The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-03
Selections.
n A NJ E S .
( WHAT'S in q name ?''

"What's in a name ?'
Very often great deal more than
appears is in a name; sometimes it is
EXPRESSIVE of great fitness and beauty,
some times it is full of discord, and
sometimes it is simply absurd. There
are some names which, by the music of
their sound or the skill of combination
in them, win our hearts at once, while
there are others that we cannot hear
without smile.
The selection of the name ola child
depends Of course upon the taste of the
parent. Generally the names chosen
are those well-known and familiar, after
their father, or brother, OF uncle, as the
case may be. But sometimes 4 new
designation is fixed upon, and those are
occasionally very incongruous. More
than one little child playing in the
streets with ragged clothes, and dirty
face, and unkempt hair, rejoices in the
title of "Queen Victoria Brown,
another is called "Kerenhappuch Ro-
bmson," another also a girl, "Ulysses
Heel There are some boys Of the
writer's acquaintance equally unfortu
nate One is called "Shadow Nook"
another "Revelation Reynolds" anoth-
er ''King Frost Winter"
We have all heard of the man who
brought to the font, expressing his wish
that he should be named Acts, Mat
thew, Mark, Luke, and John being al
ready appropriated to senior brothers
and also of the man who, thinking he
had come to the end Of his family bles-
sings, had his son named Finis, so that
another, unexpectedly appearing on the
scene sometime after, had to be called
Addendum. Amusing as these instan-
ces are, they are not more so than ma
ny others which come under our no.
tice.
A little forethought should be taken
by our name givers. For, although
names may be very easily given, they
are not SO easily got rid of. Fanciful
names are not always either convenient
or pretty. Parents had need had the
gift of prophecy who give to their
daughters such names as these: Faith,
Patience, Sabbath, Thankful, &c. 1t is
Just possible that in after-life such names
might become only bitter irony.
1t is well also to remember that child
ren, when they grow up, may occasion
ally have to sign their initials only.
And in that case Hannah Alice Morris
would be Ham,, and Catharine Amelia
thompson, Cat, while Benjamin Uriah
Goddard would be scarcely more for
tunate.
Long and numerous names should
also be avoided. If the lad who rejoi-
ees In half dozen of them should be
come clerk or banker with plenty
oi work, he will not be pleased at hav-
ing to write them all hundred times
way. And the Lady Augusta Catherine
hhelmina Fillinora f itzmaurice,
enough her lover may have his pick of
.:n nalles by which to call his lady-love,
W. "ill surely find it inconvenient once in
der lle,-l. e. when the minister foun-
ue!S ABOUT among them at her wedding,
the book.n
Ill IL Is not bad plan for girls to have
tLa;! L! one name, so that they may retain
rn;a r,tlr maiden surname after their mar
Raooh "s tnat honored lady Mrs. Harriet
TTTher T Stowe has done.
bran nHe custom of using pet names orab-
;S's'latlons Is is also pleasant one. There
w. v something homelike in the sound.
brl me are apt to remember it as uttered
ed oeloVed lips when years have pass
our Ueer vel our head, and the memory fills
be- ny! e!es with tears Besides, what can
WIZ note expressive than some of them?
mor" a' more manly than Tom? What
swae. ae no9mly than Kitty? What more
"eeC than Lettise?
namaa meslaps, as the meaning of Christian
will Lo are not any too well known, it
attaoS 3e acceptable to our readers if we
ISSn F; few. w
Hgions' >: we will give those having re-
sS RatS Ngnifcation
Judcm,aaee' sonship of God; Daniel,
Co.: d:IFnt FI: of God; Dorothy, Gift Of
Gods 2 Elijah, God the Lord; Godfrey,
Rapbaad,e d,eaTce; Gabriel, Hero of God:
ExaItedI La[I' N Medicine C of God; jeremiah
Of fGio[p GoS of God; Elizabeth The ctn,' oath