The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-07-04
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NAMES.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF NAMES.
The significance of names is as variable
las the clouds, depending on conditions
too delicate to be defined. Still, names
have what might be termed quality of
average association which translates them
to the mind in not materially different
hues and forms. Nobody considers Jeru-
sha fascinating or Mabel repulsiye. Sibyl
suggests softness and ffneness, and Ange-
lima rnaWkish sentiment. Blood and breed
ing seem to lie in Edith, and inelegence
and Iusticity in Priscilla. Mary, whom
bards have made tuneful in MANY tongues,
has lost such SAVIOR as she might have had
from excess OF handling. We think OF
her now IN connection with almost any,
thing else than grace and loYliness. Kate
is interesting, thongh she conveys o Ger.
tain impression of wildness approaching
maidenhood. Pauline is lackadaisical,
pretentious, and shallow. Ruth is simple,
genuine. winning, full of modesty and
merit, and sterling to the core. Ada and
Ida show gentleness without strength,and
delicacy rather than discernment. Alice
lis what circumstances may make her
pretty ana spoiled needing trial for de.
yelopmcnt, adversely for elevation. Amy
is child, always, even after maternity
and maturity, and nothing can render her
otherwise. Stiffness, consciousness |
and angularity emanate from Arabella ),
and Augusta should be consequential and
inflated without desert. A certain hot
house air might surround Blanche and
Bert1a, and they should be kept there II
it be desirable to preserve their freshness
and their fragrance.
Clara, not to belle herself, should be
pure, affectionate, anu free, carrying with
her the form aud daintiness Of dlstinc
ton. Eliza is plain, but profound, and
Ella slender echo of what she initiates.
When the average man seeks for q wife,
despising romance and discarding the
ideal, he should sue to Esther, who will
perform all she promises, becoming the
most conscientious Of housekeepers, the
most devoted slave of the nursery. 4
thorough scattcrbrain is Fanny, whom
trouble spares and adversely does not
touch. Helen is precocious at sixteen, a
coQuette till five and twenty, and an am
bilious and match making mamma, while
she absents herself from heaven 20 dis
charge her duty to society Isabella should
be tan and digniied and clever, laugh
ing at what she most sincerely believes
and wounding with Parthian arrows her
we'll. guarded heart. Julia has tenden-
cy to be in love with herself, undisturbed
by rivals. She sees in her mirror the
beauties others TAIL to discover, and her
much proclaimed righteousness is but
phase Of her conceit. Jane is likely to
suffer from lack Of appreciation, for she
wears her jewels ont OF sight, and is con-
tent to be misunderstood when under
standing demands any betraya! of herself |
In sentimental woes LeOnora is eyer
bound is most happy when most distress
ed. Louise has spice OF affection, but IS |
engaging at first and enchanting at last |
to those she admits TO the sanctuary of
her sympathy. fThe image of Madeline is
shown in the striCsest conventionality. |
She is we'll bred automaton; dresses
admirably, talks faultlessly, acts becom
ingly, is in q word, reflection of her
surroundings because she has not sut1ici
ent force, to vary from her pattern.
~ Maud affects Tennyson and tears, mus
lin ofthe whitest andlmisery of the black
est SOFT. She isa distillation of shipper,
Stiffness, and sentimentalism. Miriam,
Penelope, Cordelia and Rachel need to be
stately, calm and Observation-Disclosures |
by many, esteemed by all, AMI beloved
by one Phoebe and lPhilisrare not urbane
in mind or manners, They are prominent
figures in a landscape filed with farms
and farmhoVses, and commend themselves
warmly to the swain crsdulogs enough to
believe that God the first garden made
and the first city Cain. The heart Of gal
lantry does not tkrob at mention Of Susan
nah, who rises to the fancy with milk and
water eyes, unshapely youth, and an i'll
fitting gown; but it beats wildly to the
sweet syllables of Viola's name,and awaits
with eager expectancy the regal presence
of zenobia, too lofty to be lightly loved,
The largest land Gale ever recored IN
Minnesota was one Of 81 500 acres, which
was made the other day. f 1877 A@
The reduction of the hours of labor in
New York, will cause'a loss of $9,000,000
year in production. l ca t-@3 a~
A scientifie school has been opened in
connection with the University ofPenn-
sylyania. -