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Zurich Herald, 1926-05-06, Page 6WHAT'S IN A NAME? By signer Moore Fryberger Do you know how your own name originated? leo you know the origin of the name of your town, country, pro- vince, elder risers, lakes, mouutalus, etc.? Tracing the source of names is ane of the most pleasant diversions, and adds much to one's knowledge. The thought may be turned into almost any channel --geographic, historic, selen- tific, social or religious, by faking lead - Mg noun's. Let us take au excursion into the musical fields where we find the or - Chest= and learn how the various in- Struments came to have their particu- lar names. Most of these musical names may be traced to the Greek or Latin words which refer to the shape, or size, or the character of sound made by the instrument. Some names may seem far-fetched in their present-day application, but the majority are suit- ably named. Violin is from old. French, viole, which came from the Latin vitula, meaning to keep holiday, or make a sacrifice; this in turn came from the Latin Vitulua, meaning a salt which was sacrificed. The idea of a pleas- ant holiday being associated with the violin is not remote, but the calf which was sacrifloed to make the holiday harkens back to the ancients. Violoncello, meaning a small -sized Tess a taw>. x.�`:>s""•a ? et• MINER SOL,V ES PROBLEM The crow succumbs to the..wiles of the famous Canadiannaturalist. He is now using this new net at Kingsville, Ont, to catch the birds. On the flrst,day it was put into use, 510 were gathered in. Photo. shows Jack Miner In the net, tommumumworroorwolaneer A The Things I Love. butterfly dancing in the sunlight, A bird singing to his mate, The whispering pines, The restless sea, bassv iol, is usually abbreviated to The gigantic mountains, 'cello. In its pronunciation (chel-o) IA stately tree, one is reminded that the word is Ital- ian and that "ce" i= sounded like "che." Piccolo if from plc, meaning little, and refers to a tittle flute. The same A woman with her smiling babe, idea is found in piccaninny., a little IA man whose eyes are kind and wise, negro, andin picayune, a little coin. I Youth that is eager and unafraid— Flute is from the Latin fiatas. mean- When all is said, I do love best A little home where Love abides, And where there's kindness, peaee and rest. —Scottie McKenzie Frasier, in "Things That Are Mine." The rain upon the roof, The sun at early dawn, A boy with rod and hoof* The babble of a shady brook, ing to blow; this became Haute In the old French, and the present name has very close resemblance. Interesting Origin. Oboe has one of the most interest- ing antecedents, being the pronuncia- tion of the French word, hautbois, This latter word means haut (high) and bols (wood), signifying, of.course, a high sound made ou a wooden in- strument. The word haughty (high feelings) comes from the same origin, Bois comes from the Latin word mean- ing a bush. Clarinet is from the French, mean- ing a small bell, which was derived from the Latin word Glarus, meaning, clear. We say, "clear as a bell"; we may also say, "clear as a clarinet." Bassoon is from the French Bast; which comes from the Latin bassos, meaning low, and refers to the low sound of the instrument—the lowest, in fact, of the woodwinds. Trumpet, Trombone and Tuba all conte from the Latin tube, which des Bribes the ehape of the instruments and the principle,of their sounds. Cornet refers to the shape and his- tory, being from the Latin cornu, meaning a horn. The early horns were made from the horns of animals, and the metal instruments merely modified the shape. The word ennui- i Steverso n on Child 'i'raaning. copia (a horn of plenty), and the French cornetts (a standard) cause Gay, light-hearted and debonair from the same Latin word. though Robert Louis Stevenson was Castanet has been changed very lit_ during most of his life, he held views tie from the Latin castanea, meaning' on the training of children that, com- chestnut, and r•es,emblance in shape of the little rhythmical instrument to this favorite nut of the Haitians. Noisy Chimes, { a7 Ouch! "Jack is certainly a nice fellow, but ain't he dumb?" "I don't know, he don't go with me • as much as, he goes with you." ing from him:, seem astonishingly se- vere. Mr. Lloyd Osbourne, his step- •s,on, writing in Scribner's Magazine, describes a conversation that occur - ed when he and Stevenson, then thirty - Gong. The world Gong is IdenicaI i two years old and in poor health, were with the Malay word for this noisy I sojourning at Davos in the Swiss Alps. sound, and is of Chinese origin. In China, the various kinds of gongs form the basis of musical beauty. Tambourine. A Tambourine has the principle of the drum, and the word ie from the Arabian tambour, signifying a drum. This instrument is favored above all others in music of the Arab, and was introduced into Spain by the Moors, It is now most commonly as- sociated with Spanish music. Celesta comes from the Latin coe- luni, heaven, hence refers to some- thing high and beautiful and clear as the sky --the old idea of heaven The One conversation I heard him have with a visitor at the chalet, says Mr. Osbourne, iinpress•ed me deeply. The visitor was a fussy, officious person, who after many preambles ventured to criticize Stevenson for the way he was - bringing me up, R. L. S., who was the most reasonable of men in an argu- ment, and almost over -ready to 'admit any points, against himself, surprised Hie by his unshaken stand, "Of course I let him read anything he wants," he said, "And if he hears things you say he shouldn't, I am glad of it. A child should early gain some tones of this modern orchestral piece I perception of what the world is really are made by tiny bells which aright • like --its bas•euess,,.its treacheries, its be described as celestial, or heavenly, I'thinly veneered brutalities; Ise should in character. !learn to judge people and. discount Xylophone is from two Greek' human frailty and weakness and be int words, xylon (wood) and phone i some degree prepartd and armed for (sound), The first. two letters are' taking his part later in the battle of pronounced zigh (as in sigh), life. I have no patience with this fairy - Triangle comes from the Greek tri, tale training that. makes, ignorance a meaning three, and angle., :vhich is eie virtue. That was how I was brought Anglo-Saxon for point. The latter up, and no one will ever know except could also come from the Latin word I myself the bitter misery it cost me,;,' angle, meaning a corner. A triangle; has three points•, or -corners. Bells are from the Anglo-Saxon r Upset His Calculations. meaning to bellow, or sound. One! 1 -lis arnis were stretehe-d dut in front would like to associate the French i of hen, parallel to each other, and he belie, meaning beautiful, but the die- ' kept them in that bosstion. tiamiey, will not permit. Whenever he carne to a group of pert- , pie standing talking io each other, and thus barring his progress, he stepped Where is Here? I quickly into the road In that fashion he bad elniost traversed the length A crew of French-Canadians were of the :erect, when a man dashed out rafting logs on Lake •Ch•arplein. nark- from •a shop ane collided with him. nese overtook them and they had to tie the raft ep for the night. While they were Weep a big wind came up. The Haft broke loose and was drifting, when• Pete, Mee of. the .erase, awoke and and measure the. widths of that dear saw what had happened. • all aver agaiitI" "Hey. Joel, Joe Lego!" he callers to r - :the bossy - Joe rolled over and grumbled, "What Poland's greatest composer, Chopin, you wake me fetter' was born February 22, 18I.0, at Zelas Pete ---"We are scot here, no more, rows, 1>rirla Zoe," Ai edueaition and all metal. disc{- .loo• -•-"Where are wo?" One should haveebut one object,—to Pete --"ren 211910 below," Make altruism predominant over e roti" .Joe•.•-"P11cn tie 'Cr up. "Really, I'm dreadfully sorry!" he apologised. "I should think you are!" returned the other. "Now I shall have to go HUSBANDS LIVE 1HE LONGEST Dr. Eugene L. Fisk, the medical di- without the risk of damaging his men - rector of the would -famous Life Ex- tal machinery. tension Institute, of,, New . York, de- "A. certain amount of strain and re - clams that the death -rate of single spons•ibility is necessary for the good health of the mind. Those who do not have it become apathetic and mentally degenerate, sometimes fading away, simply because they have not enough interest in the world . to keep them Alive. The world, however, for years has, heaped unnecessary pity on the head of the unmarried woman, continues •Dr. Fisk, "The truth of the matter is that the men over thirty years is more than double that of married Hien of the same age. The findings of Professor Walter F. Wilcox, of Cornell .University, have also shown that the death -rate of mar- ried Hien between thirty and -thirty- nine is 5.9, while that for bachelors is 12.9. Bachelors from fo::ty -to forty-nine die off at the rate of 19.5, while the The Correct Solution. The swallow 11ew like lightning over the green - - And through the gate-bars—a Land's breadth between; He hurled • his blackness at that chink and won, • The problem scarcely rose and it was done. The spider, ohanoe=confrouted with starvation, Took up another airy situation; His wor-sing legs, as it appeared to me, Has nrastered practical- geometry. The old`' dog dreaming in his frowsy „cash married net's figure is only 9.5. The spinster adapts herself to single life Enjoyed alis rest and did; not drop his married man, according to the same with a readiness that should excite task; • . envy from her bachelor brother. The spinster, I find, up to the age of forty- five, has a mortality rate lower than that of the married woman; during later life her rate is higher, but even then the difference is slight. Advice to Widows. - "Most spinsters have the knack of making snug little homes for them- selves, with good cooking in addition. "The mortality among widows, how- ever, is appalling, and from the stand- point of the statistics, the best thing that a widow can ,do is to marry again as soon as possible. _. "The high death -rate among widows is readily understood when we con- sider how frequently they are left with tremendous responsibilities -and with .the necessity of facing a severe life struggle. "Widowers also elle with great deter- mination and despatch, thus proving what happens when the nagging wo- man is absent." Dr. Fisk believes that, although some men feel obliged to stay single in order to devote themselves whole- heartedly to science or art, there is, nevertheless, no career in the world that could not be helped by the right kind of wife• findings, even at the ripe age' of from seventy to seventy-nine, still has a not- able advantage iu the vital statistics. Dr. Fisk, in his analysis of the com- parative death -rates, points out that in the first place most bachelors repre- sent "rejected goods" on the matri- monial market. The class - includes the mental, physical and financial crip- ples. Another reason wby bachelors are such relatively bad risks, ,continues Dr. Risk, is that they are without that great conserver of health -a nagging wife. "It is small wonder that bachel- ors die off twice as rapidly as their more 'carefully ivatehed and guarded brethren," says the medical director. "Most bachelors, again, live on res- turant or boarding-house food, whielrl, is not to be compared with the -home product. "It is not only such caterial things as untended colds or poor food that send bachelors to early graves. Many of thew die of small ailments because they have lost the will to live --be cause they have no interests vital or vivid enough to keep them bound to the humdrum wheel of daily existence. "A man cannot repress anything as important as the parental instinct Puccini as Hard -Up Bohemian. Poverty is a common lot among musicians, and disagreeable land- ladies are not unknown, Not every composer knows how to thwart their d•esigus, however, as did Puccini, who, with :his 'brother and cousin, lived at one time in a single room where they were not allowed to do any cooking.. The way they saved the cost. of eat- ing at a restaurant was by smuggling food from a distant suburb into the room, and then some little time before dinner Puccini would begin to prac- tis-e ou the piano. Starting with sim- ple pieces that were not too loud, he gradually got to more elaborate and noisy works, and at last improvised in a way that to -clay would satisfy tie de- mands for noise of the most ultra- modern of his- successes. Meanwhile, his fellow lodgers went about their work as quietly as possible, and as the noise of the cooking increased, so did the piano, a quiet pas -sage on .the gas stove being hidden by a comparatively quiet one on the piano, :so that the variations in tone mislead the laud - lady •and she did not suspect that her rules were being broken. He knew the ,person of no fixed abode" And challenged' as he shuffled down the road, Such creatures, which (Burton and: I agree) - Lack almost every human faculty, Worked out the question set with sat- isfaction And promptly took the necessary ac- tion. At this successful sangfroid, I, em- ployed On "Who Wrote Shakespeare?" right- ly ightly felt annoyed, And seeing an evening -primrose :by the fence - Beheaded it for blooming insolence. -E. Biunden. Thistle Saved Scotland. Since early times the thistle has been` the flower of Scotland the em- blenim being accompanied 'with the mot- to—"No one wounds me with im= punity." The reason is that a,thistle once saved Scotland. One of the military rules of the an- cient Danes was that it was cowardly to attack an enemy during the night, and because of this the Scots did not have night watches during- their war with the Dan -es, sunset being supposed to mark the close of the day's hostili- ties. One night the Danes deviated from their rule and taking off their shoes, softly sneaked unobserved toward the 'Scottish stronghold. All went well un- til one of the warriors put his tender 'foot firmly upon a thumping big and 'strong thistle. He let out a yell, the alarm was given, the Scots fell upon the invaders and defeated them with terrific slaughter, so to -day the Scots 'revere the thistle. --- . ADAMSON'S ADVENTURES I'r1 TikKiItG ?Mir IN A 5iidtJ Cgt1Gp "(2AvI P ANP Gail -rfi" I'M GOLIATH i e.r,,ii gyne a rcst Are .You Living? 11sould rattier be a helper, a lifter GC human beings ---i - would rather have Che satisfaction of giving others a 11ft,i . of eecourtiging those NV 110 are down -1 and -out, of . lending, a hand to. those, who havebeeir unfortunate, and yeti be. poor, than have the wealth of a1 Cr'ossus and a starved, pinehed, Jaye less life therewith. Success in life is not measured, by what you get—but by What you give.) Real eueces.s ins ,seervioe well rendered, --bethe rewards what they may. No - man has succeeded, or, in the words of Phillips Brooks, "no man lima come to true ,greartneea . who has not felt in. some degree' that his life belongs to the rade, and that what God gives 'inn, He .gives him for mankind." Lincoln was not rich, but he was a great success because of his immense service 'to m'ank'ind, time only makeil him lobnelarger and larger as a world' figure, One of the most noticeable - things in modern litsfeery is the world's ever increasing admiration and -ap- preciation of the greatuees of this man and the value' of his service to man- - kind. ' Like Lincoln, the name and fame' of Florenoe Nightingale are stamped for all time• on the heart of m.an. The one was, born in a log cabin, the other in a home of wealth and culture. But both lives were'aniniate,d by the same passion for service which the worldi gratefully coniznemorates not only in monuments of bronze-, but in undying memory. - One's contact with the world must - be a vital one, one of helpfulness and' service, or one will quickly be forgot- ten. The world cherishes the m,asmory of those only Who have.eerved it, those who have given civilization ti, lift,: who have in sorne-way bettered the condi- tions of the race. It gives its love only to those whose hearts are in sympathy wi'th their fellows. Getting and"•never giving defeats its own end, for the selfish, miserly soul • is never .happy, is never loved or re speoted. A fortune acquired through selflshnes's and greed by a roan who has ground all of his time and energy into the dollar game does not enrich - even himself, for in amassing his for- tune he has sacrificed the real things of life—love, companionship, the re- spect of his fellowmen, the joy that comes from giving on•eseelt, from .help- ing. -- People who are always -grasping and hoarding who have no outlet to their lives, area. pest to society. Their lives make the world poorer instead of rich- er, and their death causes no regret. - 0. S. 11I., in Success. Explaining How it Happened. Jocko, the Monk—"Y'see it was this way: The giraffe I was rides' was- lead- in' in the"stretch by a neck when the elephant comes up from behind, stioks out 'his,tr'unk and wins by a nose," A Whale Census. Even if whales - had no value for blubber, oil and bone, there would be sympathy with the present enterprise of the British Government in sending out two vessels -one of them Capfain Scott's famous Dis,covezy--to attempt a ceases -of the cetaceans. They can- not hope to count them all, but they will fire darts with identification disks, to lodge in the hides and to be collected at a laced date, as evidence of the range, age, habits and longevity' of these huge mammals of the ocean. The primary aim of the official miselon is to call a halt on the extermination of the beasts that repies,ent a survival of prehistoric monsters. Not long ago the slaughter was wholesale and :reck less, as in the case of the buffalo; but even though whales no longer ascend our rivers and the fleets have ceased to go forth with their harpoons; and vats to lonely seas, the whale deserves preservation; and as circrunpolar lands increase in 'value the whale will be in growing demand as, a staple article of food; locally obtainable, for ria ,in, dustrial population,. Invented Pennies. henry V., of England, Was the in- ventor of half pennies and farthings.. Previous to Henry's great, idea the or- dinary pennies here clunisily cut into' halves and .quarters. Henry matte round but. smaller coins to' stop this - elipping. He had great fear of., being assassinated and practically all his reign he kept his sword ui1t1 shield at this bedside. - It just happened that alt et this worry was, useless Or Henry died in 1135 "front having eaten too ponderously of eels, of which he was very fond." r Left Behind: - The children were 'amusing nettle selves by turning over the pages of air old Illustrated religious paper, They canto a •cross•"a Picture 61 the Deh ige, and the yoen.gest, child was puzzled • because an elephant was s.rwn drown- ing in the foreground. Then ensued the foliov'iiig itionct- logue: "Wonder why that elephant. didn't get In the ark?" There Was a Rause,: :Then he rentarke,d: "S,yano he ' !Hast have been packing• his tett nit When tht.Ark went euti"