NAME THIS HOUSE

Shannon News, 17 February 1928, Page 3

NAME THIS HOUSE

If you arc suddenly asked to suggest names for six new houses it •makes you a little more observant iii your study of titles printed on gardei. gates. And you will, perhaps, bi amazed to note the eccentricity of tin .same in various neighbourhoods (say.a writer in the Newcastle Wccklj Chronicle). Men settling down afte, the war seem to have wished to ex press themselves as slangily as possible, in foreign terms, or more oftei in words suggesting rest and peace. So we get Dunroamhv Sum 'Opes, Pr> Tern, Tres Bon, Mon Abri. Our Ou; Out, Desire, Query, and Journey End. A crop of every 'kind of nam. containing '''Homo" in it is popnbn also the Latin form of Dulee Domun. The names suggesting rest are varied some rather beautiful, some 100 lrg: flown and nonsensical A few in on< particular neighbourhood are Lazj land, Arcadia, Nirvana, Lullaby (wit 1 Picciola next door.), Harmony, Plo cilia, Bide a Wee, Rost-a-wyle (am many variations of "Rest," such a Rest-harrow, including simply Th Rest), Pax/ and Eventide, with twor, perhaps, greater leaufy, . Groo Pastures and Grass Valley. Size—o rather lack of size—is a feature in th house-names of to day, for compart, lively few mansions are being bulb So wc find Arks and Noah's Ark: Kosi Kots, Huts, Hutches, Nesi (sometimes belonging to rob'.ns, wrenor swallows ), Nutchells, and Acor Cottages, and in one case The Mat el" box by way of variation. Literal';, people may choose book titles. Stell Maris and Oranford are happier exan pies than some. Characters taken froi plays and fairy stories also appe;i; Wendy, Thik-a-boll. and possibly Pu-> in- Boris, and ITop-o'-My Tliumb wer: chosen to please children. Queer, Tin. Oral) <co Girl, Be Gnome, Penguin, Tin B'rd and 'Die Wigwam are much to. bizarre to please people. Sunrise Sunlit, Sunset, Morning Dawn, am

Phe Star.-; may suggest that thn; owners are poetical, but there is a slight ring of affectation about sucl names as Ye 01 do House at Home and Ye 01 do Tilehouse. But Ye Old Barm The Winlrnill. and Malthouscs can br quite charming' when suggesting origins of old buildings. Bruff, The Four Winds, Windyhaugh are good names for the »open hillside, and The Chimes fir a house in an old-world cathedral city. Still, when all is said and done, one "rows a little, weary of the form of self-expression that perpetrates itself in house names. And - to see plain Twcrily-ono painted in clear letters <m a garden gate is a relief rather than otherwise.