Bisbee daily review., 1912-01-25
NEWEST PHRASE IS
 COINED BY BLACK CAUGHT IN B|SBEE
Splitting Blankets" Wei Expresses Separation
 of Property
BRIEF AND TO POINT

A new term, expressive though in elegant. has been coined to take the place Of the old Latin phrases used in petitions for divorce and petitions for alimony. The one to give public expression to the term is Nash Frank. lin. of Bisbee, the New York Ameri. can and the Los Angeles Examiner to the contrary notwithstanding. This term is "aplitting blankets" mean ing the same as "a decree Of divorce vinculo matrimonii."
 Comparison Of the two terms leaves nc hesitancy of choice as to which is the more expressive. Franklin's af. fair is the sensation Of the negro so. ciety clement in Bisbee. The phrase coiner was a bootblack on Brewery avenue until recently. and is remem bered for his witty reply in another court action in which he recently figured.
 Franklin was arrested yesterday morning, as he stepped of the train from Douglas, by City Marshal Bas- sett Watkins. that officer having been requested by Douglas officers to place Franklin under arrest, as he was wanted at Douglas on the charge Of making away with a portion of his affinity's wardrobe, or as FTaoklin expressed it, splitting blankets"
 Phrase is Explained
 As is well known, blankets come in pairs or rather it is a dorHle blanket. When man and woman reach stage Of such mutual inter. est that they become one, poetically speaking. the covering spoken of is considered as one piece. but the fact remains that there is enough of it to make two blankets by simply cutting it in two. The wool threads that hold the blanket together are the ties that bind.
 But when marital strife comes to mar a relation af affinity, the hor- rible fact that what seemed a single blanket is in fact two blankets, ca pable of being separated or split is a call to arms to the giooms The woolen threads become taut, and the first overt act splits" the blanket.
 Splitting blankets is a figuratiye expression only for it often hap pens that one or the other of the parties of the blanket agreement makes away with the entire blanket, and other things that can be grabbed in nasty exit. Splitting blankets sign fies, comprehends and symbo liZes the arbitrary scutting of the bark of welded bliss. a de facto di yorce a vinculo matrimonii Get the point?
 In petitions for divorce, the lan- guage, Did desert the bed and board Of the petitioner" is usea, and the crudeness of this becomes ap- parent when stacked up against splitting blankets" which is a bl.n- ket term covering-or uncoyerpg- the faults of an affinity arrangem ent.
 Considering the term in it's figuIH tive sense. Franklin is ch&Sed with getting more than his share of the blanket" lie is charged with mak. ing away wIt.1 the Douglas woman's s clothes. and 6 complaint has been filled against him in a Douglas court Officer Frank ClaTE arrived in the city yesterday afternoon, and took Franklin back ato Douglas to an swer to the charge.
 The unique term is fgurative, and ir is capable of further development at the hands of the poets. For in. stance:
 Two souls with but a single thought, X pair of blankets that serve as one.