Show what s in a name FACTS bout about bour name it s hutor nisto or MILDRED meaning whence it boss va den denied ed MARSHALL cancer your lucka luck jag dr and 64 bucit ewel jewel RUTH 0 ONE NE of the loveliest names in the feminine category la Is ruth it cornea comes to us shrouded in mystery and bearing he lie tragic sweetness of 11 cal eat story the origin of the name has never been oen satisfactorily determined some cay hat that it comes from a hebrew word meaning trembling othera others that its origin lies iles in a bord from the same language meaning joined together but all agree that it must hae we some connection with the word reuth rei ith beauty an an a english common noun hath ruth has come to mean sorrow pity compassion ra eslon that it receives this in from the story of the bentie gentie and faithful ruth of biblical history Is open to belief certainly the most famous ruth of the th aces was the lovely daughter ln in law of naoma who followed her into her own tar far country and gleaned the grain from the field fields that they two might be fed artist artists have immortalized ruth the gleaner standing in the fields superb in her full blown hebrew beauty with the sheaves of grain clasped to her breast it was huth ruth who voiced that ex promise which I 1 Is synonymous with lilt deo deletion tion in the worlds famous utterances I thither hither thou roest I 1 will go and here thou 1041 lodge gest I 1 will lodge thy people shall be ray my people and thy god my god according to the biblical story ruth became the wife of boaz no nickname has ever been evolved for ruth the name preserved its dignity anil and pathetic sweetness throughout its it history it has been adopted in a popular sense only by the english language in accordance with its significance the pearl has hits been aligned ru aluth ill as her t alls manic stone though the be pearl in this in stance probably means tears it will undoubtedly produce the opposite ef feet upon lie the wearer just as the opal ceases to be unlucky for those whose birth month Is october pearls worn om by ruth will counteract her heritage to dorrow thomas hood flood expresses the poets ideal of ruth she stands tand breast high among the th corn com gasped by the kolden golden light of morn uke the sweetheart of the sun un who many a blowing kill kiss hits won by Vh lr Icat inot inea |