New Britain herald., 1925-02-24

or places:
 Lima beans, laconic, limerick,
 china. coffee, canaries, bauxito,
 savory. gasconadc, troy weight,
 ssal, cologne, bologna sausage,
 tangerine, derby, castle soap
 and astrakhan.
 Geography classes are doing
 this variation of crossword
 puzzles" by giving the approXi-
 mate latitude and longitude of
 places 10 be named.
 Washington, D. C., Feb. 23.-Can you name a scven-lettcr fabric from Cambrai?
 Or a flve-letter surgical dressing that took its name from a town in Palestine?
 Or q popular seven-lctter color named for a famous battle in Italy?
 The number of common words that had their origin in place names is surprising, says bulletin from the Washington, D. C.. headquarters of the National Geographic society.
 Calico traces its ancestry 10 Cali cut. madras to Madras, and cash mere to kashmir.
 Town Names For Textile
 "TeXtilcs haze the habit of ap. propriating town names for trade marks and the' very history of the art of making cloth can be followed along it's westward march by putting capitals to familiar terms and slight ly changing tho spellilgs. Silk takes it's label from old China--both terms having a common origin in Seres, 1he carly name for the people of China. Damask rightly reminds us of Damascus. although honor for the cloths creation goes to China. Eu- rope called it damask because Dam- ascus was the eastcrnmost city which they knew as it's source. In justice to Damascus it must be said her own looms later made the weave as perfectly as her steel-workcrs made damascene blades.
 Muslin still is woven in the cool. damp cellars of Mosul from long staple silky cotton of southern Meso- potama. F'ustian is heritage of Rome in Egypt. The 'fossatum, or walls, protecting an imperial legion on the Nile became the nucleus of Cairo and in the Fustat, or Old Cairo quarter, Arabian weavers created fustian. Names bear living testimony to Frances contribution to the textile art; cambric is the child of Cambrai, not long since focal point of the west front. Tulle, in central France made possible the gauzy cloud of beauty for many a modern creation, while gauge itself honors Gaza in Palestine; Arras, also on the western front, made wall hanging so well that civiiza- ton forgets to capitalize the "a; and gingham is said to relate to Guing- amp in Brittany although it may go back to a Malay term 'ging gang, meaning striped.
 Cows and Cloth of Jersey
 "Worsted barely manages to squeeze on the maps of Norfolk county, England, today, so little con- nection has it with the production Of thousands of yards of worsted. The Channel Island of Jersey is well advertised by it's cows, but who con- meets it with the jersey cloth that it originally made for stockings? Az minister in Devon admits it has made no rugs for more than one hundred years.
 These towns and places proudly boast their inventions but the way of inventors is hard-they often fail to get the credit. There is a noble Eird in America which graces our feasts annually, but because some one thought it was a native of the Near East we call it turkey. The guinea pig ought 10 be Guiana pig and about all panama hats sec or Panama is the canal. And finally there is Brussels carpet-it is almost painful to explode the myth, but Brussels maks no Brussels carpets. They were made in Wilton, England, another rug trademark, and took the title Brussels carpet because the designs initiated the famous Brus- sels tapestries.
 Names of Men and Rivers
 "A man achieves flames pinnacle, it has been said. when his name is incorporated into the language as a verb. The verb pasteurize' Is splendid wreath on Pasteur's grave. Few cities or countries give us verbs, although they have given hosts Of nouns and adjcctiyes. Sixty miles south of Smyrna. river empties into the Mediterranean after twist ing a 20O-mile tortuous course. Modern maps call it the Mendercs but once 1t was known as the Mean der, memorialized in the verb, to meander'. In 1500 when the classics of Greece and Rome were being saved 10 the wotld by the first mas ter printers. Aldus Manutis of Venice brought out an edition of FergiL dedicating it to the states of Italy. For this volume he created a new font of type. stimulating script. When we italicize today we use that font. A Chinese port serves to label practice in the verb shanghai.
 Make a better mousetrap, 1t is said. and the world will wear a path to your door. Names Of towns and countries in our language are trade r-arks of famous 'mousetraps'- Venice early adopted inc sentiment when better mousetraps are made, Venice will make them, and this city has given its name probably to more things than any other. There k tribute to it's craftsmen in the terms venetian glass, venetian sauce, venetian red. venetian ball, venetian blind. venetian carpet. venetian 1ta. -z.t,- fa favttlal venetian