Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-03-31
THE OLD TIME TUMBLERS.
The Way in Which Table Glasses Came
 to Have That Name.

10 Have That Name.
 How many times day do we use a word without stopping to think what it means? Every day at luncheon and at dinner we drink out of a tumbler. But l, for one, never thought why the large glass that holds our milk or water was so called until, once upon time, hap pened to have luncheon at All Souls college, Oxford. All Souls is a curious college. It has no students or ''under- graduates, as we call them in England It consists of a master and number of s'fellows' linen who have taken their degrees and have distinguished them selves as scholars. There Is quaint old rule in Latin, that says man to be a fel- low of All Souls must be s'Well born, well dressed, and a moderately good doc tor in singing. There is no question nowadays of singing! But of good breed ing and good scholarship there is And % be elected a fellow of All Souls is a great honor.
 One of the most distinguished fellows Is rroTessor MAX lIuIIer, tic 2, g.,ss TssI11o- gist, who, though he is a German by birth and was not educated at Oxford was elected to All Souls as a mark of respect for his immense learning. The ''common room" or the fellows smaller dining room, is a delightful old place with its great fireplace and it's walls all wainscoted with black oak. while through the great window with its heavy stone mullions you look out on to ancient ivy grown buildings round a quiet court which is filled with space of velvet turf On the day of which speak Professor Max Muller was giving a luncheon in this, splendid room to the charming and talented Princess Alice, the wife of tho grand duke of Hesse Darmstadt, and i second daughter of Queen Victoria. There were not a dozen guests besides the prin- cess and her husband, and very agree able luncheon we had, with pleasant talk on all kinds of interesting subjects
 But what excited the curiosity of all the strangers present was set of the most attractive little round bowls of ancient silver, about the size of large orange. They were brought round, ac- cording to the custom of the place, filled to the brim with the famous ale brewed in the college. These, we were told, were tumblers, and we were speedily shown how they came by their names a fitting lesson for the guests of a philolo- gistl When one of these little bowls was empty it was placed upon the table mouth downward. Instantly, so perfect was its balance, 1t flew back into its proper position, as if asking to be filled again. No matter how it was treated. Hundled along the floor, balanced carefully on its side, dropped sud- denly upon the soft, thick carpet, i up it rolled again and settled itself with a few gentle shakings and sayings into it's place, like one of those India rubber tunlbling dolls your baby brothers and sisters delight in. This, then, was the origin of our word tumbler, at first made of silver, as are these All Souls tumblers. Then, when glass be- fsear.----------;=:.ss+ss. s+s round glasses that stood on a fiat bsr5e-s-fa v4 -4-a quisitely balanced silver spheres and stole their names so successfully that you have to go to All Souls and @ few other old houses to see the real thing.
 So do words, with the wonderful life that is in them, change and grow and get fresh meanings, full of interest and teaching and delight to those who think about them.--Wide Awake.