Show w rr II Take Cake lay m Word lUord 11 l I I Ij Ij II j For It 1 II IIII l jl ll Br B FRANK DOLBY COLBY II 1 k 11 HOW now DID IT START S S Q Who Who was Davy Jones and what is meant by his locker A. A In A.-In In nautical lore Davy Jones has long been spoken of as the evil spirit of the sea The name is sup sup- supposed supposed posed to be a corruption of Duppy Jonah Duppy a word used among Negroes of the West Indies designates designates designates nates a malevolent haunting spirit And Jonah of course refers to the Jonah of the New Testament his name has become a synonym for fora a person or thing that causes bad luck Davy Joness Jones's locker is the bottom of the sea Of lost ships or drowned seamen it is said that they have gone to Davy Joness Jones's locker Q How How did the Mardi Gras car car- carnival carnival Diva I of New Orleans get its name A. A Mardi A.-Mardi Mardi gras is French Fr for fat Tuesday It refers to Shrove Tues Tues- Tuesday Tuesday day which is the day before the be be- beginning beginning beginning ginning of Lent therefore the last day of feasting In France a fat gras ox was ceremoniously paraded ed through the streets In New Orleans the carnival of Mardi Gras ends on Shrove Tues Tues- day King Rex accompanied by his of Comus ap ap- appears appears ap- ap appears pears in the spectacular parade of floats and is later unmasked at the Mardi Gras ball baU In Roman Catholic countries the carnival is a period of festivals and merrymaking preceding Lent The carnival takes its name from the Latin phrase carne vale meaning O 0 flesh farewell an illusion to the putting aside of carnal things during the Lenten season Carnal is from the Latin carnis which meant originally a piece of meat Bell BeU Syndicate Features Feature |