The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1850-10-19

FEMALE NAMES.

name IN both sacred and profsne history.
In all ages. from the time Of Mary the
mother of Jesus. to that of Mary the mother
of Washington. the name has literally been
exalted. 1t has been linked with titles
and pOwer-with crowns aud coronets, ami
adorned by goodness and beauty. Mary
has ever been a tavotite name with the pu-
cts. Byron as he assures US, felt an ab-
} solute passion for it. 1t is interviewer with
some of its sweetest verses. The peasant
poet. Burns. seems to have been as much
attached to it as the author Of Chitde Har-
old. 1t is still the theme of bards and
bardings unnumbered. We might fill
column or two here with songs, sonnets
and ballads in the melody Of whose verse
the NEST musical syllables are those which
form the charming name of Mary. But
where much presents itself we can quote
nothing We need quote nothing, for.
Tie very music of the name has gone
Into our being
Let the motto. or the toast if YOU will,
be the single line of Cryan Waller Proctor,
''Heres health to thee, Mary"
SARAH is almost as common Il name as
Mary, but it lacks the prestige which histor-
lcal and poeticaI association throw around
the latter. 1t is also from the Hebrew,
and signifies princess. In poetry it takes
| the form of Sally or Saiiie. and is found in
many love song and ballad. Sally is
sometimes contracted to Sal, which is nei-
ther poetical nor euphonious.
''Laughng. prlttIing, sportive Sallie,
Now tell me what shall be
The TINT Of skv, sunlit starry,
To which FL liken thee
The sottest shades of heaven ov blue
those lustrons eyes seem melting through
SUSAN. another name of Hebrew origin.
signifies a lily. In poetry it is usually
seen IN its contracted form of Size. 1t is a
pretty tame, and is immortaized in GAYS
we'll known ballad. The signi6caton Of
the name is very happily introduced in the
'Adie", she cried and wa, ed her lily hand,
MABEL. is probably derived from ma bel-
!o'-s,sn'ties my fair; though some sup
pose that it is contracted from uDsabiHs-
loUely or o"aaob/e. 1t is d good name in
either case, Hewitt, has ballad comme,,-
cling,
g Arise, my maiden Mabel
which IS the only poem we now recolect
IN which the name occurs.
Ursula, name associated in our mind
with homeliness of face and goodness of
heart concealed under the veil of a nun, is
from the Latin. and signifies nothing more
amIable than female bear! Who. know
ing this, will give the name to child:
BLANCHE. one of the sweetest names
ever borne by woman, is from the French.
and signifies ~hite or .faiy. Mary Hewitt
makes the orange flower its floral type -
g All, Cousin Blanche let's see
What's the flower resembling thee.
With those dove-like eyes of thine
And thy fair hairs silken twine,
With thy low, broad forehead, white
AS marble, and purely bright
with thy lips calm and sweet
And thy dainty hands and feet;
what's the flower most like to thee?
blossom OF the orange tree -
Lucy. III It's French from Lucie, signi-
hes lucid, and comes from the Latin.
Lucy is golden girl,''
says Bryan Proctor, an,i many will echo the
line. Lucy is favorte name with almost
every one. Wordsworth has made it
one Of the
''Names welded unto song,'
And lovely indeed is the maiden bear
Ing that sweet name, whom nature propo-
ses to mould at will to her own tastes
''She will be sportve as the fawn
That wild with glee across the lawn
Or up the mountain springs;
And hers shall be the breathing balm
And hers the silence and the calm
OF mute Insensate things"
BEATRICE is another name derived from
the Latin. 1t signifies one ,rho Giesses or
makes happy. No name can be more ap-
propriate tor a lovely, atftctionate and am
liable woman. Beatrice has been honored
above all others by the poets. Dante,
Shakspear and Shelley have in turn thrown
around 1t the charm of their numbers, and
linked it with thoughts both lovely and
tragic.
40 Beatrice che ii faccie andare"
CAROLINE is the feminine form Of
Charles, or rather in it's Latin equivalent
CARoLus. 1t comes from the German, and
has the sisnifcatioa of braue souled or rai-
lant- The name has been borne by women
who have proved themselves worthy of the
name. 1t is not in the manly breast alone
that vaior is found or needed. There are
those who. having learned
-..how sublime thing it is
To suffer and be strong,''
have displayed courage which shames
that of the warrior on the battlefield.
Caroline is sonnet times abbreviated to Car
-ie, Callie and Cal.
''I know fair young girl,
With an eye like the sky's blue.
Or a sweet spring flower when its azure leaves
Are bright with the earthly dew
Chs . thing half earth and half d;rics
Ia she--hatf- yolns CAE-oLi:JE'