Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-07-11
Significance OF Names.
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riable a. the clouds, depending on con-
ditions too delicate to be defined. Still.
names might be termed o quality
Of average association, which translates
them to the mind in not materially diff
ferent hues and forms. Nobody con-
siders Jerusha fascinating or Mabel
repulsive. Sibyl suggests. softness
and fineness, and Angelina mawkish
sentiment. Blood and breeding
seem to lie in Edith, ard inele-
gance and rusticity in Priscilla.
Mary, whom bards have made tune
full in many tongues, has lost
such saver as she might have had from
excess of handling. We think of her
now in connection with almost any,
thing else than grace and loveliness.
Kate IS interesting, Though she con-
veys certain impression of wildness
approaching motherhood. Pauline is
lackadaisical, pretentious and shallow.
Ruth is simple, genuine, winning, full
of modesty and merit, aud sterling to
the core. Ada and Ida show gentle
ness without strength, and del
icacy rather than discern
ment. Alice is what circumstances
may make her-pretty and spoiled,
needing trial for development, adver-
s'ty for elevation. Amy is child al
ways, even after maternity and matur.
ity and nothing can render her other
wise. Stiffness, self consciousness, and
angularity emanate from Arabella; and
Augusta should be consequential and
inflated without desert. A certain hot
house air might surround Blanche and
Bertha, and they should be kept there
if it be desirable to preserve their
freshness and their fragrance.
Clara, not to belle herself, should be
pure, affectionate and free, carrying
with her the form and daintiness of
distinction. Eliza il plain, but pro-
found, and Ella slender echo of what
she initiates. When the average man
seeks for wife, despising romance and
discarding the ideal, he should sue to
Esther, who will perform all she prom
ises, becoming the most consc1en.
tious of housekeepers, the most
devoted slave of the nursery.
A thorough scatterbraln is Fan
ny, whom trouble spares and adver-
sity does not touch. Helen is preco-
cious at sixteen, coquette till FIVE
and-twenty. and an ambitious and
match making mamma, while she alb
sents herself from heaven to discharge
her duty to society. Isabella should be
tall and dignified and clever, laughing
at what she most sincerely believes,
and wounding with Parthian arrows
her well-guarded heart. Julia has a
tendency to be in love with herself, un-
disturbed by rivals. She sees in her
mirror the beauties others fail to dis
cover, and her much-proclnim-
ed righteousness is but a
phase of her conceit Jane is likely to
suffer from lack of appreciation, tor she
wears her jewels out of sight, and is
content to be misunderstood, when
understanding demands any betrayal
OF herself. Insentimental woes Leono-
RI is ever bound is most happy when
most distressed. Louise has a spice
of affection, but is engaging ct first
aud enchanting ut last to those she
admits to the sanctuary of her spmpa-
thy. The image of Madeleine is shown
IN the strictest intentionally. She
is Il we'll bred automatum dresses
admirably, talks faultlessly, acts be-
comlngly; is, in word, O reflection of
Hcl surroundings D0C0uSc 6nC mas not
sufficient force to vary from her pat
tern.
Maud affects Tennysoh and tears,
muslin of the whitest and misery OF the
blacklist sort. She is a distiIlation of
simper, Stiffness, and sentimentalism.
Miriam, Penelope, Cordelia and Rachel
need to be stately, calm and se]f-sus-
tained-admired by many, esteemed
by oil, and beloved by one. Phoebe
and Phillis are not nrbane in mind
or manners. They are prominent
| figures in q landscape filled
with farms and farm houses,
and commend themselves warmly
to the swain crednlous enough to be-
lieve that God the first garden made
and the first city Cain. The heart of
gallantry does not throb Mt mention of
Susannah, who rises to the fancy with
milk and water eyes, unshapely mouth
and IN ill-titting gown; but it beats
wildly to the sweet syllables of V,ola's
name, and awaits with eager expectancy
the regal presence Of Zennbia, too lofty
to he lightly loved.-Junius :Hemri
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