New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-05-10
Great Littlcnesses.

The peculiar penchant that seems to have been be-
slowed upon the soveregns Of almighty nation to
baptze the future Senators and Presidents who are
the fruit Of their lons and the ullness of their lives
with magnificent nanles-those of heroes, divinties
and demigods-has very curious commentary OF
times in the fates and fortunes of their bantlings
showing that no nomenclature, however renowned it
may have been made by its pristine possessors, is
sufficient guarantee against the prieks of outrageous
fortune, and the stern result Of time. 81
When Mrs. John Smith has borne male child to
the next census and thereby depleted her lords purse
by SO far as she has increased his PRIDE nothing SO
fully gatites her matrony heart as to designate the
hantling with the title Of Alexander, Napoleon, Wei
.lngton, Washington Smith. Ii Mrs. Brown has ac-
complished a like ovarian procedure, with femn-
inc result, the sponsor must back up Victoria,
Eugene, Marie Louise, Cleopatra, Josephine Brown!
a reductio ad absurdum not always fittngly consd-
cred.
Well, in the process Of time, and, in accordance
with the great CESSATION Of years. the twain arrive at
one legal period of accountability. They have been
petted and petticoated and pepperniinted to an cx
treme as great littlenesses usually The world
has laughed at papa's foly-who deep in sugar, or
cotton brokerage, has only had time, occasionally,
to kiss or spank them and at, mammals folly, who
has made them q little lower than the angels SO
far as dress and dmity concerned. At the crit
ica moment when the blossom should be rpenng into
fruit, George Washington disapponts parental ambi-
ton by going off before the mast engaging in the
tallow trade, while the seraphic Victoria Eugene,
marries bread baker, orwhat worse takes to tray
cling with some amorous etharo, forgetful Of State
and matrimonial requirements. That is, the bubble
bursts, in both instances ill.,. 81
Calling thing so, doesn't make it so "a tin
kettle is not gold vase; though Joseph jenkins, a
tsseEmade man. Of Brattle street, may advertise it
as such in this country every pot must stand its
own bottom; and those proud parents who wish q
post obitum fame as the Itudophs of great gener-
alton add nothing to, but subtract much from their
longngs, by these nonsenscal nomenclature they
silly at the start ridiculous and useless much better
omitted than allowed. As singuarities We have
chiefly noted them and because we have found such
deuge of greatness, floating through the local col
unns and extracts of our newspapers.
An old family name is a family heritage just as
much as is the family plate 1t may be sullied, but
it is mere like to be sustained from feelings of family
pride common to all men. But an individual deluged
under one of these ayalanches to which We have
erred, will feel it, and be very apt to ridcule it by
some means or otherif only to show that he is not
responsible for the folly of his christening. Give lis
good, wholesome names, as well as wholesome chill
tren, and there will be less trouble in public chroni
| Giles, and fewercases Of chronic amalgamation.
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