The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-05-03
ORIGINS OF NAMES
INTERESTING TO TRACE PA.
TRoNYMlcS TO SOURCE.
Many Derived from Trades or Occu
4 pations-Towns and Sections of
Countries Have Been Respon.
sible for Some Others.

I There was Appropriateness in the
lLincoln celebration in Lincoln, Eng
land; for undoubtedly Father Abra-
| ham, was derived from some long
| forgotten man who left that city bear
ing some such name as George or Wat
| o Lincoln
London, York, Boston and Berlin OF
| Berliner appear as family names in
| the sane way Redfield and Oldtieid
are farm patronymics once used as the
names of Scottish farms are now for
their proprietors, Titles of nobility
similarly come from county like
Cumberland, a battle like Magdala
or town like Ragusa.
Occupation names like Smith
| tspelled in more than forty Ways
| Webster and Fletcher are the most
common they include some arts not
now practiced, as Lorimer, Balestier.
| Archer Others in this class had once
humber sound. as Howard (hog.
ward and Fitzpatrick tPadruigs ser
| yanD. And many are derived from
trade names in other languages than
English.
Gen. Baden Powell explained In a
Latin verse after Mafeking that his
name meant Ap-Joel; so Pughe is APP
Hugh. Family names made by an
added IS" are often Welsh. The
Welsh names Hughes Tor Huws), vii
liams, Johns and Edwards mean
HuGhson, Williamson, Johnson and
Edwardson, the English termination
being son the German "sohn" and
the Morse sen"
Emigration has supplied many
names. EIollander. Fleming. French
and Frank speak of national origin,
though the last may mean simply a
freeman, Other names of characteri,
cation are Shakespeare, Breakspear,
Armstrong Crook, Leonard dion
hearD and some few names of color.
as Black, when applied to a man of
dark complexion. like Roderigh Dhu
or BLACK Jack" Logan; but most OF
the early Greens. Whites and Browns
must have been so named for varying
reasons. /
Names of animals were too obvious !
70 be ommitted: Bernard, Fox. Palfrey |
Elephant is turned into proper name |
In Italy; why not in England? Coon |
is hardly ever II ever an animal name:
it may be cut down from Colquhoon or
some other longer spelling as d'Uber.
vile in lIardys Tess" was changed !
into "Darbyficld." Along our north |
ern border French Canadian names |
are spelled by sound with queer re-
suits, like "Layake' for lEYeque and !
"Fobare' for Faubert Napoleon A,
guessed that his name Buonararte !
came from the Greek Kaomeros, with
the same meaning of good part"
The Fishes, Birds, Becks. Brooks
and llollys show how names were
early given by observation Traced
to their source, indeed few names
have a less prosaic or fanciful origin
than the Indian Thunder Cloud on
Young Man .-..'h-a-Wart,
The Shy Child.
The first important step toward
helping Il child Of this kind is to give
Il'i SNii-NbIHuN tNtH IL you run
the risk Of making her vain and con.
ceitcd. She needs little wholesome
praise TO make her feel that her play.
mates will like her, Make her look as
attractive as possible, and tell her
that she is attractive; see that she is
trained In all the arts and eTaces that
will make her attractive; send her
to dancing school AS she gets older
see that she excels in games, In ath-
letics. In anything that vii! give her
confidence In herself when she asso.
ciates with her schoolmates II she |
is going away to school or college give
her lessons on the banjo and guitar
so that she can join the banjo and |
guitar clubs. II she has any talent of !
any kind by which she can entertain !
her friends help her to develop II. She |
must be taught to feel that she can !
help others to have good time and |
that consequently she is welcome |
among them. Once that feeling is |
established the battle Is won.-Har.
Derg RaZar