| Show the name Is familiar familiarly arLL if BY MD FEIK B and ELMO SCOTT WATSON sideburns SIDEBURNS used to be called burnsides Bum sides because it was gen A E burnside who popularized them during the civil war the wags of that day changed the name from burnsides Bum sides to sideburns just to be funny general burnsides sideburns were not the rather weak things so often worn by the younger masculine element today 1 As the picture of him shows they were husky and purposeful adornments that really went ent places bear clear across the frontal features to join each other right under the nose or is that thing a mus m u stache gen burnside why general burnsides wore them is open to discussion it might have been to make up for the fact that his first name was ambrose and his second name everett but his achievements never needed apology he was graduated from west point in 1847 he served in the army for a while and then resigned to go into the manufacture of firearms he invented one of the first breechloaders breech loaders called th the e burnside breech loading rifle it loaded from the top thank goodness because if it loaded from the side it probably would have been called the sideburn breechloader back in the army again he was a colonel during the civil war was prominent at the battle of buu bull run and later became a major general he was intensely patriotic amiable modest and very popular no american patriot deserved more to have his name commemorated its too bad it had to be immortalized in re reverse versel graham cracker E RATING crackers in bed is a time honored american custom that is attended with well nigh disastrous aftermaths after maths and eating graham crackers is much worse than munching soda crackers because the former crumble more easily for this greater evil we can very definite definitely y blame sylvester graham health food faddist of the early he devised graham flour not so the b bits its of cracker would crawl down under our pajama collars and in between the sheets but because he wanted to preserve the wholesomeness so of the entire wheat kers graham nel nea sylvester gr graham a was born bom in suffield conn in 1794 the son of a highly educated english clergyman he became a minister also and went through life as a presbyterian to save his soul and became a vegetarian to save his body his theory was that temperance could be furthered by a strictly vegetarian diet which would prevent all desire for stimulants one new food theory of his led to another and he had a wide following some followed him because they wanted to save themselves from liquor some because they wanted to preserve their health and others followed him because they wanted to break his neck among the latter were butchers and bakers who rioted when he spoke against meat and refined flour in boston in 1847 he died a natural death in 1876 the guillotine guillotine machine used for legal beheading in france was named for dr J I 1 guillotin who prevailed upon the national assembly at versailles in 1789 to adopt this contraption for all executions two things about this need clearing up first dr guillotin was not cruel he was a kindly mild man physician from paris he spoke in behalf of the machine because it was a quick pair painless iless method of inflicting death mt second guillotine is spelled 1 with a final e that is not found in dr guillotine Guil lotins name when they P 1 called the machine la guillotine dinst instead e ad of dr guillotin ile ie guillotin they not only bestowed paternity upon the doctor but they declared the child to be of the female sex all french nouris nouns must have masculine or feminine gender why the guillotine had to be feminine is not known from the standpoint of french grammar but it is decidedly appropriate tor for something devised to make a man lose his head quickly and painlessly painless lyl 1 Uie tHe leased by western newspaper union |
