The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-09-28
Female Names.


crowns and coronets, and adorned by
goodness and beauty. Mary has ever
been favOrite name with the poets
Byron, as he assures us, felt an absolute
passion for it. 1t is woven with some of
his sweetest verses. The peasant poet,
Burns, seems to have been as much at
tached to it as the author of Childe
Harold 1t is still the theme Of bards
and bardlings unnNmbered We might
ill a column or two here with songs, SON
nets and ballads, in the melody of whose
ycssc the soft musical syllables are those
which form the charming name of Mary
But where so much presents itself, we
can quote nothing We need quote moth
lng, for
,,rhe ynry mSis oI the nan' has gone
into our being"
Let the motto or she toast il you will, be
the single line OF Bryan Walter Proctor:
Here's health to thee, Mary" SO .
SARAH salmost as common Il maine as
Mary, but it lacks the prestige which its
historical and posMcal associa tions throw
around the latter. q 10 is also from the
Hebrew, and signifies princess. In
poetry it takes the form cE Sally, or Sallie,
and is found in many a lOrs song; and bal
lad. Sally is sometimes condract,,d to Sal,
which is neither poetical nor suphonious.
Laughing, pratling, sporting Sallid,
Now tell me what shall bc
- TO which Iflliken thee: ..
The sOftest shades of heavens blue,
Those ustrous eyes seem melting Through
SUSAN, another name Of Hebrew origin,
signifies q lily. In poetry it is usually
seen in its contracted form Of Sue. 1t is
a pretty name, and is immortalized in
Gray well-known ballad The sig nifca-
tion of the name is very happily intro
duced in the closing line:
"Adieu, she cried and waved her lily han d.
MABEL is probably derived from ma
bella, signifying my fair, though some
suppose that it is contracted from anna
bilis, lovely or amiable. 1t is u good
name in either case and worthy Of being
perpetuated. Mary Hewitt has ballad
commencing,
Arise, my maiden Mabel"
which is the only poem we now recollect
in which the name occurs.
URSULA, name associated in our mind
with homeliness Of face and goodness Of
heart concealed under the veil of nun,
is from the Latin, and signifies nothing
more amiable than female bear Who,
knowing this, will give the name to q
child? ,ar.-T-rrr t-r~
BLANCHE, one of the sweetest names
ever borne by woman, is from the French,
and signifies white or fair Mary Hewitt
makes the orange-fower its floral type
Lucy, in its Frencs from Lucie, signi.
lies lucid, and comes from the Latin.
"Lucy is a golden girl' ..
says Bryan Proctor, and many will ccho
the line. Lucy is q favorite name with
almost every one. Wordsworth has made
it one of the 5as FH
Names welded unto song"
And lovely indeed is the maiden bear
ing that sweet name, whom nature pro-
poses to mould, at will, to her own taste:
She will he sportiye as the lawn
Thatwill 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 nsensate things.
To her; and she shall learn her ear
IN many secret place, ..
Where rivuletS dance their wayward rounu.
And beauty born Of murmuriDg sound
Shall pass into her face.
And vital feelings OF delight
Shal rear her form to stately hight,
Her virgin bosom SWELL
Such thoughts to Lucy will give
While she and together live
Here in this happy dell"
BEATRICE is another name derived from
the Latin 1t signifies one who blesses or
makes happy. No name can be more
appropriate for lovely, affectionate and
alniable woman. Beatrice has been hon.
ored above all others by the poets; Dante,
Shakespeare and Shelley have, in turn
thrown around it the charm of their mum
hers, and linked it with thoughts both
lovely and tragic ...
CAROLINE IL the feminine form o.
Charles, or rather of its Latin equivalent
Csrolus. 1t comes from the German, ano
has the signifcation Of brave.souled OF
valiant. The name has been borne by
women who have proved themselves
worthy of the name. It's not in the manly
breast alone that valor is found or needed
There are those who. having learned
show sublime thing it Ia
To suffer and be strong"
have displayed a courage which shame
shat of the warrior on the battlefield
Caroline is sometimes abbreviated Il
Carrie, Callie and Cal
" know a fair young girl
With an eye like tho sky's own blue,
Or sweet spring flower when It's azure leaves
Are bright with the early dew
Oh, thing half earth and half divine
Js sshe-that fair young Caroline"