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Show HOW LANGUAGE IS ENRICHED I New Worda and Phrases Most Fre-1 quently Have Their Origin In tho Patter of Thlevea. It Is necessary that the language of h tuition should bo refreshed nml strengthened now uiul thru by the In-troductlon In-troductlon of new words and phrnscs, and, as hetlta democracy, these spring from the soil ; not oue of them descends de-scends upon us from the Olympian heights, observes the New York Herald. Her-ald. Neither ncleutltlc nor scholustlc bodies ever enrich the common tongue with expressions so apt and full of moaning that they gain immediate and enduring ogue The slang of the undergraduate un-dergraduate collexluu Is pitifully In ept and meager. For iiu)tlilug t tint cull gle a new rest to the Hilgnto we must look to the stnge, the gambling house and een to the opium don and thlees' resort. Iteturnlug soldlorsMll ceitnlnly lulng with them mm h of the ingot of llelil mid ticnch of whli h "coolies" m n Miiuple, t ! word "Joint" ns applied lo 'iihiultoiis nml other resorts comes from the Joint of liiimhoo ft mil whlih tin opium pipe Is niiiile. "Dupe" was ortgllitill tho slung term for opium hence "dope' nml "t!op." hummer iible nro the eilnl products of tin gambling house. Among the coiiiinoii-et coiiiinoii-et of them nro "four Hushing," "keeping "keep-ing tub," "Miimllng put" nml "down to inses." To "gle the office" or "office" "of-fice" mime one Is n ery old bit of Loudon lliloes' slung. '1 ho cniiNo of nil this Is (tulle up-parent up-parent to the thinking mind. Persons of education Mini culthntlon liuto u Mii'iiliuhiiy of their own Milllcleiith Inrgo nml varied to enable them to ov-press ov-press tlietuM'hes without going be-)uml be-)uml Its limits. Those who mo lucking luck-ing In cdiKiitlou Mimctlmc.s olu wnul In nu eineigcncy Unit proo v expres-slo expres-slo Hint the) iicipiliu gcueiiil currency, cur-rency, - . |