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all. a fate Pile Wottid 4 wish for anything
or artYcne except one's enemies.
However, T111 .Q1$T OF 1T re-
veals 1,114t the expression in its earliest
English usage was quite Lliteral, It
first Caine into being in the early 10th
century and Meant actually gone to
the pot, that is chopped up, to pieces
for stewing.
ISMIllar eonstruteion to the modern
we consider modern, did build. a model
weapon, the tank as we iclIOW it today
was introduced and perfected in the
year 1915 and 191fi, Presented in blue-
print fortn to the British General Staff
during the days
\Volta'
complete secrecy to its
workmen assemblint; the
told were beild-
to iii the sands
campaigns against
completely sue-
that even after
surprised
name continued
to be applied to what Ytster ebster
called.a. "self-propelled engine Dr de,
strttction consiStiug of heavy-armor-
Plates mounted on a tractor of the
caterpillar type and, armed with, guns
and machine OP,"
And that's TI-W. GIST OF IT for
this time!!
Around the 17th century the expree- weapon
Sion assumed a part of its ouitimporary of Winston
meaning. In a Sermon ill by
John Jackson in 1641, wilco speaking
of the persecutions of die Christians
by /Oman emperors. Reverend Jack-
son said;. "All went to the pot without
respect of seq., dignity or number."
Another theory for this expression's
being is to be found in "A Dictionary
of Modern Slang, Cant ai tl Vulgar
words," published in 1860. In it the
proposition is advanced that the ex-
To insure
manufacture,
first, tanks
ing water
of the Near
Turkish
cessful was
the tank
weapon in
armies to scented
War,
because the
Churchill.
were
tanks
East
forces.
that
WaS
1916,
the
used
tank
of
be
in
So
ruse
when
be
the
the Kaiser's
winning the First
adopted
they
used
Was
strong
as a
as a
support
Pression conies down. front the ancient
custom of putting the ashes of dead
in an urn. So, when one ewes hito a
pot, lie is dead.
In Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase
atal Fable" we find; "'The allusion is
to the pot into which refuse metal is
cast to be remelted or to be discarded
into waste."
All of these are speculations, how-
ever. But any of the thtet, of them
makes a good case,
Did you know that the tank, w cap-
t at of our conquering twirl., in Eur-
ope, chief strategic clement in the
'United Nations action in Norea, is an
invention of recent t;rigin:: lint why it
is called tank, few Pconk seem to
know. So — here's THE iiIST OF
IT.
Although Leonardo tla 1 inci, the
great genius of the 15th Ceatury, who
seemed to have invented everything
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Wednesday,. March 14t11,, 1951.
H a ow bkmny"Cirls
Get Lovely Curves
PPg.S IT REALTY PAY?
,You break your jaws on Wrigleys,„
J3y P. S. Fisher Place your feet in Iloleproof socks
Vei hen. young rout 4. considerable ; hiel-douuPr isbey toV4BrliSg ggrc's1;ocks,
inunber of Indian stories. They helped
ins throm4h quite a few hard winters. V o n chok e yourself with Arrows,
When the oil-Wining school hour lore- Tell the time with Ingersoll,
01 me to reluctantly leave the straw wife sews for the children
tick, by rentov Mg several, lay ers With ilutterit. k and AI eCall,
blankets and quilts, ene,.,ur;yetl may- :
!self US the goose-flesh Obtiwrtvd me You rub with Uentholatum,
TirlieS
You get full measure of
whole wheat and bran in
NABISCO SHREDDED WHEAT
latql\
OS'
01400-cor Yr*
into a human file, by sayine half Smoke Player's cigarettes,
aloud, "Brace it like tut Indiau„" Tins iWear Blue Jay leads fur bunions,
procedure helped me to walk, the five Brush your teeth with Rubbersets.
:steps that led to my tleece-lined two- ;
Au unconquerable yearning for You Eastman your vacatilin,
the artistic battled with a native stinsi- And PalMolive-ize your skin,
tiveness to frigid temncratures, as 1 ,While with Gillette and Williams
beheld the iecomparably beautiful de- You proceed to mow your chin.
signs of Nature upon the thickly
,froeted window panes. Double win-Wear ,BV,D,'s in the. summer
doves in those days were at.; rare as Ytm put Murine in your eyes—
`.And yet some dantphools ask you 'double-yoked eggs and blood oranges. If it pays to advertise. 'Why local photographers such as
Moses Zurbrigg or Armstrong in the .. .... .01114 .14.1111
minbi).-, Block, did nut take picture, ;
of those perfect peueillings on the The Gist of It"
in the case M • ,sc.. Win) ritSS;.'d
4
thi n „me Famiary in the ycar 15(30, Jean Nicol was
with part ut his mist. as wltite a, a ambassador from France to the Royal
leper. 1 ia.vcr tie.iught there u as any Portugese court at I.isbon, 11,. was a
apeelad advantaeu possessiaa a khg luau harniiig and "i great
71t.-t:: :Old that niuruin e 1 was sure o f ; Because Portugal ova' then one of
the ,teat r-wers of the world, with
ltcr fleets thermumetvra ti„itt,t Ciou't bailing (10"
the
ticuu able w stand the wwld, tApl-rati,..ii, Nicol bad many
\\ „r id a y ea r o r t wo earlier and were
Wilen clays in said to be seeds from a strange plant
winter, iu"k]lath111)1)11 tn "1 "' "1- :which" the Spaniards called -tobacco".
• cidents Irian which I am glad to MC( t asked for st ,nu of them and
i,rcd. I like learning but I 111136t sent them to his queen, Catherine de' `disliked increasing my knowiteige These seeds were planted in while eufiering from clnilblatus. That the royal gardens and are said to have is why drawing-lesson appealed to me , produced the first tobacco to be raised strtinely. It was scheduled forin Europe.
• civet eu thirty, told by that time my, feet French scientists workine with the i were losing that stinging sensation one !
Melt when he got a licking, plants, gave Nicot's name to them,
artici the scientific name for the plant
Hanging of sleighs w.aa popular ,became "Nicotine.'
winter inn in those days, even if it ! It was many years later that the
were rainiug. The empty saw-log bobs 'oily liquid contained in its leaves be-
-were the hardest to ca tc h" perhap s be- !came known as "nicotine," And all
cause the team were anxious to get because a French ambassador sent
home to their oats and hay. "I box his queen a present of some seede.
bob-sleigh was always the most at- * * *
tractive to grab hold of, especially if ! Ever hear of the expression "to go
'it were full of grain or chop in hags. to poll' 'Ti, 14,, to put " is I, be 1.1.1iL -
T17,1s,• bags made great seats. Occas- ed, destroyed, disintegrated, and not at
usually an irate farmer ,would wield I
whip in our direction but for the
most part we boys were eeven the
freedom of protruding runners with
genial good-will. The Ontario tanner
is rarely a cantankerous character.
;Farm life is hard on the muscles but
it is easy on the nerves. When a far-
mer has a break-down it is more apt
to be his mower than himself. If his
wife breaks down she needs a mt•
days in the city.
The great preponderance el Christ-
mas and New Year's cards, that are
not strictly what is called religious,
depict the scene of which the farmer
is daily and nightly familian•-the wide
expanse Of quiet snow—tile
knee--the uplifted trees with slender
,fingers, raised aloft, as if in 1,rayee—
'the meandering stream nightly nar-
irowing in its fight with the fr•ist---
:the ungroinned cattle elusitired arotted
the straw stack near die ham -the
;house with frosted :windows, and the
chimney-smoke h p ea ki g. warmth
I below—the pump \Oki]. -yew told ice
'has loweetal, and the mad laae
I;keW ise has bete/ dwar itese
nes rest the .iye and are.ist the at•
of the city dweller.
it will ever be so. It is the ebb and
flow' of fluctuatinv, feehnt:;s. tl is deg)
calling unto deep. Voet of u.> alt like
Lot: we tend in youth toward some
and long in later life for a
Zoar. Why do we lo these .things?
,Put another log on the ore. Let us.
have another cup of coffee. I feel we
!must talk for hours yet.
Gain 5 to10 lbs. New Pep
TWA/sands whe neveluclet4 betere, near have elaanely, attractive nuures, No =ore now Ntuvbe, ugly hollows. TheY theta Ostrez, I0.' ti at* ea bailee shinny because blood lacks iron. Vane you up, too, Improves appetite. digestion 00 food nourishes You better. pote t toargetung too tat Etop when you (tutu Agure YOU WWI. Iu troduetoryry 10' ^ getkieMlainted" (WV (Wt. Try Qum Topic (nallotu for new pounds, lovelY 0urY04 PaW pope 104Y. ell (11'4ens,
Intim, I du n It know; otcept per a
On e of three- WilS• some seeds. They
had been brought trom the .New Mg tendencies, 1 do not kno w.
oppo rtuni s t 1.1 things frem the
did in my bo yhood days. 1 haven't new' -worlds which had met er been
seen leteles on Wvhisicets '..Air , Xilt(Ven to European men before, SO years. It may. be that del:atone
thrtarah str a w, o vercomes mete
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