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WORRYING ABOUT UNCOUTH NAMES. In this lime of national crisis for Germany. The Frankfurt Zeituag, one of the leading news papers of the country, -till eveicisc- Itself over equine nomenclature, and particularly the Angli cizing tendency. In eliminating the latter. The Zoitung says there has also been a deviation from good taste. The complaint is: The rage for bestowing English names .n c,,.r-man race horses has been dealt a doughty blow by the war. Of war like names such as Cannon, Cartridge. Hindenbnrg and Dunkirk there is ,10 lack. The pity of it is. however, that so many of the Bear designations, though no longer English, should be so senseless and tasteless. Nobody, for example, can understand why the Royal Irus-iar, Horse Society should give horses such names as Aerial. Front. Deficit, Foeu.-. Observation Trench, etc. Tien we have Pioneer Party. Gravedigger. Chocolate Tart, and aach like. Is the German language so poof, then, we should like to ask. Unit for a few hundred anim.il- it cannot provide decent and -eusible name;. If tint s the case, then in heavens name let us return to the former English nomenclature. It i- 10,1 so. however. The old German mythology is a very treasure house of appropriate name- for Gill BIBB horses. Surely Siegfried. Tristan, Brunhilde, Gun ther. Wulfram, Lohengrin, Artninius and many other German hero names sound better than Chocolate Tart, Deficit. Gravedigger! It is realty a question with which the Royal It 11 -ian Socii-t.v iiih well occupy itself, fir. .1- it stands at present, in our hurry to shed he anlefnl English names we have made ourselves rather ridiculous.
