Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-20
NAMES OF women
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Joan Of Arc and Edith CaveII
Among Conspicuous Ex-
ampIes Cited.

Arc and Edith Cavell are written in
delibly upon the hearts Of people for
all ages. Generous and well deserved
tributes have been paid lastingly to
others, but so much have their names
become part of our daily lives that
many who frequently pronounce them
are unmindful of their significance.
cities, rivers, provinces and islands
pear the names of women of distinc-
tion." says bulletin from the Ma
tlonal Geographic Society.
Lady Franklin Island, near Baffin
Island, in the Arctic circle, is named
for the wife of Sir John Franklin, the
explorer, who lost his life in first
nnoing the northwest passage through
the great ice of the polar regions.
There is perhaps no more beautiful
story OF untring devotion and per
sistent effort than that Of Lady Jane
Franklin, who, after the failure of
many attempts, fitted out a ship
the definite proof of the loss of her
husbands expedition. established his
achievement of his object.
me picturesque stories of the lit
tie Indian princess Pocahontas always
will hold a loved place in the hearts
Iowa and West Virginia, villages in
Bond county. Ill, and Cape Girardeau
county, Mo-. and in the Rocky noun
tains in Alberta Canada, are named
for her. *-r
Queen Victoria Conspicuous.
Queen Victorias name is wrapped
around the British empire from the
capital of British Columbia, over the
heart of Africa at Victoria Nyanza
and Victoria Falls, and beyond into
the Queensland and Victoria in, far
away Australia.
America, too, in it's early days of
colonization paid its tribute to the
queens of the mother country and to
the gracious ladies who braved the
dangers of untried shores with their
lords. Elizabeth, a cape in Maine,
and Elizabeth City in Virginia, as
we'll as the state itself, together with
some twenty-five other places in the
United States, bear the name of the
clever, witty, versatile coquette, who
took the dissension-torn England and
whipped it into place as a world
power Elizabeth Carteret, tie charm
ing wife of one of the. .aristocratic
proprietors of New Jersey, shares
with Queen Elizabeth some of the
honors of the name. Elizabethtown,
in North Carolina, and Elizabeth City,
in New Jersey, are named for her.
, Memory of Clara Barton.
The name of Clara Barton is per-
petuated in Barton county, Kansas,
and the wife of George Washington,
who. before her first marriage, was
Martha cambridge, is honored in the
town Of cambridge, Tenn.
There wasn't any Martha of
Marthas Vineyard, however. The first
name is supposed to be a corruption
of Martin. friend of the discoverer
of ha ft.1o II
was added later eon account of the
wild grapes found on the island. Vine
land, the name which Lief Ericsson
gave the North American continent,
was suggested in a similar manner.
Maryland and Virginia are fairly
despatched with the names of the
queens and princesses of England, the
very state names themselves being
taken from that. of Queen Henrietta
Maria, the wife of Charles l, and the
disputably fortunate estate of Eliza
beth. Then, too, there are Annapolis,
England, and Anne Arundel and
Caroline counties, In Maryland. called
after the wives of two of the Calverts;
Fluvanna county and the North Anna
river in Virginia named for Queen
Anne: and Charlotte. Amelia and Caro-
home Of the University Of Virginia,
all called for the wives and daughters
of the English kings. =
Marietta, Ohio, was named for the
naughty. charming Marie Antoinette.
The Aleutian Islands, off the coast. of
Alaska, when that territory was Rus
sian, were known as the Catherine
Archipelago in honor of Catherine the
Great. Ekaterinburg was named for
the Russian Catherine who ruled
Russia through her husband, Peter
the Great.
Island Of st. Helena.
EST. Helena. the rugged little island
in the Pacific, which has such q sooth-
ing effect upon the restless tenden-
cies of autocrats, bears the name Of
the mother Of Constantine the Great
who, according to legend, discovered
the cross upon which Christ died dur
ing q visit she made to the Holy Land.
She was known in the early days of
Christianity for her religious zeal and
piety. Helena, Mont, though opinions
differ as to the origin of the name, is
said to have been SO called because
Of the resemblance Of it's location to
that Of St. Helena
THE naming of Hart county,, Ga,
is q generous tribute to a Dixie hero
inc of the revolution, Nancy Hart.
"Races do not scorn to boast that
their names were taken from those
of women. The Scots claim to be de-
scended from Scotia, a daughter of
Pharaoh. and the Saracens from
Sarah, the wife of Abraham.
Named by Munster King.
1.-THE harbor Beara, in Ireland, is
said to have been named by owen
More, King of Munster during the
reign of Conn of the Hundred Battles,
for his wife, a Spanish princess. No
saint perhaps holds dearer place in
the Irish heart than ST. tie. or Ide,
often called Brigid of Munster. and
we find her name in several variations
in the names of many churches and
places throughout that country.
"A charming little legend hovers
about the naming of Charing Cross,
the busy London station. At the spot
in 1891 Edward 1 erected one of the
thirteen crosses marking the route
followed by the funeral procession of
his wife, his 'chere reine.' from Not
tinghamshire to Westminster Abbey
For Street,