WHY ARISTOCRACY IS BLUE-BLOODED
How many of you have wondered why it is that Royalty and nobility are referred to as being “blue-blooded: There are two reasons for this. One is that the term originally came from the Spanish phrase sangre azul—blue blood—a term applied to the aristocracy of Castile and Aragon. The other is that families who were unused for centuries to “roughing it in any way naturally developed fan' skins, through which the veins show blue; while families who have for many generations had ■to work hard through which the veins cannot be physically, develop coarse skin, seen. Billy : I fell out of bed last night. Mother : Poor old fellow I You must have slept too near where you got in. Billy : Not at all, Mother. 1 slept too close to where I fell out
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 17
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137WHY ARISTOCRACY IS BLUE-BLOODED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 81, 29 December 1934, Page 17
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