The Brussels Post, 1960-11-10, Page 5ti
-.^"Xas44641A 4111.s.,
"Dictionary of It-liming
which includes the 'rhymes ale
ready -cited and adds many More,
says a writer in the Chriatiast
Science Monitor,
For instance, "mince Pie" le
eye, "raspberry tart" is heart,/
"Chevy Chase" (not a place lust
outside Washington, D.C., buil
probably derived from the title
of an old English ballad or hunt.
ing cry), is,face, "Barnet (Fair)*
is hair) and "I suppose" is nose,
The Cockneys sthemselves are
those Londoners born white*
earshot of the bells of St. Mary.
le-Sow Church -- not to be cones
fused with the •bells of Bt Clem-
ents which Say Pranges-and-lerao
ens, The term "Cockney" itselt
apparently is derived from
"cock's eggs," a forthright old
term for fools. Country folk long
ago regarded .town or city-brell
people, ignorant of c -.1ntrs,
ways, as fools or easily fooled,
and -therefore called, them Coc-o
neys, It was only later that *
reversal occured and the coins.
try man became a bumpkin I*
the city slicker.
The Cockneys not only enae
ploy their 'rhyming 'slang as It
'bit 'of one upmanship, but their
actual 'pronuciation is unique,
They avoid the "th" diphtho • ng,
changing it, to 'T' or '"V" and:
sPrinkling in extra "r's" for good.
measure, Thus "things" become*
clings," father and mother be-
come afarver" and "relliVVer**
and water and cottage become
"wa-er" and "co-age." Other
variants are "dyly" for daily an4
"abaht" for about, "Bullock',
horn" is Cockney slang fot
"pawn" •because the word is pro.
nounced "pawrn."
If you have paid -careful it.
tention, you should have ht
trouble in deciphering 'the 180
sonnet quoted by Mr. Franklyiet
"Now a tear-drop fell from the
girl's, mince-pie,
"And her, raspberry tart was
torn
"With 'anguish for she '1444iiik
empty sky,
"And she'd nothing to, bulloekt
horn.
• "But she cooled each nil**
with a little -scent •
'And her Barnet arranged art&
grate;
"And then down the apples el&
pears she went
"With a sorrowful Chevy
Chase . . "
But I defy you to pronounce II!
like a Cockney would. Unless, 4
course, you're a Cockney.
The less one has to do, the lett
time one finds to do it in.
— Lord Chesterfield.
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SAILORS—Senator and Mrs. John F. Kennedy enjoy sail In pemocratic ,presidentiat
nominee's 32-fobt sailboat at Hyannis. Port, Mass., prior to the opening -bell of his White House
Plea To Husband —
"Take Second' Wife"
. _•
GARIBALDI -- sour-cent stamp
honors the Italicin liberator
Garibaldi. Port „ef the_ 'Thom.
pion of Liberty' series, 10 will
go on sole -In Washington Nov.
7.
They Fly Ants
Or flephants
One, , of the World's, busiest
airline terminals today is Hol-
land's bustling Schiphol where,
forty years ago the now famous
loyal Dutch airline, KLM, was
'launched.
SiX men and one girl serviced
the airport in those pioneer ,days,
With a. staff over 16,000, it
still uses the same base, sited
thirteen feet below sea level, but
now instead of .putting the occa-
sional frail -A,iretait into the sky
for „fine ....weather service, only,
a fleet of ninety-five machines
flies -every day an equivalent of -
five times round the earth's cir—
, curnference, linking 105 cities in
lit countries. •
This vast undertaking, which
flies over 1,000,000 passengers
, each year, sprang from the brain
-of astute -Dutch Air Force Lieu-
Aenant, Albert Plesman. •
it's pretty hard not to get your-
self worked up over something
like this, A litterbug out litter-
ing is one thing, but a father
who is bringing up a whole
family Of them, and devoting A
pleasant afternoon to inculcating
the clexterities, Is worse, She said,
"I will gladly go to court and
testify against that ratkng--,..e.„ •
Then she; 4cgaii Pacct,tmulating
specific evidence, She made a
note, for instance, that pop
bottle number four landed by
utility 'pole No, 224, near a hen-
'house, a hundred yards beyond
'a town-line sign, She -set down
'a description of the man and
woman, as to the color of their
clothes, It was a light blue sedan,
with -cream trim, And the steam
pressure' mounted.
' There isn't much you can do,
really, You can't stop the fellow
yourself, for traffic can be con-
trolled only by a uniformed offi-
cer. You can't find an officer,
either, In Maine, as in most
places, the police departments
are operated so the officers are
always somewhere else. ,On the
return trip the next day we saw
five policemen on that same
-route, but when we wanted one
they were tinfindable. We were
agreed, though, that -if we found
one we would take the time to
sign a complaint and appear in
'court. By the time this litterbug
had tossed Out the last sodY-
. bottle we felt no law could be
extreme enough' to suit his parti-
cular needs,. Not so much what
he was doing, but his example
to the youngsters.
We did, eventually, find a po-
liceman, two days later, and we
asked him to look 'up the regis-
tration number and tell 'us who'
'the 'fellow is, I thought 'we
might 'telephone him, o' drop
around some day, and tell him
how we, had f011owed him •and
what we had 'seen him do, and
what weethought of it. It' might
mend his ways for him full as
much as being brought in. But a
couple of weeks have gene by,
and We haven't heard anything.
Perhaps we, think litterbugging
'is-more serious than others do:
-In the meantime we have been
stopped twice at night, by alert
end.' courteous state policenien
who ask to see
tip'
licenses and
want, us to tip our headlight'
beame., We tip them, and show •
otfr licenses,,and admire the effi-
ciency of the department.
So, I. think our antilitter 'law
isn't -working. There is _ some
• point on 'which. it 'falls down.'- It's
a •little discouraging. to :realize ,
we , have -people, in our great
- -human family who will drive out
to see the beauties of nature and
, -strew ,debris as they go. -By John ,
Gould in. The Christian Science
Monitor.
How To Speak The
cockney Language
Visitors to London sooner or
later begin to wonder if they
actually speak or understand the
English language. Only gradual.,
ly does a foreign ear become at-
tuned to some Of the strange,
sounds emitted by persons here
who are supremely confident
they are speaking if not the
King's EnSliahl at least English,
It is not so much the Oxford
accent, although -that also can be
quite unintelligible to some. The
greatest same-language barrier
and comprehension test to •con-
front the visitor is usually in the
chitchat of taxi drivers, bus con,.
duetors, news vendors, or small-
shop proprietors.
Over the years, I have become
familiar with the "Come on,
Luv," "Alleles," "Dearie," or
"Guy" interjections of conduct-
ors •and conductresses. But only
recently a London musical, ap-
propriately entitled "rings Ain't
Wot They Used T' Be,'" dealing
with 'Soho life, and I 'frankly un-
clersteed only about half of what
was 'said. By comparison, Shaw's
Eliza Doolittle, of "Pygmalion"
and "My Fair Lady" fame, al-
ready "spoke with alrhost flay,-
less diction when Professor Hig-
gins first entountered her eutside
Covent Garden.
What greatly relieved me at
the end of the first act of "Pings"
(Things), therefore, was'the very
English gentleman behind me
who exploded to '-his partner,
"You know, I 'scarcely under-
stood a word they were saying."
What is -especially hard /or the
newcomer to grasp is Cockney
rhyming slang. The Cockneys
don't say "Use your head." They
say "Use your loaf" — from loaf
of bread, which rhymes with
head. If you do not know the sys-
tem, you really are lost, you see.
Here are some other examples:
'Stairs are "apples and pears;"
Money is "bees and honey." A
hat it a "titter" -- 'rhyming with
"tit for tat." A cup of tea can be
(aside from "char") a cep of
'you and me" or even a' 'clip 'of
Ro'sy," for Rosy Lee. A pocket is
a "sky," for skyrocket Naturally
Father's chair is a "lion's lair."
A walk is a"ball 'chalk." -A pot
is a 'Waiter Scott." A'stool is an
"April foot,'" and a table is "Cain
and Abet"
It takes a quick wit I0ertah4-
faeture and speak this special
patoisand keen*ear indeed to
decipher it rapidly enough to re-
ply. Howe*, London-born Jul-
ian 'Franklyn hai heen interested
enough in this legendary tock-
ney talk to draw up a fascinating
On The Trail Of
A Litterbug!
A great truth was Krung home
-to me, as Win Mitchell used to.
say, when I watched a littlerbUg
'operate the other day. The truth
Would be that a law isn't much
good sometimes, We've got a
state law intended to "Keep
Maine Clean and Green", end /or
about 80 miles we watched a
man break that law repeatedly.
What can, you do?
'Twas a lovely day, and the
tme for an annual pilgrimage -
we make, We pack some goodies
and go up back to a remoter spot
where a college chum, has his
summer place. They know we're
miming every year on this parti-
miler day, just as we know
they'll, return the call on A cer-
*tain day in November. This has
'been going on now for some
time as our own answer to the,
Junetime commencement,
We found that commencement
was getting to be mostly us, as
far as a reunion went, so we
reune by ourselves and avoid the
•orowd. Naturally we maintain a
'high -scale of erudition and ace-
' demic flavor, such 'as pumping
-out a boat or taking down an
overdue birch that might topple
on the woodshed. We think it's
a good thing.
So we started along, an odd
Maine license plate in the long
•lines of visiting states, and as
we -held far to the right' to let
the tourists zing past us in pro-
fusion it so happened that we
came behind another Maine
license plate, and we remarked
on it. "The natives are moving,"
She said. Sometimes a Maine
license on a Maine road sort of
attracts your eye, and you won-
. der who it is. This fellow didn't
happen to be anybody we .knew.
He was sitting hi the right
front seat, and we assumed the
lady driVing was his wife, for
the back seat was lined with live
Children. As we made this' ob-
, servation, one of the 'children
ran Oland out the Windew and
'released the wrapper from a
candy bar; whereat 'she said,
"Now, -.Mother and Dad haven't
spoken to Junior about -litter-
bugging!"
Hardly has she said this when
Daddy-0, himself, ran an arm
out and bove's pop bottle, or as
L„..-ive call them--in Maine, a '`so0-
`‘'bottle" inter the ditch. It bounced
e couple-of times. and disappear-
ed into a clump -of ox-eyed
daisies.. - - -
We •followed this automobile '
most of out- way, and the five
children held a back-seat picnic
while we watched. The children
, themselves -disposed , of all 'the
sandwich • wrappers and water-
.. melon rinds but 'Daddy was the
specializing heaver of .pop bot-
tles. He got fairly'good at it. He
could hit a sign that said "Wind-
, ing Road" very nicely; He hit
utility poles almost every time.
Ile had an, underhand flip that
was a dandy.
Customer: "Have you a book
called, 'Man, Master- of the
Home'?"
Salesgirl: "Try the fiction de.
partment, please."
Customs relating to morality
can often be traced to climate
and geography, Monogamy is the
established rule 'in the West.
Polygamy is permitted — 'and
,sometimes enforced — in 'the
East. In Arabia and certain other
Moslem lands, a maximum of
'four wives is allawed to a man
of substance and good .repute.
Westerners regard this Islamic
law as being for the.-special
benefit of -the male. In fact, it
was designed for the weNare of
the female, In Bedouin tribes it
was a source of rnischiev,to have
unattached, ,frustrated ;women
footloose in the camps. • •
Even in towns where Western
-influence predominates, many
Arab women still prefer to be
one -of three or four wives
rather 'than the "one and only."
It isn't unusual fOr women in
,:the:nomadic tribes to request the -
husband to take on another •wife
or two to assist*with -child bear-
ing and the- Chores. A girl -at the
'Mahe tribe married -to the son
`of a sheikh was so comely that
the' young husband wanted -no
other feminine 'company. With-
in a Year or two, she urged him
to take' a second.. He-re-
fused, and the wife took the
case before the Sheikh himself
and the council of elders.
The young husband strove to
defend' his position. :He loved his
wife and wanted no 'other. woman
in his tents; The elders confer-
ted, and the. Sheikh announced
the judgment: '
"By the Beard of the Prepliet,"
he said, "the plea of 'my son is
both unnatural and selfish. He
must take a. second wife to his
tents, for so it has been decreed
by the elders." •
DOG 'DAZE' •
Licensing authoiities of Carth-
age Mo. hit upon the novel idea of
reminding dog owners that dog
licences were due by sending
the notice addressed to the dog.
So smitten' with the idea was
one dog's owner, Mr. V. Herron,
that, immediately upon receipt Of
the reminder, he sat down and
wrote a cheque, and then made
the 'signature' with his dog's paw
imprintt GREGORY WAS ttrriPA cyregary Peck signs "Gregor)* wale
here" 'en the epidermis of Porisienne frederique Lomiactol.
Morel In Juan-Les-Pins, Noose, on the Riviera. Of course,
Prederique traid shell never Wash It off.
tried alert Not what it's jack•
ed. up to be.
bian Sheikh, who -boarded a
plane at -Mecca to travel to
- New York, plunged at 'once into
soulful' meditation.-- Breaking .-of f
his communion 'with -Allah '-anrl 4
seeing -a, stewardess 'standing be-
:aide ,him, he- shrieked in -fury.
Here was an insult to his /aith
— an unveiled woman almost
touching him! • . •
The poor girl fled,- -net know-
.ing.-how.to cope with :this out-
._raged dignitary. A male steward
smoothed h I down,- tactfully
exPlaining that the girl was '
no woman in the ordinary sense,
.but a member of the 'aircraft's
crew. This, pacefied him — and
for the remainder Of the jour-
ney he and the stewardess were
the best of friends.
The line employs 225 steward-
esses, many of them exception-
ally beautiful girls. 'They are
sometimes, quite -innocently, the
cause of broken hearts:.
A forty-year-old tourist re-
cently eyed an attractive girl in
the bar of the Negresco :Hotel
at Nice. 'He immediately fell for
her. But being rather
he did not dare speak to- her.
Then he spotted the letters KLM
on 'a key dangling from her
slender waist.
Excitedly, he went . to the
nearest desk and wrote a letter
pouring out his-heart to the "giri
'of 'his dreams." He addressed it
to "Miss KLM, Negresco Hotel,
Nice." It go happened that the
line's loCal tepreSentative has
his office there., Imagine his
surprise when he' 'simnel the
'letter and read lts romantic
-Contents.
The line bas been a -pioneer
In transporting animals by sir.
Its first donsignmeht..Wag a load-
of bees, but today, in, APeciallY
seated compartments under ox-
port Veterinary Contra, it Biel
all varieties of littesteek—aeoll.,
/tortes, Silo* Nava* pedigree
dogs and bulls, dray=014 -eineke,
queen bet* titota,AUOttkeya and
elephants.
"When trail-Sporting an ele
pliant," a representative stated,
"we • alWayS put a hen hi its
cab i'n. The 'elephant's girl
friend,' as we call her, sits On
his head throughout the trip and
keeps him taint and contented.
We discovered this quite by AC-,
eident some years' ago, and now
would not think of flying an
elephant iiitYWhere- Without
him a putch hen 'for Coin,
pang:
Once the the cotivoyod tVire
Attentine queen ants with
twenty consorts all packed 'in a
tin container Which, in turn,
WAS lieueed inside a wooden boot
These tints were to stock -a lob,
logical institute, Electrie eels,
curried or a -flintier purpose,
are--Shut lip' in specially
ed t'onteineis. Otherwise, with
their Bower to generate stings of
360,-k la 350 volts, their escatie
Mien' indeed prat* shocking!- ,
In, 1919, -'he loresair enormous
possibilities - for .civilian '
transport. He had no "planes 'of !'
his own, and no money, to buy
them. Greatly -daring, however,
he drained the'•hoggy-Schiphol
-meadows, secured : Queen Wil-
-helmina!s -patronage -for his
scheme and chartered 'planes
from. a British firm- to form the
World's first regular passenger '
air services,
On July • 26th, 1920, he Mau- .
.gitrated a regular London to
Betterdana air service ---and a
.great -airline was launched.
Nowadays, airliners fly along
straight, well-regulated traffic
lanes. But in the "Flying Dutch-
man's" era, the pilot often pun.
shed a sigma track, picking his
way by -railway lines, rivers,
cathedrals, and even by farm-
houses,' whose womenfolk con-
veniently hung -out their wash-
ing at fixed times.
Once he reached Calais, the'
starting point .of his Channel
crossing, he followed the direc-
tion, of the town's .long, straight
-• pier. Across the Channel, his
'route was practically foolproof.
He simply followed the railway
line frorn Dover to _London.
One pilot WAS doing this 'when
. hit small biplane ran into strong
headwinds which greatly reduc-
ed its maximum speed of eighty-
five mp.h. Looking out, his two
passengers saw the Dover to
London express racing along be-
low — and leaving' the 'plane
Well behind. They' protested
about this snail-like progress:
• The pilot „passed On their com-
plaints to the lineti far-sighted
Was. "When you next use the
train as a guide, fly "over' 'the
top of it then your Paisen-
tete WWI see it," Was his astute
Passengers on the planes
ways had to wear .goggles, het,-
Mita; parachutes, and
YeeltinuffS and, if it was
cold, het Water bottles
Were supplied. 'they Were told
to inflate their :lifejackets only
if they landed iri Water:
Diatabedience of this order
blikkaaaed one passenger,. Fog
!breed the pilot to fly loW over
AIM Channel: Panicking; his pas,
Sanger , inflated his lifejacket;
But the 'plane tinselled on, lend,
g safely at Rotterdam. The
pilot got .out but the pitasenger
reMaihed his Cabin
lined there- '"by his
jacket and. quite unable to ifitiVel
In 1948; A distinguished . Fag-
tern passenger on it KIM dir,
liner from Anisterdain to the
E a -a t Indiet became beWitched
lir' the craft's pretty, atiblitti,
-h aired hoStess. A- Priwerfal.
Sheikh in his own kitigdoin, he
et -once began to eniiisage the
girl as an addition to his harem.
At the next, stag, he Went to
the aircraft's captain'and deft?
ed to swop eithiele :tor the
IteWitrdeSSI
lir Another instinide;hit Alrew
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