Show Ella Wheeler Wilcox t I I h. h She Against the Lac Lack k of Originality Displayed in I I Naming Cities and Towns j n Is IK supposed J to be lIl the the- cen en ent t tre-of tre or orri ri thuu though thoughts ti h s and Ideas Ideal if Ir z toria 1 wa way vay I It sta started ou out t in the days nS n'S of or our Pilgrim rather father an and mut mothers s. to tu build buildup up JJ a republic oi on pro progressive lines hues and to get gel away from frum old tra traditions In some oine respects it succeeded in others it has bas made a lamentable fall failure u l' l In thu matter of or names for Its towns It has ha shown a paucity of am ama and anda a limitation of f imagination that Is no not only painful but most annoying to its citizen and at ut times disastrous to their theil be best t interests There al' al are in the United States thirty nine towns tos named Washington tun thirty five fi e TAn Lin coin Warren anen twentythree twenty- twenty lb three ree Jamestown t twenty seven en c u thirty Madison twenty four Troy nineteen Waterloo eleven Va town tet-town twenty Hartford ten Warsaw Wai eight WashbUrn An And one I 1 hid fifty fin other towns l te l over I and rind over o again by looking through thaou h a n directory There teems seems to tL be bc little reason on or sentiment a associated with an any n of these names save the t fu first lt t t t tuo 0 o. o Yet even In this case rase n e It would have lave been beau CU more nore complimentary and original t to h have c 1 called all the Ic lesser sel Washing Washing- tons b bv by some word suggestive of Ya tons ton's deeds First Father would be an unusual name tiame for a city and would give I It some character of or Its Its' own man Great would woul be another another an an- other other neb Rebellion a third For a It memorial to in Lincoln host Whole Mighty l h t man Shackle Shackle supply three towns with better r n names than meie mci-c repetitions repetition Then our oua country should hould have made mad madI I It ita a a duly duty to 10 I keep cep the native nathe Tn Indian lan words to 10 a great r d degree r lh The rie Indian dl dialect Is Ig till full ull of picturesque words Old which certainly lend more individuality f I. I allt allty to a l location than a dozen ozon i Jane and un L There Thero is nothing of Interest in the tho Va Vest fIe cst vii Ic West West- n td Was or 01 Middletown c esp especially b when i a score or more inure places bear hear the same ame uI ugly co cognomen Every town should cop copyright H It t annie Then it would suggest no i place and lost lest m mull and express cx pack packages a ages cs would cease to wander over lh th whole continent seeking for The rue mind of or man would be bt forced cd ac rl t u 1 Invent enl new nanis nani's s- s sand nod and for rOl hIs C ch I. so t I place of resl residence ence There Thell is ill a vast U ft deal I In J a Q name name Tho The town more mUlO than till the Individual suffers from frum a universal CO John Smith suffers suffer only o Jy a n years eaas at longest but Johnstown sui ur thousand from rol ha fars fels for a years yeaS's iii no no character In It itA tide The i lilt ut t commonplaceness of tile the n names un h In lo towed upon unu unusual ual und nod beautiful st shore resorts Is I suggestive of gd fat fathers u I who SIO devoid old of a n st st. t 1 of fitness an and who were without Im Im- un- un On the Sound an un artistic and l l i place ma may 1 be found foun known as St Sn n. Creek There Is a u large expanse i isalt salt ait at water l' l and a u group of Incomputable 1 able islands known as The at le report t. I If there Is a creek or 01 I If It is stony stony ton no one cares caie Tin Th place should have been d Thimble land Islands and thus allowed to present the idea den of or its usual chat chut in III into to ever every one oue who rho hears it ft spoken An Another I other resort report more tely bea beautiful u t I ful than an any pot to be bc found toun between Now New York and anti New London Is known as Short Beach Magnificent pink granite rocks rocki surround a beautiful bay ba where splendid trees grow glOW tl to the thC waters water's r Granite Bay or w t edge edS' Boulder na Bay would be appropriate names for tills thin summer paradise purt AsIt As At AsIt It Is a lar large e percentage c of or letters express ex OX- press PISS packages s and visitors seeking this spot go to Sound Beach I Long LongBeach Beach h South Bench Beach and a n halt half hundred better bettel known each Beach named i I places before the they t the he Eden I IsH j i sH sheltered b by rocks and trees J JOur I Our country is growing and no note no j I I towns are arc Eplin springing ln up UI all about u us Let every everyone one with Influence use It H so 80 fur far as J possible in choosing choosing- new Interesting Interesting Inter Inter- I I esting and distinctive names for new places I |