Show I r Origin of f Famous lamous Phrases Phrases Phrases' I BY Y FREDERIC FEDERIO J. J J. J HASKIN IER rEn n o. o year rear In In the wilds of ot Africa Afric A AFTER amid nihl a i lr triumphal tour of f c. c I Imay ft I may lo le that Colonel Colono HOl has Imas brought hu hack Ivick k 10 to America n a number of IP new phrase and llon which h will wi go I down li Sn In town the history of our language as n ft 11 part o of our fur nation If life for Cor no one imme no man of f rood mod mo urn rn Ures times ha hat has given n to a a. people so ito many expressions I ns which which havo have become becom seemIngly seemingly seem seem- ineradicably ineradicably- a 0 part parl pf our vocabulary lar bury lary Malefactor of or great beat wealth mu c k rake rs r rl mollycoddles aiu and the LIme strenuous Ufo life are ore destined to live In iii II our literature That ga sago saco o who urged ta t a V he te a alow showed allowed d t tf to wr t P. P peoples people tn t n as tho the mos most potent I In fri their lives might ha have added a codicil to the wish End an th their pe pet phrases I 1 Fr H i r 01 or man mannack many manyo o or our most hack nack t i in cs have Q ha c curious and Inter Inter- n histories General belief bc to th the contral all II our Idioms of ot l' l speech have hav not their origIn In tha Bible or Sh Shake Shake- kt- kt Nor havo others Just evolved evolve themselves I When hen tho the a average vcra e ma man speaks o of oC a I friend as u a n good fellow an and describes him re as a a brick ho he has n no ilea idea U th-U h ho is Is employing n i t form o of oC pral praise o which was f t. t employed by Ly Ly- Ly- Ly curf Jho the tho great L It I I is 18 said am that on one ono occasion when an em em- bas odor from visited Sparta SparL h ho he expected to Ind the et city surrounded b by an Impregnable wall wail Knowing that th the loider cf tIme the Spartans was virtually th the tho 3 ruler Pf of all al Greece Grecco he asked Sire how Is It I that a city cly like hike Sparta Is not protected pro pro- bY by Indeed replied th the king you you ou mu must a l not nol have observed ou ou walls whey when hel you u came Into tho I 1 will wi show shew h w thou them to you In the morning The following day he ho took the ss emb dor out on the tho plains where tho Spartan Spar Spar- tan army anny was drawn up In battle batte array and ond pointing proudly to the tho serried d host hos said aid There Thero you behold the walls wails wals o ot of Sparta and every man a brick when wo we speak of an nn Achievement a aa as asa asa a feather In a mans man's cap cP we would hardly think of oC going hack back to Hungary Hungar In the century for our right to the tho the phra phrase e. e but Its Is origin orlIn I Is actually of that period and country A manuscript manuscript manu manu- script In tho the British BrIth museum says o otho of tho the Hungarians In l 1599 9 It I hath bath MY beean been bee an on custom among thorn them thor that n non none ne should wear a IL feather but he lie who ha had killed a Turk to tf whom onlie t wa was lawful to shew show the number of his enemy by the tho number of ethers fethers rether In hi his I I IA cappe A Roland for an aim Oliver Oll dates date back bac to tho the time of oC Charlemagne Roland Rlland ant and ld Oliver Olver were wore two of the tit twelve paladins paladin of Charlemagne Both were giants slants 1 In stature and they were po so fO nearly matched that list their boasted pro e prowess finally I led d to a a. single lo combat on an I Island lan In lim th the Rhino They fought for five successive days dayn so tradition says nays AS without either I gaining the advantage e. e and thus thul the time ex ex- ex A Roland for an Oliver means mean mens mow low for tor blow tit tt of oC tat quid quie pro quo This Is tho the origin of Brother Jonathan Jonathan Jonathan Jona Jona- than as designating time the tho United States In the tho same manner that John Bul Bull applies to England When George WashIngton Wash Wash- Ington was wa as appointed commander It In chief of oC the revolutionary forces ho Ime wen went I to Massachusetts to organize his hIM men He found foune the army In a most deplorable condition In need of ammunition am and arms Jonathan Trumbull Trumbull the elder waat wa was wasat at that time governor of oC Connecticut ant and Washington placing great confidence I Ithe In Inthe inthe the governors governor's Judgment and resources resources remarked Wo We must consult consul Brother Jonathan on the subject Brother Jonathan Jonathan Jon Jon- athan nthan proved a ae e very present help In time of trouble truble and tho expression a phrae by-phrae by finally being applied to th the th whole nation Tho The expression robbing robbin Peter to pay Paul had It its Ig origin in l 1550 50 when there ther was great reat rivalry between St. St Peters Peter's teter's now V Westminster abbe abbey and St. St Paul Pauls Pauls cathedral In London In that year ear a at at appropriation Wn was made Ilde from St St. Peter Peters to meet a deficiency In the tIme accounts o of St. St Pauls Paul's but there was a great reat hu hue and cry raised tho the people saying Why hy rob c St. St Peter to pay St. St St Pauli The expression lon was revived upon the death of ot William Pitt Pil In when then there wa waa was wasa a discussion as to whether his ashes ashe should lie le next to kings In St. St St Peters Peter's or as tho the et city of oC London ur urged d In St St. Pauls Parliament Parlament urged that not to tn bu bur bury In Westminster ter abbey abbe would be bo robbing St. St Peter to pay St. St Paul Pau once more mort Parliament Parlament won Tho The expression theres there man many a slip twixt tho the cup and tho time lp hip Up originated during tho the time of ot king kiD of the In Samos Samoa an Island In the Ore Gre clan archipelago 0 oppressed d his slaves es so 80 bitterly while cultivating a ht vineyard that lint one ono of his victims sled slee that ho Imo would never neer live Ilvo Ivo to lo taste tho the wine Inc When the grapes had been gathered and the time wine mado made sent for tho slave holding the time goblet In his hands asked what he ho had to say RY fo Co fords for his prophecy The slave s1 replied Theres man many a slip twixt the cup and the tho lip 11 At Al that moment a mc messenger ran In announcing announcing an nn- that a wild boar bar had brok n Into tho the vineyard and amid was doing Jr grea great at damage hastily set fet down the goblet of ot wino and rushed ou out In In tho the pursuit encounter o of the boar bar He le was WIS killed The Time term pin mone money had imad Its It origin when pins were first frt Invented and they were very cr expensive In tho fourteenth century the makers were alo allowed cd to sell them only on the tIme first and second days of January Januar It h I became the tho custom to tl give Sho women at their marriage marrUgo a certain sum stirn of or I money ney for or buying pins and the tho phrase pin mom money y ha bait been ben retained to signify an allowance for Cor a womans woman's personal per per- expenditures i. i The Time expression there thero Is no royal roal rod road to lo learning dates back to this the third eon cen cn- cn tury before Christ Ptolemy Soter afterwards afterwards after after- wards king of Egypt was the pupil o of th time the famous ramus mathematician Euclid and when tho the royal youth asked If geometry I could not bo be made mado a a little easier tho time re reply reply rO- rO ply was waa the time famous epigram We Ve are In Indebted In- In to Archimedes another famous Camous mathematician of oC anU antiquity for two to phrases It I was he ho who said GI GIme Gid J me men me mc mea mca a n lever Ic long Ions enough and a n prop strong enough and amid I can single handed move thin world Archimedes was also abl thu tho original absent minded mathematician malle- malle mathe matician on whom Jokes havo been based for more than two thousand years s. ca On one I ro the tho kin king of Syracuse Sr Syra Syra- cuse suspecting that a a. goldsmith had substituted sonic Bomo other metal for pure pur gold In a Q certain coin asked Archimedes S I to f find md out If hl his suspicions were v well founded Archimedes not being bing an al alchemist alchemist al- al chemist was greatly troubled Vl While II thinking the lime mater matter over over one day dat ho hmo wont to tc 1 his hll bath th which happened to b bH b full fuli ful to tho the brim As h hiu pot got In n It occurred to tn cm him that as much water would run out aa Bi equalled Cu lcd his lila bulk Then ho he saw Haw that If ho lic put the coin In a n full ful pall pal of water and weighed time the overflow and then took tooka tok toku a IL u piece of pure gold tho the same name weight as the coin and put It I im In tho the same ame vessel refilled that the same saie amount of wat water r should flow Caw out Ho Hel was wan so 10 overjoyed that ho hc ran raim out of tho time public bath and started for home without waiting to put on hl his clothes cothes crying through tho the streets Eureka Eureka I have havo found It It I have ha found It Il On timia discovery Archimedes Archi rede medes mede based hl his law of ot specific gravity The Tho expression windfall meaning good Jod lu luck k dates from the tho time of oC William Wiliam Wit Wil Wi- Wi liam th In whose whoso reign It was wasa Wl a n c offense t to t cut down timber In th forests forett When a heavy heavy windstorm came and blew co down n tro trees s tho the peasants peasant were aJo allowed ed to up tho the fal fallen n tm timber r hence a f windfall wa was an occasion for re re- re jokIng One ot of the tho oldest of lh the popular ox- ox 1 Is sub rosa roa literally under time the rose rOtE The phrA d dates back to B. B C. C C. C when h Pausanias In command 1 47 V t n n 11 J V iu of or tho the confederate fleet feet of the Spartans and the tho Athenians entered Into secret negotiations with lh Xerxes the Persian ruler to betray his country and to obtain obtain ob ob- ob- ob tam tain the thA hand of the monarchs monarch's daughter In marriage e. e The secret negotiations w wen wern carried on In K a I building attached to the temple of ot Minerva Minera called cle tho time Brazen house the roof of ot which was wa covered with roses Pa plans plan were discovered dis covered and In order to escape the tho von von- of hl his outraged ed countrymen he fled to the temple of Minerva which was wag sacred against intrusion for tor- for violent pur pur- pose polo The people were so enraged at be beIng being be- be ing thwarted thwart d that they decided to wan wall wallup I up the tho edifice and leave o lef the traitor to die of oC starvation own 0 mother laid th the first frt stone ston After this It It became a custom among Athenians to wear a rose when the they had a confidential communication tion ton to t make tho the fo flower cr Implying Implying- strict confidence America Ii Is Indebted to an a En Englishman for Its IL motto moto E K Unum It I minister to was S while John Adams was 11 England that that he ho met Sir John Prestwick Prost Prost- wick an eminent antiquarian who suggested suggested suggested sug sug- to him that that It I would woud b be a good motto to Indicate the union of f the colo cole nies moto Adams communicated this Idea Idea to tho the secretary of ot congress and ad on o June 20 20 Charles Charl s Thompson reported his design for a government seal and on It delSI was the Latin 10 legend given above Tho Time phrase W was used as ns a a motto moto for Cor th the tho Gentleman's Gentleman's Gen Gen- Cen- Cen magazine an as early as a 1730 Contrary to general belief tho time expresIon expression sion Ion halcyon on days does docs not not refer to a a former period In the worlds world's history or orto orto orto to the early and care free Cree period of oC ono ones one's s life but to a 8 certain season sason of the year seven ven dave davs before and seven Jeen days after M en tho solstice December 21 The TIme phrase has grown out of oC a fable which bal had Its origin n among tho time ancient Sicilians hans lians ha Is who or believed amons that at ft the time or of orthe or hele ed the year mentioned tho the halcyon or kingfisher kingfisher king king- I fisher brode brooded menton over her young oun in a floating floating float float- I water ater ing nest upon the surface of ot the and that durina that period perio the tho seas were ere calm culm rand and could be he safely navigated na hence they timey were called caled tho the halcyon days davs The Tho term without tho ho pale com comps comes s tous to tous us from the tho time of King John of England England England Eng Eng- land who ho ld dl divided d the kingdom of ot Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land then nominally subject to England This entire tiro dietrict district ells die into twelve counties on b by English planters planter was afterward from them called the Palo Pale within the Palo Pale English rule was acknowledged ac ac- ac- ac J and obeyed while alt all beyond was held by Imperfect tenure Tomorrow Meeting of the Millers Mier |