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look,” “Overlook,” “Lookout,” and “Sun- 
nyside,” “Shadyside,” “Morningside,” 
“Brightside,” “Daybreak,” “Sunburst,” 
are all significant. 
A play on the owner's name sometimes 
gives a pleasing touch of individuality. 
Mr. Vanderbilt’s “Biltmore,” Mr. How¬ 
ard’s “Howardon,” the “Sherwood Forest" 
of the E. E. Sherwood family and Mr. 
Hazard’s amusing “Hap-Hazard” are 
good examples of this class of names. 
The very cleverest one, however, is the 
name of a cottage owned by Mr. Maurice 
Sheppard, “Shieling,” the Hebrides’ word 
for Shepherd’s hut. 
This use of Shieling is suggestive, too, 
of another class of words — those from 
other languages that have appropriate 
meanings. Nothing could be better than 
the Japanese “Nikko” — Sunshine — for the 
popular Japanese cottage; the German 
“Herzheim” — heart home — just fits the 
Dutch architecture; while no name could 
be prettier or more suitable for a lodge in 
our American forests than some of the 
musical words of our native Indians. 
“Mohegan,” “Minnehaha” (Laughing 
Water), “The Long House,” “Antlers." 
“Arrow Head,” “Horicon,” “Uncos," 
“Manitou,” are a few of these names. 
The lover of Cooper will easily add to the 
list. 
From Cooper the search leads to other 
books and authors, for there is real joy 
in linking the place of rest and leisure with 
one’s favorite poem or romance. Of 
course the mistress of “Boffin’s Bower” 
will have a set of Dickens on her shelves, 
as the owner of “Kenilworth,” “Melrose, ’ 
or “Woodstock” will bring her Scott with 
her. It was the boy of the family who 
names the summering place on one of the 
Thousand Islands, “Treasure Island,” 
and the grandfather who christened an¬ 
other one “Ellerslie,” from his own boy¬ 
hood favorite, “The Scottish Chiefs.” 
“Windermere,” “Atlantis,” “Acadie,” 
“Westward Ho,” “Rip Van Winkle” — 
what a suggestion of blissful sleep — 
“Rosemary,” “Brook Farm,” “Avelon," 
“Appledore,” “Valkyrie” and Madame 
Modjeska’s “Arden” are all of this class. 
Sometimes, however, the summer home 
is such a deep delight, such a realization 
of long cherished hopes and plans, that 
the owner feels that nothing short of the 
expression of his satisfaction in the ac¬ 
complishment will serve for a name. This 
is naming the summer home for what it 
looks like subjectively. A few such names 
are. “Rest-well,” “Eureka,” “Eden Bay,” 
“Paradise Point.” “Joy Land,” “Liberty 
Camp,” “Peace Haven,” “Hope Cottage," 
“Heart’s Desire.” One couple called the 
new cottage in which they spent their 
honeymoon “Hearts Content.” They 
have spent their summers there ever since 
for thirty years, and it has always been 
“Heart’s Content” to them and their chil¬ 
dren. 
Perhaps this list would not be complete 
without a mention of a class of names that 
may be called facetious. When witty and 
apt, these names are often amusing, but, 
Knobs and escutcheons with simple -ornament: ure popular,, particularly ror Colonial, 
Craftsman and Mission homes. 
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