Keep up with the Joneses (1894?, 1913)

[Laurence Horn]

At 1:31 AM -0500 3/29/04, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>KEEP UP WITH THE JONESES
>
>    Gregory Titelman writes: "The precise origin of this saying is
>unknown, but in 1913 Arthur R. ("Pop") Momand

obviously the source of the "Mom and Pop store"...

LH

>adopted it as the title for a series of cartoons published in the
>New York _Globe_ and other papers."