Show 0 BETTER HET TEIl HALF strictly scientific rc archers fo for alie tile origin of the expression better ki hal denoting ones aes wife have cave decided that it was conea coined by sidney lit in I 1 ills his arcadia arcadia amadia was written in however those less con concerned with avith scientific accuracy claim that an cincent arabian tale contains tile the real origin of the expression this old story tells of a derouin who was sentenced because lit in me course of a 1 alv oath he had insulted tile the name or the honor ol of his chief the arabs wife pleaded for clemency declaring that not her whole lars barid had committees commit teed the offense not your whole husband 1 asked the sheik nay she replied it was but bui the tha halt half of him for am I 1 not his other half and ana I 1 who larive never ot of ferden thee should not be made to suler for tho the sins of the oiher half and the guilty halt places itself under the protection or the better half the sheik so the story runs pardoned the husband being greatly pleased by the ingenuity of th wife |