New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 7, 1927, Page 3

] ] ’ HOW T0 PRONOUNCE MEXICAN STATES Names of 98 Provinces Are! Not So Hard Names of Mexican states most difficult for Americans and their , sapproximate pronunciations are: Chihuahua, che-wah’-wah; Coa- huila, ko-a-wee'la; Zacatecas, sa-ka-tay’ kas; Jalisco, ha-lees™ Ko; Michoacan, me-cho-a-kan’; Guerrero, gayr-ray’-ro; Oaxaca, wa-ha'-kah; Guarajuato, gwa- | na-hwa'-to; Queretaro, Kay- | ray’-tah-ro; Tlaxcala, tlas-kah'- lah. o Washington, D. C., Feb. 7.—Dis- patches from Mexico have been | sprinkled with names of the United | States of Mexico; Jalisco, Durango, Tabasco and others. i Mexico has 28 states. Does the average American know whether Chiapas is on the Pacific or Atlan- | tic coats; whether Nayarit is in the | north, central or south in Mexico; if Aguascalientes is a large state or a small one; or it Campeche is iIn the | east or west in Mexico? Name the two territories of Mexico,’ is a question on which many Americans, who can name the 48 American state capitals and. the! Canadian provinces, would fail.” says & hulletin of the National Geogra- phic society from its headquarters in | Washingto:, D. C. Her Two Territories | “Lower California, dry, arid, mountainous and sparsely populated, is one Mexican territory not vyet granted status of a state. Fifteen hundred miles away from Lower California lies Mexico's other terri- tory, Quintana Roo, farthest south and farthest east. “It is common to think of Mexi- co as a great horn sprouting south from southwest United States. The position of the two Mexican terri- tories punctures this geographic myth. Mexico is not a thin nation. 1t is just as wide as it is long. While its westernmost city is Tiajuana, over the international line from San Diego, California, “the outermost point of the Yucatan Peninsula lies as far east as Indianapolls. Doesn't Equal Our Smallest or Largest “The United States has one small- er state than Mexico's smallest. Rhode Island fs 300 square miles smaller than Tlaxcala, which lies 50 miles east of Mexico City. Colima, & state on the Pacific coast of Mexico directly west of the capital, measures less than Delaware. But the largest state of Mexico, Chihuahua, across the border from New Mexico, is much smaller than the American giant, Texas. It approximates Ore- gon or Illinois and Indiana taken to- gether. “The States of Mexico were orig- inally laid out to coincide roughly with the areas occupied by the In- dian tribes which the Spaniards con- quered. Then the conquerors appor- tioned the districts among them- selves. Thus Hernando Cortes was ‘Marques del Valle’ of Oaxaca. As “Marques’ he laid waste the Zapotec Indians’ chief town, built 2 new city on the same site and named it Ante- quera, after a town of Spain near Malaga. When Mexico won its inde- pendence from Spain, the city re- sumed its old Zapotec name, Huax- jacac (modified in Spanish to Oax- aca) and the state took the same title. This is a story repeated with variations many times in Mexico. Practically all the states have re- sumed their Indian names. There are exceptions such as the States of Vera Cruz, San Luis Potosk Guana- juato and Nuevo Leon. “Low” States and “High” States. “Altheugh the anclent Aztecs, Za- potecs and Mayas are responsible for the boundaries of modern states of Mexico, the Dborders often outline definite geographic units. There is a classification handy for Mexican states which our republic cannot use to advantage. In Mexico there are now states, high states and higher states. The low states are the east. ern scaboard units from north to south, Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Vera Cruz and Tabasco. The Yuca- tan peninsula group of Capeche, Yu- catan and Quintana Roo also hugs sea level. Pacific coastal states are, tor the most part, low states too, but not so low as east coast states; Sin- aloa, Nayarit, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero, Oaxaca and Chiapas. 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The bodil h- headaches and dizzi; i ; i eficiem i Eir,::of eadaches and dizziness. lmpmierlndncy dict, however, colds and chills, hurry, or burning secretions. - NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1927. 3 Chihuahua, Coahufla and Durango, |as central Texas is & town Mexia, all of which lie in the Rio Grande | pronounced 'ma-he’-a,’ but Mexico, basin between the wide open arms of | Missouri, has the hard Anglo-Sax- the mountain ranges that border the cn ‘x* " famous Valley of Mexico. BRoKER A smeE “South of.Durango are the high- er states, and, it may be added the smaller, and the most populous and TEE thy richest states of Mexico. The ANeragellovation of 11 afafes’ang | 2851 Bond ‘Desler; Shoots’ Himselr the federal district is more than a| In Rooms at the Lotus Club In mile above sea level. Orizaba Peak | 125 miles southeast of Mexico City,| New York. dividers opened to a sifty degree! . angle. Each arm of the dxvmef: is Was being made today for the fam- 'a mountain range, the left arm. con- ily of Edward Webster Wilson, aged necting with the Rocky Mountains "™ond broker, who shot himself to and the right losing itself at Mon- | death with a revolver in his rooms terey. |at the Lotus elub yesterday. “Between the arms spreads thei Like the mysterious suiclde of fertile mile-high or higher reglon Willlam E. Knox, president of the of blue lakes and fruitful valleys, Bowery Savings bank two days be- elevated enough to have an equable fore, police were unable to uncover climate. Just as the mountain @ motive except possible {ll health. ranges converge on Orizaba, so the| Despite every effort to get in touch trade routes converge on Mexico With Wilson's family, police were un- City. Like Washington, the Mexi- able to find them. A will found in can capital has been isolated within Wilson's room left his estate to his a small ‘Distrito Federal! adminis- Wife and daughter. He was presi- tered by the national congress. But dent of the Knox Hat Co. there is this difference, Mexico City| Described as a reticent man, some- is the New York as well as the What of a recluse, and about 70 Washington of Mexico. Its populn_‘yflarfl old, Wilson told his club tion of 906,000 nearly equals thatfriends little of his family affaire. of the most populous of the natlon's During recent months he was sald provinces. : EECE R ot e 5 . rom a woman presumel Just as the United has, in the || SO0 R YO0 State of Washipgton, a common- | $ % wealth named for the hero of usigmf“fihf"fi?fy‘?g L Revolution, so Mexico has honored |*; ¥ the fatlier of its freedom from | [Fiease forgive me. If anything Spain. Padre Hidalgo was a parish priest in Dolorss, in the' state of fil“’;‘o';“":‘a'l‘;"l'ov";‘;:]D’;:sli‘;s"l"%v:“;g: ‘mart'. with offices in the Singer build- come Dolores Hidalgo. A near-by |18 k : area of 8,000 square miles of the| VVison. who was born In Massa- Valley of Mexico has been carvea out to make the state of Hidalgo. South of Mexico city another rela- tively small state, Morelos, honors arather hero of Mexico's revolution. “Difficulties of pronunciation are a barrier to a development of Amer- ican intercst in Mexico. A man con- fronted with the name ‘Oaxaca’ is inclined to let the whole subject drop! | “Mexican names are difficult. In|_ € Mexica there are far more names | Fditor. Herald: in honor of the Indian than in the | Which was the coldest day United States. Aztecs and Mayas |January, 1927, in Connecticut? loved ‘' and ‘c’ and ‘x’! Of course |Was it the 26th or 27th? they had no written language In- | E. G. telligible today. So the crackling Indian nam>s must be expressed in | ‘Weather bureau officials advi soft Spanish. In the United States Us that the lowest temperature o we have Anglicized the Spanish- ficlally recorded in January was Indian names. The name of Mexico jbelow on January 27T. and its capital serves as a good ex- | ample. The central shrine of the | e Aztec capital was dedicated to Mex- | Horseshoes junked in the United itll, the war god. Spaniards re- |States are being shipped to China, vamped the mame to Mexico, pro- |where mechanics use the chilled fron nounced meh’-he-ko. As far north |in making knives. !dertaker, Campbell’'s Funeral churc! land my executor, George P. Bow |ried three times. One marriage was to a Miss Rumrlll, of Syracuse, N. |New York city., and the third to Rosita Stewart Gilbraith. It was km\id he had four children living. COMMUNICATED COLDEST DAY IN JANUARY —Ed. GUARDS BATHER’S FACE FROM SU ‘Underwood and Underwood i Depend on the sand-witches for several new fads a sea- son. Latest style, however, smacks of the practical. It's the sun-Helmet. 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