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Surnames and Their Origin
artations—Joffre, Jefferson,
'Geoffrey, Jepson, Jeff.
Racial Origin—French and
French.
Source—A given name.
You might easily draw all sorts of
analogies among the great number of
famous personages who have borne
the name of Jeffries or one of its
variations, starting with Godfrey, who
with his crusaders of the middle ages
finally wrested Jerusalem from the
grasp of the Moslems, and Including
Jim Jeffries., of pugilistic' fame, and
General Joffre, right down to little
Jeff, Mutt's partner of national fame --
fighters all!
As a family name, Jeffries and its
variations came into use simultaneous-
ly in France and England. As a given
name it comes originally from France
to the early Teutonic period; that is,
the period of the barbarian invasions,
following the fail. of the Roman Em-
pire. It was brought to England
Among the followers of William the
Conqueror.
In France its development has been
from Godfrey, through Geoffrey, Jeff-
rey, Joffbry, to its final form of Joffre.
In England it took on many differ-
ent methods of spelling, and developed
in many different directions, some of
then paralleling the French as far as
Jeffrey, while in other instances the
origie,al form of Godfrey was main-
tained. In the old English records it
Is often found as Jefre and Jefer, and
even Jepher, from wbich last the
variations of Jepson was developed.
Godfrey,
Norman
CURTI S.
Variation—Curtiss.
Racial Origin -English.
Source—A sobriquet.
The origin of this family name is
likely to prove quite puzzling to you
and then, when it is explained, make
you wonder why you never thought of
it.
Say "courteous" real quick, and you
have it.
Courtesy in the Middle Ages appar-
ently was a virtue none too general,
else it would have been no distinction
to call a man "Walter le Curteys," On
the other hand it was by no means un-
known, or the name would not be so
widespread as it is to -day.
Curtis is one of those names which
developed in many sections of Eng-
land about the same time, and all Cur-
tises are by no means sprung from the
same stock.
There is another source of the
name, however, though a search of the
old records discloses that it was the
source only in a minority of cases. It
was the word "Curt -hose," literally
"short -stocking," the sort of sobriquet
that a man would gain for himself by
reason of a peculiarity in his dress.
As a matter of fact, the name of
Shorthose" is to be found to -day in
England, though the variation is ex-
tremely rare.
There is a tendency among many
students of language to explain these
sobriquet family names by assuming
that they are but corruptions, at one
period or another, of already establish-
ed names sounding somewhat like the
corruption. But in this case, as In
many others, actual records prove the
contrary.
Brother Dies for Brother.
Carrying a lion skin and a blood-
stained spear, a native entered the of-
fice of the district officer at Kota -Kota,
Central Africa. He had a story to tell
story that, according to the dis-
... lct officer, writing in Field and
' Stream, celebrated one of the most
gallant deeds imaginable.
It appeared that about a week or
ten days previously the native's two
brothers with two women had set out
from Kota -Kota to go to Fort A1stoR,
a journey of some eighty miles. The
only arms they had were a rough na-
tive -made knife and the small spear.
On the evening of the third day the
party reached a water hole about
twenty miles from Fort Alston. The
'women were tired and incapable of
pushing on farther that evening; so
one man went a little way into the
bush to cut boughs and long grass for
a rotigh shelter. While the man was
hard at work a lion attacked him, and
his cries attracted the attention of the
others. The second man immediately
ran to his brother's assistance and suc-
ceeded in driving the brute off with his
spear. His brother was still alive, but
had been terribly mauled and evident-
ly was dying.
In spite of the danger the three
agreed that the two women should go
back along the road.on the chance of
getting help while the uninjured man
should remain with his dying brother.
say a great deal of good fortune, after
Britain's Biggest Dome.
What is the largest dome in Britain?
Most people would plump for St.
Paul's; but they would be wrong. ,
The dome' of the Reading -room of
the , British Museum is . thirty feet'
greater in, diameter. It contains •60,-
000 square feet of glass, and weighs;:
4,200 tons. Beneath it are housed` two
and a half million books and manu-
scripts on 'fifty miles of shelves anti
In countless presses. •
Here is found the largest collection:
of Bibles in the world. There are 27
000 volumes in Chinese, 12,000 in.He-
brew. and 13,000 in other Oriental
languages. The largest book in the
world, an atlas measuring 5 ft," 10 in,
by 3 ft. 2 in,, is to be fourid.herer also
an encyclopediaof Chinese literature
which cost the nation $7;500. It con-
sists of 5,000 volumes!
VICTIMS OF ANAEMIA
going back a couple of miles the wo-
men fell in with a party of natives.
The women told them what had hap-
pened, and the whole party hurried to
the water hole. When they got there
they found the dead body of the man
who had been first attacked; he had
no doubt died shortly after the women
had left. A little way off was the
dead body of the lion stabbed in many
places with the short .spear, which was
lying on the ground close by. A few
yards from the dead lion was the
corpse of the man who had remained
behind to look after his brother. He
was terribly bitten, about the head
and shoulders•.
It'was easy to guess what had hap-
pened, While the women were away
the lion had returned and attacked the
man who was guarding the body of
his brathe•r. A short but terrible fight
had taken place. Though badly bit-
ten, the native had repeatedly stabbed
the lion, striking with such force that
he had sunk the spear, blade and
shaft, into the vitals of the man-eater.
I had the skin of that Hon for a long
time in my office. To anybody who
did not know its history it was just a
bit of tattered hair and hide. To me
it was an emblem of a heroic fight by
a very gallant man against overwhelm-
ing odds.
One of the largest forests in the
world, situated between the Ural
Mountains and the Okhotsk Sea, in
Russia, stands on ice. -
DONALD KIRKE CVES
TANLAC FULL CREDIT
Popular. Actor Says Medicine
Completely Overcame
Stomach Trouble and Ner-
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That Moritreal play -goers are liter-
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at every performance is at once a tri-
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artistry of the famous Duffy stock
players, not the least popular of whom
is Donald Kirke.
Mr. Kirke is not only, a favorite on
the legitimate stage but is a screen
player of note, and it is a further tri-
bute to his consummate acting that.
even while tortured with stomach
trouble, nervousness• and other ills, he
kept "on with. the play" day in and
day out until he found relief by tak-
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"My stomach had almost failed me
and I wonder now how I ever kept up,
I ante .so little. Nights I would tons
and turn for hours in nervousness;
piercing sick headaches made me suf-
fer agony, andat times on the stage
I was so uervaus, weak and trembly
that I ceeti hardly remember my
lines.
"I would b5+' a given a thousand dol-
lars to get then relief Tarilac has given
me for less taan five dollars.. My ap-
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have a headache, and I feel fine and
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Need New, Rich Blood to Restore'
Health and Strength.
Queer Freaks of Father
• Neptune.
As most people know,?.the tides are
produced by two pairs: of waves which
travel round,' the' earth daily. the great-
er pair produced by the pull of the
moon, the smaller by the attraction of
-the sun.
So far, simple enough, and if the
earth's surface was all water the tides
would be perfectly regular. But no
tidal wave can travel very far before
it bumps against land; and the results
are exceedingly complicated.
For instance, there is a strip of the
southern coast of England which has
double tides. These occur from South-
ampton to a little beyond Poole, and
it to this phenomenon that South-
ampton owes its position as one of
Britain's greateet seaports, for at
nearly all times there Is water to al-
low of the biggest ships coming in.
At Colombo, in Ceylon, the same
thing may be seen—four tidies daily
instead of two; but the oddest freak
of all is at Papeete, one of the Society
Islands, In the South Pacific, where
high tide occurs always between mid-
day and two o'clock.
On British coasts the biggest tides
are in the Bristol Channel, Where, at
the mouth of the Avon, the difference
between ordinary high and low tide is
40ft. At Chepstow, a little farther up
the Severn, it is 52 ft. This huge tide
pouring up an ever -narrowing funnel
causes the roaring wave called the
Severn Bore.
The biggest tide in the world is in
the Bay of Fundy, where the extreme
rise and fall differs by 70 ft. Up
Stoney Creek, at the head of the bay,
the tidal wave rushes at 9.61 miles an
hour.
The smallest tide so far observed is
in t Lake Superior. It does not rise
more than 1', in.
It Is an unfortunate fact• that nin&.
women, out of every ten are victims of
bloodlessness in one •form, or another.
The girl. in .her teens, the wifeand
mother, the matron of middle age—all
know its miseries. To be anaemic
means that you are breathless after
slight exertion. You feel worn out
and depressed. You turn against food
and often cannot digest what you do'
eat. Sleep does not refresh you, and
when you get up you feel exhausted
and unfit for the day's duties. If neg-
lected'anaemia may lead to consump-
tion.
You should act promptly. ,Make
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These pills purify bad blood, strength-
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girl and woman should do. The case
of Mrs. Mary Trainor, Perth, Ont.,
shows the value of Dr. Williams' Pink
Pills in cases of this kind. She says:
—"I had not been feeling well for
some time and had been gradually
growing weaker. I found it very hard
to de my housework; had severe head-
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did me no good. I was growing weak-
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spells. In this condition I began the
use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and
after a time • found they were helping
me. I continued theirs use until I
found the troubles that afflicted me
had gone and I am o: ce more enjoy-
ing good health and strength."
You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills
through any dealer in medicine, or by
mail at 50c a box from The' Dr. Wil-
liams' Medicine • Co., Brockville, Ont.
A Good Story, But Abe
Told it Too Well.
"Out in the farming district where
I used to live," said the village store-
keeper after I had asked him to weigh
several pieces of pork from the hog
that we had just butchered, "there
was a shiftless sort of fellow by the
name of Abe Winters. His family al-
ways put off butchering until he'd bor-
rowed from all the neighbors. Some-
times he would even get through the
winter on borrowed pork, sell his
hogs and then be ready to borrow
again next fall.
"But one year the indifference of
some of his neighbors caused him to
butcher a little earlier than usual, and
he asked a neighbor who was almost
as shiftless as himself to help him.
All through the work of scalding and
scraping he kept complaining that by
the time he had paid off his borrow-
ings for the year there would be little
left for himself.
"At last, as they hung the dressed
hog up between the poles to cool, the
neighbor said, 'Why don't you get up
early to -morrow morning, Abe, take
your pork in and pretend it was
stolen. Then these people you owe
pork to will excuse you and feel sorry
for you into the bargain.'
" 'Oh, but they wouldn't believe me,'
said Abe.
" 'Yes they would,' replied, the neigh-
bor, If you'd stick to it.'
"During the night the neighbor, who
was in need of meat himself, stole the
hog.
"At the first Tay of dawn Abe Win-
ters burst into . his neighbor's house,
saying, 'Some one has stolen my hog!'
" 'Good,' remarked the neighbor.
'You did that well. Now the main
thing is to stick to it.'
But, protested Abe, 'some ane
really has stolen it!'
" 'Fine, fine! You say that in a way
to convince anyone, but stick to it,'
" 'I tell you,' shouted Abe, 'I'm not
fooling! The hog is gone.'
" 'Why, Abe, you can do it even bet-
ter than. I thought! No ono will doubt
you if you insist upon it that way.'
'But,' yelled Abe, beside himself,
' I went out there to take it in as you
told me, and it was gone—clean gone!
There wasn't any hog there.'
" 'That's right, stick to it, stick to
it,' said. the neighbor.
"And so," concluded the storekeepa
er, 'Abe went about telling his true,
story. Ile stuck to it' all right, but no
one believed him, perhaps because he
insisted too hard."
Money by the Carload.
Four railroad carloads of new Polish
banknotes arrived in Warsaw recent-
ly. The paper for the notes was pre-
pared in England, and they were en -
gra WY/save.
CIIILDIIOOD CONSTIPATION
Constipated children can find prompt
relief through the use of Baby's Own
Tablets. The Tablets are a mild but
thorough laxative which never fail to
regulate the bowels and stomach, thus
driving out constipation and indiges-
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Demain, Que., -writes: "Baby's Own
Tablets have been of great benefit to
my little boy, who was suffering from
constipation and indigestion. They
quickly relieved him and now he is in
the best of health." The Tablets are
sold by medicine dealers or by mail at
25c a box - from The Dr. Williams'
Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont.
Tut, Tut!
Turtle—"I hear your son is quite
proficient in arithmetic."
Snstike—"Yes, he's a good little ad-
der!"
BETTER GREEN TEA
IMPORTED.
Many think that those who drink
Green Tea are more critical judges of
quality than those who drink black.
Such would seem to be the case, be-
cause some years ago great quantities
of poor quality Japan and China Green
Teas were brought into Canada. The
demand for this type of tea soon fell
off. Now, however, the much finer
quality of India and Ceylon Greens,
imported mostly by the Salada Tea
Company, has sharply revived the de-
mand by those who enjoy the distinc-
tive flavor of Green Tea.
Seeing Through the Skin?
We know that blind people are con-
soled in some measure for the loss of
their sight by the greater alertness of
their other senses.
But a statement has recently been
made that the blind might actually see
—not with their eyes, but with the
slain of the face, neck, and chest.
Apparently such a gift is common to
all, but in the average person the sight-
seeing power of the eyes overcomes
the waker eight of the other organs.
If we all had this power developed, it
is stated that it would be possible for
us to see in a surrounding circle from
various angles of the body through
"myriad eyes'."
M. Jules Romain, the French scient-
ist, has made this discovery. Hie
book, "Eyeless sight," which has just
been translated into English, describes
his method and his deductions.
The first essential for the man or
woman who wishes to develop this gift
is to bring about a complete concen-
tration of all his attention. Consider-
able time must elapse before the re-
sult of this quiet concentration can
become apparent. Sittings of about
an hour's duration, if persisted in,
should eventually enable the patient
to perceive light, and then to visualize
shapes and sizes of surrounding ob-
jects. After that swift progress is as-
sured, and in time M. Romain claims
that it is possible to read type almost
as rapidly and accurately as one would
with the eyes.
Not Worth Having.
"Timothy dear," remarked Mrs.
Smith one evening on her husband's
return from business. "I think you
waste a terrible lot of money."
"I, darling?" replied the devoted hus-
band. "Why, I have never spent a
penny unnecessarily in my life!"
"Oh, yes, you have! That encyclo-
pedia you bought on the instalment
plan last month is no good at all."
"Why, whatever's wrong with it?'
inquired Timothy.
"This morning I wanted to find out
why swallows migrate in the winter."
"And couldn't you find it in the en-
cyclopedia? Where did you look for
it?"
"I looked under 'Why,' and I didn't
even find the word there at all!"
A Necessary Meal.
A schoolmaster had just finished a
lesson on "Food," when a little boy
put up his hand. On being asked what
he wanted, he replied:
"Please, sir, Jones said he knew a
baby that was brought up on milk, and
it gained ten pounds every day."
"Jones ought not to tell you such
rubbish," said the master. Then, ad-
dressing Jones, he added:
"Tell me whose baby was brought
up on elephant's milk?"
To which Jones hesitatingly re-
plied:
"Please, sir, it was the elephant's
baby."
Wisdom.
Say to your girl the sands are running,
Tell her this of ofd wisdom and cun-
ning
(I am remembering my own days),
That not one hour of her bliss be
wasted,
No kiss ungiven, no joy untested
(I am remembering my own days).
Tell your boy 'tis his hour of plenty.
Only once is he golden and twenty
(I am remembering' my own days).
Bid him build, since beyond recover
Fleet the days of the loved and lover
(I am remembering my own days).
—Katharine Tynan.
Remit by Dominion Express Money
Order. .If lost ' or stolen you get your
money back.
There is about 86 per cent. of water
in milk.
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Sculpture in Concrete.
Sculpture is now done in concrete,
the figures being originally molded in
clay, and from these forms are taken
molds for making casts in the con-
crete. The "synthetic' granite" is com-
posed of the best possible ingredients;
finely powdered and carefully mixed.
.The result is a very hard, nearly white
stone of smooth texture, pleasing to
the eye.
Ambitious.
"My hired man gets up at flour
o'clock every morning without waiting
to be called," said Farmer Fumble -
gate.
"Great governor! He must want to
get to work early!"
"No, he wants to get to loafing ear-
ly."
France registered more births than
deaths in 1923.
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Every Man to His Own.
Work is play when it is the work
we love. The English navelist, Mr, H.
A. VacheIl, in his book of memoirs%
Fellow Travelers, makes the point in
this little story:
I remember a rare old boy In Cali -_.
fornia, a pioneer who had crossed the
plains In a prairie schooner. I found: '
him digging post holes under a blazing
sun. And he was a rich man,
"Why do you do this?" I asked,
He looked at me with twinkling
eyes, "Why do you drive tandem?"
he demanded.
"Because it's such fun," I replied.
"And that," he observed solemnly,
"is why I dig post holes,"
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Grown in Sweden Perhaps.
The aid lady in this colloquy from
Punch is not the first to assume a.
knowledge that she did not have. .
"Have you ever tried Swedish mass-
age, Mrs. Brown?' the squire's daugh-
ter inquiered of the gardener's wife,
who suffers with chronic rheumatism.
"I have heard say it be very good
for rheumatism, miss," was the reply,
"hut we don't grow it in these parts."
Boys and girls nowadays are bet..
ter in health, intelligence, and physi-
cal strength than in any previous
generation.
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