Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-06-21

the sex Of her nameby NPPiytngitt TO malS ana
females fndiscFiminatclF. The males5hoTeyeEs
haze the deccncy TO hide their female nans,
ashamedpHhAps to expQse themselves P0u1stf
% the world inpetcoatE
ITS difficult 70 dscoTefthereAson Why names
shOHid go,out Of hshion Peter for Instance
why shOuId that be 50 exeephonabte ut IS
musical. w~eIl-sounding name. There isnothing
eouivoeal about II; It has tEosyllablesi hsmean=
ing is good. In fact It has almost eyeTy attire
butte hat q name Eequinest 10 electromagnetic
popularity. Judging from these alone without
reference to eertain indescribable associations,
Of which It e difficult To- form 3 definite IDEA,
one would naturally conclude that first
rate name and yet somehow or other Il has
lost It's credit and Is going out Ike Cesar and
Pompey, once names 0 snote. y been too
mnch nseds VIC do nothing 50. hatneramong
tue popes nor among kings has fteyer been a
hyorfte. InSpain, Portugal and Russia it has
attained to soyerei9ntY, but Papal, French and
English royalties have eligiousiy abstNnedtrom
II. nor cnrrwed discover an sfeasonsHhy tor Pie
tro and Pierre. the ItaIian and French for Peter,
ARE NOT more likest0ne in these hDguages than.
In Spanish, while In English-it conveys no idea
of stone, and Is not eqniyoeal4 nor associated
with anything offensive. .4u
We can easily see a reason Why no woman
should be called Jczebd, for 1t Is q name OF OF.
fence, and would be really . misfortune to Sny
Young 9iri: or why no man should be called
Cain, which is ever exclusively associated With
the idea Of murder; and no man perhaps would
like the raiEieTy attached TO the name OF Jonah,
although the name is really beautiful, and has
been borne by Sir Jonah Darlington; but one Of
the finest 6f al names, Lueifer, once borneby a
Ibishon. and Signifying the Light BFihger, the
Bright and Morning Star, IS now universaIlydis-
used chiefly, VIC suspect, because mothers be-
lisve that il is the devils name, which ltreaIly
Is not. 1t IS one Of the greatest compliments
rs really the brightest of nil names, and theyon~
" are worthy Of bearing 1t who bring light into
the world. It is q popular error entirely that
Ihas excluded II from tho bautismal font, Tha
name has now been degraded by being applied
Ito phosphoric matches, which certainly deserve
Ii. but It was a pity to loseit as aChristianname
m men and It is not Mt AL improbable that It
win room be revived.
But We should not wonder il many clergymen
t,vonld rcf1sc tn bantisea child by the name of
lIucifers and vet they could use no scriptural or
tbeolooical reason for r%lifnsing. Not long ago
a child was takch.to tho Lincoln union to be
baDtised. and the clergyman, an Irishman, re-
fnsed II bantisc her Nv the name of Elisamon.
bac,nee bc sgid II was NOT a name. and he bap-
tised her Charlotte on his own responsibility.
A niece Of assnranee on his part. and which he
co1Ii bovc nractired onfy on moor parents; but
wbsf tyonId such 4 man have saidif a boy were
taken.to be baptised L,ucifer. which Is a name
and a name which belongs to no evil spirit, as
a, sS5sSoTIt, srrroaaJ and one bvwhich a Bish-
$50 tbe- Sb-igtsin zChnrch vas baptised or
ds;ne5 and consccrated Iucifer Bishop of Gag
iior; EIs,mon d certainly NOT n GOOD name
O.. . o;ri n has mt 4 f.rnsnine look: hut il is
IA gooj for n Girl az Mary for a man, and though
D.sonto +or,y1f tn he advised in respect to chill.
49, 80 4bO,,I hsys . T;ght tn invent new
a.mos. r. they choose to dn so. Not long ago a
eL;iS 1.ss bsnt;sed hv the name of Forever. The
cicrsrmsn nj doubt nansed and wondered. but
S:irnot raf,se n yss nayr and STRANGE Int
tksto 4. hotSin1 ;iIag,I or irnions in itSitwas
III, os.sntr;c
4 L. we'll Lowcver to avoid an cccentricity
in n,mes.S mani snfFer serereIv for life owing to
az s;jiy and sthou0htIess4 huinor of narcnts in
tS;s -asnest. and i5 tbcisst and nreyious cen
mrise wben Wit was lon, and hnmor coarse
and b5visIi many REFLECTIONS names wereieiycn
e. f,r5di;nns hitch have non, became eslab.
i;sbe5 smnnSst ns n was cruelty 10 bcstow
.ncb 1sTSs IN NOR ckildTSn II Il n cruelty
Sa-.tS"tsJ f.npn Tcnsrat;cn IN Generation To
ineict = trsnsient Pain on n sinele person is re-
LIZ triHe cemY.+s5 Ia r. FIR Eli bodiiv main
= yybortI;.e5 md coTsnsJ n. tho nersnn oriain-
siia ;.;,,.oJ INF = mental main al This descTip-
t.;S:y yL-ss,-oj til nernctrsI increase to
an ;ndcinSte SsTiod Wa belieye that modern
go 80 49, cons;5erSf In tIiis rrsnecf and
that thc guardians of the poor would shrink
Co.. ir,nos;Dc,n I,Iseemlv name on n fo,indlinp
or child Tboss parents are unknown. =
IT. iss s4on;shine how ySry few Christian names
here aTe to s,5Dly the million. How they
daring the changes on the few common names
tSst tScv bsvei Tn names in ancient times
80 moro nn,ncrous Int then they wanted the
,,rn.mcs Thsre IL onlo ono Abraham for all
sba bistoty of The :Tev.s ono Isaac one Jacob.
ono David ono solomon, The repitition of a
name Is STore filing. They were ever inyenting
now ones and their names were generally words
Of mson;nSN snch ne Welcome. n mans name in
the UnitedS States, or Patience, Charity, women's
names in England, though now chilly confined
to the lower classes. The ~ancients could moi
lhaye distinguished one another with so small a
supply of lanes that is, of first names, as we
haye: but when the Roman system of double OF
triple names was introduced, the first or calling