The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-01

Arabella is not Arabella, or beautiful
altar, but Grabilla, dying woman. In
its Anglicised form of Orabel it was
much more common in the thirteenth
century than at present. Maurice has
nothing to do with Mauritius, or Moor,
but comes from -himmel-reic
the kingdom of heaven. Ellen is the
feminine of Alain, Allan, Allan, and has
no possible connection with Helen,
which comes from different language,
and is older by about thousand years
at least. Amy isnot from aimee, but from
annie. Avice, or Avis, does not exactly
mean advice, as some seem to think. 1t
comes from ed wis, and means happy,
wisdom. Eliza has no connection with
Elizabeth. 1t is the sister of Louisa,
and both mean the daughters of Heloise,
which is Heelwis, another form of
Louisa, or rather Louise, which is the
feminine of Louis, but this was scarcely
heard of before the sixteenth century.
The older Heloise form of the name,
Alosia, or Aloysia, was adopted into
medieval English as Elesia-a name
which our old genealogists always con-
fuse with Alic. Emily and Amelia
are not different forms of one name.
Emily is from Emylia, the name of an
Etruscan gems. Amelia comes from the
Gothic amala-heavenly Reginald is
not derived from Regina, and has moth
ing to do with n Queen. 1t is Reinalt-
exalted purity. Alice, Adelias, Ade-
laide, Alisa, Alix, Adeline, are all forms
of one name, the root of which is adel-
noble. But Anne was never used as
identical with Annis or Agnes (of which
last the old Scotch Annas is Variety,
nor, as L sturdily maintain, was Eliza
beth ever synonymous with Isabel.
Women i'm Politics.
Shrewd lookers-on in Washington all
agree in the powerful influence of
women in politics, not at the ballot box,
but in the home; not by taking part
IN the fight, but by girding her hus-
bands armor, sharpening his weapons,
and Frightening his shield. Women
have more TO say in the counsels of poll
ticians than the world supposes, and
their influence is generally for good.
A party of gentlemen, whose familiar
ity with the occurrences behind the
scenes gives their opinions Importance,
were discussing this question the other
night, and agreed that Mrs. Logan, Mrs.
Hendricks, and Mrs. Hayes were per-
haps the most successful and influential
politicians that their sex had furnished
of late years, Mrs. Logan being conced-
ed the leader of the womanly triumvir-
ate. They all conceded her to be n tao
q Il l
done more for her husband by reason of
this than he could possibly have done
for himself. Surprise was expressed
that from a modest young country
woman this magnificent specimen of the
genus pOlitico had been evolved, as if
all the rich blossoming of our conserva-
tories were not tie outgrowth of modest
flowers of the wildwood.
Mrs. Hendricks was said nearly to
rival her III her remarkable powers, but
that their development was the result of
different cause. In her early married
days Mrs. Logan discovered herself to
be the wife of a man greatly ambitious
of political distinction, and, as a true
wife, whose being was merged into her
husbands in the broadcast, most genuine
y,
pulsation of her heart and brain was Mt
once devoted to the one purpose of max
ing his ruling passion a success, because
to do SO was TO afford him the chief graf
itication of his life.
With Mrs. Hendricks the reverse is
the case. 1t was she, not he, who had
the craving for place and power, the
slumbering passion, perhaps undreamed
of before, blazing into life and burning
with a steady, Overmastering flame on
finding herself the wife of man of
marked ability. And he became her
helper, reluctantly it may be, for, if left
to his own desires, a leading position in
the profession to which his taste inclined
and for which his talents so eminently
fitted him, would, doubtless, have filled
the full measure of his ambition.
1t was she who had urged him for
ward, sometimes leading, and it may be
at times even pushing, when, with the
posed to, he drew back from the devious
by-paths, the mud splashing, the rude
iolts, the notifying bruises, the sharp
gashes which mark the highway to po-
litical preferment, but which, with her
eye fixed on the much-coveted goal be-
yond, were of less Importance than the
dust atoms on the hem of her skirt. 1t
was her tact and sagacity that secured
Senator McDonald's pledge to her hus-
bands candidacy in the Cincinnati Con-
vention, thus causing the good-hearted
Senator to lose the tide that, taken at
its flood" might have borne him to the
Presidency Washington Cor. Chicago
Inter ocean.