Show I r Origin of Famous Fa ous Phrases Phra es' es L BY Y FRED O J. J HASKIN FTER a 0 year in the thc w wilds of Africa A a a. triumphal tour of f t It H nl may iriny be bc bp expected that hat Colonel Clonel Roosevelt ha hs bru brought ht bACk Mck to t 10 1 America a n number ei of ot ww now phrases fW and which h will wi RO go down in the history of or our language as Ia a. a Tin part pat of our life for no one cne man of f modera modern mod mod- ml ern era times has Im I glett to a 1 people lo so 80 many expressions which have havo become seem seemingly cemS cem- cem S ingI Ineradicably a apart n part of our vocabulary lar lary Male Malefactors factors 4 S of great j m u ii c l k I ral rak r rs S. S S and mollycoddles lles 5 the th strenuous Ufo life art are dl destined to 11 live livo Ivo S in II our literature That flat sage tao who urged tinged t 13 ta I. I Mj allowed to Write writ a 9 peoples people's songs n as K tho the Jo most t S potent oten Influence In their lives might 4 h have v ad added ed a codicil 5 5 S lo 10 C tho tue and and 5 th their pet pel phra phrases s ri- ri The origin of many riHa Ha riK ki- ki of ot our most hack hack- phrases s have hava curious neer ne'er and Inter inter- eating histories General belief to tho the contrary v all al our ur idioms of speech havo have not not their origin In the Bible orgin or Shake Shake- pare speare Nor ha havo 0 others Just evolved c When hen tho Iho average crago man I speaks of a friend J as IS a a good f fellow lo and I s him as a brick he has no I idea that ho I Is employing a form of r praise which was WUI first employed b by Lycurgus Ly Ly- cUr curgus ul tho thu great It Is said al that on ono one occasion when an em cm- ba ador from rain l visited Sparta he to ld the et city surrounded b by an impregnable wall wal Knowing that tho the hoider loader loder cf ct the tho Spartans was virtually th the r of all al Greece Grecco he asked Sire Sine how Is It I that that a pity oily y like Iko Sparta Is not protected protected pro pro- b by walis Indeed replied the king you you OU mu must t not have observed our walls walis wals when hei you OU came Into tho the city I Iwi will wi show them to you yu tu In tho morning The following day he ho took the sl- sl dor dur out Olt on tho the plains where the Spartan Spartan Spar Spar- Spar Spar- tan army ary was wa drawn up In battle array and pointing proudly rou to tho the serried host hoat said Bald There you behold tho the walls wals of Sparta and wry every man a l brick When we speak of an achievement ement as asa asa asa a feather In a a mans man's cp cap wo we would woul hardly think of going back to lo Hungary Hungar In tho the century for or our right to the phrase but Its Is origin Is 13 actually of that period and c country A manuscript manuscript manu manu- script In tho the British museum says of tho the Hun Hungarians In 1599 It I hath been boen boenan an alt custom among them then that none should wear a t feather but ho hI who had killed a a Turk Tuk lo fo o whom onlie Inlo t was ax Wi lawful to shew shiaw the number of his b by tho the number of ethers fethers In Jn his cappo cappe A Roland for an nn Oliver Olver dates date hack back to the tho time of or Charlemagne Roland and ond Oliver Ol er were svere two of tho tIme twelve paladins of Charlemagne Both wore were giants In stature and the they were so fO nearly matched that their boasted J prowess t finally I led d to a single combat on an island in the Rhine They fought for five Q successive days dayn dat to tO tradition says 1111 without either cither gaining tho the advantage ud antaJo ad and thus tho the ex expression cx- cx pres lon A Roland for an Oliver Olver means mens blow for blow tit tt of tat quid pro quo This Is Ig the tho origin of or Brother Jonathan Jonathan Jonathan Jona Jona- than as designating tho the United State States In tho the same manner that John Dul Bull applies apples to England When George Georgo Washington Washington Wash ash ashIngton ington was appointed d commander In chief of the tho revolutionary forces ho he went to Massachusetts to organize hl his lils men He Ho found the tho ar army In a most deplorable condition In need need of or ammunition am and arms Jonathan Trumbull tho the elder want wa was wasat Wa nt nl that time governor of Connecticut an and ant Washington So cmor placing great confidence nce I Ithe In inthe the tho governors governor's Judgment and resources remarked We Yo must consult Brother Jonathan on tho the subject ct Brother Jonathan Jonathan Jon Jon- athan than proved a a very ver pre present ent help In time of or trouble truble and the expression became a phrase by-phrase finally being applied to th the whole nation naton The Tho expression robbing Peter to pay Paul Paul lied had Its If origin In 1350 1550 50 when there ther was great reat rivalry between St. St Peters Peter's now Westminster abbe abbey Ibbe and St. St Paul Pauls cathedral In London In that year Car a at appropriation was 01 made from St. St S1 Peters Peter's to meet a a. add deficiency In the accounts o of St. St Pauls Paul's Pault but there was as a great hu hue huo and cry cr raised the people saying Why hy rob St. St Peter to pa pay St. St Paul The expression was revived rc upon the death of William Wiiliam Pitt In 1778 when there wa waa was wasa as asa a us as 18 to whether his Ashes ashe should lie Ic next to kings In St Pet Peters Peter's or as tho the city of London ur urged ed In St St. Pauls Parliament Parlament urged that not to bury hUI him In Westminster abbey would be robbing St. St Sf Peter to pay St. St St Paul Pau once more Parliament Parlament won The expression theres there many a slip twixt tho the cup and the lip Up originated durin during tho the time of ot king of tho the In Samo Samos an Island In the Gre Gre- clan can archipelago oppressed lila his hi slaves so 80 bitterly while cultivating a A vineyard that on one of his victims pr pho sled fled that he ho would never live lve to taste tho the wine When hen the tho grapes had har been gathered and and the wino Inn made mado Anca us f sent nt for tho the slave e holding tho the goblet goblet In his hands asked what he had to say for his prophecy The slave n. c replied Theres Theros many a 1 slip twixt the tho cup and tho the lip lp At that moment a messenger ran In announcing announcing an an- that a wild boar bar had broken Into tho the vineyard and arid was doln doing gr grea great damage amage hastily hasty set sel down the goblet of ot wine and rushed ou out In pursuit of the bar boar He lie was killed kled In lii the encounter The term ter pin mOD money had Its Is origin when pins were first invented In and they w were rn cr very expensive In tho ito fourteenth i century the makers were allowed to sell sel sel them only onlY on the tIme first and second days of f JanUl January Jl t became becam the custom to give gl women at I their marriage a 0 certain sum of money mone for buying 1 pins and the phrase pin pill money numey has been retained to signify an allowance alo for a womans woman's personal personal per per- expenditures som The expression there Is 15 no ro royal al road to learning learing dates back to the third century con cen cn- cn tury tur before Christ Ptolemy Soter afterwards afterwards after after- ter- ter wards king kine of Egypt was WR the thc pupil pupi of ol time th famous fam mathematician Euclid an and anc 2 wh when n tho the royal roal youth asked If Ir geometry could not be made a little easier tho noply re reply re- re maee pI ply was the famous epigram We c are In Indebted Indebted In- In to Archimedes ef another nother famous mathematician of or antiquity for two ph phrases It I was ho ha who said said- Give GI meA me mo mea moi i a A lever long enough and a prop strong enough and I can single handed d. d move mo tho LImo world Archimedes was also abo probably probably probably ably thu original absent minded mathematician matho- matho matician on whom have o ha b been en based for more than thun two t o thousand years ears On one occasion Hh ro tho the kin king of Syracuse Syrl- Syrl Syra Syra- CURe cuse that a 0 goldsmith had substituted d some somo other metal for pure gold gold In a certain coin asked Archimedes I to find td out if It his suspicions were wot wol founded Archimedes not being an al alchemist alchemist al al- chemist was as greatly greaty troubled Wit Willie 11 thinking tho the matter mator over one day h lie ho went to to hl his hath which which happened to b be behal full hal till to tho the brim As ho got in n It occurred to ta him that as much water would run tun lun o ou out I II I flu Bit equalled lila hIs bulk Then ho saw Maw that tha If I ho lie put tu the lie coin In a full ful pall pal of Cf wn Vator tor and weighed the tho overflow an and J then too tooka took tooka a piece of pure gold tho the santo same Manio u weight eight a atho as ashe the tho coin Oln an and J put It In the tho same vessel I. I refilled cl that t the a same sante amount amount of water wate should flow fow out Ho lie 10 was so 80 o that ho ha ran rau out of the public bath am and started for tor or home without without walling to pu put on his liR clothes crying through the tho streets Eureka I Eureka ureka I have havo found faund it H I 1 have haye found III itt Il On this discovery cry Archimedes Archi- Archi me modes medes es based baaed hIs law of ot specific gravity H The expression windfall meaning go good god d luck dates from the time of 1 Vil- Vil ham lam th tho Conductor In 1 who whose o 6 reign It was waa Wf fi Ft criminal offense to tC cut down timber I In f tim tho tm forests tA When a Q hel heavy windstorm torm carrie came and blow blew down tc trees s the peasants peasant were allowed to pick up the fallen falen tm timber r h a windfall was an occa occasion lon for ie re- re jol ci n g One of the tho the oldest of nf the tho thC popular cx- cx x Is sub under undo t pr rasa o literally tho the rose roso The phrase hack back hak t to B B. B C C. when Pausanias PS In tnt command of ot the lie confederate fleet feet of the tho Spartan and tho the Athenians I entered into secret negotiations with Xerxes tho the Persian Persia ruler to b betray tra hl hIs country and to ob obtaIn obtain ob- ob tam tain tho the hand of tho the monarchs monarch's daughter in marla marriage c. c Tho The secret negotiations negotiation w wore wor carried on In a H building attached t to tho the temple of Minerva cal called d tho the Brazen Brazer Braen house the tho roof of ot which wits was covered with roses Pau Pausanias' Pausanias anlas' anlas plans were discovered discovered dis die covered and In order to escape tho the vent veri of his outraged countrymen h he heed fled ed to the temple of Minerva which was wa sacred against intrusion lon for tor violent pur pun pose sacre The people were cro so 80 enraged at b bing beIng be- be h. h ing thwarted that they decided to wa wall wallup wal up the edifice and leave the traitor to dl die of starvation own mother mothe laid th the first stone ston After this It became becam a custom among Ath Athenians to to wear tar a rose ros when the thc they had a confidential tion ton to make the tho flower implying confidence America AmerIc Is hI Indebted to lo an Englishman for Its moto motto E 1 P Unum It I II was while John Ad Adams ms was wan wa minister t to ta England that he lie met mot Sir John Prestwick Prest- Prest wick an eminent nt antiquarian who sug RUg to him that It would be bo a a goo good motto to Indicate the union of the colo cob flies nies moto Adams dams communicated d this Idea t to the secretary of congress and on Jun June 20 20 1782 Charles Thompson reported h his design for tor a government go seal scab and on It a Th The Tho was waa the Latin legend given I cn above c phrase wa was used as a 0 motto moto for the Genteman's Gentleman's Gen Gen Gen- teman's ml magazine aa as early carly as a. a 1730 Contrary to general belief hele the slon Ion halcyon halcon days does docs not refer to a a former period in tho worlds world's history o oto or orto orto to tho the early perio and care free tree period of one ones one's life but to a certain season of ot the year yea seven seyen feyen days before foro and seven Ic en days after the winter solstice December 21 Th The phrase has bias grown ul ut of a fable which had Ita Ha origin n among amon the tho ancient Sic SIc SIc- hl It or Hans who believed I that nt at the time o othe or orthe lans belev kingfisher king king- the yean yea m mentioned or fisher eRl brooded d over o lu her hr r young in a a floating float float- foat- foat In Iner ing nest neat nEst upon th the surface of or tho the water anti and that tat during that p period tho the seas feas were calm and nd could b be safely navigated hence they were called caled tho the halcyon days I The Tho term without tho the pale comes comeI t to us from ter the time of King KinE John of or England England Enl Enl- Eng Eng- land who divided dl tho the kingdom of or Ireland Ireland Ireland Ire Ire- land then nominally subject to England Ingland Into twelve counties This entire dietrict die dis- occupied b by English planters was wa afterward from them called the Pale within the tha th Pale Palo En English rule was ac fC- fC ac- ac while all beyond and obeyed al was held by Imperfect tenure Tomorrow Tomorrow Meeting of the Millers Miers |