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Show 'FATHER' AND 'MOTHER' BEST No Other Names for Parent Carry the 8ame Deep Meaning of Reverent Love. "Father" and 'mother" are difficult words to Improve upon when one thinks of the associations they convey, and the dignity of their meaning, remarks re-marks London Answers. Many, however, have been the offshoots off-shoots of these appellations. "Papa" and "mamma" have been In use la England for at least three centuries, ,and it la generaHy eocept erf bafc, are of Italian origin, as Dante use the word "mamma" In the Purgatorlo. Among middle cla.ts folk "dad" or "daddy" is a favorite nickname. "Dad" la of pure Welsh extraction, and la derived de-rived from, or l a corruption of, the word "tad." "Puter" and "mater" make their appearance ap-pearance when students are in the throes of Latin grammar. "Poppa" and "momma" bave appealed to the young American. None of these nlcknamee, or term of endearment, can, however, approach, the beautiful Anglo-Saxon definition of parents "father" and "mother," and It 1s these terms that one clings to when childhood's days are over. o |
