Life — December 6, 1906 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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LIFE months after writing the generous appreciation of William Morris, which pears in his book entitled “Some Reminiscence William Rossetti found it was his own marriage with the daughter of Ford Madox Brown to which Morris referred in the following note: Do you know I have got to go to a wedding next Tuesday, and it enrages me to think that I lack courage to say: “I don't care for either of you, and you neither of you care for me, and Id day out of my precious life in grinning a company grin at you two, n't waste a Mr. Rossetti’s reminiscences also include the following anecdote o y “The witness was Allingham, to whom the incident happened. He was at breakfast at the house of the poct laureate, who, in a rather feeble moment of facetiousness, asked: ‘Will you have a hegg?? ‘Yes, thank you,’ replied Allingham, who had scarcely appropriated the proffered viand, when Tennyson added, ‘I suppose you understand that I was only joking when I said hegg?’ "—Buj- jalo Commercial WELL-KNOWN man of letters was telling stories at a literary club in Boston one night, according to the current Harper's Weekly, when he was reminded of an encounter between a Bostonian, professing a love of art for art’s sake, and F. Marion Crawford, the novelist. In a slightly patronizing manner the Boston man asked: “Have you ever aspired to write anything, Mr. Crawford, that will live after you are gone ?” “My dear sir,” replied Crawford, with a br smile, ‘my principal effort just now is to write something that will enable me to live while I am here.” CCORDING to the Su, there has been published a list of English words which have been adopted by the French and completely naturalized. Many refer to sports and sporting, and in this group of words adopted from the English into French are turf, trotting, Tatter- sall’s, racer, maiden, milord, carriage and gentle- Gin, punch, grog, lightweight, lawn tennis, Trish :, home, handicap, ale (biére blonde et lege “all right,” cocktail (which the French papers define as American, not English), bridge and bridge whist, bullfinch, block system, ballast, blackleg, event, dining-car, destroyer, drag (mail coach), dandy, covert coat, commodore, full hand (poker), flyer, featherweight, five o'clock, fashion, hunter, jocke club, keepsake, knickerbockers, lunch, macadam mutton chop, outlaw, outrider, ack, pedigree pickles, porter, pudding, quick beginner, racehorse, raglan (overcoat), rocking-chair, roast beef, sand- wich, self-made man, shocking, sleeping-car, snob, team, tipster, toast, topweight, tramway, trolley, turk, tunnel, tub, walkover, wharf, waterproof and whisky. Some of the English words adopted into the French language come by the way of the United States, and one of these is the word “bluff,” of which in Paris this original description is given: An English word to which Americans have gi a particular meaning. It is used in the American game of poker to designate the position of a player Who sceks to discourage the continuance in. the game of his adversaries and to induce them to dise regard the chance to recoup their losses or to add to their winnings by “raising.” The French explanation of the origin of the word “lynch” follows: An American custom called after Colonel Lynch, who authorized a crowd to seize a criminal and to try and execute him on the spot. A French verb has been formed from lynch, the verb lyncher, ic., to execute without the This word has scarcely been adopted in French, but golf, grouse, garden party and gentleman have been. forms or authorit OPULARITY doesn’t seem to follow any rule, says the New York Times. 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