THE OMAHA SUNDAY "BEE: OCTUlittK 24, lazu.
BelgianBoy.Mascot
Of 27th Division,
Can't Find Parents
Waif Adopted by Former
Chaplain of American Red
Cross Can't Remember
Father's Name.
' Brussels, Oct. 23. Belgium is be-
parents of a 12-year-old war waif,
l'ow living in America, taho -cannot
remember his family name. The boy
has found a home with Mr. and Mrs.
. G. Mi Conover. of Indian avenue.
Newport, R. I. Mr. Conover was
formerly a chaplain of the American
Red Cross attached to he naval
hospital at' Brest, where he found
the little Belgian lying sick ana took
him under his own care, later taking
the boy to his home in America.
Mr. Conover, thinking the boy's
parents may still be living, ha ap
pealed to the Belgian authorities to
find them. The search is particular
lv difficult in view of the laok of
details concerning the young Bel
gian's past. The boy dimly recalls
that his first name was G-orge. He
vaguely remembers the prtfix ''van"
to his surname, indicating that' he is
of titled birth, and believes that his
lather was caned Baron.
Germans Occupy Brussels, f .
In telling his story he says that
he was about six years old when
the German army occupied Brussels,
where he lived tn very comfortable
circumstances with his fathei and
mother. He was an only child. His,
father; he says, was too old to go to
war. He remembers very little of
his mother, but recalls that his father
was extremely fond of him, spend
ing a great part of the day in his
company, teaching- him Latin . and
music and helping him wit.n his other
studies.
He remembers that his father once
told him that he was the last of a
very ancient family. "
. When the German armies ap
proached Brussels the boy's parents
fled to a chateau near Dixmude
Here they were overtaken by the
invading forces and 'the boy was
separated from them. He never saw
his parents again and does not know
what became of them. He himself
ran away and reached the British
lines, where he was adopted by a
British officer.
Joins Tank Soldiers.
He liver for nearly four years with
British troops until the sector was
taken over by the American Twenty
seventh division. He remained with
the Twenty-seventh and followed his
American friends to Brest aftr the
armistice. Several attempts to .ooard
transports and follow the division to
America proved fruitless. Finally the
n , n , j i
i iuc oeigian icu sick ana was a Ken
to the naval hospital at Brest, where
Chaplain Conover found and adopted
him.
These facts are now tn the posses
sion of the authorities in Brussels
and it is hoped that by their aid
some trace of the boy's parents may
yet be found. )
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When Asked to Pay for Gas
London, Oct. 23. A partial taxi
cab strike in London was called re
cently because of the owners' de
mand that drivers bear part of the
increased price of gasoline. The
price was jumped 14 cents a gallon,
making the actual price over $1.
About one-half of the employed
drivers were on , strike, but owner
drivers were almost all working.
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"You Tell 'Em; My Tongue's in My Shoe," Declares.
Shop Girl When Asked If English Purists Have
Right Dope on "Universal" Language.
, By A. A. GROH.
"You tell 'era, Sugar; you're so
refined."
"You tell 'em, Puget; I can't make
a sound."
. "You tell em, Cotton; you're out
on bait"
"You tell 'em, Corsets; you're
around the ladies." '
"You tell 'em, Niagara; you never
stop."
All aje members of the "you-tell-'em"
family, the latest addition to
the local slang tribe, a very numer
ous progeny, indeed.
1 here s more slang used now han
ever before.
A glossary ot slang expressions
used in Omaha would require pages.
You hear them everywhere. In the
more or less august city council
chamber, one councilman has been
heard to address another in this un-
c'.assical manner, "Aw, tie that bull
outside!', and the other councilman
has been heard to reply, ' How do
yeu get that way?" v
Judge Is Slangy.
A judge of the district court, used
to dismiss juries -for recess by re
marking to them:
' "You can go, chase yourselves for
about 10 minutes."
Where do slang expressions come
from?
Nobody knows. Nobody knows.
They sweep into being and wax
in popularity mysteriously. You can
no more explain it than you can ex
plain why a bean vine goes around
the bean pole from left to right in
stead of from right to left.
Live Short Lives.
And when the slag expression has
run its course it dies a death as
mysterious as was its birth.
A person who would say Ishka
bibble" nowadays would be marked
at once as decidedly behind the
times. Yet, only, two or three years
ago, everybody was saying "Ishka
bibble" or its English equivalent. "I
should worry."
. Today, if one 'would be in the
swim, he must employ the more
modish expressions, one of the "vou-tell-'em"
family, or "How Come?" or
"Where do you get that stuff?" all
creatures of mysterious birth and
existence.
Purists All Wrong.
Purists mourn what they are
pleased to call the decadence of the
language. But the purists are
wrong. They are blind to the fact
that many of our purest idioms
started out in life as slang.
They have their lowly birth, but,
by paying strict attention to busi
ness, doing their best day by day,
fitting themselves into the language
in a useful manner, they finally
gained a foothold in etymological
society and are admitted among the
aristocrats and come to be used by
Addison, Swift, Kipling and the
present writer.
Slang Old as Pyramids.
They had slang expressions iri an
cient Rome and before that.
But the dry-as-dust historians
have tried to cover them up and
clothe the sayings of great men in
solemn and stilted language.
They tell us that while J. Caesar
was being assassinated he gazed sad
ly at his friend, Brutus, who was
wielding a big knife, and murmured
meekly, "Et, tu, Brute.'
Now does that seem reasonable?
Not by a jugful I Caesar was a gaz
abo "full of pep, peperino, tobasco
sauce and barbed wire," as Rev. Bil
ly Sunday would say, and he wasn't
the kind of guy to die with any such
piffling expression. It Is extremely
prbbable that Caesar looked at Bru
tus and exclaimed:
"You big bum, I'll 'get' you for
this. I'll make your hair curl, you
double-crossing porch climber 1"
Nero Was Slang Artist
And Nerol Do you suppose that
wicked emperor merely played his
fiddle while Rome burned. No. He
probably remarked to Poppea:
"Some fire, eh, kid?"
And Poppea probably replied:
"I'll say sol"
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Wealthy Oakland Business
Man Loses Suit While
Sleeping In Pullman.
Oakland, Cal, Oct 9. Attired iu
pale lavender pajamas, wearing a
straw hat and carrying bamboo cane
in one hand and a collar and tie in
thj other, a passenger left the train
at the Sixteenth street station here,
dashed wildly through the station
out to a taxicab and was speeded1
away. Today the unconventional
traveler had been identified.
He was Julius Landsberger, the
wealthy president of the Hunt Bros.'
Canning company, and he was re
turning from a trip toExeter. Tulare
county, where he had been inspecting
on, of the company's plants. He
brought back a fine report, but noth
ing much else besides his pajamas.
rThj embarrassment of the bystand-
era in the station was equaled only
by his own;
Landsberger found that he was at
tireless when he woke up on the way
to Oakland. Hence the dash to the
taxicab. When he reported the theft
to the police on his way home he
had to remain in the taxicab while
the desk sergeant came out of the
station.
France Leading World in
v High Cost of living
Paris, Oct. 23. The cost of living
is higher in France than in any other
allied or neutral country, according
to the report of the council of the
league of nations prepared for the
Brussels financial conference.
The figure 100 is taken as the unit
cost before the war of necessities,
and the present cost is estimated as
follows:
Franc 339'England ..235
Italy SOO Holland 199
Norway 2t!i United Statea 198
Swltierland 237
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