Show in a name by MILDRED MARSHALL facts fact about your name its meaning it we derived significance your lucky day and ducly jewel HETTY HE simple little name of hetty tty THE suggestive of pleas pleasant lint homely domesticity has a lofty sig ance it Is translated to mall luran a star perhaps after nil all the steady bright insistence of the stars may have some psychic reference to the generally accepted conception of the bettys of tile the world hetty Is in reality the endearing diminutive given to the more dignified nester hester but so coldly austere Is the latter name that hetty has come to be bestowed in baptism with nith completed disregard for its proper predecessor hetty came into existence by a rather complicated evolution through several languages the fair daughter of I 1 the tribe of benjamin whose royalty insured her peoples safety was called atossa her name imme in the persian language quite unpronounceable was combined with the latin word for star stella and from the union came the modern estrella estrell ni in the septuagint the Romans make this word hestera or esthera la in england the a wits was dropped ani and hester and esther were bestowed ns as feminine names the latter became esste essie when the inevitable diminutive was forthcoming and hester soon gave place to hetty though the original form was usually preserved on oil the church registers it was for america to gayly discard the proper appellative appe lintl v 3 and substitute hetty for all occasions bettys talismanic lc stone is 1 the turquoise which promises iier her steadfast friends true love and freedom from danker danger if she sees tile new moon reflected ted in the stone slie site will have lave rare good luck saturday Is her lucky day and five alve iier her lucky number copyright 0 |