stick in
the groun^. Then be lay down on
his back with his feet against the
standing stick and looked at the
top of the tree over the stick.
I f he found the top o f the stick
and tree did not agree he tried a
new position and kept at it until he
could just see the treetop over the
end of the upright stick. Then all
he had to do was to measure along
the ground to where his eye had
been when lying down, and that
gave him tbe height o f the tree.
The point about this method Is
that the boy and stick made a
right angled triangle with boy for
base, stick for perpendicular, both
o f tbe same length, and the line
o f sight- the hypotenuse or lon^;
line o f the triangle. When he got
into the position which enabled him
to just see the treetop over the top
of the stick he again had a right
angled triaogle with tree as per
pendicular, his eye’s distance away
from the trunk, the base, and the
line o f sight the hypotenuse. He
could measure the base line along
the ground and knew it must equal
the vertical height, and he could do
this without reference to the sun.
It was an ingenious application of
the well known properties o f a
right angled triangle.— Railway and
Locomotive Engineer.
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Commercial travelers find most
of the natural curiosities along the
lines o f travel. This is a story told
by one after a trip through south
ern Canada. “ Being impatient to
get oqt o f a sleepy little town, I
ascertained the time of the outgo
ing train and hurried down to the
station.
After awhile an object
slowly emerged from the distance
and slunk up alongside. I boarded
the solitary coach, and after a
tedious wait the engine began to
gasp feebly, the old coach creaked
A Thrilling Sport.
a little, but the train did not move.
The few sportsmen who visit the I was 4bout to get out to see what
Massachusetts coast in the summer was tbe matter when the forward
for big fishing become acquainted door o f the coach was suddenly
only with the sea bass and the flung open and a head popped in.
shark, while the swordfish, remain H ey, you,’ said the engineer, leer
ing always in the open sea, is left ing at me, ‘climb off till I git a
to the tender mercies o f the men start, will y*!*”
who fish not for sport, but for a
In Dafault of a 8ton« Braakor.
ivelihood. Y et if the lover o f ex
The
new boarder shyly took his
citing sport should care to master
seat
at
Mrs. Skimpin’s table.
;he use o f the harpoon and resort
“ May 1 ask, sir,” said tbe old
to the open sea for his diversion
le would discover in the swordfish boarder, “ what your occupation is ?”
“ My occupation?” repeated the
a fit subject for bis most ambitious
efforts and become acquainted with new comer. “ Oh, I’m a sculptor!”
“ Y ou carve marble, do you?”
he swiftest swimmer, the hardiest
Ighter and, withal, one o f the most pursued the veteran.
“ I do.”
interesting o f the denizens o f the
“ Then,” concluded the other, " I
— Frederick Booth in St.
see you will be a valuable acquisi
' Nicholas.____________
tion to this happy house. D o you
Japan««« Way of Smoking.
mind coming up to this end o f the
The Japanese have a curious table a moment and carving the
manner o f smoking. The pipes have fow l?”
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very small metal bowls with bamboo
Jaa Millar’a Intention.
stems and metal mouthpieces and
told only enough tobacco for three
"But I can’t see,” said the friend
of four whiffs. They use a light to old Joe Miller after the latter
colored tobacco, which is cut ex had shown him the manuscript of
tremely fine. They take a whiff of his “ Jest Book,” “ why you ever
smoke and inhale it, letting it pass took the time to collect a l l , these
out through the nostrils. They old jokes.”
rarely smoke more than one pipeful
“ I didn’t mean to do so much of
at a time. I f they do smoke a sec it,” explained Joe confidentially.
ond they drop the little bulb o f “ At first I started out to arrange
ashes out o f their pipe, which they the scenario o f a musical comedy,
refill and light it with tha ashes but learned that the time was not
taken from the bowl.
yet ripe for such a production.”
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