The Wingham Advance, 1923-07-05, Page 7Thursday July ti, 1923.
of e>l , P L ar1ia;
riePi*e,:Ocivtio and
Powerful
One et the picturesque and at the
ea'nie +-time one of the 'most powerful
i'o3ral personages of Europe is Queen
Marie of Rumania. One waiter calls
her the Woman Charle-magne. She
will deserve the title if by her plan'of
marrying off her daughters to rulers of
neighboring •kingdoms she succeeds in
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building tr I a Balkan empire.
Marie 'fa new fbrty.sevdn. Tweety-
nine ,of her years She spent in Ru-
mania in a life of "wearing activity,
Making love, writing plays, composing.
operas, doing motion picture pieces,
ma:rying off daughters and running.
'the country: And she still is a beauti-
woman.
She has a husband, King'. Ferdinand
"But you can Jive ` in Bucharest for
months- ata time without being aware
of his existence," -says the writer. "In'
fact, until his. recent delayed corona
tion, when people snoticed there was
some one standing up with .the .stately
Marie, few people . outside 'the Ru -
,
amulet ;Court; knew that the Mother, of
the—Balkans did not rule alone. And
even now they can't be sure of it!"
Diplomatic Triumphs.
• As: a woman she Lias achieved great
triumphs. It must: be: reme thered that
she has' won her victories alone, shoe
hos; had .little help .fromher husband
and less from her ministry. Alone
among the monarchs of. Europe she
_' personally directs the foreign policy of
her `Government and, perhaps at the
moment she is the only, ;monarch in
Europe who o1'icially affects in any
marked degree.'•thbe' government poli-
cies of nations. •'
By a series of brilliant marriages
she has . laid the foundation for : a
vast Balkan empire—larger than
France, and 'aslarge.asEngland. There
yet remains an unmarried king in the
Balkans, Boris of Bulgaria. Stam-
bulisk.i, _the peasant' Premier, made a
visit to Bucharest at Queen Marie's in-
vitation, 'W'hnch of these is free?" he
asked her;. painting to each of the
three Rumanian princesses. Being.
told. that the; child, Meana, was' still
available, he -remarked . in typical,
blunt, Stamhuiiski fashion,; "She'll do
for 'my Icing."
"So it is safe to,say that the triumph
of the royal matchmaker is in ;sight.
In three, perhaps two, years-- for they
marry thein young when it is neces-
.eary to achieve'l;emprre—Marie of Ru-,
`"•man'ie. will be in' fact, if not in name,
Queen of the Balkans."
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YINGUA111 4.DYAT CE
On Sarno:' Land. for 900
Years.
The story of the Poublan fanily,
French farmers who have the extraor-
dinary dil�ary record of living an the sante
farm since 1023,,. is told in the Ameri-
can Agriculturist by Bernhard Ragner,
in ante
who -saw the present
F
now France, w
day representative of the family, M.
Lacassies Poublan of Lucgarrier, de-
corated by the -Minister of Agriculture
of the Prenolr Republic. Mr. Ragner
calls the achievement "the world's ag-
ricultural endurance record."
"To 'this family belongs ..the distinc-
eion of having lived in the same Meuse
and tilled the same soil for a period of
399; years," writes -Mr. Ragner.
"That 'oaks like a misprint, but it
,r 1ao .of
IJll�ti, LU3. the fw1Lt1J clsn+c
undoubted :authenthat
ticity to prove t,
back in 1023 a Poublan owned and Cul-
,;tivated 'the nucleus of the present
homestead.
"Joan of,Arc chased the British in-
ender from the soil of France, butthe
Poublans plowed their fields John
Calvin wrote 1vis institutes' and "stimu-
lated the reformation started by Luth-
er and Zwingli, but the Poublans sow-
ed their wheat. Christopher Colum-
bus discovered America, but,the Foub
lane harvested' their grain. Jean
Jacques' Rousseau preached hisrevolu'-
tionary doctrines; the French Iteivolu-
tion came, Napoleon Bonaparte, like
a gigantic, comet of unexampled brie-
l,iance, fleshed' across the European
sky, but the Poublans, serenely, loyal-
. ly, wholeheartedly, cultivated the
acres which' the thrift of ancestors'
had bequeathed them."
The farm which the Poublan who
i t b quested
tl'e Basses Pyrenees near the Spanish en the stomach',
� break up colds
border. • It hest aced ppr i now and simple fevers and make .teething,
h t approximate- i i d 1
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Surnames and Their Oriiiu
FERDINAND
Variations — Fernon, Fernando,
non.
'RacialOrigin—Spanish.
Source -A given name.
This is a family name which comes
to. us. for tlie' most part° theough t the
Spanish, but which., traces' back to the
ancient Gothic or Teutonic speech, to
that race of which so comparatively
little is known .to -day despite the fact
that it overran the greater part of
southern Europe and was responsible
largely for the fall sof the great Roman
g Y.
empire.
Little is known of this race, not be-
cause its blood is not predominating
today in many countries commonly
classed as "Latin," but simply because
upon Completion • of its conquest it re-
cognized the value of the superior
civilization and language of the Roman
Ver -
predecessor, and adopted thein for the: ,they were referring to. This they: did
most part at :once. Names, haowever,. by 'some reference to •parenta'ge or to
y
the place the man lived, or tohis trade
alpeculiarity.
� ers
or some p nag
Thus such names • as ",Tom atte
Mead" Toni at the Meadow) or "Ger-
1 of the
e Mead'
' (Gerald o Meadow)
alas (
sour came into being. Possibly it would
Spanis�h� Goths, among whom ft seems' o tof existence with the man
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THE, SMAi-LEST; AIRPLANE
The world's smallest airplane Is that shown 'in the picture. It reaches
a height of 2,500' feet and a speed of 65 miles;an hour. Its engine is ,; 5-6
horse power. At the left is the inventbr, Major Gnosplius, and at the right,
the pilot, Mr. Lanicas'tex Parker.
MEAD...
Variations—Meadows, Dupre.
Racial Origin—English, also French.
Source -A locality..
Itis the variation of Meadows in' this',
group of family names which. gives the.
hue to the origins
These names were, of
course, origin-
ally descriptive, of the localities, in
which' their first bearers' lived, and
were of local nature.
In the days when populations began
to multiply so quickly that there were
not enough given tames to go around,
the first; result was.the multiplication
of given names into variations through:
the addition�of diminutive endings and
the use of .nicknames, But even,this
was not' enough, and: in everyday
speech men found it necessary to in-
dicate which John or'Thomas or Harry
were -naturally not adopted to thei
.e speech.
as.
extentp
ams
s
- The Goths had a given name, "Fer-
honanths, the meaning of which was.
"other words,
in life oi, i
n w ,
"adventuring ,
adve g
"courage." In the course of time the
to have been'rnost•popular, simplified pass u
nto ' Fer- bearing. et, and `his son be .known as
it into "Fernan,"and then i Geoffre the Red,' or by some, other.
ranee." Among the more northern y
ie "Ferdinand: name. But Yf file family continued to
races it became
And'from these given names have
developed the foregoing family names,
P.
in the natural process by' which par-
wasat first indicated; with the'.
entage
ultimate broadening o PP tart' and flrmlysettled in a few, gene-
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Self-satisfaction 1s one of
man's ''greate's`t:fees,'.for'*e don't
struggle to improve things when
we are satisfied with them. if
everrybody was satisfied with
thins , aa ;they are, with our-
selves and - our_ work, �oivilization
would be at a standstill. A noble
discontent is,'pr•ogress, better-
ment, improvement, advance
went all along the line. It rias
given us our great scientists,
arch`i�tects•; Musicians, artists,
poets, authors, ph�ysicianS, mer-
chants, explorers, railroad build-
ers, teachers, :all the great men
,and women who have made our
civilization what it' is -today.—
reside by, the meadow long enough,
sooner or later the expression "atte
Mead" would come ' to designate the
family and not • a mere individual : mem
f a lication to ber-of it, and so- would become heredi-
nun for the most: part does•`not r 'o
ns.
Ver
belong•
iii this, group, but in some in- The name of Dupre' is simply the
a•changed spelling of French equivalent of the 'English of
stance It is but the meadow:'
Fernon ,9r P,ernan.
MAME
RS
Once a mother has'used Baby's Own
Tablets for her little one she would
e nothing else. The Tablets give
use
such results that the mother has noth-
ing but' words • of praise; and, thankful-
ness. Among.the thousands of moth-
ers throughout Canada who praise the
Tablets ,is Mrs. David A. Anderson,
New Glasgow, N.S., who writes:—'`I
have used Baby's Own Tablets for my
children and-. from my experience I
w'oul'd not be Without them. 1' would
urge every other leather to keep a box
of the `tablets in the house." ,The Tab-
begau the faintly reg s er a Iets. are a mild` but thorough laxative
to his :heirs ,is in : the department, Of 'hich.,regulate: the •bowels and .sweet -
drive. out constipa-
1 t tion and indigestion;
inchtdos eighty oa ares, tip tori easy Thier are sold by red c to ea -
ly 200 p es: ere, or by mail at 25e a °box from The
"The present Poublan is the twenty Dr. 'Williams' Medic
ine Co. Brockville
Yourtli in the ancestral line," says the.
American Agriculturist, "Ile is a fine
example of the'Frenchi farmer—strong,
,self-controlled, a capable artisan of
the soil, and passionately devoted to
iris home 'and his country. He is the
Mayor of his teweshipe and hers eon,
now, rendering hie eighteen months of
military service to France; hopes some
:day to • assume his father's ancestral
and civic.`functioms."
Perfect at Last!
es Ma?gel'ie's school reports 'weren't
entirely satisfactory; her father said
to her, '''The first tfule:''that you conte
home with a hundred in anything I'll
•give, you a' dollar."
Time went'by, and still Ma•gerie
soulcl'not claim the, reward. Then one
clay the child was taken ill. when the
doctor diad gone she asked, "Mamma,
and I very sick?"
"No, dear;