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Zurich Herald, 1924-10-23, Page 7For COFFEE ,l ...particular eo w .e Roasted and packed same C4 44' day in airtight, cans Surnames and Their Origin KENIPSON, • Verietlons—Kemp, Camp. Racial OrIgIn—Engileh. Bouroe—An Occupation. Here is a group of family names the origin of which could not be reccrg aized without reference to spine .come pilatton;of English words in use about the time the Norman overlords of Eng- land ceased to use French as their. cominon tongue, and the Anglo-Saxon speech, after two centuries or more of depression and change, emerged and, under the influence of Norman pro- nunciation, formed the foundation of our modern English, "Kemp" Was a medieval English word for "soldier." "Walter le Kemp" was simply" Walter the soldier," and "Ramo Kempson" was "Hamo the sol•' dier's son." The form Camp is in most instances due simply to a natural change in pronunciation occurring re- gularly in many English words in cer- tain parts of that Country and refleat- ed.in the changed spelling. We have instances- of similar "Derby." changes in theword Der g by On this Continent we pronounce it as spelled. In England they call it "Darby." As. often as not the reverse change in pronunciation has taken plaoe in the course of centuries. Thus the name of that famous street in London, Pall Mall, is pronounced "pall mell." There is no telling 'how often since the word. "kemp" was in common use. Families bearing it as a surname have changed the pronunciation back and forth between '"kenip" and "Camp" through succeeding generations. But the changes in spelling have been more rare, as they always are. OYER. Variation—Lister, Racial Origin—English. Source --Ah occupation, The faamily name of Dyer J. . Butte recognizable by the modern English- espeaker as having developed from a word denoting an occupation. That is because in this ease both the word de- noting the occupation and the name have changed similarly from the orig- inal form, and have not, as in many cases, drifted apart. Nevertheless the original word would be unrecognizable. to the average pereon to -day. In the Middle Ages it was spelled "Deghere" or "Digbstere," But if you will soften that pronunciation of the "gh" to a barely audible buttural, as it was pronounced then, you'll find it very easy to slip It a bit further to a "y:' sound. And that is precisely the manner in which common speech, over the period of several centuries which have elapsed since the formation of family names began, has softened it into "Dyer," together with the broad- ening of the short "1" or indefinite "e" into the modern Engiish long "i. "Lit" was another old English word which meant "dye." In a medieval manuscript there occurs the following passage: "We use no alathis that are littede of • dyverlse eolloures" (We use no clothes that are dyed in diverse colors). The "luster" or the `lister" was simply a dyer. Originally either of these words were used, but in the course of time the pronunciation of the latter has prevailed as coming more smoothly from the tongue. It has been preserved as a family name, but as an ordinary word it has passed out of use. Make the 'Fair -Ground Work All the Year. The average country fair -ground is a fair -ground and nothing else, serv- ing the public only during fair week. The rest of the year it is wholly idle and deserted and sometimes even un- sightly, Yet the fair -ground, is often a pretty natural park with trees and is generally very ;:accessible to both; town and country people. If natural picnicing and play places are hard to find, as often is thecase in prairie country, why not then make ,a recrea- tion centre of the fair -ground? This was the idea that came to the Fair Association of a county in Iowa. The grounds are within the city limits of •West 'Union and on the main -tra- veled road from country ire town, There is a natural grove of oaks on the area and a bright creek meanders through' it. No other body of water is near. The Fair Association laid the mat- ter of making a playground of the fair park before the public and found prompt willingness to co-operate, and open pocketbooks offered to carry out the plan. Playground equipment was . bought and set up. Picnickers were invited to make free use of the grounds. Then last summer a swim ruing pool was added. It was accom- plished in the the simplest of ways. The creek runs along one side of the fair -grounds and makes a bend down the other side. Water was taken from the creek and carried through tiling to the swimming pool. From the lower end of the artificial pond the water flowed out into other tiling and back into the creek. This gave running water, malting the bathing place pure Mothers Who 1VIede Hinter,• Probably the .most famous Of 011 "emtitberq" iii Mother Hubbard, •Chip s>!ld lady Whose time seems .to ha.ve. besR• te,}cen up , i i attnding to the want#; . w'iebes, and antios of her equally fa - mons dog. Although this animal ;nust have been very tryl ig, Mother Haile bard never appears to hRve lost her. temper for a "limen:, for the lengthy nurses -3" rhyme ends` with a chinning Coup'1et;-�. The dame made a curtsy, the dog made a bow, The. dame said "Your • servant," the dog said "Bow -wow," Which ie usually what a dog does say! Another famous "mother" is Mother Goole, Unlike` Mather Hubbard, Hae was e. real person, and under her name an enormous amount of eland-Utara- ture has been published, of 'whish she is responsible for only a small „poi - tion. por-titan. Her daughter married Thomas Fleet, a famous American printer, ana. they had a little son. • The grandmoth- er weed to "make rhymes and . sing them to this, little fellow, and her son- in-law printed them as "Mother. Goose's Nursery Rhymes." Mather Carey is an -English way of saying Mater Cara, and she is,'famous for her "chickens," which are the sea birds known to sailors 'as stormy pet- rels, because they always seem ,to scream around ships during a storm. Mother Carers geese are the great black petrels or fulmars seen in the Pacific, and the saying has arisen that when snow falls Mother .Carey " is plucking her geese. Mother Shipton is another famous "mother." She lived in, the reign of Henry VIIL, and, as everybody knows; is famous for her propheoiee. In a vague wayhe foretold the age of avia- tion, steam, and petrol, as well as the death of Cardinal Wolsey. SAVED BABY'S LIFE Mrs, Alfred Trancheenontagne, St, Michel des Salutes, Que., writes:- "Baby's Own Tablets are an excellent medicine. They saved my baby's life and I can highly recommend them to all mothers." Mrs. Tranchemoa- tagne's experience is that of thousands of other mothers who_ have tested, the• worth of Baby's Own Tablets. The Tablets are a sure and safe medicine.; for little ones and never fail to _regu late the bowels and stomach, thus re- and sanitary. The pool is 40 X 150 sieving all the minor ills from which feet, with sloping bottom, and cost children suffer. They are sold by meds about $2,600. cine dealers or by mail at 25.ets. a box Through the summer the pool was from The Dr. Williams' Medicine *00., the most popular place in town, and Brockville, Ont. summer evenings the fair -ground was -..t. the gathering place of town and coun- try folks. The grass hue' been kept mowed and the place given generally - Smith was. a freshman, • older than the same care as a regular 'park.- most of his .cla+tv. He ween tall, lanky. F. L. O. and slow. His mind, like his body, Very Shy. "The bride was -very shy_ yea, she was shy about ten years when it came to giving her age!" His Careless Ways. "When you found you hadn't your fare did the conductor make you get off and walk?" asked the inquisitive man. "Only get off," was the sad reply, "He didn't seem to care whether I walked or sat down.". OEM Starfish to the number of thousands attacked a German swimmer who was attempting to cross the Frisian Sea. The creatures stung him so severely that he had to relinquish his attempt after many fruitless efforts to beat off his assailants. , The,3°-ipire"..• idle '—the preparkkarivliic l<ii ivaffili 'eotifidenco; o very C untry under the p!ltish, Flag=tile remedy ' 'bleb hat brought health attd happiness to millions', of n a id! won ei it `everyIart of �the Empire- -`• #ha treatment which is•'resorted,,to �eve-rywh�hei e—• tor, , ailments :sucia ' ag Sick Headache; Biliousness; 'Indigestion and, Constiptition often \considered' insignificant; yeti`decidedly, inconvenient—ailments1 which have their origin in dyspeptic condition' oft the atOnnach and'_torpid.. aetioit,.':ot-iho.liva 4 9i1 41. WORK WORN PEOPLE ! . C ornp ns til g vision. The miniaster'e ear had stopped at Italia ,big country plane a few miles .out Find Renewed Health by • inv. cf the city. do the maid 004:04 the Idoer a ,pleaadl;lt voice' 'called, "Conte right in, Dr, Forsythe. I've been heti- If you feel run down, It neons that ing .that you Would get out to see p e Tour blood fes thin and watery, that before winter set in," your vitality tat low, 'Sour ;feet are Re found the owner of lite voice re• easily °allied, You do not sleep well wining in her big ehair by Cho Window Wit and you are tired when you ilea in the open letter in her hand,. She turned to ,;mile at him as be advanced, morning, You find no pleasure in your „ meals and ` are listless and diepirited "I've thought of you often since the• at your work. You Have no energy to' cool weather set in," he laegan. "I enjoy yourself. meant to call sooner, but our special of men are run down by ' meetings• and one thing or another de- Thousandsanxietfea of work. Thousands of WO - men are broken down by their house- find It rather cheerless when you had hold toil, with tired limbs and aching to go indoors. I know how you loved 1 Proving Their Blood. the big backs; thousands of girls are pale, „ ,sunny Poici. I listless and without attraction. It aII Well, do you know, Dr. Forsythe, .11 means the same thing --thin and am beginning to think it a good thing water blood vitality run down, attic- to be an lnvalitl,; it gives` us such a' I y , mils poor appetite, , palpitating heartgood chance to find °odnpensations all short breath. ,about us. I did dread the thought of Do not submit to this. Get new the fall and. winter. I knew how much } blood and with it new vitality. There I should miss the flowers and the is no difficulty in doing this. Dr. Wil - that But," she added brightly, "now liars' Pink Pills build up and enrich' that the foliage is gone i find that I the blood, which brings with it new l °$n see a great deal farther and live ' health and vitality: The man, woman ' in a much larger world than I could or, girl who takes Dr. Williams' Pink before. 'Pills is never run down; Their friends 1 No; dont stop me, doctor," she notice how energetic they are, what a'Iadded hurriedly as she saw him about fine appetite they have, and how much' to speak. "I—I—moat finish. I know theyenjoy life 1 what a poor kind of Christian you You ban get these pills through any must have thought me to be right of dealer in medicine, or by mail at 50 ter my accident --so bitten and cam - snaffling My life had always been so Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. full, and I was always so busy. There were so many things to do 6,nd 0 cents a box from The Dr. Wiliianis' Finis. Everything I loved was right at my Give me a day with its sun in the west elbow—friends, money, health,'—her And see what it has to say; voice faltered a little,-•-amy life was Give me the year as it neareth its rest, full—too .full, I think. In the glow of an autumn day. Give me a life, where the path is un- rolled, To the shore of God's limitless sea; For the end is the test, and the tale that is told, Be it written in grayness or elver or gold, Is. the tale of Eternity. many pleasures to keep me occupied. "But now that the doctor says I may never walk again I'm beginning to live in a much larger world. Before it was like looking out of this window in summer—all flowers and trees. They filled my view so completely I oouldn't .see very far. Now I'm seeing more than I ever saw before in my life. I am finding a lot of folks to —Marian Alden. help and pray for that once on a time were so far beyond my horizon I didn't even know they existed. I've just re- ceived a letter from one of them this morning"—she smiled ae she touched the envelope on the table beside her,— "and it's brightened •the' whole day for me. No. I don't mind It a lift that the leaves are gone. Every season hes its oompensationa." "It has," returned the minister heartily, "tor those who look to God and honestly try to do his will." The Memory Quilt. In the folds • of this old quilt There's a warmth of love that lingers Like the touch of tender fingers. Temporary Repairs. Mrs. Pester -"Do you think this, face worked slowly, and the nervous proal clay does my complexion any good? feasor in mathematics, after a long and. Her Husband- -"Oh yes, a little. careful explanation; was wont tows l'` While •you. lave the mud on int cover,. • 9Vei1, 'Smith, if you will up the defeets." go over. ' that explanation carefully and meds - tate on it, I think you will understood: The'safe way to send money by mail ' Meditate,' Smith, meditate." is ee Dominion Express Money Order, So Smith became "Meditate" Smith 'Poria newspapers, which have run to his fellow students. regular "street accident" columns for One evening a party of students years, have now extended this to rail - number, and Smith was one of them. way accidents, which are of daily oc- The meeting was for fun and perhaps mischief, and such a meeting was an infringement of. rules. When the jollity was at its height. a warning came that the professor was coming to investigate. The room was cleared at once, Smith as usual was the last, and, hearing steps ap- proaching, he crawled under the bed, seeing no other way of escape. Here he sat doubled up .like a jackknife awaiting the event with no little ap- prehension. The professor entered, looked about him, sew that the .room was empty, then turned to depart. As he closed the door, a thought seemed to strike° him;; he re-entered the room and look- ed under the bed. "Hey, Smith, what are you doing there?" he cried. Smith turned his head with difficulty. "Meditating, professor." The professor withdrew. All He Wanted. Through the doorway of the mil- liner's shop walked a smartly -dressed man who approached the manager, and said: "I see you have a sign in your win dow reading: 'We will gladly remove any stat from the wi;idow.' •" "That is correct, sir," Acid the man- ager, with a beaming, expectant smile, "Very well," went on the visitor,: "would you'object to 'bringing out that large hat in the middle of the window? •I mean the one with the purple ribbon and pink feathers." "Not at all, sir, -not at all," the man- ager aeeured him; andhastened to comply.' "Thank you so much," exclaimed the visitor, when the manager once more approached, hat In hand, "I don't think I could have borne walking past your shop for a singie-day mare with that thing' staring 'at me,"• Washet Ambitious, Irene was being shown off by her another. • "We aro very proud of our little girl," said her mother to the visitor. "We are going to send her to school. in the autumn, where she will learn, obs such a let, and be a bright and in- telligent child." "But I don't want to be bright and intelligent," said ,Irene, "1 want to be just like mummy!" Minard's liniment Relieve* Pall currence on the various railroad sys- tems throughout France. Mi-ard's Liniment for Rheumatism. The water in which rice has been boiled'is an effective remover of iron rust from materials. Soak the rust spots in the rice water for four or five hours, and then rinse in clean water. Beauty culture is now being taken in hand at an early age. The noses, ears, and hair of infants can be im- proved by a little care and treatment on the part of the mother or nurse. Visitors to Wembley, up to August 4th, averaged 101,700 a day. At this rate, about 18,000,000 people will see the Exhibition before it closes at the end of October. In its fading squares I see My mother sitting patiently Sewing by the window, where The waning afternoon's dine light May serve her failing sight, And the glow of, sunset sky Guide her thread though the needle's eye. She colied this quilt a memoy Every -- Every cherished bit of cloth, Remembrance hallowed it; Every patch recalled a face A time, a circumstance, a place. Sa she lived again the years, But now their hopes, their fears, Their song and sorrow, smiles and tears, Only a mellow sweetness brieg, Without regret, without a sting. She had no gift of tongue or pen To charm the dead- to Iife again, But she has made thie quilt to be Her history. A goodly book! 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The expectant mother is wise if alter considers carefully this statement of Mrs. Westwood, It is butone of a great many, all telling the same story— bene - finial results. Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Corn - pound is especially adapted for use rlur- ingthis period. The experience of other yore" who bave found this medicine a blessing is proof of its great merit. Why not try it now yourself? 0 ISSUE trio. 42----'24«