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Show HERE'S THE WORD FOR PESTl WHO TELLS HOW TO DO rrf Great jrnhs of jrloom wcro Immediately Imme-diately dissipated this morning In Ogden, Og-den, checker players, chess players, rard players, garage men and a host of others heaved an Immense sigh of relief pent up for years past when "Klhltzer" arrived. It Is a word, hut such a word! No vocahulary is complete without It. The accent is on the first syllable. syl-lable. MAKES UP DEFICIENCY "Kibitzer" makes up a deficiency In thf language. Heretofore no finglo one of the half million available EnRllsh words has adequately described de-scribed tho wise guy who hangs around tilling you how whatever you're doing ought to be done You ere privileged to bawl him out, call tho police, submit to him with patient pa-tient resignation, hit him. complain to the house committee, or walk out on him but you couldn't classify him. There wasn't a word In the language that exactly fitted hLs ease. Hence tho Immediate popularity of "kibitzer" Th word Is bringing new pace and tranquility to th- billiard bil-liard tables and card rooms, to the checker boards and tennis courts, aa It chases the pestiferous side-line advisors ad-visors to their holes. It Is even proving prov-ing useful in literature, art, science, commerce and Industry, not to mention men-tion politics YIDDISH WORD. Alexander Harkavy, the lexicographer, lexicog-rapher, says ' kibitzer" Is a Yiddish nrdrd presumably brought to America Amer-ica from Austria or Germany by the d videos of Chess As Yiddish Is largely composed of middle high German, Ger-man, he thiaks the term may havr had its origin In middle high German Ger-man word "kiebitz " which refers to tho bird known In American as the "pewce." Leon Crystal, theatrical critic for the Jewish Dally Forward, classes It as a slang term long In vogue among Yiddish theatrical and literary men and advances the theory ; "U- YOU TujI ml r2Zza HCW To FtK '":-:l5a3l m i rA 11 Ohe "kibitzer arj WkJ that It may have been derived fn- 'he Hebrew "kibutz," from 9 'Trroup" vvhlrh gathers about 3-rnril 3-rnril und rivs.s tables anl mcufatK ,j the gmus kibitzer. THY IT. 1 The noun Is kibitzer," th retjHl "kibitz." and fh participle li 4ni bitzlng." J Xo matter what tho source. eff-'ct Is to clear the Immedlat L in'i'-'phori of iinojkej advice and ft formation. |