Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1886 — What Your Name Means. [ARTICLE]

What Your Name Means.

The only Frank I know is short and stout, and a slow thinker, who begins to dribble out his words before his thought is ready, and then has to make a clumsy pause while the poor slow thing is overtaking him. How different from the bright and winning Frank of fiction. How many Georges does one know who slay their dragons? Tom is somewhere near Jack, but less attractive, for these yielding, susceptible sinners are generally very likable. Andrew is not. He is slow and sure, and quite reliable, so far as his own interests jump with yours. I think I should hate to be married to an Andrew ; that is, the typical Andrew. As to John and James, they are either John and James, or else Jack and Jim, and worlds divide these from each other. James and John are fixed stars—Jim and Jack are planets, if not comets, with the exception that not all the science in the world could with certainty predict their movements. Then there is Alfred, often a quite unbearable prig, while Fred is the very contrary. Frederick is a very different man from Fred, and it seems as impossible for Harry to grow old as it is for Henry to be very young. Charlie is surrounded by historic grace, which disappears when we examine into facts, but the name is improved by the cloudy halo that surrounds it. But Charles! Oh, “Charles” is dreadful.— London Truth. Dr. T. M. Coan, writing of cereal foods and milling, remarks that “the virtues of wheat are unlocked first by the miller; second, by the baker. In both processes more improvement has taken place within the last twenty years than during the whole previous history of civilized man.” The millstone is being replaced by a Hungarian invention which pulverizes the grain by rollers with less heat of friction. Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.