Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1891 — Giving Big Names. [ARTICLE]

Giving Big Names.

The custom of fastening lengthy and imposing uames upon small and dwelling is a peculiar and distinctively English one. says the New York Commercial Advertiser. These names look particularly well when blazoned upon writing-paper, and serve to impress the distant correspondent. who has never visited the writer’s establishment, with the magnificence of the same. But threefourths of them are basely deceptive. “Buckingham Hall, Uppington-Gads-bury-on-the-Wopple, Chutneysbire,” is quite liable to materialize, in the shape of a two-story cottage with an acre of ground around it, while the numerous “mansions" with highsounding prefixes which abound in the suburban districts of London rarely boast of more than ten rooms. The gentle Anglomanias is just beginning to acquire this little trick, and those of him who live in the upper parts of town are beginning to endow their homes with sweetly British names. A plate in the en-graving-room of a well-known local stationer reads as follows: “ Hall, Carmansvill-on-the-Hudson, New York, N.” Anything more superlatively Londony could not be desired, and if this’ fashion spreads to Jersy City and Astoria the results will be sadden ing to contemplate. Fancy a letter dated from “The Dunkeries, Astoria, N. N. E.,’’ or “Smuggington Cottage, opposite-the-freight-depot, 'Jersey City, S. W."

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