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HOW CAME THE JONESES TO EXISTENCE?
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HOW CAME THE JONESES TO EXISTENCE? This is the Western .MaWs answer to the above interesting inquiry Englishmen had been accustomed to take as their surname the possessive case of the paternal name. Thus, Thomas, the son of Hob or Hick, became Thomas Hob's or Hick's, and these finally became simply Hobs and Hicks. Now, the Welsh have no genitive case. Possession, ownership, is indicated by the relative position of words, so that they could not give exactly the English possessive termina- tion to their names, and this stage was, conse- quently, omitted, and when, in the sixteenth century everybody of consequence was feeling about for the dignity of a surname, they adopted the English practice of appending the possessive 4 s' without the apostrophe, which they did not understand. Thus, Thomas ap David, who had already become Thomas David-which, by the position of the words, really meant David's son Thomas, exactly the same as Thomas ap David -took the English 's,' and became Thomas Davids, from which finally emerged Davies or Davis. David, the pious Welsh, of course, got from the Bible, and it was a very favourite name with them; hence the great army of Welsh Davises. But a still more popular name was the New Testament John, which, however, poor Taffy, not having any j' in his alphabet, could not spell or pronounce as we do He had to use sh' for our 'j,' and John with him became 'Shone,' to which, when he wanted to become fashionable and make a cognomen of it, he added the s,' like his English neighbour, and the great tribe of Joneses were thus born in a single generation. They are not, therefore, the ancient race they are sometimes taken for, but merely a large body of fashionable Johnnies, who first aired their gentility about three cen- turies ago, and have been multiplying ever since."
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Trades & Professional Directory. AUCTIONEERS AND HOUSE AGENTS. Chadwick & Sons, 43, St. Martin's Lane, W.C. Cronk, Messrs., 12, Pall Mall, S.W., and Sevenoaks, Kent. Garvey & Gook, 19, Regent Street, S.W.. Stimson & Sons, 8, Moorgate Street, E.C. BAKERS AND CONFECTIONERS. Hillas, J Steam Bakeries, Goodinge Road, N. BATHS (ELECTRIC). St. James' Electric Baths, York Street, Jermyn Street. W. DAIRY AGENTS. Davies, W., 160, High Holborn, W.C. Thomas & Co., T. R., 143, Strand, W.C. Truscott, D. J. & Co 11, Bond Street, Walbrook, E.C. Willings, H. & Co., 125, Fleet Street, E.C. DAIRY CONTRACTORS. Dairy Supply Co., Museum Street, W C. Great Western and Metropolitan Dairies, 9, Harrow Road, Paddington, W. DRAPERS AND LADIES' OUTFITTERS. Davies, Evan, 224, Edgware Road, W. DINING ROOMS AND RESTAURANTS. Chnk's Restaurant, 120, Long Acre, W.C. Cumberland Dining Rooms, 12, Brewer Street, Regent Street, W. Noon's Hotel, 69, High Holborn, W.C. Trafalgar Hotel and Dining Rooms, 43, Chandos Street, W.C. 43, Bedford Street, W.C.; i, Duke Street, Adelphi, W.C. ELECTROTYPERS AND STEREOTYPERS. Harrison & Sons, 45-47, St. Martin's Lane, W.C. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS. Cunnington, J. S., 93, St. Martin's Lane, W.C. ENGRAVERS. Half-Tone Engraving Co., 25, Farringdon Avenue, E.C. JEWELLERS AND SILVERSMITHS. Bowman, Messrs., 68-70, Goswell Road, E.C. MINERAL WATER MANUFACTURERS. Paul, N. & Co., King's Road, St. Pancras, N. W. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT MAKERS. Butler, Messrs 29, Haymarket, W. Karn, The, D. W. Co., 3, Newman Street, Oxford Street, W. Sayers, F 41, Lewis Grove, High Street, Lewisham. Strong, J., 118, Euston Road, N.W. Withers, G. & Son, 22, Leicester Square, W.C. NUMISMATISTS. Lincoln, W. S. & Son, 69, New Oxford Street, W.C. PICTURE FRAME DEALERS Thomas & Co., 14, New Oxford Street, W.C PRINTERS. Couldrey, Walter, 214, Old Kent Road, S.E. Harrison & Sons, Welsh Printers, 45-47, St. Martin's Lane, W.C. PROFESSORS OF SINGING. Davies, Madoc, 118, Euston Road, N.W. PUBLISHERS. Harrison & Sons, 45, Pall Mall, S.W. Y Gomer Press, 9, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street, E C. TAILORS AND OUTFITTERS. Cameron, H., 145, Cannon Street, E.C. Child, N. & H., 43, St. Martin's Lane, W.C. Jones, E. H., 179, Aldersgate Street, E.C. Walton, Isaac & Co., 97-101, Newington Causeway S.E. 1-9, Ludgate Hill. E.C. 518-522, Brixton Road, S.W. and 442-446, Holloway Road, N. TEA MERCHANTS. Robinson & Hughes, 394, Walworth Road, S.E. TOBACCONISTS. Jupp, E. S., 8, St. Alban's Place, St. James', S.W. Edwards Ringer & Co., Ltd, 60, Redcliff Street, Bristol. WHOLESALE STATIONERS. Harrison & Sons, 45-47, St. Martin's Lane, W.C. UNDERTAKERS. Cooksey & Son, 266, Upper Street, Islington, and 52 Amwell Street, Pentonville, N.
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Home News. CARDIGAN At the annual college concert at Aberystwyth on Friday Mr. David Jenkins's oratorio "Job" was performed. The Law Department of the University College, Aberystwyth, has received a grant of £ 250 from the Incorporated Law Society on account of lectures on English law delivered at Swansea and other work of the same nature. This makes a total of ^350 received during the present year from this source. The grant was made in response to a joint petition sent up by the Swansea and Chester Law Societies, and it is expected that it will be an annual one. CARNARVON. The supremacy of Hen Wlad fy Nhadau" is to be challenged. The ^25 prize offered by Mr. R. A. Naylor for a new Welsh national anthem has attracted nine compositions for competition at the approaching Easter Eisteddfod at Carnarvon. At the Palace, Glyn Garth, on Friday, the Bishop of Bangor licensed the Rev. D. Basil Jones, late of Holyhead, to the curacy of Barmouth, the Rev. David- Lewis (Ap Ceredigion) to the curacy of Llanllechid, and the Rev. John Hughes to the curacy of Llandudno. The Rev. D. R. Pugh was collated to the vicarage of Towyn, Merionethshire. GLAMORGAN. An alarming subsidence occurred on the Neath Road, Ystradgynlais, on Saturday night, due apparently to old workings near the surface, and a haulier narrowly escaped being involved in the collapse. The Council of the Cardiff Cymmrodorion Society last night, on the suggestion ot Sir Marchant Williams, decided to make a presenta- tion to their late hon. secretary, Mr. J. Rowlands, and afterwards appointed Mr. Isaac V. Evans, inspector of schools, as Mr.-Rowlands' successor. The South Wales and Monmouthshire district for the inspection of factories, which at present has its headquarters at Swansea, is about to be divided, the eastern part of Glamorgan, with Monmouth- shire, being constituted a separate district, with an office at Cardiff, from the end of the present month. Mr. John Williams, the member for Gower, has had an unique experience. He writes I have received a letter of no fewer than 1,700 pages, closely written. It is a grievance about one person only, who has been wrongly brought into court, and this extraordinarily long letter asks me to bring in a Bill to make this prosecution impossible." The Swansea Education Authority decided to defend the action raised against that body by the managers of the Church voluntary schools with reference to the recovery of 40 per cent. of the school fees-the proportion which had been decided to be payable by the committee, but which they alleged had been arrived at on incomplete informa- tion. MONMOUTH. Commenting on the teaching of Welsh at day schools at Newport the other evening, Mr. J. Kyrl Fletcher, the Anglo-Saxon Welshman," said he had not met a schoolboy at Newport who could recite half a dozen lines of Islwyn's or Ceiriog's works. MERIONETH. A widow appeared before the Festiniog Board of Guardians the other day to apply for out-relief in order to rear her children. A lady guardian said that she was strong and active and wore expensive t furs and the latest fashion in hats. The gentlemen guardians were, however, more gallant. They agreed to give her 5s. a week. On Saturday morning all the quarrymen em- ployed at the Bryneglwys Slate Quarry, Towyn, were summoned to a mass meeting, when the Manager (Mr. Meyrick Roberts) informed them that fifty-two of the men would have to be dis- charged. He said it was the most painful duty he had ever had to perform, but in face of the great depression in the trade there was no other course to take.
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D, COOKSEY SON, Inexpensive & Modern Funerals. (Price List on Application). 266, UPPER STREET, ISLINGTON, and 52, AMWELL STREET, PENTONVILLE. Carriage Department, 97, CHAPEL STREET Telephone NOf. 30 and 601, KING'S CROSS.
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Football Chat. [By PEL DROED.] London Welsh again Victorious.—Last Satur- day the London Welsh again proved their claim to be considered a really first-class football organisation by their signal victory over Black- heath. London Welsh are certainly the best Rugby club playing the game in the British Metropolis. There was no fluke about the win over the Heathens. The London Welshmen were the superior all round team, and their superiority was very generally admitted by the supporters of Blackheath and the Press critics alike. England v. Wales.-The Association Inter- national contest at Cardiff on Monday drew a record crowd for a Soccer match, fully 15,000 spectators being present and the receipts being the biggest taken at any Association Inter- national in Wales. It was not a very brilliant match, although at times there was some pretty play. England hardly deserved their victory of one goal to nil; indeed Wales had extremely hard luck in not scoring on several occasions, and the loss of A. T. Jones early in the game proved a very great disadvantage to the Welsh side. The match amply demonstrated the fact that Association football has made consider- able strides in South Wales within the last few years. The Cardiff Team.—The Cardiff team easily vanquished the Newport Club on Saturday. Up to date the Cardiffians have not been beaten this season by any British team. Their one defeat has been at the hands of New Zealand, and even that defeat was due to a palpable blunder by one of the Cardiff players. To- day (Saturday) Cardiff meet Swansea, and a very keen tussle is ceitain to be witnessed, as the All Whites are fully bent on making a great effort to defeat the Cardiffians.