New-York tribune., 1908-11-22

essary and aiulIess casting about Of uncertain
limbs and persons which Is so commonly TO be
seen IN the shiftess, undrtled majority OF youths
belonging 10 the same class at home, The az
ference between movements habituaIly trained
to carry out definite purposes and those IN
trained IS greater than one can realize witnouI
the opportunity Of watching results IN workers
OF both systems, OF rather II those OF system
and Of absence Of system.
It was impossible not TO think with g pang
Of those groups OF weakly, narrow chested youths
at home who hang about the streets after Work
gait ungainly and siunless in their movements.
whether at work or at ease and OF their round
shouIdered. STOPPING elders who form SO ssQ!y
large a proportion of any industrial CROWD N
our country. Even their clothes showed Tar
higher standard Of neatness and that attention
10 the person in small things Whlcn means SO
much a truism too often ostentauousIy neg
lected by others well as by workingInen IN
England In German workshops, as indeed N
most Continental countries, the men wear long
washing blouses or overaIls 10 cover their neat
garments during working hours; taey are TO
moved at closing time. and the wearers are thus
able 10 walk away from the works with tnelr
clothes free from all signs Of soil or dust WhlIe
each man, be II noted wore whjte co5ar aIla
looked as neat and trim as his English conraoes
anDear on Sundays and holidays.-Mrs. Henry
Birchenough. in The Nineteenth Century
ORIGINS OF BIRD NAMES.
T has been left for the Americans. perhaps.
10 achieve the greatest triumph in the way OF
bird naming, according 10 the note OF Ihe O-IU
as II strikes the human ear The "WfAp-poor-
[Z-iTl'' is a better suggestion in words OF birds
can than any other that know, aid II carries
too, as we think Of the suffering OF WIN, the
unfortunate whipping boy'' Just that sueges-
ton of pathos and also Of Quaintness which the
birds note carries All that subtle KIND OF sus-
gestion helps the name Immensely; put ,I At IL.e
same time the three rather absurd nlohosy4Id-
bIes do give a wonderful imitation OF the aVlne
call The -whip-poor-wilI IS a very near
cousin Of our own might jar" as We ca44 MN
sore+iunes with better significance than that
Of his alternative name, based on haolt Whlch
never was his, Of goat sucker" No DOUBT the
-g.-L-- ge g~-% dor
the birds note which Is generally written
'chur" and Perhaps this could not easily be I'M
a@Yaf7e" is distinctly good local name Of the
loud laughing bird, the green woodpecker. He
does not precisely appear TO say "yafne' but
the word carries q vague suggestion Of MS notes
sor1ud 'ryVoodpecker" OF course gives his most
striking habit IT'S right place.
Whether ''jay' is a name derived from the
bfrd's note I hardly know but 7 should guess II
TO be so, In whatever language II had It's origin
az first The cOrvines are rather apt TO take
their names from their hoarse voices. ~ JACK
daw IS, obviously, the daw that says JACK
and "daw," again, is doubtless from his call, so
that he Is also the Jack that says "daw." The
fact that two words spelt so differently can both
The biggest Of the whole corvtne family, chief
OF the tribe he might be called, the raven,
no doubt derives his name from a Scandinavian
source as Il IS rather proper he should, seeing
that he IS bird Of the North and ensign
which was adopted by some OF the Norsemen
especiaiIy when they went e-viktng; and the
nearer you come 10 the Scandinavian way OF
saving the name. the more cultural raucous-
ness you give, the closer you arrive at a repro
duction OF the birds croak "Rook," similarly
pronounced seems quite Ike the call Of that
t,iaclx rohber as the more stereotyped cav or
the crow" which gives the name TO his nearest
cousin Tracs that back 20 'corvus." II you
please and you have the nursery "caw" again.
7 hardly know where we get the mag from IN
the compound ''tnagpie"-probabIy It is just a
niece of friendly fanliarity-but the pie Of
this motley bird is one OF the names which
Jumps 20 the eye that II cannot possibly be
ssed-Horace G. Hutchinson. in Cornhill.