Show REALLY NAMED FOR STATE mississippi river steamer steamers originated cognomen that has ha now become universal on the mississippi river in olden days the passenger steamboats were nere ery ornate nf affairs fairs ilig with each other in glory one owner hi lit on the ide ides of ranting his ills steam boats cabins instead of numbering them so he lie named them in lionor oi 01 the stats of the union oanh having liming abory the door the gilt title of somi tho the big central cabin being call ed the texas after the largest state other boat owners took up the idea end and thus the word ord cabin v vas ac grad haliy alternated by state room for eura ears the best cabin ius still known as the texas then that sobriquet died with the ebbing glory of 0 the old river steamers hut but the word nord stateroom became incorporated into our lan ian guage and in lit time oon broko broke into the dictionary as docs does many matiy another catch phrase not one person in h thou sand who occupies a stateroom knows tho the term once meant a room named for a state |