Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON J A GOOD BRA BRAND D TT T HAS become so common with us ua to speak of the output of a certain manufacturer a product familiar under a certain name as such and such a brand that the word Is accepted without curiosity as to its origin As a matter of fact there Is no apparent connection between the word and the label on canned goods for or instance the missing link Is supplied in the story of afie origin of the expression in this use of word brand the reference Is to a brand as a mark like that for instance with which western ranchers still designate the owner ownership of cattle in our modern civilization there are few uses tor for the branding iron except in marking cattle cut but in olden times human flesh was not beyond its reach branding at one time being a familiar punishment for certain Of fences so tide the word ard brandl brand became synonymous 1 with mark amark 0 a and pd goods bearing a certain mark became known as belonging to that brand as we know mow it la 14 common parlance today I 1 21 1 |