Daily British Whig (1850), 1 Oct 1919, p. 5

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1910. __THE DA SOFT LUMBER FOR INTERIOR FINISH our finishing lumber w straight grain, and We view to its softness, nmend it for the Let us show you Allan's Lumber Yard Victoria Street =~ - - - Phone 1042 4 3 and ~ Drink Charm Black Tea ~~ Sold in Packages Only ~ + GEO. ROBERTSON & SON, Limited INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT NAMES OF FABRICS The names of no articles of com- merce contain so thuch romance of an- tiquity as do those of textile fabrics. | Weaving was an art and its pro- | ducts were bartered in the primitive | marts long ages before the dawn of record, thousands upon thousands of vears ago, misty centuries of the past, back 'into which the most powerful searchlights of the historian can throw but dim and fitful gleams. Cotton, for instance, is a .word { which comes down to us from a period Hong before the days of Rome, Greece, and that oldest of historical lands, | Egypt. It is a name which reaches | back in tie language of man to a per- liod antedating the glories of the an- {cient Assyrian and Babylonian eciv- { ilizations. It is a word which has | been brought down into every Cau- Gage's Cash Grocery CORNER. GORE AND WELLINGTON STS. FREE an Old Du a brand ne OLD DUTCH « 2 timw 2 KIDDIES r Bank and Get one -to-da Have you tr ee A ae tt AAA tA PMA STEAMER BRITANNIC EVERY WEEK BETWEEN MONTREAL AND KINGSTON ;%AL- ? WAYS ON TIME. SHIP YOUR FREIGHTYBY THIS RE- LIABLE ROUTE ww VEVYY WOU YYYYEYIYUYY TELEPHONE 2193 FOR INFORMATION. { } { sian language in virtually the same { form from that mother-tongue which gave birth to all the languages of | which we have record in Europe--the Aryan. '} pronunciation of that {word in Aryan was something like "kootn." In the English of the Middle Ages jit is found @ otoun," "cotune," and In Welsh, which it must be | remembered is not of the same "fam- lily" as Anglo-Saxon, from which Eng- lish is descended, the word is "cotwn," and in Gaelic it is *"cotan." |- Wool is another such word. In Latin it appeared as "villus" and "vellus, meaning variously skin, hide and hair It is found in Old Bulgarian as "vul na." In Sanskrit, a language now dead, but which at one time w spok- en in certain sections of India, it was "yolurna." In' the Lithuanian it is "wilna." In Russia it is "vplna." A study of the tendencies of changes in languages shows a close relationship between the letters "v" and "w" which originally were the same. Indeed, today. there are vari- ous languages in which the pronuncia- tion of the 'v" and "w" is switched around to the opposite from the Eng- lish rule, Worsted, however, appears to be a thoroughly English word. Its ances- try is traced back to the name of the PURE ICE CREAM SERVE IT FOR LUNCHEONS, DINNERS AND SUPPERS Most modern machinery used' in making our Ice Cream-- the ingredients are the best--nothing but pure cream used. Prompt delivery to all parts of the city. Superior Ice Cream Parlor 204 Princess St. Phone 648 McLaughlin's Old Stand place in England where it was first produced, a name which in thé Ole English; or Anglo-Saxon tongue was "Wurthestede." This name was a combination of two Anglo-Saxon words, "wurth," an estate, and | "stede;" a place. ; In English we have the word "crisp," which came over with the | French of the period of William the | Conqueror. It was a word directly de- scended from the Latin "crispare," a later period in the French language certain changes of pronunciation' took | place. There was a tendency to drop | out the "s" in the middle of a word | and to broaden the vowel sounds. The { word in France changed from '"'crispe" to "crespe," and finally to "crepe." Thus in modern English we have. the same word in two different forms-- that which came over from the French Ice Box For Year 'Round Service ls a Present Day Necessity! Health statistics absolutely prove that an Ice Box is a household necessity { the good of the family's health all yéar-droind. ' Better take this precaution and safeguard your food before it's too late. Here is a complete assortment of Ice Boxes in all sizes and styles at moderate prices. ! i cloth. Boyd's Garage 'We have several five passenger Tour- ing Cars, from $250.00 up. Don't go home without seeing our new Reo Six. Boyd's Garage, 129 Brock Street Phone 201 v | centuries ago as an adjective and that which has come over in modern times { from yarns which have been erisped | or «crinkled. "Crepe de chine," of | course, is simply the French for | "crepe of China," or Chinese crepe Corduroy, apparently, is a word coined in English, but from French words, for the phrase "corde du roi," or "roy," as the word was spelled in old French, is not to be found in French usage as denoting any partic- ular thing. | 'the ancient spelling one of the most prominent cities in India was Bos, "Calicut," from | which we have the name calico -- a | cloth first imported to England from of Calcutta, if | that city. | Likewise there was in ancient times {a city in Mesopotamia called Mawsil, which developed a peculiar type of | | fabric, known today as muslin. i} | "You call mé misbeliever, cut-throat, 1 dog, if | And spit upon my Jewish gabardine." These words of Shylock in "The | Merchant of Venice" might lead one ii! to Suppose that the gabardine was a 4 | Jewis earment. It was, but the word | is not Hebrew. Today gabagdine is a In those days it was the name of a cloak of particular cut and of i coarse quality. The word seems to { have slipped into the old French as | "galvardine," from the Spanish vari- | ations of "gaban," gabanella," "cab- | aza" and "cabana," denoting various'a tiny bottle, sufficient to rid your { buildings. At first glance it would not | be supposed that the English words | | "gabardine" and "cabin" are related, { but they are. | In the word gingham, which nor- speech | which through the ages have produced | . t i as a noun denoting a fabric woven ILY BRI mally brings up Scottish visions,. the connection really reaches out into the far East. the 'Malay {striped)" " Khaki, though often erroneously used to denote a type of cotton weave, really is a color. It comes from the Hindu word "khak," which means dust or earth. Popgee is a corruntion of two Chi- nese words, "pun," meaning "own," and "chih,' meaning weaving. Pon- gee, of course, is silk fabric of the Chinese' own weaving. "kain (cloth) ging-gang base as "wool," from "vell ak hence "hairy" or. "shaegy. iis a safe assumption that the first velvets did not have the same smooth surface as those of today. 3 Tweed is explained as an accidental misspelling of the Scottish "tweel," which in its turn was the way the Scots pronounced "twill." _ Chintz goes back to India and the ancient Sanskrit "chitra," meaning "bright and spotted," from which also is derived the name of the East Indian leopard, known as the "cheetah." Alpaca is a word taken into English from the Spanish, through the French The French "alpaque" is simply the combination of the two Spanish words the ancient inhabitants of Peru had given to the sheep-like animal of that land long before the Spaniards came Today, of course, the fabric known as alpaca econtalsis little or none of the long, silky wool of the paco: but is a fabric in which the effect of that wool is. 'simulated -by various mixtures of cotton and somewhat similar wools. "LAY EMPHASIS ON LOW-PRICED MEATS" When the whosesale prices of lamb Igo down, John T. Rnsselljran excep- | dionally successful! Chicago meat deal- ler, puts the loud pedal on lamb. When {the prices of pork go up he gently { presses the soft pedal on pork' sales. He tells his customers not to buy it. {Tu short, John TF. educates his cus | tomers to buy and 'eat whatever meat {happens to be low on the wholesale price lists accordingly. He makes their tastes follow his policy, designed {for their benefit, and dees not adapt | his buying to their tastes and the | detriment of their pocket-books. Inci- dentally he has made so much money {by it that he owns a number of re- tail meat stores. Other thing®>which have contribu- {ted to the resultant profits are: | Store arrangements and policies | which permit one butcher to wait on | from 300 to 400 persons a day and | which are based on labor costs figur- | meaning to curl, to crimp, to crisp. At jed down to terms of per minute of | Proportion of them walk out. selling time. | A business policy which makes him | independent of regular trade. {| A system of manager to owner re- | ports which show weekly the number, {value and names of customers. These {reports aye speeded up to a daily | check if 'there is Teason to suppose that a given store is losing trade. | When pork prices soared Russell {looked through all the sport maga- 1 "LIFT OFF CORNS! Freezone is magic! Corns lift off with fingers without pain Hurt? No, not one bit! Just drop a little Frezone on that touchy corn, lift that bothersome corn right off. Yes, magic. Costs only a few cents. I Try Freezone! Your druggist sells | types of coveralls, from garments to feet of every hard corm, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and callouses, without one particle of pain, sore- {ness or irritation. Freezone is the \mysterious ether discovery of a Cin- .cinnati genius. . { 3 One year ago as the British entered Find an inhabitant. he Germany Cambrai on fire) today, October 1, 1918, the ay, Sct 1, 8, the Germans set Canibed on fire It -is really derived from' Velvet comes from the same Latin, * a hide, | "el paco." "Pace" was the name which 5 instantly it stops aching, then you TISH WHIG THINK TANLAC THE FINEST ON EARTH | Husband and Wife Are Both Prasing It for Good It Has Done Them. "1 am still praising Tanlae," 3: Dar ic ckey, of 217 Eu- nto, Ontario, in a nt communication received from him at the Tanlac office Mr. Hickey has lived in Toronto all his life, being employed at the Dominion Steel Works, and his state- ment in which he tells how Tanlac| relieved him of a long-standing case! of stomach trouble and rheumatism attracted widespréad attebtion when it was first published. In corrobora-| tion of her husband's statement Mrs. Hickey also relates her ownh wonder- ful experience with this medicine as follows: ia "kL had a nervous trouble for six yearsy' said Mrs, Hickey, "and was in such a terrible condition that I had to stay in bed four or five months every year. /My energy was com-| pletely gone and when I was up I was too weak to even sweep the floor. I had no appetite and what little I forced down did me hardly any good. My skin was pale and sallow: and 1 could hardly sleep at night." "My husband was taking Tanlac and he improved so fast that I decid- ed to try, it too, and since taking a fewfbottles I am now 'in better con- diti than I nave been in several years. My nervousness is all gone, my appetite is fine and I sleep like] ' 1ild at night. From the way Tan- lac has fixed me up, both my husband and I think it is about the finest medicine there is." Tanlac is scld in Kingston by A P. Chown, in Plevna by Gilbert Ostler, in Battersea by C. 8S. Clark, in Fernleigh by Ervin Martin, in Ar- dock by M. J. {lcullion, in Sharbot Lake by W. Y. Cannon.--Advt. A At AA AAA A iil zines for an illustration of a boar suf- ficiently vicious looking. Then he built an advertising sign around it, showing a woman and a little boy im- periled by the tusks; with the legend: Don't Eat Pork. It Isn't Healthy-- When It's Se High. This sign, backed by a little person- al explanation, enabled him fo wean a large proportion of his customers away from pork, and in the process to! win their good-will and reduce the number of minutes per sale in but- chers' time--for Russell has found! that the higher the price the longer it takes the cfistomer to make up her mind, "On extremely high-priced meats," says Russell, "the butcher cannot get his necessary margin of between sell- | 7 ing and cost price. . Loins of heef wholesaling at forty-seven cents and | quoted by the retailer at this plus 20 per cent on the sale price, simply make the customers mad and a large | Why | not concentrate of efforts on sales meats which happen to be lower?" By his system of low-price special- ties and advertising Russell naturally { catches a great deal of transient trade in addition to his steady customers. He declares the hest way to win and hold good-will is to induce customers to buy a minimum of the meats which are high in price at any given time. | mens i SUNBURY DELIGHTED. | | | With the Kingston Fair--Sunday { School Convention. Sunbury, Sept. 80.--~Maynard Campbell is under treatment for an | operation at the Hotel Dieu i# King- ston. but is progressing very favear- ably. Successful rally day services | were held in the churches here last | Sabbath. The Ladies' Aid of the Pres- byterian Church is holding their | meeting this week at the home of | Mrs. J. A. Sharpe in the village. This district was largely represent- | ed at the Kingston fair last week, | some of the people attending nearly | every day and all were pleased with | the fine appearance of everything shown. The poultry and the horse | racing were worth the price of ad-| mission and it required a long alter- | noon to take in all the sights that! were presented. The people hope Mr. | Bushell will give them i chance to attend next fall, } This is the busiest season on the | farm. The short days and slow jobs| are the cause but In this district] work is kent up pretty well. i The county Sabbath school conven- | | tion is to be held in Inverary on the! : 8th inst., with morning afternoon! | and evening session. A number of lo- cal workers expect to attend, at least part of these meetings. AA » @ B 8 B AAO Shearer, Stormont, Retires, } Cornwall, Oct. 1.---R. A. Shearer, | { who has represénted Stormont coun- | {ty in the Ontario legislature, noti- | | ied ithe Liberal-Conservative Asso- ciation in convention, that he was | inot in the field fer renomination. | | D. A. MacNaughton, reeve of Finch {and ex-warden of the United coun- | ties of Stormont, Dundas and Gden- | garry, was chosen the standard- bearer. Merrickville Barn Burned. { 1 3 i i ! { Merrickville, Oct. 1.--The bary be- | . | longing to the late George Bell was! Jet i 1] ¢ . Answer to yesterday's puzzle: Upper right corner down against arm. { destroyed by fire Sunday night with, {all its contents. The fire engine was'| | not in commission, but a bucket brig-| ade did great work, saving the ad- Joining property. The loss is about $2,000 with no insurance. Nothing makes a man 80 weary in after years as to have his wife talk about things that happened during their honeymoon. 'When you hear a man praising his neighbors, it's doughnuts to fudge he wants to sell his home. : A MEY PAGE FIVE f i 2 BIG BARGAINS | 70c. Red Rose Tea , 25¢. Clark's Pork & Beans 18c. Bon Marche Grocery Cor. King and Earl Streets, License No. 8-27149 Phone 1544, FOR SALE OVERLAND CAR (5 Passenger) In Good Condition ROBINSON & WILTSHIRE GARAGE 2392 Bagot St. Phone No. 177 EMPIRE GROCERY High Grade Groceries, Fruits and Vegetables, Cooked and Uncooked Meats, LEWIS ORR 320 King St. Phone 349 License No. 8.27445 Kingston Cement Products Factory 'Makers of Hollow Proof Cement Blocks, Sills, Lintles, and also Grave Vaults. And all kinds of Cement work Factory Damp- Bricks, Drain Tile, Ornamental of Charles and Patrick streets. PHONE 730W. Mgr., H. F. NORMAN cor -------- Pre Ferme ry Quality counts when you are buying food supplies more than any other article. Our stores' are stocked with the best that can be bought. Call and see or Phono 35380 The Unique Grocery and Meat Market 400 to 492 Princess Street C. H. PICKERING, Prop. gin = That Hair Mattress OR THOSE FEATHERS RENOVATEW WE ARE SHOULD BE NOW. SEE US EXPERTS. Kingston Mattress Company 556 Princess street. Phone $03w, pe se nw" TRIMMED. A PRICES FROM WHITE, 257 PRINCESS STREET. ETT CREPE DE CHENE WAISTS- SPECIAL PRICE FROM LADIES' AND MEN'S SWEATER COATS, $4.50 TO $12.30. ALL COLORS AND STYLES JOS. B. ABRAMSON -NAVY, BLACK, FLESH AND Our rent is low--our prices are-low. Star Fruit § Candy Store | If you want to have a good time on pleaies or holidays get your reah seasonable Fruit and Apis from Star Frult and Candy Store. apd 66 Princess Sireet. Phone 27. Board Candy, License: 11-410. Canada Fruit, + Food 98-1020; Attention TO OUR AUTOMATIC ROB SLEIGH COUPLING It's the only Coupling that leis the hind bob werk "all right all round Our new Bobs have them. them before b 8B please and pn See They will t you, + McNAMEE & SLACK The Repair Shop, 54 Queen St, Ph one 12Z1TW. We Want To Call Your cm A NI AEN G. WASHINGTON PREPARED . COFFEE made {un the cup at the table. All size cams in stock. Prompt Delivery. D. COUPER 241.3 Princess atret. Phome 74 The Cash Store 188 PRINCESS STREET FRESH FRUITS ARRIVING DAILY -- PEACHES, PEARS AND GRAPES. A carload for Fair Week. We have also a consignment of pure Clover Honey, in all size packages. The United Grocery 138 Princess St. Phone 207 Next to Standard Bank Amman? DEUREERREEER TORR ez Just Received ALL THE LATEST STYLES IN SALTS PLUSH COATS, FUR- $22.50 TO $75.00 THT J.88.73 TO %6.75. PRICED FROM PHONE 1288), En THT A AA A a A Att Pr EA i, mmm TRY OUR KIND OF SCHOOL SHOES OUR $4.00 1 TO 5 SCHOOL SHOE IS A RECORD BREAKER. It's the best $4.00 School Shoe for boys on earth. Best 8chogpl Shoe for the money that ever will be made. Other people who have seen this Schobl Shoe are speechless. There is really nothing to equal it. Bee this shoe--it talks for itself. Sizes 1 to 5. Sonn F J.H. Sutherland &Bro y X : § "HOME OF GOOD SHOES" *

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