'What's in a Name I 



lower valley St. Louis and New Or- 

 leans, both French, and therefore, out 

 of place. Why not let those names 

 pass to rest, along with juleps, 

 "toddies" and other relics of dead 

 Bourbon dynasties? 



The answer to all this is of course 

 the loyalty of the early explorers and 

 colonizers to their respective home- 

 lands, but the fact remains never- 

 theless that Chicago alone owns the 

 only typical North American name in 

 the entire list of cities of the first 

 magnitude. But we have forgotten to 

 refer to the Mother City of them all 

 Boston. This is not only English, but 

 in its etymology awful to contemplate, 

 from the standpoint of the Back Bay. 

 Boston = Bos-town, Bos = cow. Now, 

 Cow-town, or Cowton, would doubt- 

 less exactly meet Commonwealth 

 Avenue's idea of what Chicago as the 

 packinghouse center of the world 

 should have been called, but to have 

 it saddled upon the home of the old 



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