Show LANGUAGE IS ENRICHED New Words and Phrases Most Frequently Fro Fre Have Their Origin In the Patter of Thieves It Is 16 necessary that the language it a nation should be refreshed and Strengthened now and then by the In In- of ot new words and phrases Md aad ad as RII befits democracy these spring from the soil not one of ot them descends de do- upon us from the Olympian freights observes the New York Her Her- aid eld Neither scientific nor scholastic bodies Ies ever enrich the common tongue With expressions ns so apt and full ton of ot meaning leaning that they gain immediate and enduring vogue The slang of the undergraduate un un- collegian Is pitifully inept in In- eDt ept es t and meager For anything that can con give a new newest test est est to the vulgate we must look to the stage the gambling house and even evento evento evento to the opium den and thieves' thieves resort Returning soldiers will certainly bring with them much of ot the argot of ot field 8 std ad d trench of ot which cooties Is a sample ample The word Joint as ns applied to iniquitous and other resorts comes from crom om the Joint of ot bamboo from which an opium pipe Is made Dope was originally the slang term for opium opium- hence kence dope and able are the the verbal products of ot the gambling house Among mong the common common- et eat t of them are four flushing keep lug lay tab standing pat and down to cases cases To give the office or office ottice of ot Ace fice some one Is a ver very old bit of London thieves' thieves slang The cause of ot nil all this Is quite apparent apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent arent to the thinking mind Persons of f t education and cultivation have a of ot their own ov sufficiently large and varied to enable them to express express express ex ex- press themselves without without going beyond beyond be be- yond Its limits Those who are lackIng lack lack- Ing lag In education sometimes coin words In an nn emergency that prove so expressive expressive sive alve that they acquire general cur cur- rency |